Welcome Home

by Carole King

Overview

After seven straight gold-selling, Top 20 albums, Welcome Home demonstrated thoroughly that Carole King was on the wrong track. Her third husband, Rick Evers, who wrote lyrics for some of her songs and is pictured with her on the record cover, died of a drug overdose after this album was recorded in January 1978, but before it was released in May, which seems emblematic of the problems here. They include "Venusian Diamond," a song that deliberately borrows gimmicks from Beatles records, and "Disco Tech." That's right, Carole King goes disco. There were no hits, although "Morning Sun" made a brief appearance in the adult contemporary chart, and there was certainly nothing that was up to King's usual standards. The album failed to make the Top 100 and effectively removed King from the top echelon of pop artists. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	05/26/2023
Label:	Music On Vinyl
UPC:	8719262028395
Rank:	99335

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Carole King   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus
Stephanie Spruill   Choir/Chorus
Israel Baker   Violin
Frank Foster   Violin
George Bohanon   Trombone
Ernie Watts   Soloist,Saxophone
Richard Hardy   Flute,Vocals,Soloist,Clarinet,Saxophone,Choir/Chorus
Mark Hallman   Guitar,Vocals,Choir/Chorus
Roy Galloway   Bass,Vocals
Robert McEntee   Guitar,Vocals,Choir/Chorus
Oscar Brashear   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Miguel Rivera   Congas,Percussion
Dick Hyde   Trombone
Denyse Buffum   Viola
Georgia Kelly   Harp
John Wittenberg   Violin
Alexandra Brown   Choir/Chorus
Nolan Andrew Smith   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
William H. Henderson   Violin
Dorothy Wade   Violin
Michael Wooten   Drums
Rob Galloway   Vocals
Ronald Cooper   Cello
Anne Golia   Tamboura
Bob Harrington   Hammer Dulcimer
Marcia Van Dyke   Violin
Rick Evers   Cowbell
Rollice Dale   Viola
Ann White   Choir/Chorus
Kenneth Yerke   Violin
Dennis Karmazin   Cello
Charles Veal, Jr.   Violin

Technical Credits

Carole King   Composer,Producer,Liner Notes,String Arrangements
George Bohanon   Horn Arrangements
Norm Kinney   Engineer,Producer
Steve Katz   Engineer
Roy Kohara   Art Direction
Roy Reynolds   Photography,Art Direction
Navarro   Composer
Rick Evers   Composer
Linda Tyler   Engineer