美國創作天后［卡洛．金］──軟式搖滾／成人流行──［Only Love Is Real／只有愛才是真實的］

 

 

As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire

Feeling the warmth as the flames grow higher

I think its true that nothing

is really new under the sun

Watching a new love grow

from old loves embers

Yesterdays gone but today remembers

Doesnt it seem to come down the same for everyone

Only love is real

Everything else illusion

Adding to the confusion of the way we connive

At being alive

Tracing a line till we can define

The thing that allows us to feel

Only love is real

Childhood dreams like muddy waters

Flowing through me to my son and daughters

Everything I ever thought is confirmed as truth to me

Even as I see the way that I want to go now

Still I had wished I had known what I know now

Maybe I could have spared you

Giving your youth to me

Only love is real

Everything else illusion

Adding to the confusion of the way we connive

At being alive

Tracing a line till we can define

The thing that allows us to feel

Only love is real

Only love is real

Everything else illusion

Adding to the confusion of the way we connive

At being alive

Tracing a line till we can define

The thing that allows us to feel

Only love is real

 

 

 

１９７６年１月，將滿３４歲的美國詞曲天后卡洛．金（Carole King）推出第七個人大碟［Thoroughbred／純種馬］（Ode / A&M唱片發行），

仍由Lou Adler製作，樂評正面。

 

《Allmusic》稱：，這顯然是一個過渡版本… 金確實正在擺脫她早期個人專輯中的獨奏鋼琴聲。

金的重擊、打擊樂鋼琴演奏仍然遍布整張專輯，但吉他扮演的角色比以往任何時候都更加突出。

 

大碟登上美國告示牌專輯榜＃３（1976年榜#85）．獲得金唱片（１００萬張）認證。

日本＃７，加拿大＃９，澳洲＃９７．

 

首支單曲是１９７６年２月發行的［Only Love Is Real／只有愛才是真實的］，

由金創作，Lou Adler製作成一首軟式搖滾／成人流行，

節奏輕盈搖擺， 金的唱腔鬆弛，氛圍浪漫．

《Cash Box》 表示，這首歌“曲調可愛，歌詞精心構建”，“像迪倫（Dylan）一樣，卡洛金了解微妙韻律的力量，她在這首曲子中運用自己的知識，產生巨大的效果。”

 

 

 

［Only Love Is Real／只有愛才是真實的］登上美國告示牌單曲榜＃２８，為金第十首Top４０熱門曲．

副榜──Easy Listening榜冠軍──金第四首也是最後一次封后．

加拿大＃５３．

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZBxCOANF-4

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYynbiOe0sI

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJyFbE8qgR8