"Now and Forever" is a song written and recorded by Carole King for the major motion picture A League of Their Own.
The song was written in 1992 solely by King and recorded the same year.
The song became a hit on the US AC chart, and King received a Grammy
Award nomination for it.
Carole King was asked to write and record the end title song to the film A League of Their Own
by Penny Marshall,
the director of the movie. As the end title section is a very
prestigious part of a movie, Carole King gladly accepted the offer.
Carole King wrote the song, and she stated that she and Penny Marshall
both liked it. Everything was set for King to record the song as the end
title song, but one day Carole King received a phone call from Penny
Marshall. Penny Marshall stated that a problem had occurred: Madonna was
in the movie and was entitled under her contract to record the end
title song. As she said in her Welcome to My Living Room
DVD, Carole King felt "bummed." However, Marshall was still determined
to get King's song in the movie. Therefore, Penny had a new opening of
the movie written and filmed and put King's song in the beginning.
King's career began in the 1960s when she, along with her then husband Gerry Goffin,
wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of
which have become standards. She has continued writing for other artists
since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come
until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on
the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing
commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years. Read more...
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