Fantasy is an album by American

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 singer-songwriter Carole King

Carole King

Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...

, released in 1973. This time King wrote all the songs herself. At the time of its release, it only reached #6 on the Billboard album chart, but has remained highly regarded by her fans over the ensuing decades. One of the tracks of the album is a song called "Haywood" which is about drug addiction.

The Spanish language

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 track "Corazón" (the Spanish word for "heart," also used as a term of endearment, as in this song's lyrics) was a moderate hit single from the album, as was "Believe in Humanity." The flip side of the latter single, "You Light Up My Life" (not the Debby Boone

Debby Boone

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 hit

You Light Up My Life (song)

Many artists have covered "You Light Up My Life" since 1977. The following year, Johnny Mathis recorded and named his album after the song. LeAnn Rimes released her version as a single in 1997, 20 years after Boone's version was released and on the same record label . Her version fared modestly...

), charted separately from its A-side.

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Carole King

1. "Fantasy Beginning" – 1:03
2. "You've Been Around Too Long" – 3:42
3. "Being at War With Each Other" – 3:27
4. "Directions" – 3:29
5. "That's How Things Go Down" – 3:01
6. "Weekdays" – 2:45
7. "Haywood" – 4:47
8. "A Quiet Place to Live" – 1:56
9. "Welfare Symphony" – 3:47
10. "You Light Up My Life" – 3:14
11. "Corazón" – 4:06
12. "Believe in Humanity" – 3:19
13. "Fantasy End" – 1:25

Personnel

• Carole King - guitar, piano, vocals
• Danny Kortchmar
  Danny Kortchmar
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   - guitar, vocals
• David T. Walker
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   - guitar
• Charles Larkey - bass
• Susan Ranney - bass
• Harvey Mason, Sr. - drums
• Bobbye Hall
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   - percussion
• Eddie Kendricks
  Eddie Kendricks
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   - vocals
• Tom Scott
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  , Curtis Amy
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  , Ernie Watts
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  , Mike Altschul - saxophone
• Chuck Findley
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  , Ollie Mitchell, Al Aarons - trumpet
• Charles Loper, George Bohannon, Richard Hyde - trombone
• Ken Yerke, Barry Socher, Sheldon Sanov, Haim Shtrum, Kathleen Lenski, Miwako Watanabe, Glen Dicterow, Polly Sweeney, Robert Lipsett, Gordon Marron Strings - violin
• Denyse Buffum, David Campbell, Alan DeVeritch, Ronald Folsom - violia
• Jeffrey Solow, Judith Perett - cello