Most hit songs begin with a melody or a broken heart. This one began with a man leaning out of a car on a New York street in 1967, a title tossed at a young songwriting couple, and a single night of work that gave Aretha Franklin one of the defining records of her life. Parade revisited the story this week, and it is one Carole King has been telling for most of her career, though never quite the way the man in the car told it. King turned 84 on …
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