The Living Room Tour

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The Living Room Tour
Carole King Living Room Albumcover.jpg
Live album by
Carole King
ReleasedJuly 12, 2005 [1]
RecordedJuly – August 2004
Venue Auditorium Theatre (Chicago, Illinois), Greek Theatre (Los Angeles, California), Cape Cod Melody Tent (Hyannis, Massachusetts)
Genre R&B, pop
LengthCD1: 42:12
CD2: 46:20
Label Rockingale/Hear Music
Producer Rudy Guess, Carole King
Carole King chronology
Love Makes the World
(2001)		The Living Room Tour
(2005)		 Live at the Troubadour
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]

The Living Room Tour is a live album by Carole King released in 2005. It consists of live recordings of most of the songs from Tapestry . Her daughters Louise and Sherry and background singer and guitarist Gary Burr joined her on several songs. This album debuted at #17 in the US, becoming King's highest-charting album since 1977. That was largely due to television advertisements and that it was available in Starbucks retailers.

Contents

For the week of July 18, 2005, it was the #1 album on Amazon, [3] and it was the #2 album of July 2005 on Amazon. [4] In its first week, The Living Room Tour sold 44,000 copies in the United States, and has since sold over 330,000 copies in the United States. [5] [6]

In August 2006, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at #151, because it was once again available in all Starbucks locations in the US.

A live video album filmed during the tour, titled Welcome to My Living Room, was released on DVD on October 23, 2007.

Track listing

All songs written by Carole King (except where noted). [7]

Disc one

  1. "Welcome To My Living Room" – 1:58
  2. "Peace in the Valley" (King, Toni Stern) – 3:42
  3. "Love Makes the World" (King, Sam Hollander, Dave Schommer) – 4:23
  4. "Now and Forever" – 3:18
  5. "Where You Lead I Will Follow" (King, Toni Stern) – 3:24
  6. "Lay Down My Life" – 4:20
  7. "Jazzman" (King, Dave Palmer) – 4:00
  8. "Smackwater Jack" (Gerry Goffin, King) – 4:12
  9. "Wishful Thinking" – 4:12
  10. "Medley: "Take Good Care of My Baby/"It Might As Well Rain Until September"/"Go Away Little Girl"/"I'm into Something Good"/"Hey Girl"/"One Fine Day"/"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (Goffin, King) – 8:39

Disc two

  1. "Loving You Forever" (King, Gary Burr) – 3:32
  2. "It's Too Late" (King, Stern) – 5:22
  3. "So Far Away" – 4:52
  4. "Sweet Seasons" (King, Stern) – 3:21
  5. "Chains" (Goffin, King) – 4:09
  6. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:45
  7. "Being At War With Each Other" – 4:05
  8. "I Feel The Earth Move" – 4:04
  9. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Goffin, King, Jerry Wexler) – 3:58
    • Duet with her daughter, Sherry Goffin Kondor.
  10. "You've Got a Friend" – 5:32
  11. "The Locomotion" (Goffin, King) – 3:38

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for The Living Room Tour
Chart (2005)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 51
US Billboard 200 [9] 17

Tour

DateCityCountryVenue
US and Canada 2004
July 15, 2004ChicagoUnited States Auditorium Theater
July 16, 2004Cleveland Tower City Amphitheatre
July 18, 2004Saratoga Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center
July 20, 2004Gilford Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
July 21, 2004Philadelphia Tower Theatre
July 22, 2004Hyannis Cape Cod Melody Tent
July 24, 2004Westbury Westbury Music Fair
July 25, 2004Boston Leader Bank Pavilion
July 27, 2004Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
July 30, 2004Atlanta Chastain Park Amphitheatre
July 31, 2004Nashville Ryman Auditorium
August 1, 2004Boca Raton Mizner Park Amphitheatre
August 3, 2004Clearwater Ruth Eckerd Hall
August 4, 2004Vienna Wolf Trap
August 6, 2004Seattle Pier 62 and 63
August 7, 2004Portland Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
August 19, 2004Los Angeles Greek Theatre
August 20, 2004San Francisco SF Masonic Auditorium
August 21, 2004Las Vegas The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
US and Canada 2005
July 3, 2005RamaCanada Casino Rama
July 4, 2005
July 6, 2005MinneapolisUnited States Orpheum Theatre
July 8, 2005Chicago Auditorium Theater
July 9, 2005Rochester Hills Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
July 11, 2005Hyannis Cape Cod Melody Tent
July 13, 2005New York Radio City Music Hall
July 14, 2005Cohasset South Shore Music Circus
July 16, 2005Vienna Wolf Trap
July 17, 2005Raleigh Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
July 19, 2005Charlotte PNC Music Pavilion
July 20, 2005Atlanta Chastain Park Amphitheater
July 21, 2005Birmingham BJCC Concert Hall
July 23, 2005Indianapolis Murat Theatre
July 24, 2005Memphis Orpheum Theatre
July 26, 2005New Orleans Saenger Theatre
July 28, 2005Austin The Backyard
July 29, 2005Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 30, 2005Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre
August 3, 2005Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 5, 2005Phoenix Celebrity Theatre
August 6, 2005Temecula Pechanga Resort & Casino
August 7, 2005
August 12, 2005Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Bowl
August 13, 2005Saratoga Mountain Winery
August 14, 2005Santa Rosa Luther Burbank Center
Australia 2006
November 17, 2006MelbourneAustralia Rod Laver Arena
November 19, 2006Perth Sandalford Winery
November 22, 2006Hobart Derwent Entertainment Centre
November 24, 2006Brisbane River Stage
November 25, 2006Hunter Valley Tempus II Winery
November 30, 2006Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
December 2, 2006AucklandNew Zealand Trusts Stadium
December 4, 2006Christchurch Westpac Centre
Japan 2007 (With Fergie and Mary J. Blige)
November 5, 2007OsakaJapan Osaka Jo Hall
November 6, 2007
November 10, 2007Satima Satima Super Arena
November 12, 2007Tokyo Nippon Budokan
November 13, 2007
North America Summer 2008
July 9, 2008ClearwaterUnited States Ruth Eckerd Hall
July 10, 2008Hollywood Hard Rock Live
July 12, 2008Mashantucket Foxwoods Resort and Casino
July 13, 2008Niagara FallsCanada Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort
Japan 2008
November 10, 2008TokyoJapan Bunkamura
November 11, 2008
November 14, 2008Osaka Koseinenkin Hall
November 15, 2008
November 17, 2008Nagoya Century Hall
November 21, 2008Tokyo International Forum Hall A
November 22, 2008
November 24, 2008Kobe International Hall

DVD

Welcome to My Living Room was released on DVD on October 23, 2007 by Rockingale Records. [10] It was filmed during the tour in August 2005 in Temecula, California. [11]

Track listing
  1. "Song of Long Ago"
  2. "Welcome to My Living Room"
  3. "Beautiful"
  4. "Where You Lead, I Will Follow"
  5. "Say Goodbye Today"
  6. "Now and Forever"
  7. "Been to Canaan"
  8. "Nobody Wants to be Lonely"
  9. "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me"
  10. "Smackwater Jack"
  11. "Medley" ("The Right Girl", "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby", "Every Breath I Take", "I'm Into Something Good", "Go Away Little Girl", "Hey Girl", "One Fine Day", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow")
  12. "Loving You Forever"
  13. "Up on the Roof"
  14. "It's Too Late"
  15. "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman"
  16. "Hard Rock Café"
  17. "Chains"
  18. "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
  19. "I Feel the Earth Move"
  20. "So Far Away"
  21. "You've Got a Friend"
  22. "Locomotion"

References

  1. ↑ Simon, Scott (July 9, 2005). "Carole King Invites Fans into the 'Living Room'". NPR . Archived from the original on April 5, 2023. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ "Past Best Sellers: The most popular items of the year on Amazon". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Past Best Sellers: The most popular items of the year on Amazon". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Carole King News – Yahoo! Music". New.music.yahoo.com. July 20, 2005. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ "CaroleKing.com". CaroleKing.com. October 16, 2006. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ "The Living Room Tour - Carole King". Carole King. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 155.
  9. ↑ "Carole King Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Rockingale Records Releases Carole King's 'Welcome To My Living Room' DVD". Carole King . December 1, 2007. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Discography - Welcome To My Living Room". Carole King . Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
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