Welcome Home (Carole King album)

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Welcome Home
Welcome Home Carole King.jpg
Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedJanuary 1978
StudioSound Labs (Hollywood)
Genre
Label Capitol
Producer Carole King, Norm Kinney
Carole King chronology
Simple Things
(1977)
Welcome Home
(1978)
Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Welcome Home is the ninth album by the American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1978.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Carole King except where noted.

  1. "Main Street Saturday Night"
  2. "Sunbird" (King, Rick Evers)
  3. "Venusian Diamond" (King, Evers, Mark Hallman, Robert McEntee, Robb Galloway, Miguel Rivera, Richard Hardy, Michael Wooten)
  4. "Changes"
  5. "Morning Sun"
  6. "Disco Tech" (King, Hallman, McEntee, Galloway, Rivera, Wooten, Hardy)
  7. "Wings of Love" (King, Evers)
  8. "Ride the Music"
  9. "Everybody's Got the Spirit"
  10. "Welcome Home"

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 69
US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes [4] 104

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References

  1. "Welcome Home Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 397.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 166/167. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  4. "Carole King". Billboard. Retrieved 11 March 2024.