{"id":806133,"date":"2020-04-07T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979471"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:48:38","slug":"carole-king-joins-beautiful-cast-in-socially-distanced-youve-got-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/carole-king-joins-beautiful-cast-in-socially-distanced-youve-got-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole King Joins \u2018Beautiful\u2019 Cast in Socially Distanced \u2018You\u2019ve Got a Friend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/carole-king-beautiful-cast-social-distant-sing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/carole-king\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carole-king\" data-tag=\"carole-king\">Carole King<\/a> joined the cast of<em> Beautiful: The Carole King Musical<\/em> in a quarantine rendition of \u201cYou\u2019ve Got a Friend.\u201d The clip premiered on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>King, who wrote the track in 1971 as a response to James Taylor\u2019s \u201cFire and Rain,\u201d makes a cameo in the clip at the 4:15 mark, singing the final refrain of \u201cYou\u2019ve got a friend\u201d while wrapped in a blue scarf.<\/p>\n<p>Donations from viewers will go directly to <a href=\"https:\/\/actorsfund.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Actors Fund<\/a>, an organization that supports and acts as a safety net for those in arts and entertainment. \u201cPlease continue to help us care for others and donate,\u201d chairman Brian Stokes Mitchell says in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>King recently sang a version of the <em>Tapestry<\/em> classic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-carole-king-adapt-youre-so-far-away-age-of-covid-19-976090\/\">So Far Away<\/a>\u201d on Facebook, altering the lyrics to fit in the quarantine era. \u201cEverybody has to stay in one place anymore\/It would be so fine to see your face at my door,\u201d she sang. \u201cDoesn\u2019t help to know \/You\u2019re just time away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to say that I hope you and your family are well and that you all stay well,\u201d she told her fans. \u201cI wish the same for all the medical professional that are doing such important and difficult work. And also to thank all the people who keep the groceries coming and the trash being picked up. There are so many things that I don\u2019t know about, but I\u2019m not taking it for granted, none of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/carole-king-beautiful-musical-youve-got-a-friend-979471\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carole King joined the cast of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in a quarantine rendition of \u201cYou\u2019ve Got a Friend.\u201d The clip premiered on CBS This Morning on Tuesday. King, who wrote the track in 1971 as a response to James Taylor\u2019s \u201cFire and Rain,\u201d makes a cameo in the clip at the 4:15 mark, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 00:38:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}