Years before Carole King released her iconic 14x platinum album Tapestry, the legendary singer-songwriter was penning hits for other artists, such as “The Loco-Motion” for Little Eva and “Take Good Care of My Baby” for Bobby Vee (to name just a couple). In fact, the first song she recorded herself was meant for Vee: “It Might as Well Rain Until September.”
Written by King and Gerry Goffin, “It Might as Well Rain Until September” was released only as an album track by Vee, on his 1963 album The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. But producer and manager Don Kirshner was such a fan of the tune, he decided to release King’s demo of “It Might as Well Rain Until September” as a single on the Dimension label in 1962, before Vee’s album even came out.
The song was King’s first hit as a performer, peaking at #22 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 and going all the way to #3 in the U.K., where it remained her biggest hit, interestingly enough. The only problem was, King didn’t want to go on tour to promote it.
King was just 20 years old in 1962 and already had two small children with Goffin. The thought of traveling around to perform the song didn’t appeal to her at the time, understandably. She and Goffin had moved to the suburbs, where she wasn’t exactly fitting in with the other young moms.
“Living with Gerry in New Jersey suburbia I was surrounded by the wives of doctors, accountants, lawyers,” she told the Telegraph in 2016. “With a pen in one hand and a baby in the other I was a real oddity. A working woman.”
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Kirshner and Goffin did convince King to perform “It Might as Well Rain Until September” on American Bandstand, or, more accurately, to lip-sync to the track (as was the custom on the show). The audience wasn’t particularly enthusiastic, and King was very discouraged.
Of course, the song still became a hit — and an enduring one, at that.
In 2017, Paste ranked “It Might as Well Rain Until September” at #3 on a list of Carole King’s 12 best songs of all time.
“One of King’s earliest hits as a singer (although originally written for Bobby Vee), this song strikes a chord with lyrics that put an eloquent touch on the heartbroken teenager trope,” Nate Logsdon wrote. “King and Goffin were instrumental in helping to construct this trend, along with their co-workers like Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mercer and Phil Spector.”
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