Where You Lead (I Will Follow) - Carole King (Drum Cover)
"Where You Lead" is a song written in 1970 by Carole King with lyricist Toni Stern, introduced on King's iconic 1971 album Tapestry. A Top 40 hit for Barbra Streisand in both a studio and a live version — the latter in a medley entitled "Sweet Inspiration/ Where You Lead'" — the song has also served as the main theme song for The WB dramedy series Gilmore Girls in a lyrically revised version recorded by King and Louise Goffin. Carole King/Louise Goffin duet version In 2000 Carole King recorded "Where You Lead" as a duet with her daughter Louise Goffin to serve as theme song for the WB television series Gilmore Girls. Amy Sherman-Palladino on Where You Lead as the Gilmore Girls theme song. I asked for permission to use the original Tapestry track as the Gilmore Girls theme, King had responded that she'd rather re-record the song for Sherman-Palladino's purpose, with lyrics abridged to reflect the series' theme of a mother-daughter relationship and with King's own daughter Louise Goffin dueting with King. King contacted Toni Stern, co-writer of the song's original version, and Stern tweaked the song's original romantic lyrics so as to be applicable to a mother-daughter relationship, and King and Goffin recorded this new version of "Where You Lead" at the home studio in the Laurel Canyon residence of Goffin and Goffin's then-husband Greg Wells with Wells producing the track. The full version of the King/ Goffin duet of "Where You Lead" had its debut release on the 2002 album Our Little Corner of the World: Music from Gilmore Girls and would be a bonus track on the 2007 deluxe edition release of King's album Love Makes the World, while King and Goffin could be heard singing the song live on King's 2005 concert album The Living Room Tour: in its album appearances the track's title shows as "Where You Lead I Will Follow" although the Gilmore Girls credits identified the song as "Where You Lead". During the 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour King performed the revised version of "Where You Lead" at some tour venues, singing lead while the tour's co-headliner James Taylor played guitar and sang background vocals. King and Goffin also dueted on the revised version of "Where You Lead" at King's 3 July 2016 Hyde Park concert which marked the first time King had performed all the songs from Tapestry in a single concert. King addressed her choice to sing the latterday version of "Where You Lead" at Hyde Park with the introductory comments: "The next song I don’t perform very much. It came out just before women’s lib, and it’s got kind of a 'Stand by Your Man' lyric so I [soon] didn't exactly feel comfortable performing it", with King then explaining how the song came to be the Gilmore Girls theme.[5] That version was sung by the title character on the penultimate episode of the NBC show Ordinary Joe, accompanied by his son, a children's choir, and his mother. Now available Earldrum's Spring Store https://my-store-d51346.creator-sprin... Drums & Gear: Gretsch - 8x10, 8x12, 9x13, 14X14, 16x16, 14x20 Ludwig Black Beauty- 5x14 Paiste -14" 505 Medium Bottom/2000 Regular SE Bottom HH, 11" NoiseWorks Splash, 20" 505 Crash, 16" 2002 Thin Crash, 12" 2002 Splash, 22" 2002 Ride, 18" 2002 Crash, 18" 2002 China Logic Pro X Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2 Please check me out on Instagram @earldrum Please check out my series on how to make a drum cover in this playlist • How I Make A Drum Cover (Series) Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No Copyright Infringement Intended. All copyrighted material remains the property of the respective copyright owner(s).
