You've Got a Friend
"You're Got a Friend " is a 1971 song written by Carole King and was included on her second studio album Tapestry . The best known version is by James Taylor and released as a single. It was taken from his third studio album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon . It went to number 1 in the United States, number 4 in the United Kingdom, number 2 in Canada, number 16 in Argentina, number 3 in Ireland and number 14 in the Netherlands. It won two Grammy Awards in 1972. It went on to be covered by other artists including Michael Jackson , Dusty Springfield , Anne Murray and Donny Hathaway .
References
Studio albums Live albums
Live/Best Live
One Man Band
Amchitka
Live at the Troubadour
Holiday albums Compilation albums
Greatest Hits
Classic Songs
Greatest Hits Volume 2
The Best of James Taylor
Extended plays Singles
"Carolina in My Mind"
"Knocking 'Round the Zoo"
"Sweet Baby James"
"Fire and Rain"
"Country Road"
"You've Got a Friend "
"Long Ago and Far Away"
"Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"
"One Man Parade"
"Hymn"
"Mockingbird" (with Carly Simon )
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
"Mexico"
"Shower the People"
"Woman's Gotta Have It"
"Handy Man"
"Your Smiling Face"
"Honey Don't Leave L.A."
"Devoted to You" (with Carly Simon)
"Up on the Roof"
"Her Town Too"
"Hard Times"
"Everyday"
"It's Growing"
"Change"
Other songs
"Night Owl"
"Something in the Way She Moves"
"Sunny Skies"
"Steamroller Blues"
"You Can Close Your Eyes"
"Highway Song"
"I Was a Fool to Care"
"Bartender's Blues"
"Secret O' Life"
"Millworker"
"Summer's Here"
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Discography
James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine
Working
Vote for Change Tour
Troubadour Reunion Tour
Carly Simon
Sally Taylor
Kate Taylor
Livingston Taylor
Alex Taylor
Isaac M. Taylor
Two-Lane Blacktop
Studio albums
Writer
Tapestry
Music
Rhymes & Reasons
Fantasy
Wrap Around Joy
Thoroughbred
Simple Things
Welcome Home
Touch the Sky
Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King
One to One
Speeding Time
City Streets
Colour of Your Dreams
Love Makes the World
Compilations
Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago
The Legendary Demos
Live albums
In Concert
The Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971
The Living Room Tour
Live at the Troubadour
Other albums Singles
"It Might as Well Rain Until September"
"Up on the Roof"
"It's Too Late "/"I Feel the Earth Move"
"So Far Away"/"Smackwater Jack"
"You've Got a Friend "/"Beautiful" (Scandinavia only)
"Sweet Seasons"
"Been to Canaan"
"Jazzman "
"Nightingale"
"Only Love Is Real"
"One Fine Day"
"Now and Forever"
Other songs
"Wasn't Born to Follow"
"Goin' Back
"I Can't Hear You No More"
"Where You Lead"
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
"It's Going to Take Some Time"
"No Sad Song"
"Some Kind of Wonderful"
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman "
"Chains"
Related articles
Discography
Troubadour Reunion Tour
A Natural Woman: A Memoir
Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King
Marcia Sings Tapestry
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Studio albums
First Take (1969)
Chapter Two (1970)
Quiet Fire (1971)
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972)
Killing Me Softly (1973)
Feel Like Makin' Love (1975)
Blue Lights in the Basement (1977)
Roberta Flack (1978)
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway (1980)
I'm the One (1982)
Born to Love (1983)
Oasis (1988)
Set the Night to Music (1991)
Roberta (1994)
The Christmas Album (1997)
Live albums
Live & More (1980)
At Her Best – Live (2008)
Soundtrack albums
Soul To Soul (1971)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Compilation albums
The Best of Roberta Flack (1981)
Greatest Hits (1984)
Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack (1993)
The Very Best of Roberta Flack (2006)
Singles
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
"You've Got a Friend "
"Where Is the Love"
"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
"Jesse" (1973)
"Feel Like Makin' Love"
"The Closer I Get to You "
"If Ever I See You Again"
"Making Love"
"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"
"Oasis"
"Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)"
Filmography Related articles
1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Other Featured
Studio albums
Everything Is Everything
Donny Hathaway
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Extension of a Man
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway
Live albums
Live
These Songs for You, Live!
Soundtrack album
Come Back, Charleston Blue
Singles Related articles
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Simon Bartholomew
Andrew Levy
Jan Kincaid
Lascelles Gordon
Ceri Evans
N'Dea Davenport
Siedah Garrett
Carleen Anderson
Sy Smith
Sulene Fleming
Studio albums
The Brand New Heavies
Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1
Brother Sister
Shelter
Allabouthefunk
Get Used to It
Compilation albums
Trunk Funk – The Best of The Brand New Heavies
Live albums Singles Related articles
Studio albums Compilation albums
All the Greatest Hits
The Greatest Bits: B-Sides & Rarities
Memory Lane: The Best of McFly
The Lost Songs
Other albums
Just My Luck
Radio:Active – Live at Wembley
Video albums
The Wonderland Tour 2005
Motion in the Ocean Tour
All the Greatest Hits (The DVD)
Radio:Active Live at Wembley
Behind the Noise
Singles
"5 Colours in Her Hair"
"Obviously"
"That Girl"
"Room on the 3rd Floor"
"All About You/You've Got a Friend"
"I'll Be OK"
"I Wanna Hold You"
"Ultraviolet/The Ballad of Paul K"
"Don't Stop Me Now / Please, Please "
"Star Girl"
"Sorry's Not Good Enough/Friday Night"
"Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania"
"The Heart Never Lies"
"One for the Radio"
"Lies"
"Do Ya/Stay with Me"
"Falling in Love"
"Party Girl"
"Shine a Light"
"That's the Truth"
"Love Is Easy"
"Love Is on the Radio"
Films Tours
The Wonderland Tour (2005)
Motion in the Ocean Tour (2006)
The Greatest Hits Tour (2007)
Radio:Active Tour (2008)
Above the Noise Tour (2011)
McBusted Tour (2014)
McBusted's Most Excellent Adventure Tour (2015)
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Discography
Song list
Super Records
Busted
V
McBusted
Studio albums
Song to a Seagull (1968)
Clouds (1969)
Ladies of the Canyon (1970)
Blue (1971)
For the Roses (1972)
Court and Spark (1974)
The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
Hejira (1976)
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)
Mingus (1979)
Wild Things Run Fast (1982)
Dog Eat Dog (1985)
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988)
Night Ride Home (1991)
Turbulent Indigo (1994)
Taming the Tiger (1998)
Both Sides Now (2000)
Travelogue (2002)
Shine (2007)
Live albums
Miles of Aisles
Shadows and Light
Amchitka, The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace
Compilation albums
Hits
Misses
The Beginning of Survival
Dreamland
Songs of a Prairie Girl
Archives series
Box sets
Volume 1: The Early Years (1963–1967)
The Reprise Albums (1968–1971)
Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968–1971)
The Asylum Albums (1972–1975)
Auxiliary releases Live albums
Live at Canterbury House – 1967
Live at Carnegie Hall – 1969
Singles
"Chelsea Morning"
"Big Yellow Taxi "
"Carey"
"California"
"You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio"
"Raised on Robbery"
"Help Me"
"Free Man in Paris"
"In France They Kiss on Main Street"
"Coyote"
Notable songs
"Both Sides, Now"
"The Fiddle and the Drum"
"Woodstock"
"The Circle Game"
"Little Green"
"This Flight Tonight"
"River"
"A Case of You"
"The Last Time I Saw Richard"
"Down to You "
"Two Grey Rooms"
Collaborations
Songs Albums
The Last Waltz
The Wall – Live in Berlin
River: The Joni Letters
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
Backing bands
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