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Carole King
Carole King | |
King at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2012
Background information | |
Birth name | Carol Joan Klein[1] |
Born | February 9, 1942 |
Origin | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
Genres | Pop, soft rock, folk rock, blue eyed soul, easy listening, adult contemporary |
Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
Instruments | Piano, vocals |
Years active | 1958–present |
Labels | Rockingale Ode/Epic/CBS Records Priority/EMI Records |
Associated acts | James Taylor The City Danny Kortchmar Neil Sedaka Gerry Goffin Louise Goffin Carly Simon |
Website | CaroleKing.com |
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.[2] Her career began in the 1960s when King, along with her former husband Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of which have become standards, and she has continued writing for other artists since then. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1960 at age 18, with "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason", which was a hit for Celine Dion.
Her success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she would sing her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] In 2005 music historian Stuart Devoy found her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts 1952–2005.[4]
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at #1 by a female artist for more than 20 years until broken by Whitney Houston (for the soundtrack album The Bodyguard).[5] Her most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010, a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies.[6][7]
She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. [8]
- 1 Early life and sixties song-writing (1942–1969)
- 2 Seventies singer-songwriter and Tapestry (1970–1979)
- 3 Later life and work (1982–present)
- 4 Acting career
- 5 Personal life and family
- 6 Political and environmental activism
- 7 Tributes and covers
- 8 Stage musical biography
- 9 Awards
- 10 Discography
- 11 Certifications
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
Early life and sixties song-writing (1942–1969)[edit]
Born Carol Joan Klein in February 1942 to a Jewish family in Manhattan, her mother was a teacher and her father a firefighter.[9] She grew up in Brooklyn,[10] learning the piano in 1950 when she was four years old, and appearing on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour with a school friend, performing "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" when she was eight.[11] While at James Madison High School in the 1950s, Carol Klein changed her name to Carole King, formed a band called the Co-Sines, and made demo records with her friend Paul Simon for $25 a session.[12][13] Her first official recording was the promotional single "The Right Girl" released by ABC-Paramount in 1958, which she wrote and sang to an arrangement by Don Costa.[14] She attended Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, who was to become her song-writing partner. When she was 17, they married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959 after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise.[15][16] They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner's Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway opposite the Brill Building.[17]
Neil Sedaka, who had dated King when he was still at high school,[18] had a hit in 1959 with "Oh! Carol"; Goffin took the tune and wrote the playful response "Oh! Neil", which King recorded and released as a single the same year; the B-side contained the Goffin-King song "A Very Special Boy".[19][20] The single was not a success;[21] however, after writing "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which topped the American charts in 1960 in a recording by the Shirelles, becoming the first No.1 hit by a black girl group,[22] Goffin and King gave up the daytime jobs in order to concentrate on writing.[23] "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" has gone on to become a standard, recorded by numerous artists.[24]
During the sixties, with King writing the music and Goffin the lyrics, they wrote a string of classic songs for a variety of artists,.[25] For part of this period King and Goffin were the songwriting team behind Don Kirshner's Dimension Records, which produced songs including "Chains" (later covered by the Beatles), "The Loco-Motion" for their babysitter Little Eva and "It Might As Well Rain Until September" which King recorded herself—her first (and only Sixties) hit.[26] Other songs of this period include "Take Good Care of My Baby" for Bobby Vee; "Up on the Roof" for the Drifters; "I'm into Something Good" for Earl-Jean (later covered by Herman's Hermits); "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for the Monkees (inspired by their move to suburban West Orange, New Jersey);[27] and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" for Aretha Franklin.[28]
By 1968, Goffin and King were divorced and were starting to lose contact.[15] King moved to Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles with her two daughters and formed the City, a music trio consisting of Charles Larkey, her future husband, on bass, Danny Kortchmar on guitar and vocals, and King on piano and vocals.[25][29][30] The City produced one album, Now That Everything's Been Said in 1968, but King's reluctance to perform live meant sales were slow,[31] and after a change of distributors it got deleted early, and the group disbanded in 1969.[32]
Seventies singer-songwriter and Tapestry (1970–1979)[edit]
While in Laurel Canyon, King met James Taylor and Joni Mitchell as well as Toni Stern, with whom she would collaborate on songs.[12] King made her first solo album, Writer, in 1970 for Lou Adler's Ode label, with Taylor playing acoustic guitar and providing backing vocals. It peaked at number 84 in the Billboard Top 200. King followed Writer in 1971 with Tapestry, featuring recent solo compositions as well as reinterpretations of two Goffin-King songs, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". The album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's Mud Slide Slim on which King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell appeared as they did on Tapestry, with both albums including "You've Got a Friend", which was a number 1 hit for Taylor; King said in a 1972 interview, that she "didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it".[33] Tapestry was an instant success. With numerous hit singles – including a Billboard No.1 with "It's Too Late" – Tapestry held the No.1 spot for 15 consecutive weeks, remained on the charts for nearly six years, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.[34] The album garnered four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year; Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Record of the Year ("It's Too Late," lyrics by Toni Stern); and Song of the Year, with King becoming the first woman to win the award ("You've Got a Friend"). The album appeared on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list at number 36.[2] In addition, "It's Too Late" was placed at number 469 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Carole King: Music was released in December 1971, certified gold on December 9, 1971. It entered the top ten at 8, becoming the first of many weeks Tapestry and Carole King: Music simultaneously occupied the top 10. The following week it rose to No.3 and finally to No.1 on January 1, 1972, staying there for three weeks. The album also spawned a top 10 hit, "Sweet Seasons" (US No.9 and AC #2). Carole King: Music stayed on the Billboard pop album charts for 44 weeks and was eventually certified platinum.
Rhymes and Reasons (1972), and Fantasy (1973) followed, each earning gold certifications. Rhymes and Reasons produced another hit, "Been to Canaan" (US No.24 and AC No.1), and Fantasy produced two hits, "Believe in Humanity" (US #28) and "Corazon" (US No.37 and AC #5), as well as another song that charted on the Hot 100, "You Light Up My Life" (US No.68 and AC #6).
In 1973, King performed a free concert in New York City's Central Park with 100,000 attending.[35]
In September 1974, King released her album Wrap Around Joy, which was certified gold on October 16, 1974 and entered the top ten at 7 on October 19, 1974. Two weeks later it reached 1 and stayed there one week. She toured to promote the album.[36] Wrap Around Joy spawned two hits. "Jazzman" was a single and reached 2 on November 9 but fell out of the top ten the next week. "Nightingale", a single on December 17, went to No.9 on March 1, 1975.
In 1975, King scored songs for the animated TV production of Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie, released as an album by the same name, with lyrics by Sendak.
Thoroughbred (1976) was the last studio album she made under the Ode label.[36] In addition to enlisting her long-time friends such as David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor and Waddy Wachtel, King reunited with Gerry Goffin to write four songs for the album. Their partnership continued intermittently. King also did a promotional tour for the album in 1976.
In 1977, King collaborated with another songwriter Rick Evers on Simple Things, the first release with a new label distributed by Capitol Records. Shortly after that King and Evers were married; he died of a cocaine overdose one year later. Simple Things was her first album that failed to reach the top 10 on the Billboard since Tapestry, and it was her last Gold-certified record by the RIAA, except for a compilation entitled Her Greatest Hits the following year. Despite its God-certified record status, Simple Things was named "The Worst Album of 1977" by Rolling Stone magazine.[37] Neither Welcome Home (1978), her debut as a co-producer on an album, nor Touch the Sky (1979), reached the top 100. Pearls – The Songs of Goffin and King (1980) yielded a hit single, an updated version of "One Fine Day".
Later life and work (1982–present)[edit]
King moved to Atlantic Records for One to One (1982), and Speeding Time in 1983, which was a reunion with Tapestry-era producer Lou Adler. In 1983, she played piano in "Chains and Things" on the B.B. King album Why I Sing The Blues. After a well-received concert tour in 1984, journalist Catherine Foster of the Christian Science Monitor dubbed King "a Queen of Rock". She also called King's performing as "all spunk and exuberance."[38]
In 1985, she wrote and performed "Care-A-Lot", theme to The Care Bears Movie. Also in 1985, she scored and performed (with David Sanborn) the soundtrack to the Martin Ritt-directed movie Murphy's Romance. The soundtrack, again produced by Adler, included the songs "Running Lonely" and "Love For The Last Time (Theme from 'Murphy's Romance')", although a soundtrack album was apparently never officially released.[39] King made a cameo appearance in the film as Tillie, a town hall employee.[39]
In 1989, she returned to Capitol Records and recorded City Streets, with Eric Clapton on two tracks and Branford Marsalis on one, followed by Color of Your Dreams (1993), with an appearance by Slash of Guns N' Roses. Her song, "Now and Forever", was in the opening credits to the 1992 movie A League of Their Own, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.[20]
In 1988, she starred in the off-Broadway production A Minor Incident, and in 1994, she played Mrs Johnstone on Broadway in Blood Brothers. In 1996, she appeared in Brighton Beach Memoirs in Ireland, directed by Peter Sheridan. In 1991, she wrote with Mariah Carey the song "If It's Over", for Carey's second album Emotions. In 1996, she wrote "Wall Of Smiles/Torre De Marfil" with Soraya for her 1997 album of the same title.
In early 1991 saw the release of Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel as Production outfit Quartz featuring an unknown singer Dina Carroll who provided the vocals on their notable cover of Carole King's "It's Too Late" taken from her Diamond selling album Tapestry, which topped the dance charts worldwide and reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart in 1991. It was hoped that King would appear in the filming of the video for the song but declined citing her heavy tour schedule at that time.
In 1997, King wrote and recorded backing vocals on "The Reason" for Celine Dion on her album Let's Talk About Love. The song sold worldwide, including one million in France. It went to number 1 in France, 11 in the UK, and 13 in Ireland. The pair performed a duet on the first VH1 Divas Live benefit concert. King also performed her "You've Got A Friend" with Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Shania Twain as well as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" with Aretha Franklin and others, including Mariah Carey. In 1998, King wrote "Anyone at All", and performed it in You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
In 2001, King appeared in a television ad for the Gap, with her daughter, Louise Goffin.[citation needed] She performed a new song, "Love Makes the World", which became a title track for her studio album in autumn 2001 on her own label, Rockingale, distributed by Koch Records. The album includes songs she wrote for other artists during the mid-1990s and features Celine Dion, Steven Tyler, Babyface and k.d. lang. Love Makes the World went to 158 in the US and No.86 in the UK. It also debuted on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and Top Internet Albums chart at #20.[7][40][41] An expanded edition of the album was issued six years later called Love Makes the World Deluxe Edition. It contains a bonus disc with five additional tracks, including a remake of "Where You Lead (I Will Follow)" co-written with Toni Stern.[42] The same year, King and Stern wrote "Sayonara Dance", recorded by Yuki, former lead vocalist of the Japanese band Judy and Mary, on her first solo album Prismic the following year. Also in 2001, King composed a song for All About Chemistry album by Semisonic, with the band's frontman Dan Wilson.
King launched her Living Room Tour in July 2004 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. That show, along with shows at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and the Cape Cod Melody Tent (Hyannis, Massachusetts) were recorded as The Living Room Tour in July 2005. The album sold 44,000 copies in its first week in the US, landing at 17 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting album since 1977. The album also charted at 51 in Australia. It has sold 330,000 copies in the United States.[43][44][45] In August 2006 the album reentered the Billboard 200 at 151.[46] The tour stopped in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A DVD of the tour, called Welcome to My Living Room, was released in October 2007.[citation needed]
In November 2007, King toured Japan with Mary J. Blige and Fergie from The Black Eyed Peas. Japanese record labels Sony and Victor reissued most of King's albums, including the works from the late 1970s previously unavailable on compact disc. King recorded a duet of the Goffin/King composition "Time Don't Run Out on Me" with Anne Murray on Murray's 2007 album Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends. The song had previously been recorded by Murray for her 1984 album Heart Over Mind.
In 2010, King and James Taylor staged their Troubadour Reunion Tour together, recalling the first time they played at The Troubadour, West Hollywood in 1970. The pair had reunited two and a half years earlier in 2007 with the band they used in 1970 to mark the club's 50th anniversary. They enjoyed it so much that they decided to take the band on the road for 2010. The touring band featured players from that original band: Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, and Danny Kortchmar. Also present was King's son-in-law, Robbie Kondor. King played piano and Taylor guitar on each other's songs, and they sang together some of the numbers they were both associated with. The tour began in Australia in March, returning to the United States in May. It was a major commercial success, with King playing to some of the largest audiences of her career. Total ticket sales exceeded 700,000 and the tour grossed over 59 million dollars, making it one of the most successful tours of the year.[47]
During their Troubadour Reunion Tour, Carole King released two albums, one with James Taylor. The first, released on April 27, 2010, The Essential Carole King, is a two-disc compilation album. The first disc features many songs Carole King has recorded, mostly her hit singles. The second disc features recordings by other artists of songs that King wrote, most of which made the top 40, and many of which reached No.1.[48] The second album was released on May 4, 2010 and is a collaboration of King and James Taylor called Live at the Troubadour, which debuted at No.4 in the United States with sales of 78,000 copies.[49] Live at the Troubadour has since received a gold record from the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the US and has remained on the charts for 34 weeks, currently charting at No.170 on the Billboard 200.[50]
On December 22, 2010, Carole King's mother, Eugenia Gingold, died in the Hospice Care unit at Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Florida at the age of 94. King stated that the cause of death was congestive heart failure. Gingold's passing was reported by the Miami Herald on January 1, 2011.[51]
In the fall of 2011 she released A Holiday Carole,[52] which includes holiday standards and new songs written by her daughter Louise Goffin who also is producer for the album.
Her autobiography "A Natural Woman: A Memoir" was published by Grand Central in the United States on April 10, 2012. It entered the NYT best seller list at #6.[53][54]
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, it was announced that Carole King was retiring from music and that her days in music have most likely ended. King herself also doubted she would ever write another song and said that her 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour with James Taylor was probably the last tour of her life, saying that it "was a good way to go out." King also stated that she will most likely not be writing or recording any new music.[55][56] However, on May 22, King wrote on her Facebook page that she never said she was actually retiring, and insisted that she was just "taking a break." Carole campaigned for Idahoan Nicole Lefavour and Barack Obama in 2012. Early in December 2012, Carole received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[57] She was awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress [58] and she had the benefit concert 'Painted Turtle - a celebration of Carole King'.[59] King also did an Australian tour in February 2013.[60] Following the Boston Marathon bombings of April 2013, she performed in Boston with James Taylor in order to help victims of the bombing.[61]
In late 2012, The Library of Congress announced that Carole King had been named the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Gershwin Prize for Popular Song - the first woman to receive the distinction given to songwriters for a body of work. "Carole King has been one of the most influential songwriters of our time," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "For more than five decades, she has written for and been recorded by many different types of artists for a wide range of audiences, communicating with beauty and dignity the universal human emotions of love, joy, pain and loss. Her body of work reflects the spirit of the Gershwin Prize with its originality, longevity and diversity of appeal." President and Mrs. Barack Obama hosted the Gershwin Award concert at the White House May 22, 2013, when the President presented the Gershwin Award to Carole King. .[62] In June 2013 she campaigned in Massachusetts for US Representative Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee in a special election for the US Senate to succeed John Kerry who had resigned to become Secretary of State.
Carole King will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in January 2014.[63]
Acting career[edit]
King has appeared sporadically in acting roles, notably three appearances as guest star on the TV series Gilmore Girls as Sophie, the owner of the Stars Hollow music store. King's song "Where You Lead (I Will Follow)" was also the theme song to the series, in a version sung with her daughter Louise.[64] King also appeared as Mrs. Johnstone as a replacement in the original Broadway production of Blood Brothers.
Personal life and family[edit]
King has been married four times, to Gerry Goffin, Charles Larkey, Rick Evers, and Rick Sorenson. In her 2012 memoir A Natural Woman, King wrote that she had been physically abused by her third husband, Rick Evers, on a regular basis.[65]Evers died of a cocaine overdose in 1978.[66]
Her children are musician Louise Goffin, Sherry Goffin, artist Molly Larkey, and Levi Larkey.[67]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1975 | Really Rosie | Rosie (voice) | Television film |
1977 | Bionic Boy | ||
1979 | Dynamite Johnson | ||
1985 | Murphy's Romance | Tillie | |
1987 | Russkies | Mrs. Kovac | |
1989 | Hider in the House | Tom's Mother (voice) |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1975 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Aunt Helen | "Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs" (Season 5 Episode 24) |
1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Mother | "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (Season 3, Episode 1) |
1989 | The Tracey Ullman Show | Joan, Shopaholics Anonymous Member | "The Holland Tunnel of Love" (Season 4, Episode 8) |
1991 | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Tobey Kalow | "The Reunion" (Season 1, Episode 15) |
1991 | ABC Afterschool Specials | Johanna Martin | "It's Only Rock & Roll" (Season 19, Episode 5) |
2002—2005 | Gilmore Girls | Sophie Bloom | "Help Wanted" (Season 2, Episode 20) "To Live and Let Diorama" (Season 5, Episode 18) "He's Slippin' 'Em Bread... Dig?" (Season 6, Episode 10) |
Political and environmental activism[edit]
After relocating to Idaho in 1977, King became involved in environmental issues. Since 1990, she has been working with the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups towards passage of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA). King has testified on Capitol Hill three times on behalf of NREPA: in 1994, 2007 and again in 2009.[68][69]
King is also politically active in the United States Democratic Party. In 2003, she began campaigning for John Kerry, performing in private homes for caucus delegates during the Democratic primaries. On July 29, 2004, she made a short speech and sang at the Democratic National Convention, about two hours before Kerry made his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for President.[citation needed] King continued her support of Kerry throughout the general election. When Kerry was named Secretary of State in 2013 she campaigned with US Representative Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee to succeed Kerry in a special election.
In 2008, King appeared on the March 18 episode of The Colbert Report, touching on her politics again. She said she was supporting Hillary Clinton, and said the choice had nothing to do with gender. She also said she would have no issues if Barack Obama won the election. Before the show's conclusion, she returned to the stage to perform "I Feel the Earth Move".[citation needed]
Tributes and covers[edit]
An all-star roster of artists paid tribute to King on the 1995 album Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King. From the album, Rod Stewart's version of "So Far Away" and Celine Dion's cover of "A Natural Woman" were both Adult Contemporary chart hits. Other artists who appeared on the album included Amy Grant ("It's Too Late"), Richard Marx ("Beautiful"), Aretha Franklin ("You've Got a Friend"), Faith Hill ("Where You Lead"), and the Bee Gees ("Will You Love Me Tomorrow?").
Former Monkee Micky Dolenz released King for a Day, a tribute album consisting of songs written or co-written by King, in 2010.[70] The album includes "Sometime in the Morning", a King-penned song originally recorded by the Monkees in 1967. Dolenz had previously recorded another of King's Monkees compositions, "Porpoise Song", on his lullaby-themed CD Micky Dolenz Puts You to Sleep.[71]
Many other cover versions of King's work have appeared over the years. Most notably, "You've Got a Friend" was a smash No.1 hit for James Taylor in 1971 and a top 40 hit for Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway that same year. Isaac Hayes recorded "It's Too Late" for his No.1 R&B live album Live at the Sahara Tahoe. Barbra Streisand had a top 40 hit in 1972 with "Where You Lead" twice – by itself and as part of a live medley with "Sweet Inspiration". Streisand also covered "No Easy Way Down" in 1971, "Beautiful" and "You've Got A Friend" in 1972, and "Being At War With Each Other" in 1974. Helen Reddy covered two Carole King penned tunes: the first was "No Sad Song" in 1971; the second was "I Can't Hear You No More" in 1976. The Carpenters recorded King's "It's Going to Take Some Time" in 1972, and reached number 12 on the Billboard charts. Richard Carpenter produced a version of "You've Got A Friend" with then teen singer/actor Scott Grimes in 1989. Martika had a number 25 hit in 1989 with her version of "I Feel the Earth Move", and "It's Too Late" reappeared on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1995 by Gloria Estefan. Linda Ronstadt recorded a new version of "Oh No Not My Baby" in 1993. Celine Dion also recorded King's song "The Reason" on her 1997 album Let's Talk About Love with Carole King singing backup and it became a million-seller and was certified Diamond in France. "Where You Lead" (lyrics by Toni Stern) became the title song of TV show Gilmore Girls. Mandy Moore covered "I Feel the Earth Move" on her 2003 album, Coverage.
In 1996, a film very loosely based on her life, Grace of My Heart, was released. In the film an aspiring singer sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. Mirroring King's life, the film follows her from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph in realizing her dream to record her own hit album.[citation needed]
Stage musical biography[edit]
In 2013, producer Paul Blake announced that a musical version of King's music and life would be presented on stage, titled Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,[72] and starring Tony-nominated actress Jessie Mueller in the lead role.[73] Beautiful premiered in a pre-Broadway run at The Curran Theatre in San Francisco in September–October 2013.[74] Previews on Broadway began on November 21, 2013 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with the official opening on January 12, 2014. The book is by Douglas McGrath with direction by Marc Bruni, choreography by Josh Prince, sets by Derek McLane, costumes by Alejo Vietti and lighting by Peter Kaczorowski.[75][76]
- Grammy
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
1972 | Tapestry | Album of the Year | Won |
"It's Too Late" | Record of the Year | Won | |
"You've Got A Friend" | Song of the Year | Won | |
"Tapestry" | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Won | |
1975 | "Jazzman" | Nominated | |
1976 | Really Rosie | Best Album for Children | Nominated |
1993 | "Now and Forever" | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television | Nominated |
1998 | Tapestry | Grammy Hall of Fame | Inducted |
2002 | "You've Got a Friend" | Inducted | |
2002 | "It's Too Late" | Inducted | |
2004 | Carole King | Grammy Trustees Award | Honored |
2013 | Lifetime Achievement | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
A Holiday Carole | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Nominated | |
2014 | Carole King | MusiCares Person of the Year | Honored |
- Primetime Emmy
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2000 | "Song of Freedom" | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Nominated |
- Satellite
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
1998 | "Anyone At All" | Best Original Song | Nominated |
- In 1987, Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- In 1988, Goffin and King received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award.[15]
- In 1990, King was inducted, along with Goffin, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the non-performer category for her songwriting achievements.
- In 2002, King was given the "Johnny Mercer Award" by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- In 2004, Goffin and King were awarded the Grammy Trustees Award.
- King was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[77]
- In 2012 (December 3), King received the 2,486th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- In February 2013, King was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
- On May 22, 2013, President Barack Obama presented Carole King with the fourth Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first awarded to a woman composer.[78] The White House concert and awards ceremony capped off two days of events celebrating Carole King. On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, the Library of Congress hosted an invitation-only concert at their Coolidge Auditorium in honor of Carole King. The all-star tribute included performances by Siedah Garrett, Colbie Caillat, Gian Marco, Shelby Lynne, Patti Austin, Arturo Sandoval and King's daughter, Louise Goffin.[79] The following night at the White House King was joined by other star performers including James Taylor, Gloria Estefan, Emeli Sandé, Trisha Yearwood, Jesse McCartney and Billy Joel.[80]
- Writer (1970)
- Tapestry (1971)
- Music (1971)
- Rhymes & Reasons (1972)
- Fantasy (1973)
- Wrap Around Joy (1974)
- Really Rosie soundtrack (1975)
- Thoroughbred (1976)
- Simple Things (1977)
- Welcome Home (1978)
- Touch the Sky (1979)
- Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King (1980)
- One to One (1982)
- Speeding Time (1983)
- City Streets (1989)
- Colour of Your Dreams (1993)
- Love Makes the World (2001)
- A Holiday Carole (2011)
The years given are the years the albums and singles were released, and not necessarily the years in which they achieved their peak.
U.S. Billboard Top 10 Albums[7]
- 1971 – Tapestry (#1)
- 1971 – Music (#1)
- 1972 – Rhymes & Reasons (#2)
- 1973 – Fantasy (#6)
- 1974 – Wrap Around Joy (#1)
- 1976 – Thoroughbred (#3)
- 2010 – Live at the Troubadour (with James Taylor) (#4)
U.S. Billboard Top 10 'Pop' Singles[7]
- 1971 – "I Feel the Earth Move" (#1)
- 1971 – "It's Too Late" (#1)
- 1971 – "Sweet Seasons" (#9)
- 1974 – "Jazzman" (#2)
- 1974 – "Nightingale" (#9)
Albums and singles certifications
Song title | Certification |
"It's Too Late" | Gold |
Album title | Certification |
Tapestry | Diamond |
Carole King: Music | Platinum |
Rhymes and Reasons | Gold |
Fantasy | Gold |
Wrap Around Joy | Gold |
Thoroughbred | Gold |
Simple Things | Gold |
Live at the Troubadour | Gold |
See also[edit]
- ^ "Legendary singer/songwriter Carole King looks back - today > books". TODAY.com. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
- ^ a b The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[dead link]
- ^ "KING NAMED MOST SUCCESSFUL FEMALE SONGWRITER BY WHITBURN" December 17, 2000, CarolKing.com
- ^ guinness book of british hit singles david roberts 2005 isbn 1-904994-10-5
- ^ de Revere, Paul (22 February 2012). "Drawing a line: Adele, Whitney Houston, and the changing of the guard". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Carole King and James Taylor Troubadour Reunion Comes To An End" July 20, 2010, Anit Music.com
- ^ a b c d King Bio at Allmusic.com
- ^ "Librarian of Congress Names Carole King Next Recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song" December 12, 2012, www.loc.gov
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- ^ "Godsmack Grabs Third No. 1 Album; Eminem Wows Digitally". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
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- ^ Houston, Jon (February 11, 2009). "Carole King Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Supporting the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act". Press Releases. Washington, D.C.: Official website of the Unisted States House of Representatives. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
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- ^ Staff. "The Verdict: Critics Review 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' " playbill.com, January 12, 2014
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Once was, when a guy I had just met asked for my number, I was hesitant to give it to him. I felt like it was too much access to give someone I barely knew. Now, a guy asks to be my Facebook friend and I accept, and yet this grants him far more access into my life than a simple phone number. Why the double standard? That's easy—because it also grants me access into his life.
Think about it. Today, when someone is interested in you, you can immediately see if you have any mutual friends (great for reference checks), what they do for a living, where they live, and what they look like hanging with their family, sledding with their dog, or partying. (If there's always a stripper pole in the background, beware!)
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I personally like to view Facebook as a combination dating catalog and nightlife GPS. Several times a day, I log on to share my humorous views on life (especially dating), leave some comments on my friends' pages, and check to see what the happenings are for the week. I constantly receive event invites and have messages in my inbox about the hottest places to be that weekend. It sure saves me all the time it used to take to text everyone I know and ask, "What are you doing this weekend?"
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On Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his hope for comprehensive immigration reform in a speech delivered in El Paso, Texas. Yet while federal reform remains stalled, many states have continued to push forward with advancing common sense approaches to immigration policy. In just the last few days alone, there has been a flurry of positive activity as states reject the destructive politics of scapegoating and division exemplified by Arizona's SB1070 in favor of pragmatic solutions that will grow their economies and keep their communities safe.
Several states have seen lawmakers take a cynical and economically-damaging approach to revenue shortfalls by slashing unemployment insurance (UI) for those hit hardest by the downturn. Driven by flawed right-wing ideology, Florida legislators recently approved an extreme measure that not only undermines the economic security of Floridians, but also threatens recovery in a state that is already deeply affected by the lasting impacts of the recession and currently has an unemployment rate that is hovering around 11 percent, the third highest in the nation.
At the same time that unemployment remains at historic highs, creeping back up to nine percent last month as more Americans who had given up looking for work return to the job market, corporations are lobbying hard in Washington, DC for free trade deals that will make it easier for them to send more jobs overseas.
Despite public opinion showing broad rejection of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-style deals, scores of campaign promises to uphold fair trade principles, and a call from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to bar provisions that pre-empt state sovereignty, the Obama administration and some in Congress are pushing for the fast-tracked adoption of the three such trade deals negotiated by former-President George W. Bush with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
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In this week's Research Roundup: A report by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) on Nevada's regressive and deeply flawed state tax structure, reports by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the roots of the federal deficit and how tax credits and expenditures reduce state revenue, an analysis of the National Broadband Map by the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, a survey of the enforcement of state wage and hour laws by the National State Attorneys Generals Program at Columbia University Law School, an analysis of public employee pensions in Washington state by the Economic Opportunity institute, a report by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies on the spread of poverty across the state, a study by Tulane University's James Alm and Janet Rogers of Nevada's Department of Budget and Planning on the historic effects of state fiscal policy on economic growth, a policy brief from Demos evaluating several different federal budget proposals by their effects on the middle class, and a report by the Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Foundation on the states that are doing the best jobs on transportation policy. Bridging the Gap: Building a Sound Tax System for the Silver State – The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) recently released this report that examines the regressive and "deeply flawed" state's tax structure and finds that "with the nation's fastest growing population from the 1940s to 2003, an overreliance on gaming revenue that peaked in the late 1970s, and a K-12 student population that rose approximately 40 percent in the last decade, Nevada has found itself increasingly in a position where this kind of deficient tax structure creates unparalleled economic and social problems." The offers some sound, progressive measures to begin to alleviate these pressures, including replacing the modified business tax with a traditional and graduated corporate income tax, extend the state and local options sales taxes to additional service categories, and reform and expand mining taxation. Economic Downturn and Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Projected Deficits – The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the roots of the federal deficit and offers initial steps the government can take to address the fiscal outlook moving forward. The authors find, "the fact remains: the economic downturn, President Bush's tax cuts and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years." The report further calls for Congress to let the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 expire. Promoting State Budget Accountability Through Tax Expenditure Reporting – In this publication, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that tax expenditures, or "tax credits, deductions, and exemptions that reduce state revenue," cost states billions of dollars annually and are typically not subject to accountability requirements. Most states are severely lacking when it comes to reporting tax expenditures and seven states, Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wyoming, do not report on tax expenditures all together. The authors find, "evaluating tax expenditures produces information helpful in generating debate about tax-side spending. Legislators, advocates, the media, and others can use this information to debate productively the value of particular tax expenditures and to prioritize them alongside annual appropriations," and offer policy recommendations to improve the process, including establishing sunset dates, creating a performance review process, capping the total cost of expenditures, eliminating supermajority requirements, and require economic development subsidy accountability. Challenges in Using the National Broadband Map's Data – The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies examines the National Broadband Map, as generated by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with assistance from the Federal Communications Commission. The paper commends the federal agencies for their efforts, but points out that the mapping data has many known and yet-to-be discovered defects, including measurement errors and sample selection, both of which can cause severe problems with empirical analyses. Part of the problems stems from the different data collection procedures, computation algorithms, and provider participation that varied by state and designee. Enforcement of State Wage and Hour Laws: A Survey of State Regulators – This report finds a troubling level of inconsistency in state agencies' enforcement of wage and hour laws, ranging from fairly comprehensive mandates to no state enforcement capacity at all. The survey by the National State Attorneys Generals Program at Columbia University Law School notes, "This creates a regulatory race to the bottom by states as they seek to compete to attract businesses." Of immediate concern is the growing incidence of violations under current economic conditions: there has been a sharp increase in the number of low-wage workers since 2009, yet many states have chosen to cut or freeze resources for enforcement of the laws that protect those workers. Public Pension in Washington State: Insuring Economic Security for Retirees – This report on public employee pensions in Washington state by the Economic Opportunity institute finds that the state has 99% of its public pension obligations funded, concluding that "public pension systems are a driver for jobs and economic growth – enabling the next generation of Americans to also achieve a middle class quality of life." The State of Poverty in Ohio: A Path to Recovery – This annual report by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies explores the shape, causes, and spread of poverty across the state of Ohio. This years' report concludes provide an update on poverty in the state, including the magnitude, characteristics, causes, and impact of poverty across Ohio. The report finds that "From 1999 to 2009, the Ohio poverty rate increased from 10.6% to 15.2%, with an additional half million people (539,000) moving into poverty." Poverty rates were found to be highest in the southeastern, Appalachian area of Ohio and in the state's six largest cities. Do State Fiscal Policies Affect State Economic Growth? – This academic study by Tulane University's James Alm and Janet Rogers of Nevada's Department of Budget and Planning goes through 50 years of state economic data (1947-1997) and concludes that state fiscal policy and political climates have a distinct impact on the rate of economic growth. The authors assert that there is evidence that "a more 'conservative' political orientation is associated with lower rates of economic growth." Budgeting For America's Middle Class: A Report Card Comparing Federal Budget Proposals – In this policy brief, Demos evaluates several different federal budget proposals in "eight categories: jobs and public investment; health care affordability; Social Security income; education; defense policy; fair and adequate revenues; and long-term debt reduction. The highest-scoring plans prioritize immediate stimulus over deficit reduction in order to put millions of Americans back to work." The authors find that the best way to reduce the deficit and put the country on a sustainable path to recovery and prosperity is to put Americans back to work. Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results – This report by the Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Foundation aims to identify the states that are doing the best job putting the "essential tools in place to make more cost-effective transportation funding and policy choices." In doing so, it identifies six broad goals for transportation policies and investments in the states: safety, support for jobs and economic activity, mobility and efficiency of travel, access for different populations, environmental impact, and infrastructure preservation.
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Washington, DC (December 13, 2011) – The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today praises the House and Senate for reaching a deal on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Reauthorization as an Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 1540).
Yesterday, lawmakers announced that an agreement had been reached to reauthorize and amend the SBIR/Small Business TechnologyTransfer (STTR)program, which was set to expire on December 16th. House and Senate lawmakers agreed to amend and extend the program for another six years.
BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood made the following statement today:
"BIO is pleased that an agreement has been reached to amend and extend the SBIR program. SBIR provides muchneeded funding for the development of innovative medical therapies for debilitating diseases including cancer, diabetes and HIV.
"In particular, BIO applauds House and Senate leadership, including Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for their efforts in moving this measure forward.
"This measure allows companies that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital firms to compete for SBIR awards once again, which is critical for emerging biotechnology companies working on tomorrow's breakthrough cures and treatments. Updating the SBIR program to address the current economic realities and capital formation challenges facing small, innovative American companies is necessary to ensure that these companies can once again compete for SBIR grants – based on the promise of their science rather than the structure of their capital.
"The importance of supporting continued advancements in science has never been more important as companies are struggling to recover from the economic crisis, and accelerate research, growth, and hiring. At the very earliest stages of development, alternate sources of financing, such as SBIR grants, have been instrumental in furthering research and development in biotechnology.
"BIO applauds the Congress on this important and timely agreement, and hopesthat the Congress now moves this legislation forward as expeditiously as possible to help fulfill federal research and development goals of bringing cures and breakthrough medicines to the public."
The role of the SBIR program in bringing breakthrough therapies to the American people is a matter of record.
There are 252 FDA-approved biologics that have been developed by 163 companies. Thirty-two percent of those companies have received at least one SBIR/STTR award.
In recent months, at least 25 U.S. public biotech companies have either placed drug development programs on hold or cut programs all together. These programs include promising therapies for HIV, cervical cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, and diabetes.
For additional data and analysis on the U.S. biotechnology industry, please visitwww.bio.org.
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Payroll taxes are all taxes that are collected, by federal, state, and local governments, based on salaries and wages paid to employees. These taxes must be withheld from wages by all businesses that have employees. These taxes are remitted on a monthly or semi-weekly basis, depending on the quantity owed. Businesses are also required to make regularly scheduled reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to state and local taxing agencies about the amount of taxes owed and paid. Businesses are not required to withhold payroll taxes on wages paid to independent contractors. Self-employed persons are responsible for paying their own payroll or income taxes directly to the appropriate taxing entity.
Many small businesses fall behind in paying these taxes or filing the associated reports at some time during their existence. Such an error is, however, very costly because significant interest and penalties apply for late payment or nonpayment of payroll taxes. In fact, the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty allows the IRS to hold a small business owner or accountant personally liable for 100 percent of the amount owed, even in cases where the business has gone bankrupt.
Three main types of taxes fall under the category of payroll taxes:
In addition to withholding payroll taxes for employees, employers must remit these taxes to the IRS in a timely manner. The regular income taxes and the portion of the FICA taxes that are withheld from employees' wages must be remitted to the IRS monthly, along with a Federal Tax Deposit Coupon (Form 810-9B). If the total withheld is less than $500, however, the business is allowed to make the payments quarterly. In 1996, the IRS began requiring businesses that owed more than $47 million in payroll taxes annually to make their monthly payments via telephone or computer through the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. The threshold for electronic filing was scheduled to drop to $50,000 in annual payroll taxes by January 1, 1997, but the deadline was pushed back to June 30, 1998. In addition, two bills were introduced in Congress that would make electronic payments of payroll taxes voluntary for small businesses with few employees.
Employers must also file four different reports regarding payroll taxes. The first report, Form 941, is the Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return. This report details the number of employees the business had, the amount of wages they were paid, and the amount of taxes that were withheld for the quarter. The other three reports are filed annually. Form W-2—the Annual Statement of Taxes Withheld—must be sent to all employees before January 31 of the following year. It details how much each employee received in wages and how much was withheld for taxes over the course of the year. Copies of the W-2 forms for all employees also must be sent to the Social Security Administration. The third report, Form W-3, must be sent to the IRS by February 28 of the following year. It provides a formal reconciliation of the quarterly tax payments made on Form 941 and the annual totals reported on Form W-2 for all employees. The final report is the Federal Unemployment Tax Return, Form 940, which outlines the total FUTA taxes owed and paid for the year.
Most states—as well as some large cities—have their own income tax that businesses must withhold from employees' wages and report to the appropriate authorities. States may also have other payroll taxes that must be collected from employees, as well as unemployment taxes that must be paid by the company. The payment schedules and reporting procedures for state and local payroll taxes are usually consistent with those applied to federal payroll taxes.
There are certain situations in which small businesses can avoid owing payroll taxes. For example, special rules apply to sole proprietorships and husband-and-wife partnerships that pay their minor (under 18) children for work performed in the business. These small businesses receive an exemption from withholding FICA taxes from their children's paychecks, and are also not required to pay the employer portion of the FICA taxes. In this way, the parent and child each save 7.65 percent, for a total of 15.3 percent. In addition, the child's wages can still be deducted from the parents' income taxes as a business expense. Children employed in small family businesses also usually qualify for an exemption from the FUTA tax until they reach age 21.
There is no limit on how much children can earn and still receive the FICA tax exemption. However, it is important that the wages paid to the child are reasonable for the job performed, and that the hours worked by the child are carefully documented, so it will be clear to the IRS that the child has not been paid for little or no real work performed. In addition, parents should note that their child's financial aid for college may be reduced if they earn more than $1,750 per year.
Small businesses also are not required to withhold payroll taxes for persons who are employed as independent contractors. Using independent contractors rather than hiring employees may be an attractive option for some small businesses. By avoiding responsibility for payroll taxes and all the associated paperwork, as well as avoiding the need to pay benefits, businesses may find that using an independent contractor costs between 20 and 30 percent less than hiring an employee. But misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor can lead to costly consequences for a small business. The IRS examines such relationships very carefully, and in cases where an independent contractor must be reclassified as an employee, the business may be liable for back taxes plus a special penalty of 12 to 35 percent of the total tax bill.
The IRS uses a 20-step test to determine whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor. True independent contractors, according to the IRS definition, are in business for themselves with the intention of making a profit and are not under the direct control of the client company. To protect their companies from potential problems, small business owners should make sure that independent contractors are paid by the job rather than by the hour, set their own hours and rules, work on their own premises using their own equipment, sign a specific contract for each project, and make themselves available to multiple clients. Rather than withholding taxes, small businesses simply file an annual informational return—Form 1099, Statement of Miscellaneous Income—detailing the total amount paid to each contractor. No reporting is required for contractors that were paid less than $600 over the course of a year.
Small businesses often find themselves faced with a cash flow crisis, one they believe will ease in a matter of days or weeks. The business owner who, when faced with this cash flow problem, decides to pay vendors before paying for payroll tax obligations is making a grave error. A typical scenario may play out as follows. For short-term survival, the business owner or executive decides to meet current creditors' requirements and oblige the IRS to become a creditor. The hope is that in the medium term the business will be able to pay the IRS the delinquent taxes plus interest and penalties. Often, however, the business becomes insolvent and declares bankruptcy. In order to address this problem and avoid significant erosion of tax revenue, in 1954 Congress enacted a penalty—equal to the unpaid payroll taxes—against all responsible persons who willfully fail to collect and turn over the money.
This penalty for the failure to withhold or remit payroll taxes, known as the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty (TFRP), is included under Section 6672 of the Internal Revenue Code. It allows the IRS to hold individuals associated with a business personally liable for 100 percent of the unpaid amount when the business fails to meet its payroll tax obligations. The TFRP applies to employee funds that the employer holds in trust for the IRS—all of the regular income tax withheld and the employee half of the FICA tax—but not to the employer portions of payroll taxes. The penalty is particularly severe because the IRS considers an employer who fails to pay to be violating a trust. The TFRP can be applied in addition to civil and criminal penalties, including the seizure of business assets and forced closure of the business. And since it is a penalty rather than a tax, the TFRP is not erased by bankruptcy.
In order to apply the TFRP to an individual, the IRS must prove the person's responsibility (that he or she had the power to make the decision about whether or not to pay) and willfulness (that he or she knowingly failed to act rather than made an honest mistake) for the business's failure to remit payroll taxes. In making its determination about who to hold responsible, the IRS looks at who made the financial decisions in the business, who signed the checks, and who had the duty of tax reporting. Under these rules, a small business owner can be found personally liable even if a staff member or outside accountant was directly responsible for payroll tax compliance. In cases where both the business and the owner go bankrupt, the company's accountant may be tagged as the responsible party and held personally liable.
Because the law regarding payroll tax noncompliance is so sweeping, small business owners should pay particular attention to the trust fund taxes. It is vital to keep the taxes that are covered by the TFRP current, even when the business is experiencing cash flow problems. If it appears as if the small business is heading for bankruptcy, these taxes should be paid prior to filing, when management can still designate where the IRS should apply payments. After the company files for bankruptcy it loses this option, and the IRS will apply any payments elsewhere since they can collect the TFRP from individuals associated with the company. Not paying the IRS may solve a company's short-term cash flow problems but it will cause serious problems for the person or persons responsible in the long term.
"Bad Health Will Not Excuse Penalty for Unpaid Payroll Tax." The Kiplinger Tax Letter. 10 March 2006.
Bieg, Bernard J. Payroll Accounting 2005. Thomson South-Western, November 2004.
Daily, Frederick W. Tax Savvy for Small Business. Nolo, November 2004.
Grassi, Carl. "Federal Withholding Rules Enforced with an Iron Fist." Crain's Cleveland Business. 12 June 2000.
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. "What is the difference between a Form W-2 and a Form 1099-MISC?" Available from http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq12-2.html. Retrieved on 1 May 2006.


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DOE and EPA Release the 2007 Fuel Economy Guide
October 17, 2006
DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have released the 2007 Fuel Economy Guide, which provides listings of the 2007 model year vehicles that are fuel economy leaders, both overall and by vehicle class. Hybrid vehicles lead the way for overall fuel economy with the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid, Toyota Camry Hybrid, and the front-wheel-drive version of the Ford Escape Hybrid topping the list, and the four-wheel-drive version of the Ford Escape Hybrid tying with the new Mercury Mariner Hybrid in tenth place. And while the 2006 list included three diesel vehicles from Volkswagen, on the 2007 list those vehicles have been replaced by the new generation of small cars, including the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent, and Kia Rio. An old standard, the Toyota Corolla, has moved up from tenth to seventh place, but missing from the list is the Honda Insight hybrid, which has been discontinued. Since its introduction in model year 2000, the Insight led the fuel economy list for all seven years of its production. See the DOE press release and the EPA listings of mileage leaders for this year and the past four years.
The 2007 Fuel Economy Guide also includes a long list of flex-fuel vehicles that can burn either gasoline or E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The list includes select models of Chevrolet vans; the Chevrolet Avalanche, Impala, Monte Carlo, Silverado, Suburban, and Tahoe; the Chrysler Aspen and Sebring; the Dodge Ram and Durango; the Ford Crown Victoria and F150 Pickup; the GMC Savana, Sierra, and Yukon; the Jeep Commander and Grand Cherokee; the Lincoln Town Car; the Mercury Grand Marquis; the Mercedes-Benz C230; and the Nissan Armada and Titan. See the list on the Fuel Economy Web site.
Manufacturers and EPA both test vehicles based on EPA specifications to determine fuel economy estimates prior to sale. In February, EPA recommended updating the test specifications to be more reliable and reflect driver experiences. The updates to the fuel economy tests are expected in time for the 2008 model year vehicles. The EPA also provides the Green Vehicle Guide Web site, which allows consumers to locate the cleanest running and most fuel-efficient vehicles. See the 2007 Fuel Economy Guide and the EPA Green Vehicle Guide.


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