Neil Sedaka - Oh! Carol | Colorized (1959, Stereo) 4K

1959... #1 Netherlands Top 100 #1 Belgium #3 UK Singles Chart #4 Canada #5 US Cash Box Top 100 #9 US Billboard Hot 100.. Neil Sedaka named this song for the songwriter Carole King. They went to Abraham Lincoln High in Brooklyn, New York along with Neil Diamond. Carol (as her birth name of Carol Klein, before she picked the stage-surname of “King“) first came into Neil Sedaka’s life as a member of the Linc-Tones, the first group that Sedaka hustled together out of high school. Despite what impression Neil might have left, they did not date. Neil Sedaka’s career was on the rocks before this song. At Aldon music, producer and longtime friend Don Kirshner gave Sedaka the following advice: “Write a song with the girl’s name in the title. Talk in the middle like The Diamonds did in ’Little Darlin’.’“ Sedaka, who co-wrote the song with Howard Greenfield, recalls the inspiration slightly differently. He studied Billboard magazine, and says, “I looked at the #1 record i