Welcome Home (Carole King album)

Welcome Home
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Studio album by Carole King
Released	May 1978
Recorded	January 1978 at Sound Labs, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Pop/Rock
Label	Capitol
Producer	Carole King, Norm Kinney
Carole King chronology
Simple Things (1977)Simple Things1977 Welcome Home (1978) Touch the Sky (1978)Touch the Sky1978

Welcome Home is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1978.

Professional ratings
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Track listing

All songs by Carole King unless otherwise noted.

1. "Main Street Saturday Night"
2. "Sunbird" (King, Rick Evers)
3. "Venusian Diamond" (King, Evers, Mark Hallman, Robert McEntee, Robb Galloway, Miguel Rivera, Richard Hardy, Michael Wooten)
4. "Changes"
5. "Morning Sun"
6. "Disco Tech" (King, Hallman, McEntee, Galloway, Rivera, Wooten, Hardy)
7. "Wings of Love" (King, Evers)
8. "Ride the Music"
9. "Everybody's Got the Spirit"
10. "Welcome Home"

Personnel

• Carole King - vocals, background vocals, string arrangements
• Robert McEntee - guitar, background vocals
• Mark Hallman - guitars, background vocals
• Rob Galloway - bass, background vocals
• Michael Wooten - drums
• Miguel Rivera - congas, percussion
• Richard Hardy - flute, saxophone, clarinet, vocals
• George Bohanon - trombone, horn arrangement
• Dick "Slyde" Hyde - trombone
• Ernie Watts - saxophone
• Nolan Andrew Smith, Jr - trumpet, fluegelhorn
• Oscar Brashear - trumpet, fluegelhorn
• Charles Veal, Jr. - concertmaster, violin
• Israel Baker - violin
• Frank Foster - violin
• William H. Henderson - violin
• Marcia Van Dyke - violin
• Dorothy Wade - violin
• John Wittenberg - violin
• Kenneth Yerke - violin
• Rollice Dale - viola
• Denyse Buffum - viola
• Dennis Karmazyn - cello
• Ronald Cooper - cello
• The Trio on "Changes" was played by Charles Veal, Rollice Dale, Dennis Karmazyn
• Bob Harrington - hammer dulcimer
• Anne Golia - tamboura
• Georgia Kelly - harp
• Rick Evers - cowbell
• Carole King, Mark Hallman, Robert McEntee, Richard Hardy, Stephanie Spruill, Alexandra Brown, Ann White - choir

Production notes

• Produced by Carole King and Norm Kinney
• Engineered by Norm Kinney, Linda Tyler and Steve Katz
• Roy Reynolds – photography
• Roy Kohara and Roy Reynolds – art direction

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Pop albums	104

External links

• Carole King discography.