Welcome Home (Carole King album)

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

Welcome Home
Studio album by Carole King
Released	1978
Recorded	January 1978
Studio	Sound Labs (Hollywood)
Genre	Pop rock
Label	Capitol
Producer	Carole King, Norm Kinney
Carole King chronology
Simple Things (1977) Welcome Home (1978) Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[2]

Track listing

All songs by Carole King except where 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 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

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3]	69
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape[4]	104

References

1. "Welcome Home Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 397.
3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 166/167. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
4. "Carole King". Billboard. Retrieved 11 March 2024.

External links

• Carole King discography.