Music: 1971 You've Got a Friend | Carole King
Video: 1972 Mary Tyler Moore | S03E01 The Good Time News
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Carole King – piano, vocals, background vocals
David Campbell – viola
Terry King – cello
Danny Kortchmar – acoustic guitar, conga, electric guitar, vocals
Charlie Larkey – string bass
Joni Mitchell – background vocals
Barry Socher – violin
James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore) is an American sitcom television series created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress and namesake Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. Moore starred as Mary Richards, an unmarried, independent woman focused on her career as associate producer at the fictional WJM news program in Minneapolis. A central female character who was not married or dependent on a man was a rarity in American television in the 1970s, leading to numerous publications citing The Mary Tyler Moore Show as groundbreaking television in the era of second-wave feminism. Ed Asner co-starred as Mary's boss Lou Grant, alongside Valerie Harper as her friend and neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern and Cloris Leachman as her landlady Phyllis Lindstrom. Other co-stars throughout the series's run included Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, and Betty White.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is remembered for its realistic and complex characters and storylines, in contrast to the simplistic characters and plots typically seen on broadcast television at that time. It was the subject of consistent critical praise and high ratings during its original run, receiving twenty-nine Primetime Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row (1975–1977); Moore received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series three times. The series also launched three spin-offs: Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant. In 2013 the Writers Guild of America ranked The Mary Tyler Moore Show #6 on its list of the '101 Best Written TV Series of All Time.'" (Wikipedia)

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S03E01 The Good Time News - September 16, 1972

"Mary voices her displeasure to Lou when she finds out that the previous associate producer made $50/week more than she does solely because he was a man, married and had a family to support, despite Mary doing a better job than he ever did. So when Mary disagrees with Lou at a station manager's meeting - Mary agreeing with general manager Jack Stoneham's idea that the news would benefit by a new, more casual and relaxed format - Lou thinks Mary is just saying it to prove she has a mind of her own and is worth $50/week more. Mary takes over running the new format, which includes a new set, new blazers but more importantly co-anchors. Mary sells Lou on the idea that Gordy would make a perfect second anchor, as he is warm, funny and bright, everything that Ted is not. In rehearsals, it becomes evident that Ted is the thankless straight man to Gordy's funny guy, evident to everyone except Ted. When Ted learns what his role is in the pairing, Ted does whatever he can to prove that he too has personality." ([ Ссылка ])

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"'You've Got a Friend' was written by Carole King during the January 1971 recording sessions for her own album Tapestry, and James Taylor's album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. King has stated that 'the song was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced. The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside myself, through me.' According to Taylor, King told him that the song was a response to a line in Taylor's earlier song 'Fire and Rain' that 'I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.' King's album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's, and King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell perform on both.

According to author James D. Perone, the song's themes include an expression of 'a universal, sisterly/brotherly, agape-type love of one human being for another, regardless of gender.' The 'reassuring' lyrics have long made the song popular with lonely people needing a boost of self-confidence. The song's messages of friendship having no boundaries and a friend being there when you are in need has universal appeal. For Taylor the lyrics had particular resonance due to the depression he had recovered from shortly before hearing King play the song. The music moves between a major and minor key, which according to music critic Maury Dean gives the song a 'sympathetic mood.'

In his review of Tapestry, Rolling Stone critic Jon Landau called 'You've Got a Friend' Carole King's 'most perfect new song.' He particularly praised how the melody and lyrics support each other, and the 'gorgeous, righteous rock melody' of the ending lyrics. Mojo considered the song to probably be "the core of Tapestry." (Wikipedia)

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