written by Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager

produced by Carole King, Carole Bayer Sager and Humberto Gatica

 

A friend from high school and I saw You’ve Got Mail in the theaters

during its run in late ’98. It was in the days when along with

everyone else, I likely would’ve gotten up and left when the credits

started. Today I’d sit to enjoy the credits and see if there were a

hidden scene at the end or anything like that. And so back in the day, if I had sat through the credits and heard this Carole King song made especially for the film, I’m sure I’d have loved it just the same. When YGM aired on TV, I VCR’d it, and viewed it enough times to establish some fond familiarity, and become acquainted—and quickly infatuated—with this end title song, “Anyone At All.” It took not long for me to place it on my 8th volume of favorite songs in 2001, making it obvious that I nabbed the soundtrack sometime between December ’98 and then. And as stated in the notes for “You’ve Got A Friend” also by Carole...

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...Hey, look at that... “You’ve Got A Friend”... You’ve Got Mail... interesting.

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Anyway, as stated, this song took over the latter part of the tribute video I made for my beloved actress Carol Kane, with spliced moments of her featured parts in TV and movies since the early ’70s. I believe the video played chronologically and started with a silhouette of Carol in Carnal Knowledge, a film from ’71... the year “You’ve Got A Friend” dropped and became a hit (for both Carole King and James Taylor). Carnal Knowledge... same initials as both Miss King and Miss Kane. Wow... coincidences abound.

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This song is magic to sing along with... and it still makes me cry... not entirely unlike the end of the film when—spoiler alert—Meg finally realizes it really was Tom she was corresponding with all along, and starts crying because she wanted it to be him. Like the song proclaims, “I’m so glad it was you.”

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Have notes to add? Let me know!

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YT:

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music video

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