{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Wrap Around Joy | type = studio | artist = Carole King | cover = Wrap around joy.jpg | alt = | released = September 1974 | recorded = | studio = | genre = Pop, soft rock | length = 42:06 | label = Ode / A&M (original issue)<br/>Ode / Epic (re-issue) | producer = Lou Adler | prev_title = Fantasy | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Really Rosie | next_year = 1975 | misc = {{Singles | name = Wrap Around Joy | type = studio | single1 = Jazzman | single1date = August 22, 1974 | single2 = Nightingale | single2date = December 17, 1974 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r10886|first=John|last=Bush|accessdate=2012-02-07}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = C<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: K|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=K&bk=70|access-date=February 28, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Rolling Stone'' |rev3score = (mixed)<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418011448/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/caroleking/albums/album/99144/review/5945532/wrap_around_joy|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/caroleking/albums/album/99144/review/5945532/wrap_around_joy|title=Carole King: Wrap Around Joy: Music Review|last=Landau|first=Jon|magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1974-11-21|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-04-18}}</ref> }}
'''''Wrap Around Joy''''' is the sixth album by American singer and songwriter Carole King, released in 1974. The album peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart in late 1974 and spun off successful singles with "Jazzman", which reached number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and earned King a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in the 17th Grammy Awards (the award went to Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You"); and "Nightingale", which reached number nine on the Hot 100 chart and number six on the Easy Listening chart.
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table%3DSEARCH_RESULTS |title=RIAA |website=Recording Industry Association of America |access-date=September 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626051113/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS |archive-date=June 26, 2007 }}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | all_writing = Carole King and David Palmer | headline = Side one | title1 = Nightingale | length1 = 3:36 | title2 = Change in Mind, Change of Heart | length2 = 4:39 | title3 = Jazzman | length3 = 3:43 | title4 = You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine | length4 = 3:32 | title5 = You're Something New | length5 = 2:53 | title6 = We Are All in This Together | length6 = 4:02 }} {{track listing | headline = Side two | title1 = Wrap Around Joy | length1 = 2:56 | title2 = You Gentle Me | length2 = 3:46 | title3 = My Lovin' Eyes | length3 = 3:06 | title4 = Sweet Adonis | length4 = 3:21 | title5 = A Night This Side of Dying | length5 = 2:57 | title6 = The Best Is Yet to Come | length6 = 3:30 | total_length = 42:06 }}
==Personnel== *Carole King – piano, vocals, backing vocals *Charles Larkey – bass *Andy Newmark – drums *Dean Parks – guitar *Danny Kortchmar – guitar *Horn section: **George Bohanon **Fred Jackson, Jr. **Mike Altschul **Chuck Findley **Gene Coe **Dick "Slyde" Hyde **Ernie Watts *Tom Scott – saxophone solo on "Jazzman" *Jim Horn – saxophone solo on "Wrap Around Joy" *Abigale Haness – backing vocals *Sherry and Louise Goffin – backing vocals on "Nightingale" *The Eddie Kendricks Singers – choir vocals on "We Are All in This Together" *The David Campbell String Section – strings on "We Are All in This Together"
==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" !Chart (1974) !Position |- |align="left"|Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=166/167}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|24 |- |align="left"|Canadian RPM Albums Chart<ref>[https://archive.today/20120905180021/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.3866a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=3td8m3mergtfdmr8b7qq9fm517 Library and Archives Canada.] Retrieved 2011-02-02</ref> |1 |- |align="left"|Japanese Oricon LPs Chart<ref>{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}</ref> |7 |- |align="left"|US Billboard Top LPs<ref name="USchart">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r10886/charts-awards|accessdate=2012-02-07|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic - Carole King > Wrap Around Joy > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums]</ref> |1 |- |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- !Chart (1974) !Position |- |align="left"|Canadian Albums Chart<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3891&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5|title=RPM Top 100 Albums of 1974|magazine=RPM|access-date=2011-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429080444/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3891&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5|archive-date=2014-04-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> |13 |- !Chart (1975) !Position |- |align="left"|US Billboard Year-End<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208164051/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855857?imw=Y |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855857?imw=Y |title=Billboard.BIZ Top Pop Albums of 1975 |publisher=billboard.biz |archive-date=2012-12-08 |access-date=2014-04-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |73 |} {{col-end}}
==Certifications== {{certification Table Top|format=2col}} {{certification Table Entry|artist=Carole King|type=album|title=Wrap Around Joy|relyear=1974|region=United States|award=Gold|format=2col|access-date=2012-02-07}} {{certification Table Bottom|format=2col}}
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Category:1974 albums Category:Carole King albums Category:Albums produced by Lou Adler Category:Ode Records albums