# Wrap Around Joy

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Wrap Around Joy
| type         = studio
| artist       = [Carole King](/source/Carole_King)
| cover        = Wrap around joy.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = September 1974
| recorded     = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = [Pop](/source/Pop_music), [soft rock](/source/soft_rock)
| length       = 42:06
| label        = [Ode](/source/Ode_Records) / [A&M](/source/A%26M_Records) (original issue)<br/>Ode / [Epic](/source/Epic_Records) (re-issue)
| producer     = [Lou Adler](/source/Lou_Adler)
| prev_title   = [Fantasy](/source/Fantasy_(Carole_King_album))
| prev_year    = 1973
| next_title   = [Really Rosie](/source/Really_Rosie)
| next_year    = 1975
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Wrap Around Joy
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [Jazzman](/source/Jazzman)
 | single1date = August 22, 1974
 | single2     = [Nightingale](/source/Nightingale_(Carole_King_song))
 | single2date = December 17, 1974
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/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](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)''
|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](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)|publisher=[Ticknor & Fields](/source/Ticknor_%26_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Carole_King), released in 1974. The album peaked at number one on the [''Billboard'' 200](/source/Billboard_200) albums chart in late 1974 and spun off successful singles with "[Jazzman](/source/Jazzman)", which reached number two on the [''Billboard'' Hot 100](/source/Billboard_Hot_100) chart and earned King a nomination for [Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female](/source/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance) in the [17th Grammy Awards](/source/17th_Annual_Grammy_Awards) (the award went to [Olivia Newton-John](/source/Olivia_Newton-John) for "[I Honestly Love You](/source/I_Honestly_Love_You)"); and "[Nightingale](/source/Nightingale_(Carole_King_song))", which reached number nine on the Hot 100 chart and number six on the [Easy Listening](/source/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)) 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](/source/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](/source/Carole_King) and [David Palmer](/source/David_Palmer_(vocalist))
| headline = Side one
| title1 = [Nightingale](/source/Nightingale_(Carole_King_song))
| length1 = 3:36
| title2 = Change in Mind, Change of Heart
| length2 = 4:39
| title3 = [Jazzman](/source/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](/source/Andy_Newmark) – drums
*[Dean Parks](/source/Dean_Parks) – guitar
*[Danny Kortchmar](/source/Danny_Kortchmar) – guitar
*Horn section:
**[George Bohanon](/source/George_Bohanon)
**Fred Jackson, Jr. 
**Mike Altschul
**[Chuck Findley](/source/Chuck_Findley)
**Gene Coe
**[Dick "Slyde" Hyde](/source/Dick_Hyde_(musician))
**[Ernie Watts](/source/Ernie_Watts)
*[Tom Scott](/source/Tom_Scott_(saxophonist)) – saxophone solo on "Jazzman"
*[Jim Horn](/source/Jim_Horn) – saxophone solo on "Wrap Around Joy"
*Abigale Haness – backing vocals
*Sherry and [Louise Goffin](/source/Louise_Goffin) – backing vocals on "Nightingale"
*[The Eddie Kendricks Singers](/source/Eddie_Kendricks) – choir vocals on "We Are All in This Together"
*[The David Campbell String Section](/source/David_Campbell_(composer)) – strings on "We Are All in This Together"

==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
!Chart (1974)
!Position
|-
|align="left"|Australia ([Kent Music Report](/source/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](/source/RPM_(magazine))<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](/source/Oricon)<ref>{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=[Roppongi](/source/Roppongi), [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo)|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}</ref>
|7
|-
|align="left"|US [Billboard Top LPs](/source/Billboard_200)<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](/source/RPM_(magazine))<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](/source/RPM_(magazine))|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](/source/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==
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{{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}}
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Carole King}}

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Category:1974 albums
Category:Carole King albums
Category:Albums produced by Lou Adler
Category:Ode Records albums

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