Neil Sedaka – Oh! Carol

• “Oh! Carol” was co-written with Howard Greenfield, a longtime collaborator of Sedaka. In the aforementioned book, the story is that Sedaka and Greenfield were neighbors as kids; Sedaka would play piano in his apartment, and Greenfield’s mother urged him to go meet him. Thus, they first worked together when Sedaka was 13 and Greenfield was 16.

About The Song

• Neil Sedaka named this song for the songwriter Carole King. They went to Abraham Lincoln High in Brooklyn, New York along with Neil Diamond. Carol (as her birth name of Carol Klein, before she picked the stage-surname of “King”) first came into Neil Sedaka’s life as a member of the Linc-Tones, the first group that Sedaka hustled together out of high school. Despite what impression Neil might have left, they did not date.
• This was Sedaka’s first Top 10 hit – his first charting hit was “The Diary” in 1958 at #14.

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Lyric

Oh! Carol
I am but a fool
Darling, I love you
Though you treat me cruel
You hurt me
And you make me cry
But if you leave me
I will surely dieDarling, there will never be another
Cause I love you so
Don’t ever leave me
Say you’ll never go

I will always want you for my sweet heart
No matter what you do
Oh! Carol
I’m so in love with you

Oh! Carol
I am but a fool
Darling, I love you
Though you treat me cruel
You hurt me
And you make me cry
But if you leave me
I will surely die

Darling, there will never be another
Cause I love you so
Don’t ever leave me
Say you’ll never go

I will always want you for my sweet heart
No matter what you do
Oh! Carol
I’m so in love with you