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Sedaka wrote this for the songwriter Carole King, who was his high school girlfriend. They went to Abraham Lincoln High in Brooklyn, New York along with Neil Diamond.
After studying hit records in several countries, Sedaka incorporated common factors like a certain drum beat and the use of a girl's name. This was the result. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)
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Comments:
Carole King and Neil Sedaka going together to school and falling in love. A very good song.
- Teresa, Mechelen, Belgium
My sister had the album with all these songs on it, the RCA label with the puppy looking in the horn on the phonograph. when I was about 4 I thought it was a female singing, lol & wondered why a woman would be singing Oh Carol! Neil Sedaka's stuff is awesome! The song Sweet Little You has a similar piano part as Ernie K Doe's Mother In Law song. I'm not sure who wrote or who recorded it 1st but Ernie K Doe's song entered Billboard on March 27, 1961 & Neil's Sweet Little You entered Billboard on August 28, 1961.
- Alf, Kingston, Canada
This was one of the first "product" songs, you know, a song that was written to hit the charts. Sedaka analyzed hit songs of that time and united them in this hit...
- Chinchu, Guayaquil, South America
I wrote a version of this about myself in 1983, and I stopped singing it because everyone thought that I was a narcissist, extremely vain and/or in love with myself. Therefore, nary a copy of "Oh Darrell" still exists, the last having been burned in my wood stove in 1991.
- Darrell, Eugene, United States
The song "Oh Carol" is a very beautiful song, it is very romantic. Neil Sedaka rocks!
- Eva, Brisbane, Australia
i love the song called oh carol
- Mary, san jose, CA
please mail me this song this is one of the favourite songs of mine
- qubad, mumbai, MS
DEAR SIR SEDAKA !
I AM A POP SINGER IN NEPAL AND I LIKE THE SONG "OH CAROL" VERY MUCH.
I MADE A NEPALI REMIX OF "OH CAROL".
I WOULD BE HIGHLY THANKFUL IF YOU WOULD SUGGEST AND GIVE ME FORMAL AUTHORIZATION THROUGH E-MAIL SO THAT I MAY RELEASE THE NEPALI REMIX "OH CAROL".
SINCERELY
SANJAYA SHARMA
NEPAL
- Sanjaya, kathmandu, India
Carole King write 'Oh Neil' (1960), an answer to Sedaka's hit single, 'Oh Carol', that he had written about Carole King.
- Cengiz, Istanbul, Turkey