Peter Asher
speaker
359 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Peter Asher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I invited her over to my house where James was staying at this point.
And she sat down next to James at the piano bench.
James played his guitar and she started playing piano.
I suggested they just sit and start playing.
And it worked perfectly.
I thought her piano playing was exactly, exactly what I had in mind.
And James loved her too, and of course he was a Carole fan already.
And so we sort of booked Carole, as it were, as a studio musician for the next five days.
And that was when we recorded every track on Sweet Baby James.
And if you look, you'll see that Carole King is credited on piano on every one of them.
Yes, exactly so.
Yeah, they were almost the same time.
Yes, exactly.
No, it was an act of great generosity.
What actually happened was kind of interesting.
When James was playing the troubadour in Los Angeles after Sweet Baby James was a big hit, I persuaded Carol to actually play with James live, which she did.
So, when Carol agreed to play with James at the Troubadour, James had the idea that Carol might like to do a little set of her own to get her feet wet, as it were, in terms of actually being a performer in front of a live audience.
So she agreed to do that.
And it was on the opening night of the Troubadour, the soundcheck, that while Carol was soundchecking her own piano, just to make sure it would all work and everything, she ran through a song she'd just finished writing the night before.
And James and I were just sitting in the audience at the Troubadour in the empty house.
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