With at least 118 charting pop songs to her credit, you're excused for not knowing Carole King wrote these gems: The Monkees made "Pleasant Valley Sunday" a hit, but King's version also taunts the 'burbs. A teenaged George Harrison sang "Chains" less convincingly than King herself did in 1980. And James Taylor had another hit with her "Fire and Rain" answer, "You've Got a Friend."