Summary of Carole King's A Natural Woman

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was born in 1942 in New York City. My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to realize that my surname was Glayman, which means small in German. My parents met in an elevator at Brooklyn College in 1936, and my father was studying chemistry; my mother's majors were English and drama. #2 I was born in Manhattan on February 9, 1942.
My father was a fireman, and my mother took care of me and the house. The first piece of furniture in their home was a piano, which my mother eventually taught me to play. #3 Perfect pitch is when a note matches up consistently with that note in your memory. With relative pitch, you may not be able to sing or identify a note perfectly the first time, but once you know the first note, you can correctly sing and identify the rest of them. #4 I had begun making up songs when I was three.
I would improvise words and melodies while my little fingers pounded out a rudimentary accompaniment on the piano. I learned how to play the piano when I was four.