taylor and carol king s 50 year friendship and professional partnership have had an impact on american music. now on this exclusive joint interview recorded for the new cnn film carol king and james taylor: just call out my name, the music icons share the story behind one of their most famous songs. here s a look. you ve got a friend it s one of those songs that writes itself really fast. right. you know, as soon as i heard it, man, that s just that s just it. that s a great, great song. peter sort of asking, you know, we want to put this on the album. what do you think? and you were generous enough to say sure. this fantastic tune she s recording herself, and she allows me to have the first shot at it. all you ve got to do is call hearing your rendition of it for the first time, it was like,
it was one of those songs that writes itself really fast. right. as soon as i heard it, i went that s a great, great song. peter sort of asking you we want to put this on the album, what do you think, and you were generous to say sure. this fantastic tune she s recording herself, and she allows me to have the first shot at it. think all you got to do is call your rendition of it for the first time, was, like, oh, my god, it s perfect. what s funny is it was one of those things, we ve been in the studio, i think we had this extra time left over. we all knew the song because we d heard you play it because we were at the trubador doing that gig together, and you were playing it every night. it was so loose. playing all over the place. it s the most noty of a bass
i don t know that that s why people voted for her. i hope she doesn t, like, really screw things up, because that s the way it feels. reporter: it is a fascinating game that she s playing, and i m not sure people here really understand what the payoff could be. i ll echo what peter sort of laid out, which is we really still don t know what is in this bill. we heard that a lot of west virginia, we re hearing it here. a lot of people here talking about climate is very interested for that making it into the reconciliation bill, stephanie. cal, ali, peter, thank you very much. i want to dig deeper into these negotiations, and who better to speak to than one of those who got a shoutout from president biden earlier this week. i want to see, we re not even going to hear it.