Toni Stern, who wrote the hit Carole King song ‘It’s Too Late’, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, has reportedly died at the age of 79. Stern also wrote the songs “What Have You Got to Lose” and “Raspberry Jam”. Ms. Stern, a Los Angeles native, was an aspiring painter and poet living in Laurel Canyon, an enclave popular with the Los Angeles rock elite, in the late 1960s. “When I moved to California in 1968, she was the epitome of a free-spirited Laurel Canyon woman,” Ms. King wrote in a Facebook post after Ms. Stern’s death. Ms. Stern provided the words for “It’s Too Late,” which was No.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2024 21:36 UTC