title: Welcome Home (Carole King album)
text: # Welcome Home (Carole King album)
  
  Welcome Home is the 9th album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1978.
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | link |
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All songs by Carole King except where noted.
  
  * "Main Street Saturday Night"
  * "Sunbird" (King, Rick Evers)
  * "Venusian Diamond" (King, Evers, Mark Hallman, Robert McEntee, Robb Galloway, Miguel Rivera, Richard Hardy, Michael Wooten)
  * "Changes"
  * "Morning Sun"
  * "Disco Tech" (King, Hallman, McEntee, Galloway, Rivera, Wooten, Hardy)
  * "Wings of Love" (King, Evers)
  * "Ride the Music"
  * "Everybody's Got the Spirit"
  * "Welcome Home"
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Carole King – vocals, background vocals, string arrangements
  * Robert McEntee – guitar, background vocals
  * Mark Hallman – guitars, background vocals
  * Rob Galloway – bass, background vocals
  * Michael Wooten – drums
  * Miguel Rivera – congas, percussion
  * Richard Hardy – flute, saxophone, clarinet, vocals
  * George Bohanon – trombone, horn arrangement
  * Dick Hyde – trombone
  * Ernie Watts – saxophone
  * Nolan Andrew Smith, Jr – trumpet, fluegelhorn
  * Oscar Brashear – trumpet, fluegelhorn
  * Charles Veal, Jr. – concertmaster, violin
  * Israel Baker – violin
  * Frank Foster – violin
  * William H. Henderson – violin
  * Marcia Van Dyke – violin
  * Dorothy Wade – violin
  * John Wittenberg – violin
  * Kenneth Yerke – violin
  * Rollice Dale – viola
  * Denyse Buffum – viola
  * Dennis Karmazyn – cello
  * Ronald Cooper – cello
  * The Trio on "Changes" was played by Charles Veal, Rollice Dale, Dennis Karmazyn
  * Bob Harrington – hammer dulcimer
  * Anne Golia – tamboura
  * Georgia Kelly – harp
  * Rick Evers – cowbell
  * Carole King, Mark Hallman, Robert McEntee, Richard Hardy, Stephanie Spruill, Alexandra Brown, Ann White – choir
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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  | Australia (Kent Music Report) | 69 |
  | US Billboard Top LPs & Tape | 104 |
  