Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Goffin and King wrote it, and the Shirelles first recorded it in 1960, releasing it as a single that November. It was the first song by a girl group to top the Billboard Hot 100. The group's Shirley Owens thought it too country until a string arrangement was added. Pitchfork reported that King was 19 when it came out, that she wrote the music, arranged the strings from a book on orchestration borrowed from the public library, and played piano on the record.

On Tapestry she took it at a considerably slower tempo, with Joni Mitchell and James Taylor singing background vocals on separate channels. Danny Kortchmar plays acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel drums and Charles Larkey bass. David Hepworth heard in it less the pleading of a trembling virgin than a mature woman requiring parity in a relationship.

Covers include the Four Seasons in 1968, which reached 24 on the Hot 100, Dave Mason in 1978, Bryan Ferry in 1993 and the Bee Gees on Tapestry Revisited in 1995. Amy Winehouse sang it for a 2004 film, and Taylor Swift sang it at King's 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Taylor re-created his part on the 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour, and at Hyde Park in 2016 Louise Goffin sang backing vocals.