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I have to say that as the podium came out, which meant that was my cue, my mother-in-law said, "Oh, shoot." True story -- she was getting into the music.

At an East Room concert Wednesday night, Obama is presenting the 71-year-old singer-songwriter with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Holder was glad "to get away from the toxic partisanship and all that Washington stuff, and just have fun," he told me.

The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as " A Natural Woman" and "You've Got A Friend" is being awarded the nation's highest prize for popular music Tuesday.

Singer-songwriter Carole King may feel the earth move May 22, one fine day when President Obama hosts a White House concert for this natural woman and presents her with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song .

The White House says Obama will present the award to Carole King during a concert Wednesday.

The White House says Obama will present the award to King during a concert Wednesday.

Prior to its planned Broadway arrival in spring 2014, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical has locked in a San Francisco tryout run for the fall.