By now, Carly Simon's records were becoming smoother and smoother, and Another Passenger was more of the same. Here, she shows off what she's learned from hanging around...
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Carly Simon's second album found her extending the gutsy persona she had established on her debut album, notably on the title track and "Legend in Your Own Time" (both of...
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Contains Simon's last top 10 hit--and actually one of her best--"You Belong To Me." On backing vocals: James Taylor, who actually did belong to...
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Her career revitalized by the success of "Nobody Does It Better," athe theme from The Spy Who Loved Me, Carly Simon returned to recording-making with this classy Arif...
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As Carole King's Tapestry began selling boatloads, Simon looked like she might be a strong follow-up with "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." Of course, King...
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"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," the leadoff track of Carly Simon's first album and a Top Ten hit, in which the singer expresses reservations about getting...
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After the debacle that was Spoiled Girl, Carly Simon moved to her fourth record label, Arista, and returned to soundtrack work, which had given her her second biggest hit,...
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Okay, here's the problem: in 1975, Elektra released The Best of Carly Simon, which compiled her hits from 1971-1975. Simon then scored a couple more big hits for Elektra...
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Featuring a very pregnant Simon on the cover, and a song called "Think I'm Gonna Have A Baby," this captures her exactly at the point when she'd have been wise to stop...
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A glowing, pregnant Carly Simon smiles out from the cover of Hotcakes, one of her biggest selling albums, which featured the gold single "Mockingbird," a duet with her...
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Have You Seen Me Lately? was Simon's first studio album of original material in three and a half years. Simon has always written songs for her age group; here, it's the...
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Hello Big Man, Carly Simon's first new studio album of original material in more than three years, followed on from her 1981 album of standards, Torch, and the British Top...
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My Romance 7/17/1990, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Simon's second standards set doesn't measure up to the earlier Torch; do you want to hear her sing "Danny Boy"? Nice arrangements by Marty Paich,...
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On her second album of pop standards, Carly Simon was a little less interested in the lovelorn songs that had filled 1981's Torch, although she did soldier through "By...
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Carly Simon's best album was also her commercial breakthrough, topping the charts and going gold, along with its leadoff single, "You're So Vain." That song set the album's...
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Carly wanted to show a more sensual side to herself, and the cover and music do just that. With the track "Are You Ticklish" showing off a playful sensuality, "Look Me In...
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Fitting into that category also occupied by Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Carly Simon's Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera is a 46-minute musical about a 12-year-old...
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Leaving Warner Bros. after the relative commercial failure of Hello, Big Man, Carly Simon moved to the Epic label, which gave her the big-budget star treatment on the...
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Carly Simon was among the pop royalty of the singer/songwriter era of the early 1970s. This album collects her most popular songs of the first five years of her solo career....
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When it began looking like Simon's inspiration--not to mention her market share--was drying up, this well-constructed album of standards seemed a fine idea indeed. Thanks to...
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Carly Simon slightly anticipated the trend toward contemporary pop singers by turning to pop standards here, singing songs like "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" and "Body...
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Like many singer-songwriters of her lineage, Carly Simon has learned to stretch out her albums of new songs while still maintaining a steady release schedule. She put out...
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Rather than focusing on hits and other material most beloved by fans, retrospectives compiled by the artists themselves tend to reflect personal favorites, overbalanced with...
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For Carly Simon, Film Noir is a way to explore traditional pop classics. Using smoky saloon songs like "Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye" as a blueprint, Simon and producer Jimmy...
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After two albums playing jazz-pop in the style of Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years (and with the same musicians), Carly Simon acknowledged the new wave with...
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Alas, Carly Simon's "The Bedroom Tapes" is not what some of us had hoped; no panting, moaning or coos of, "I'm down on all-fours and waiting...."...
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Accomplished singer/songwriter Carly Simon gets back to where it all started on her first brand new release of original material in six years, The Bedroom Tapes. She taps...
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For Carly Simon fans looking for something a little more extensive than a single-disc greatest-hits collection, but not something so large and expensive as her Clouds in My...
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