Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional
singer/songwriters who emerged in the early '70s. The youngest daughter
in an upper-class New York family (her father, Richard Simon, co-founded
the Simon & Schuster publishing company), Simon got her start in
music as part of a duo with her sister Lucy (who later wrote the music
for the Broadway show The Secret Garden). The Simon Sisters had a chart
single with "Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod" in April 1964. But Simon's solo
debut did not come until the release of her self-titled first album in
February 1971. It contained her first solo hit, "That's the Way I've
Always Heard It Should Be," an anti-marriage song co-written with Jacob
Brackman that reached the Top Ten...
CD1 - Carly Simon (February 1971)
CD2 - Anticipation (November 1971)
CD3 - No Secrets (1972)
CD4 - Hotcakes (1974)
CD5 - Playing Possum (1975)
CD6 - Another Passenger (1976)
CD7 - Boys in the Trees (1978)
CD8 - Spy (1979)
CD9 - Come Upstairs (1980)
CD10 - Torch (1981)
CD11 - Hello Big Man (1983)
Simon's second album, Anticipation (November 1971) (which went gold in
two years), contained a Top 40 follow-up in the title song, and she won
the 1971 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her third album, the gold
number one No Secrets (November 1972), was produced by Richard Perry and
contained the gold number one hit "You're So Vain," which aroused
speculation about its subject. Mick Jagger, one of those suggested, sang
backup on the recording. "The Right Thing to Do," a second single from
the album, made the Top 40.
Simon married fellow singer/songwriter James Taylor in November 1972.
(They divorced in 1983.) Her fourth album, the Top Ten Hotcakes (January
1974), contained a gold Top Ten remake of the Inez & Charlie Foxx
hit "Mockingbird" sung with Taylor and the Top Ten hit "Haven't Got Time
for the Pain"; it became her third consecutive gold LP. Playing Possum
(April 1975), containing the Top 40 hit "Attitude Dancing," was another
Top Ten LP. Simon's sixth album, Another Passenger (June 1976), was a
relative commercial disappointment. But in 1977, she sang "Nobody Does
It Better," the theme song for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me,
resulting in a gold Top Ten hit. Her seventh album, Boys in the Trees
(April 1978), was a million-selling success, buoyed by the Top Ten hit
"You Belong to Me" and a Top 40 duet cover of "Devoted to You" with
Taylor. Simon's eighth and ninth albums, Spy (June 1979) and Come
Upstairs (June 1980), were less successful, though the latter contained
the gold Top 40 hit "Jesse."
In October 1980, Simon collapsed of exhaustion on-stage, after which her
concert appearances became rare. Her next album, Torch (September
1981), was given over to pre- and non-rock covers. In 1982, Simon scored
a Top Ten U.K. hit with "Why," a song produced by the disco group Chic
from the movie Soup for One. In 1983, she returned to the U.K. Top 40 as
the uncredited singer on the Will Powers (Lynn Goldsmith) satire
"Kissing with Confidence." Simon's career in the U.S. was in decline,
however, as the albums Hello Big Man (September 1983) and Spoiled Girl
(July 1985) were poor sellers. She returned to the Top 40 in 1986 with
another movie theme, "Coming Around Again," from Heartburn (the 1987
Coming Around Again LP went platinum) and had yet another movie-related
hit with the Grammy- and Oscar-winning "Let the River Run" from the film
Working Girl in 1988. In 1990, Simon released both My Romance (March),
another album of pop covers, and Have You Seen Me Lately? (September),
an album of original songs. She scored the film This Is My Life in 1992.
In 1993, Simon's "family opera" Romulus Hunt premiered and was released
on record, and 1994 brought the release of a new album, Letters Never
Sent (November). A three-CD/cassette box set retrospective, Clouds in My
Coffee 1965-1995, appeared in November 1995. Film Noir followed two
years later, and in the spring of 2000 Simon returned with her first
record of original material in six years, The Bedroom Tapes. In 2002 she
released Christmas Is Almost Here, a collection of holiday-themed
material, followed by another collection of new material, Moonlight
Serenade, in 2005. Into White, which featured mostly versions of
standards, was released in 2006. After signing with Hear Music, Simon
released This Kind of Love in 2008. Never Been Gone appeared in 2009 and
was quickly followed by the holiday EP Hymn: A Musical Christmas Card, a
collaboration with harpist Andreas Vollenweider. Sony/BMG issued
Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon in 2014, which featured
selections from the mid-'80s to 2000. In November 2015, Simon released
her much-anticipated autobiography titled Boys in the Trees: A Memoir,
accompanied by Songs from the Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection. The
memoir covered her life through 1983, and the song set mostly followed
suit, focusing on her Elektra and Warner Bros. recordings.
1.01. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be 04:19
1.02. Alone 03:40
1.03. One More Time 03:37
1.04. The Best Thing 04:24
1.05. Just a Sinner 03:16
1.06. Dan, My Fling 05:29
1.07. Another Door 03:24
1.08. Reunions 03:10
1.09. Rolling Down the Hills 03:40
1.10. The Love's Still Growing 04:08
2.01. Anticipation 03:22
2.02. Legend In Your Own Time 03:45
2.03. Our First Day Together 03:31
2.04. The Girl You Think You See 03:10
2.05. Summer's Coming Around Again 04:13
2.06. Share the End 03:59
2.07. The Garden 04:12
2.08. Three Days 03:21
2.09. Julie Through the Glass 03:26
2.10. I've Got To Have You 04:49
3.01. The Right Thing to Do 02:58
3.02. The Carter Family 03:31
3.03. You're so Vain 04:19
3.04. His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin 03:01
3.05. We Have No Secrets 04:00
3.06. Embrace Me, You Child 04:09
3.07. Waited so Long 04:28
3.08. It Was so Easy 03:08
3.09. Night Owl 03:50
3.10. When You Close Your Eyes 03:07
4.01. Safe and Sound 03:39
4.02. Mind on My Man 02:59
4.03. Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby 03:56
4.04. Older Sister 03:08
4.05. Just Not True 05:18
4.06. Hotcakes 01:09
4.07. Misfit 03:07
4.08. Forever My Love 03:27
4.09. Mockingbird 04:14
4.10. Grownup 03:46
4.11. Haven't Got Time for the Pain 03:54
5.01. After the Storm 02:49
5.02. Love out in the Street 03:45
5.03. Look Me in the Eyes 03:37
5.04. More and More 04:05
5.05. Slave 03:57
5.06. Attitude Dancing 03:53
5.07. Sons of Summer 03:08
5.08. Waterfall 03:35
5.09. Are You Ticklish 02:28
5.10. Playing Possum 03:58
6.01. Half a Chance 02:57
6.02. It Keeps You Runnin' 04:01
6.03. Fairweather Father 03:36
6.04. Cow Town 04:21
6.05. He Likes to Roll 03:39
6.06. In Times When My Head 03:31
6.07. One Love Stand 03:27
6.08. Riverboat Gambler 03:58
6.09. Darkness 'til Dawn 03:24
6.10. Dishonest Modesty 03:10
6.11. Libby 04:49
6.12. Be with Me 01:55
7.01. You Belong To Me 03:53
7.02. Boys In The Trees 03:15
7.03. Back Down to Earth 03:09
7.04. Devoted to You 02:30
7.05. De Bat (Fly in Me Face) 02:30
7.06. Haunting 02:31
7.07. Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) 04:04
7.08. You're the One 03:40
7.09. In a Small Moment 03:10
7.10. One Man Woman 03:41
7.11. For Old Times Sake 03:42
8.01. Vengeance 04:14
8.02. Just Like You Do 04:15
8.03. We're so Close 05:11
8.04. Coming to Get You 02:49
8.05. Never Been Gone 03:38
8.06. Pure Sin 03:57
8.07. Love You by Heat 04:00
8.08. Spy 04:15
8.09. Memorial Day 08:27
9.01. Come Upstairs 04:23
9.02. Stardust 04:17
9.03. Them 03:48
9.04. Jesse 04:21
9.05. James 02:29
9.06. In Pain 06:14
9.07. The Three of Us in the Dark 04:17
9.08. Take Me as I Am 04:54
9.09. The Desert 04:45
10.01. Blue of Blue 03:41
10.02. I'll Be Around 02:34
10.03. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 03:48
10.04. I Get Along Without You Very Well 03:28
10.05. Body and Soul 04:15
10.06. Hurt 03:28
10.07. From the Heart 02:50
10.08. Spring Is Here 03:05
10.09. Pretty Strange 03:01
10.10. What Shall We Do with This Child 02:48
10.11. Not a Day Goes By 02:42
11.01. You Know What to Do 04:18
11.02. Menemsha 04:44
11.03. Damn You Get to Me 03:19
11.04. Is This Love 04:17
11.05. Orpheus 03:56
11.06. It Happens Everyday 02:49
11.07. Such a Good Boy 04:03
11.08. Hello Big Man 05:33
11.09. You Don't Feel the Same 02:46
11.10. Floundering 03:52
