Carly Simon

Carly Simon after her Oscar win in 1989

Carly Elisabeth Simon (* 25. June 1945 in New York ) is an American with the Grammy and Oscar excellent singer and songwriter .

biography

Carly Simon (1980s)

Carly Simon's father was the pianist Richard L. Simon (co-founder of the book publisher Simon & Schuster ). She grew up in Riverdale , New York , and has a brother and two sisters (her intermittent singing partner Lucy Simon and opera singer Joanna Simon ).

After a brief attempt to start a career with her sister Lucy Simon (they had a hit with the nursery rhyme Winkin ', Blinkin' and Nod as "The Simon Sisters" in the mid-1960s ), Carly Simon began her solo career in 1971 with the album Carly Simon , who delivered the top ten hit That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be . The second album Anticipation soon followed .

The breakthrough came in 1972 with the number-one album No Secrets , were released from the two successful singles, especially Simon's biggest hit You're so Vain , in which Mick Jagger in the chorus sings along and on the Klaus Voormann the bass - intro plays. The song reached number one in the US in early 1973, as did the accompanying album. For decades it has been speculated who the lyrics are referring to. According to Carly Simon in November 2015, the second verse is about Warren Beatty , with whom she had a brief affair.

Simon and James Taylor married in 1972. The couple have two children, Sarah Maria ("Sally"; born 1974) and Benjamin Simon Taylor (born 1977). In 1983 the marriage was divorced.

The album Hotcakes was released in 1974, followed by Playing Possum in 1975 . One of her hits in the 1970s was the theme song Nobody Does It Better for the film James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me , which was written by Carole Bayer Sager (text) and Marvin Hamlisch (music).

In 1980 Simon had a breakdown during a performance and then withdrew from the stage. However, recordings continued to appear, such as Why (1982) and Let the River Run (1988) from the film The Guns of Women , for which she received an Oscar in the category of best song and a Grammy in 1989 .

In 1998 Carly Simon developed breast cancer . After therapy, she returned to music. The album The Bedroom Tapes was released in 2000, Moonlight Serenade followed in 2005, Into White a year later and This Kind of Love in 2008 . A year later, Simon released the album Never Been Gone , which contained reinterpretations of previous successes as well as a previously unreleased track.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1971	Carly Simon	-	-	-	-	US30 (25 weeks) US	Grammy (Best New Artist)
	Anticipation	-	-	-	-	US30th gold (31 weeks)US
1972	No secrets	DE39 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 gold (28 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (71 weeks)US
1974	Hotcakes	-	-	-	UK19 (9 weeks) UK	US3 gold (35 weeks)US
1975	Playing possum	-	-	-	-	US10 (17 weeks) US
1976	Another passenger	-	-	-	-	US29 (13 weeks) US
1978	Boys in the trees	-	-	-	-	US10 platinum (29 weeks)US
1979	Spy	-	-	-	-	US45 (13 weeks) US
1980	Come upstairs	-	-	-	-	US36 (32 weeks) US
1981	Torch	-	-	-	-	US50 (24 weeks) US
1983	Hello Big Man	-	-	-	-	US69 (17 weeks) US
1985	Spoiled girl	-	-	-	-	US88 (11 weeks) US
1987	Coming Around Again	DE32 (11 weeks) DE	AT17 (2 weeks) AT	CH21 (2 weeks) CH	UK25th silver (20 weeks)UK	US25th platinum (60 weeks)US
1990	My romance	-	-	-	-	US46 (17 weeks) US
	Have You Seen Me Lately?	-	-	-	-	US60 (32 weeks) US
1994	Letters Never Sent	-	-	-	-	US129 (8 weeks) US
1997	Film noir	-	-	-	-	US84 (8 weeks) US
2000	The Bedroom Tapes	-	-	-	-	US90 (6 weeks) US
2005	Moonlight serenade	-	-	-	-	US7 (10 weeks) US
2006	Midnight Clear	-	-	CH50 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	Andreas Vollenweider feat. Carly Simon
2007	Into white	-	-	-	-	US13 (10 weeks) US
2008	This Kind of Love	-	-	-	-	US15 (9 weeks) US
2009	Never Been Gone	-	-	-	UK45 (3 weeks) UK	US134 (2 weeks) US

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More albums

• 1978: Los más grandes éxitos de (with Aretha Franklin , Dionne Warwick , Roberta Flack )
• 2002: Christmas Is Almost Here

Soundtrack

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1989	Working girl	-	-	-	-	US45 (14 weeks) US	Soundtrack for the film Die Waffen der Frauen with tracks by Chris de Burgh , The Pointer Sisters and others

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1976	The best of Carly Simon	-	-	-	-	US17th × 3 Triple platinum (19 weeks)US
1988	Greatest Hits Live	-	-	-	UK49 gold (6 weeks)UK	US87 platinum (13 weeks)US
1999	Nobody Does It Better - The Very Best Of	-	-	-	UK22nd silver (6 weeks)UK	-
2004	Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits	-	-	-	UK25th gold (7 weeks)UK	US22nd gold (19 weeks)US

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More compilations

• 1973: 2 Originals of Carly Simon (2 LPs, Carly Simon and Anticipation )
• 1981: You're so Vain
• 1995: Clouds in My Coffee 1965–1995 (box with 3 CDs)
• 2002: Anthology
• 2011: Original Album Series (box with 5 CDs)
• 2014: Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1971	That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be Carly Simon	-	-	-	-	US10 (17 weeks) US
	Anticipation Anticipation	-	-	-	-	US13 (13 weeks) US
1972	Legend in Your Own Time Anticipation	-	-	-	-	US50 (10 weeks) US
	You're so Vain No Secrets	DE8 (17 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 gold (20 weeks)UK	US1 gold (17 weeks)US
1973	The Right Thing to Do No Secrets	-	-	-	UK17 (9 weeks) UK	US17 (13 weeks) US
1974	Mockingbird hotcakes	-	-	-	UK34 (5 weeks) UK	US5 (16 weeks) US	with James Taylor
	Haven't Got Time for the Pain Hotcakes	-	-	-	-	US14 (12 weeks) US
1975	Attitude Dancing Playing Possum	-	-	-	-	US21 (8 weeks) US
	Waterfall Playing Possum	-	-	-	-	US78 (3 weeks) US
	More and More Playing Possum	-	-	-	-	US94 (2 weeks) US
1976	It Keeps You Runnin ' Another Passenger	-	-	-	-	US46 (7 weeks) US
1977	Nobody Does It Better The Spy Who Loved Me (Soundtrack)	DE31 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK7th silver (12 weeks)UK	US2 gold (25 weeks)US	Theme song from the film James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me
1978	You Belong to Me Boys in the Trees	-	-	-	-	US6 (18 weeks) US
	Devoted to You Boys in the Trees	-	-	-	-	US36 (9 weeks) US	with James Taylor
1979	Vengeance Spy	-	-	-	-	US48 (7 weeks) US
1980	Jesse Come Upstairs	-	-	-	-	US11 gold (23 weeks)US
1982	Why	-	-	-	UK10 (18 weeks) UK	US74 (6 weeks) US	Authors / Producers: Bernard Edwards , Nile Rodgers
1983	You Know What to Do Hello Big Man	-	-	-	-	US83 (4 weeks) US
1985	Tired of Being Blonde Spoiled Girl	-	-	-	-	US70 (5 weeks) US
1986	Coming Around Again Coming Around Again	DE21 (11 weeks) DE	AT6 (12 weeks) AT	-	UK10 (12 weeks) UK	US18th platinum (17 weeks)US
1987	Give Me All Night Coming Around Again	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	US61 (12 weeks) US
	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Coming Around Again	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	-
1988	All I Want Is You Coming Around Again	-	-	-	-	US54 (9 weeks) US
	You're so Vain (Live) Greatest Hits Live	-	-	-	UK96 (2 weeks) UK	-
1989	Let the River Run Working Girl (Soundtrack)	-	-	-	UK79 (7 weeks) UK	US49 (10 weeks) US	Grammy (best song written specifically for film or television); Oscar as best movie song
2001	Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You) All for You	DE69 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH56 (7 weeks) CH	UK13 (9 weeks) UK	US28 (12 weeks) US	Janet Jackson feat. Missy Elliott and Carly Simon

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More singles

1972: The Girl You Think You See 1975: Love Out in the Street 1976: Half a Chance 1978: Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) 1979: Spy 1980: Take Me as I Am 1981: Come Upstairs 1981: Hurt 1982: I Get Along without You Very Well 1982: Fight for It (with Jesse Colin Young) 1983: Hello Big Man 1983: Something More (with Charles Fox ) 1984: Someone Waits for You 1985: My New Boyfriend

1986: It's Hard to Be Tender 1990: We Just Got Here 1990: Better Not Tell Her 1991: Life Is Eternal 1991: The Last Night of the World (with Plácido Domingo ) 1993: Love of My Life 1994: Like a River 1995: Itsy Bitsy Spider 1997: Every Time We Say Goodbye 2000: So Many Stars 2000: Big Dumb Guy 2001: Our Affair 2008: This Kind of Love 2010: Never Been Gone

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carly Simon Says 'You're So Vain' Is About Warren Beatty - Well, Only the Second Verse , People.com, Nov. 18, 2015
2. ↑ Carly Simon Sings American Classics, Again on npr.org
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US 1 US2
4. ↑ ^{a b} The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} gold / platinum databases: UK US

Web links

Commons : Carly Simon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Carly Simon at Allmusic (English)
• Carly Simon at Discogs (English)
• Carly Simon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carly Simons discography and lyrics ( Memento from February 7, 2003 in the Internet Archive )