I have a Carly Simon obsession

No Coming Around Again?

Let the River Run?

Jesse?

You Belong to Me?

Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl?

Why, OP?

Tired of Being Blonde is such a great song.

Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy thread.

I prefer Gloria Estefan.

Carly Simon never got to sing a theme song for an Olympic Games. Summer games, too!

She asked me about the assassination!

Why is it that James Taylor won't have her in his house (even at a family event for their kids) and people who are wise don't ever mention her name around him? They divorced but why is he filled with such rancor towards her? I understand he tried to have an amicable relationship with her for years but it was a huge failure.

What's the story?

R8 he has obvious anger and control issues.

James is/was an asshole of misery.

Boys in the Trees

Tranquillo

Anticipation

Let the River Run

That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be

OP carries a torch...

When I was a lonely college gayling in the late 80s every night I would get into bed and listen to the cassette of Coming Around Again on my Walkman.

I asked my two doggies if they were enjoying my Carly playlist and they replied “we like whatever you like”. They’re two sweeties.

A little of her goes a long way in my book. I like a lot of the songs listed in this thread, but hate just about anything that’s not a hit. That voice can be like nails on a blackboard.

I love Spoiled Girl!

Spoiled girl livin’ in her own world! Spoiled Girl thinks of no one but herself.

I am with you, OP. As a kid, I had the cassette single of Let the River Run and the B side was Coming Around Again / Itsy Bitsy Spider (live). You just can’t get gayer than a 12 year old playing that in his Walkman in 1988. Her live album from ‘88 might be my favorite live album of all time. The deeper cuts off that album are the standouts for me (Do the Walls Come Down, It Happens Everyday, All I Want is You, Never Been Gone). She was such a talent.

You might like this book -

Her outdoor live album is the best and I could listen to it all the time.

I liked Pretty Girls (Look Good On You) and Jesse.

No Anticipation?

You Belong to Me?

You’re So Vain?

Nobody Does It Better

OP - I met her several times when I lived in the West Village (her townhouse was next door to my job), and she was always very friendly, down to earth, and nice. I imagine that can't be easy for someone who is reportedly extremely shy, and has had to deal with fame's drawbacks for decades.

Just thought you'd like to know, to me, she was good people. Really wasn't a fan, but have liked her more since.

I really liked her second (Anticipation) and third (No Secrets) albums. Possibly my favorite song by her is a rather obscure number of hers from her second album, 'Three Days." It really is a beautiful song.

"Waiting at the Gate" almost makes me want to fall madly in love with a recovering addict so that I can sing it as he comes out of rehab. Although considering my terrible voice, he'd probably run back inside.

R18 I read that, good book. Although what you come away with is, for all of these talented women, it was only about the men.

"Baby sneezes, Mommy pleases, Daddy breezes in..."

We Have No Secrets

The Right Thing To Do

The Carter Family

That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be

Julie Through The Looking Glass

Haven’t Got Time For The Pain

Waterfall

Libby

Nobody Does It Better

You Belong To Me

Boys In The Trees

Never Been Gone

Jesse

Do The Walls Come Down

Coming Around Again

Let The River Run

Holding Me Tonight

Like A River

Lost In Your Love

Two Little Sisters

Scar

So Many Stars from her 2000 album The Bedroom Tapes is a very NYC track. It makes me 😢 every time I listen to it but it’s also one of my faves.

R20, Pretty Girls was a song first written and recorded by Lisa Dabello in 1978 then covered by Melissa Manchester in 1979 and was a moderate Top 40 hit for her. Carly never covered that song.

I like this one a lot.

Will Powers (feat. Carly Simon) - Kissing With Confidence

The Reason - I like this one a lot too!!!

Holding Me Tonight

Them

Laraine Newman on BGV!!!

Stardust

I told my friend that you were just a man. Real nice. Not tough. None of that phony star stuff.

It’s amazing how well Mick Jagger’s voice mixes with Carly‘s.

I just saw this thread for the first time today but Come Back Home was randomly going through my head earlier this week, OP. Probably a day or so after you posted. We must be on the same wavelength.

Love Carly! Lots of favorites already mentioned but I’ll add:

Take Me As I Am (from Come Upstairs)

It’s Not Like Him and Didn’t I? (from Have You Seen Me Lately?)

If It Wasn’t Love (Coming Around Again era B-side; it’s included on the deluxe 30th anniversary CD reissue from a few years ago)

R38 I’m in love with your posted track from the 30th anniversary edition of Coming….

It’s one of my all-time favorites of hers, OP/r39. I have the Nothing In Common soundtrack just for that song but was glad they included it on the Coming Around Again reissue. Produced by Patrick Leonard during his 80s Madonna era.

Beautiful

I love you r40 💕

She is very good, she's not Jo Stafford good, but she is good.

Mea culpa, OP. I was so taken by the Come Back Home mention I didn't notice you already listed If It Wasn't Love yourself. Directly below Come Back Home even! Eldergay eyes...

No worries. I do it too! Glad to meet another Carly fan!

R44 do u love the Spoiled Girl re-issue on the Cherry Red Hot Shot label that came out several yrs ago?. I have to admit I am a huge fan of SG. It was the album that made me Carly fan as a kid back in the summer of 1985. This was solidified by Coming Around Again in early 1987. I bought the cassette when it was first released and was enchanted and bewitched by her music and songwriting.

R27 That song was used in a late 80's Italian Ice cream commercial.

Her most gorgeous vocal, IMHO

She did a standards album, where she does a wonderful cover of "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning".

So her biggest hits were You're So Vain, Nobody Does It Better and Mockingbird?

Carly has five albums of standards, r49: Torch, Film Noir, My Romance, Moonlight Serenade, and Into White (some more modern classics).

Torch is best known for Carly’s version of “I Get Along without You Very Well.”

“In the Wee, Small Hours” is on My Romance.

Film Noir faves are "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "Lili Marlene," and "Last Night When We Were Young."

I love Moonlight Sonata from first note to last.

There’s an especially nice version of “Oh, Susanna” on Into White, as well as a better version of “Into White” than Cat Stevens’ own.

I haven't got time for the pain, OP.

R18- That's the one that goes into the details of how Joni went full on crazy over Jackson Browne dumping her, right?

I've loved her music for decades.

This is one of my favorites . . .

I used to serve her a lot in the 80's- she was very, very ugly.

Be gone, you have no power here!

I've always thought that the best job she did was the one on Ben's cock.

But I'm a little biased.

Ben Taylor, her son whom she supposedly sucks off because he looks like a young version of his father, James Taylor??

R32 I can listen to that track all day long! It’s an undiscovered Carly gem from the 80s.

Give it to me all night. Give it to my full moon. If I can’t take the whole of you give it to me anyway.

"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of."

Can you repeat after me..Nepotism, rich daddy, spoiled rich girl, fugly

OP, I do have and love that reissue of Spoiled Girl. I was thrilled to get the remixes of My New Boyfriend on CD. Back in the early 90s I found a record store selling off an ex-DJ collection for a buck a 12” and they had My New Boyfriend. At the time I had no idea there were club mixes for any Carly songs. I’m bummed they didn’t do any for Tired of Being Blonde. Even an extended version of the album mix would be good. If I were more ambitious I’d learn some remixing programs and make my own.

Spoiled Girl was the first Carly album I bought as a teenager (on cassette.) My parents had a few of her 70s albums but I was more interested in her newer stuff. Jesse was the song that got me hooked. I heard it during a school trip several years after it had been a hit and just loved it. Little gayby jamming out at the back of the school bus. I’d love for Cherry Red or some label to do a deluxe edition of Come Upstairs. There’s a pretty rare remix of the title track I’d love to have in good quality.

R62 thx 4 that. My first time hearing the remix for that track!

I love how she sings “I’ll give you some wood”!

Carly Simon was once considered this big sex symbol. James Taylor called her, back in the days when he didn't hate her, "a piece of ass." But looking back it's obvious to me that she was really not all that. I guess she was tall and had long legs but her face...meh. In a bio about Simon, Joni Mitchell and Carole King called "Girls LIke Us" the author recounts how somebody commented that the Simon sisters were beautiful...except Carly. But she was considered this hot piece, anyway. In a puff piece the Rolling Stone did about her (it gushed she was "commandingly attractive, openly intelligent and enormously talented") she stated "I feel that being attractive sexually is not something which I feel guilty about or embarrassed by in any way. I feel that it’s great, and when I stop attracting people sexually then I’ll probably become a cook… or something” I don't think anybody "openly intelligent" would have said anything as stupid as that.

She gives excellent head.

R64 are you Carole King?

I ❤️ the photos by Lynn Goldsmith and the album cover design for TORCH.

Thanks to the poster who recommended Carly's cover of Cat Stevens' "Into White," it is indeed absolutely gorgeous.

I recently finished her memoir about her friendship with Jackie O and I understand the Kennedy family was outraged by the book. I thought the book was affectionate and respectful and wonder what the kerfuffle was about. Anyone know more? In YouTube videos posted in recent years, Carly Simon looks frail and far older than her years. Cancer, osteoporosis, etc. Aging sucks.

OP "coming around again" MUST be on your playlist. What is this nonsense???

How about “It Keeps You Running “?…

You'd think "Love of My Life" would already have made to this list.

[quote]Im in my 40s and have enjoyed her music for a very long time.

Amateur.

She and Connie Francis ned to be in the R&R Hall of Fame.

My mom was a huge Simon fan and we spent many afternoons listening to her albums while puttering around the house. The amount of time I spent staring at the cover of "Playing Possum" probably should've alerted someone to my nascent lesbianism.

"Coming Around Again" came out when I was in preschool and remains the ultimate musical comfort food, right down to Stevie Wonder's harmonica solo in "As Time Goes By." This thread just spurred me to download "Greatest Hits Live," so thank you.

My mom saw a poster I had of Carly up on my bedroom wall when I was around 13 yrs old. It was from the album photo shoot for Coming Around Again. Carly is seated on the floor (wearing a dress) with her legs spread. My mom didn’t care for the poster because she was attempting to flash her pussy.

Lol R76 I love that

Does anyone think Carly will flash her beaver during the Beaver Moon eclipse??

But Carly, really, "Nobody does it half as [italic]good[/italic] as you"?

I know Carly Simon was considered this really hot babe in her day but looking back I don't understand why. That huge mouth of hers, ugh.

That’s nice r80’

The Right Thing to Do (1972) from her No Secrets album sends me soaring any time I hear it.

Incidentally, it’s one of those songs where she sings completely off-key. But it works somehow (shrugs).

You Belong to Me, Anticipation, Jesse, You’re So Vain, Haven’t got time for the Pain….

Love Carly! I listening to Roberta Flack Radio on Spotify and this epic Minnie Riperton gem came on.

Datalounge has always had a complicated relationship with Carly Simon

She had a relationship with gay John Travolta. I wonder if she wrote any songs about THAT?

That Minnie Riperton song is absolutely majestic, why it was not a huge hit I’ll never understand. “Loving you” was cute but nothing like this.

As for Carly, her voice is utterly distinctive, which for me is the number one criteria in assessing any popular singer.

That Minnie Riperton song is from her "Come To My Garden" album, which is now considered a masterpiece. She was so much more than "Loving You."

Her pretty, sleepy lullaby to James Taylor.

I like her songs about crumbling relationships . . .

Here's another one

"It's Hard To Be Tender" from the 1986 miniseries SINS starring Joan Collins!!!!

Here is "Sleight of Hand" from 1986

"Hello, Big Man" is my most recent favorite (I love all the ones mentioned many times upthread as well). I discovered this album sometime in the last ten years, and it's a really good one.

Have you ever seen Carly’s pussy?

[quote] You'd think "Love of My Life" would already have made to this list.

r72, I can't hear that song without thinking of this Mad TV sketch, which I can't prove was at least partly inspired by Carly's song but I have my suspicions

Vr95 I loved that sketch!!!

I’d much rather listen to Carly Simon than Madonna.

I’d rather listen to recordings of Schlitzie farting over Madonna

Carly's album of standards TORCH was released August 1981.

Linda Ronstadt released her album of standards WHAT'S NEW in September 1983.

Carly must still think ...WTF, I was there first!

Life isn't fair.

Some of us bought all the standards albums by both of them.

So does Carly Simon, OP. I tried to read her book, but the narcissism was just too much to take. There was one long passage about how she did her hair as a teenager. Who even remembers that?

R101 I think that narcissism was what sent James out the door Must have been insufferable once the record sales started tanking.

R102 Carly’s records always sold well though it was a rollercoaster throughout the years.

the opening annecdote in Fredric Dannen’s 1990 book, ‘“Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business," was the payola involving Carly Simon's single Jesse from her WB debut, Come Upstaris 1980. He laughingly remembers it reached number 11 on the billboard chart......and how nobody ever had heard of it, could sing it.....etc....

How about it DL? Can you sing the Number 11 Billboard single "Jesse" by Carly Simon?

Yes. It was played on the radio and everywhere in the US in 1980.

Carly's 1995 concert in Grand Central will be released on LP, CD, and BluRay on January 27, 2023. Here's info, and "Like a River" on YT.

It's no secret that Carly Simon's album No Secrets was released 50 years ago yesterday, November 28, 1972. Where were you?

My favorites: "Embrace Me, You Child" and, of course, "You're So Vain."

"Embrace Me, You Child"

Carly was in the chair next to me once when I was getting my hair cut. She lived in Back Bay before moving full time to the Vineyard.