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From the Album
1. Thats The Way Ive Always Heard It Should Be
2. The Right Thing To Do
3. Mockingbird
4. Legend In Your Own Time
5. Havent Got Time For The Pain
6. You're So Vain
7. We Have No Secrets
8. Night Owl
9. Anticipation
10. Attitude Dancing
From the Single
You're So Vain
Other Songs A Mothers Intuition Actress After The Storm All I Have To Do Is Dream All I Want Is You All The Things You Are Alone Alone Together Amity Another Door Anyone But Me Are You Ticklish As Time Goes By Back Down To Earth Back The Way Back the Way (Dottie's Point of View) Back the Way (Girls' Point of View) Be With Me Best Thing Better Not Tell Her Bewitched Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Big Dumb Guy Black Honeymoon Blackbird Blue Of Blue Body And Soul Born To Break My Heart Boys In The Trees By Myself / I See Your Face Before Me By Myself/I See Your Face Before Me Cant Give It Up Carlottas Heart Carly Simon Catch It Like A Fever Christmas Is Almost Here Come Back Home Come Upstairs Comforting To Know Coming Around Again Coming To Get You Cow Town Cross The River Damn You Get To Me Dan My Fling Danny Boy Darkness Til Dawn Davy De Bat De Bat (Fly In Me Face) Devoted To You Didnt I? Dishonest Modesty Do The Walls Come Down Dont Smoke In Bed Dont Wrap It Up Easy On The Eyes Embrace Me You Child End Titles - Nobody Does It Better Evry Time We Say Goodbye Fairweather Father Film Noir Fishermans Song Floundering Fools Coda For Old Times Sake Forever My Love Forgive From The Heart Give Me All Night God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Grownup Half A Chance Halfway Round The World Happy Birthday Happy Christmas Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Haunting Have You Seen Me Lately? Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas He Likes To Roll He Was Too Good To Me Heaven Hello Big Man His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin Hola Soleil Hold Out Your Hear Hold Out Your Heart HOLD WHAT YOUæ¸E GOT Hold What Youve Got Holding Me Tonight Hotcakes How Can You Ever Forget How Long Has This Been Going On Hurt Hush Little Baby I Forget I Gave My Love A Cherry I Get Along Without You Very Well I Got It Bad And That Aint Good I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day I Only Have Eyes For You Id Rather It Was You If I Wasnt So Small Ill Be Around Ill Be Home For Christmas Im A Fool To Want You Im Really The Kind Im So Excited In A Small Moment In Honor Of You In Honor of You (George) In Love In My Dreams In Pain In The Still Of The Night In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning In Times When My Head Interview Into White Is This Love? Island It Happens Everyday It Keeps You Runnin It Should Have Been Me It Was So Easy Its Not Like Him Itsy Bitsy Spider I've Got a Crush on You Ive Got To Have You Ive Got You Under My Skin Jamaica Farewell James Jesse Julie Through The Glass Just A Sinner Just Like a Woman Just Like You Do Just Not True Last Night When We Were Young Laura Let It Snow Let It Snow [DVD; Bonus Track] Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let The River Run Letters Never Sent Libby Life Is Eternal Like A River Lili Marlene Little Girl Blue Little Troupers Lobster Quadrille Look Me In The Eyes Looking Through Katherines House Losing The Scrapbook Lost In Your Love Love Of My Life Love of My Life (Toots) Love Out In The Street Love You By Heart Make Me Feel Something Manha De Carnaval Memorial Day Menemsha Mind On My Man Misfit Moonglow Moonlight Serenade More And More More I See You [DVD] Moving Day My Bonnie My Foolish Heart My Foolish Heart [Bonus Track] My Foolish Heart [DVD; Bonus Track] My Funny Valentine My Luv Is Like a Red, Red Rose My New Boyfriend My One And Only Love My Romance Never Been Gone No Freedom Nobody Does It Better Not A Day Goes By O Come All Ye Faithful Oh! Susanna Older Sister One Love Stand One Man Woman One More Time Orpheus Our Affair Our First Day Together Over The Rainbow People Say A Lot Playing Possum Pooh And Piglet Corner Poor Butterfly Pretty Paper Pretty Strange Private Pure Sin Quiet Evening Reunions River Roo Riverboat Gambler Rolling Down The Hills Roo Joins The Quest Safe And Sound Sangre Dolce Scar Scarborough Fair Scrapbook Pages Share The End Silent Night Sing Ho For The Life Of A Bear Slave So Many People To Love So Many Stars Someone Waits for You Something Wonderful Somewhere In The Night Songbird Sons Of Summer Spoiled Girl Spring Is Here Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year Spy Stardust Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Such A Good Boy Summers Coming Around Again Take Me As I Am Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go) Take Me Out to the Ball Game The Best Thing The Carter Family The Desert The Garden The Girl You Think You See The Itsy Bitsy Spider The Lady In Red The Land Of Christmas The Land of Christmas (Mary) The Last Samba The Loves Still Growing The Man That Got Away The More I Look Inside The More I See You The More It Snows The Night Before Christmas The Reason The Scar The Show Must Go On The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of The Three Of Us In The Dark The Wives Are In Connecticut Them They Just Want You To Be There Think Im Gonna Have A Baby This Is My Life Suite: Coming Home This Is My Life Suite: Pleasure And Pain This Is My Life Suite: Uncle Peter This Kind Of Love Three Days Three Of Us In The Dark Time After Time Time Works On All The Wild Young Men Tired Of Being Blonde Tonight And Forever Too Soon To Say Goodbye Touched By The Sun Tranquillo Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) Twelve Gates To The City Two Hot Girls Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night) Two Sleepy People Two Sleepy People<br />(feat. John Travolta) Vengeance Waited So Long Waiting At The Gate Walking And Kissing Waterfall We Just Got Here We You Dearest Friends We Your Dearest Friends Were So Close What About A Holiday What Has She Got What Shall We Do With The Child Whatever Became Of Her When Were Together When You Close Your Eyes When Your Lover Has Gone Where Or When White Christmas Why Winnie The Pooh With A Few Good Friends Wynken Blynken and Nod You Are My Sunshine You Belong To Me You Can Close Your Eyes You Dont Feel The Same You Have To Hurt You Know What To Do You Wont Forget Me Youre The One
Other Songs A Mothers Intuition Actress After The Storm All I Have To Do Is Dream All I Want Is You All The Things You Are Alone Alone Together Amity Another Door Anyone But Me Are You Ticklish As Time Goes By Back Down To Earth Back The Way Back the Way (Dottie's Point of View) Back the Way (Girls' Point of View) Be With Me Best Thing Better Not Tell Her Bewitched Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Big Dumb Guy Black Honeymoon Blackbird Blue Of Blue Body And Soul Born To Break My Heart Boys In The Trees By Myself / I See Your Face Before Me By Myself/I See Your Face Before Me Cant Give It Up Carlottas Heart Carly Simon Catch It Like A Fever Christmas Is Almost Here Come Back Home Come Upstairs Comforting To Know Coming Around Again Coming To Get You Cow Town Cross The River Damn You Get To Me Dan My Fling Danny Boy Darkness Til Dawn Davy De Bat De Bat (Fly In Me Face) Devoted To You Didnt I? Dishonest Modesty Do The Walls Come Down Dont Smoke In Bed Dont Wrap It Up Easy On The Eyes Embrace Me You Child End Titles - Nobody Does It Better Evry Time We Say Goodbye Fairweather Father Film Noir Fishermans Song Floundering Fools Coda For Old Times Sake Forever My Love Forgive From The Heart Give Me All Night God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Grownup Half A Chance Halfway Round The World Happy Birthday Happy Christmas Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Haunting Have You Seen Me Lately? Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas He Likes To Roll He Was Too Good To Me Heaven Hello Big Man His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin Hola Soleil Hold Out Your Hear Hold Out Your Heart HOLD WHAT YOUæ¸E GOT Hold What Youve Got Holding Me Tonight Hotcakes How Can You Ever Forget How Long Has This Been Going On Hurt Hush Little Baby I Forget I Gave My Love A Cherry I Get Along Without You Very Well I Got It Bad And That Aint Good I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day I Only Have Eyes For You Id Rather It Was You If I Wasnt So Small Ill Be Around Ill Be Home For Christmas Im A Fool To Want You Im Really The Kind Im So Excited In A Small Moment In Honor Of You In Honor of You (George) In Love In My Dreams In Pain In The Still Of The Night In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning In Times When My Head Interview Into White Is This Love? Island It Happens Everyday It Keeps You Runnin It Should Have Been Me It Was So Easy Its Not Like Him Itsy Bitsy Spider I've Got a Crush on You Ive Got To Have You Ive Got You Under My Skin Jamaica Farewell James Jesse Julie Through The Glass Just A Sinner Just Like a Woman Just Like You Do Just Not True Last Night When We Were Young Laura Let It Snow Let It Snow [DVD; Bonus Track] Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let The River Run Letters Never Sent Libby Life Is Eternal Like A River Lili Marlene Little Girl Blue Little Troupers Lobster Quadrille Look Me In The Eyes Looking Through Katherines House Losing The Scrapbook Lost In Your Love Love Of My Life Love of My Life (Toots) Love Out In The Street Love You By Heart Make Me Feel Something Manha De Carnaval Memorial Day Menemsha Mind On My Man Misfit Moonglow Moonlight Serenade More And More More I See You [DVD] Moving Day My Bonnie My Foolish Heart My Foolish Heart [Bonus Track] My Foolish Heart [DVD; Bonus Track] My Funny Valentine My Luv Is Like a Red, Red Rose My New Boyfriend My One And Only Love My Romance Never Been Gone No Freedom Nobody Does It Better Not A Day Goes By O Come All Ye Faithful Oh! Susanna Older Sister One Love Stand One Man Woman One More Time Orpheus Our Affair Our First Day Together Over The Rainbow People Say A Lot Playing Possum Pooh And Piglet Corner Poor Butterfly Pretty Paper Pretty Strange Private Pure Sin Quiet Evening Reunions River Roo Riverboat Gambler Rolling Down The Hills Roo Joins The Quest Safe And Sound Sangre Dolce Scar Scarborough Fair Scrapbook Pages Share The End Silent Night Sing Ho For The Life Of A Bear Slave So Many People To Love So Many Stars Someone Waits for You Something Wonderful Somewhere In The Night Songbird Sons Of Summer Spoiled Girl Spring Is Here Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year Spy Stardust Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Such A Good Boy Summers Coming Around Again Take Me As I Am Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go) Take Me Out to the Ball Game The Best Thing The Carter Family The Desert The Garden The Girl You Think You See The Itsy Bitsy Spider The Lady In Red The Land Of Christmas The Land of Christmas (Mary) The Last Samba The Loves Still Growing The Man That Got Away The More I Look Inside The More I See You The More It Snows The Night Before Christmas The Reason The Scar The Show Must Go On The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of The Three Of Us In The Dark The Wives Are In Connecticut Them They Just Want You To Be There Think Im Gonna Have A Baby This Is My Life Suite: Coming Home This Is My Life Suite: Pleasure And Pain This Is My Life Suite: Uncle Peter This Kind Of Love Three Days Three Of Us In The Dark Time After Time Time Works On All The Wild Young Men Tired Of Being Blonde Tonight And Forever Too Soon To Say Goodbye Touched By The Sun Tranquillo Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) Twelve Gates To The City Two Hot Girls Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night) Two Sleepy People Two Sleepy People<br />(feat. John Travolta) Vengeance Waited So Long Waiting At The Gate Walking And Kissing Waterfall We Just Got Here We You Dearest Friends We Your Dearest Friends Were So Close What About A Holiday What Has She Got What Shall We Do With The Child Whatever Became Of Her When Were Together When You Close Your Eyes When Your Lover Has Gone Where Or When White Christmas Why Winnie The Pooh With A Few Good Friends Wynken Blynken and Nod You Are My Sunshine You Belong To Me You Can Close Your Eyes You Dont Feel The Same You Have To Hurt You Know What To Do You Wont Forget Me Youre The One
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "The Right Thing to Do" (No. 17), "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (No. 14), "You Belong to Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Gold-certified singles "You're So Vain" (No. 1), "Mockingbird" (No. 5, a duet with James Taylor), "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and "Jesse" (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children's books.
In 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Lucy Simon in the Simon Sisters. Their debut album, Meet the Simon Sisters, featured the song "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod", based on the poem by Eugene Field and put to music by Lucy. The song became a minor hit and reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo would release two more albums: Cuddlebug (1966) and The Simon Sisters Sing for Children (1969). After Lucy left the group, Carly found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and spawned her first Top 10 single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (No. 10), which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Simon's second album, Anticipation, followed later that year and became an even greater success; it spawned the successful singles "Anticipation" and "Legend in Your Own Time", earned her another Grammy nomination, and became her first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
Simon achieved international fame with her third album, No Secrets (1972), which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks and was certified Platinum. The album spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and earned Simon three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The second single "The Right Thing to Do", as well as its B-side "We Have No Secrets", were also successful. Her fourth album, Hotcakes (1974), soon followed and became an instant success; it reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, went Gold within two weeks of release, and spawned the hit singles "Mockingbird" and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain". In 1975, Simon's fifth album, Playing Possum, and the compilation, The Best of Carly Simon, both appeared; the former hit the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the hit single "Attitude Dancing" (No. 21), and the latter eventually went 3× Platinum, becoming Simon's best-selling release.
In 1977, Simon recorded "Nobody Does It Better" as the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and it became a worldwide hit. The song garnered her another Grammy nomination, and was the No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit of 1977. Retrospectively, it has been ranked one of the greatest Bond themes. Simon began recording more songs for films in the 1980s, including "Coming Around Again" for the film Heartburn (1986). The song became a major Adult Contemporary hit, and the Coming Around Again album appeared the following year, to further critical and commercial success. The album earned Simon two Grammy nominations, went Platinum, and spawned three more Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit singles: "Give Me All Night", "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", and "All I Want Is You". With her 1988 hit "Let the River Run", from the film Working Girl, Simon became the first artist to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist.
One of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early 1970s, Simon has 24 Billboard Hot 100-charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles. Among her various accolades, she has won two Grammy Awards (from 14 nominations), and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004. AllMusic called her "one of the quintessential singer-songwriters of the '70s". She has a contralto vocal range, and cited Odetta as a significant influence. Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. She was honored with the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement in 1995, and received a Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree in 1998.
In 2005, Simon was nominated for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but she has yet to claim her star. In 2012, she was honored with the Founders Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. In 2022, Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Birth Name: Carly Elisabeth SimonIn 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Lucy Simon in the Simon Sisters. Their debut album, Meet the Simon Sisters, featured the song "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod", based on the poem by Eugene Field and put to music by Lucy. The song became a minor hit and reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo would release two more albums: Cuddlebug (1966) and The Simon Sisters Sing for Children (1969). After Lucy left the group, Carly found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and spawned her first Top 10 single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (No. 10), which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Simon's second album, Anticipation, followed later that year and became an even greater success; it spawned the successful singles "Anticipation" and "Legend in Your Own Time", earned her another Grammy nomination, and became her first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
Simon achieved international fame with her third album, No Secrets (1972), which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks and was certified Platinum. The album spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and earned Simon three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The second single "The Right Thing to Do", as well as its B-side "We Have No Secrets", were also successful. Her fourth album, Hotcakes (1974), soon followed and became an instant success; it reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, went Gold within two weeks of release, and spawned the hit singles "Mockingbird" and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain". In 1975, Simon's fifth album, Playing Possum, and the compilation, The Best of Carly Simon, both appeared; the former hit the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the hit single "Attitude Dancing" (No. 21), and the latter eventually went 3× Platinum, becoming Simon's best-selling release.
In 1977, Simon recorded "Nobody Does It Better" as the theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and it became a worldwide hit. The song garnered her another Grammy nomination, and was the No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit of 1977. Retrospectively, it has been ranked one of the greatest Bond themes. Simon began recording more songs for films in the 1980s, including "Coming Around Again" for the film Heartburn (1986). The song became a major Adult Contemporary hit, and the Coming Around Again album appeared the following year, to further critical and commercial success. The album earned Simon two Grammy nominations, went Platinum, and spawned three more Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit singles: "Give Me All Night", "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", and "All I Want Is You". With her 1988 hit "Let the River Run", from the film Working Girl, Simon became the first artist to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist.
One of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early 1970s, Simon has 24 Billboard Hot 100-charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles. Among her various accolades, she has won two Grammy Awards (from 14 nominations), and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004. AllMusic called her "one of the quintessential singer-songwriters of the '70s". She has a contralto vocal range, and cited Odetta as a significant influence. Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. She was honored with the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement in 1995, and received a Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree in 1998.
In 2005, Simon was nominated for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but she has yet to claim her star. In 2012, she was honored with the Founders Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. In 2022, Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born: June 25, 1943 (age 81)
From: New York City, U.S.
Spouse(s): James Taylor (m. 1972; div. 1983)
James Hart (m. 1987; div. 2007)
Children: 2, including Sally Taylor
Genre(s): Soft rock, pop rock, folk
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, piano
Occupation(s): Singer, musician, songwriter, memoirist, author
Active From: 1963-present
Associated Acts: James Taylor