Live At Grand Central (Remastered) Carly Simon

• 1 Touched By the Sun (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 05:43
• 2 Anticipation (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 03:52
• 3 I've Got To Have You (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:36
• 4 We Have No Secrets (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:55
• 5 Haven't Got Time for the Pain (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 03:40
• 6 Jesse (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:22
• 7 That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:22
• 8 Letters Never Sent (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:08
• 9 Legend In Your Own Time (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:16
• 10 De Bat (Fly In My Face) (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 03:15
• 11 Davy (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 03:36
• 12 Halfway Around the World (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:57
• 13 Like a River (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:55
• 14 Coming Around Again (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 04:48
• 15 Let the River Run (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995) 03:22
• Total Runtime 01:04:47

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Wer die 1970er bewusst miterlebt hat, der wird sich noch an Carly Simon erinnern. Sie war so etwas wie eine Singer-Songwriter-Ikone dieser Zeit. Nach vorne gerichtete, schwebende Mainstream-Musik der weitgehend unbeschwerten ersten Hälfte der 1970er Jahre. Carly Simon, Jahrgang 1945, debütierte als Solo-Künstlerin 1971 mit ihrem Top 10 Song „That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be“ vom nach ihr benannten Album, das ihr einen Grammy in der Kategorie bester neuer Künstler und eine weitere Nominierung einbrachte. Im darauf folgenden Jahr veröffentlichte sie ihr kommerziell erfolgreichstes Album „No Secrets“, das genauso wie die Single „You’re So Vain“ Platz 1 in den Charts belegte. Für dieses Album wurde sie vierfach für den Grammy nominiert und begründete ihren bis heute anhaltenden Ruhm.

Auch die Alben „Playing Possum“ (1975) und „Another Passenger“ (1976) waren erfolgreich. So erfolgreich, dass sie 1977 für den James Bond-Film „Der Spion, der mich liebte“ die Titelmelodie „Nobody Does It Better“ sang, der von Marvin Hamlisch komponiert wurde und für dessen Text Carole Bayer Sager verantwortlich zeichnete. Diese Arbeit bildete den Auftakt für einige Filmsongs, die Carly Simon dann in den 1980ern sang. Mit „Jesse“ vom Album „Coming Upstairs“ hatte sie 1980 einen weiteren Hit. Ein Jahr später brach sie während einer Show auf der Bühne vor Erschöpfung zusammen und zog sich in den Folgejahren etwas zurück. Zwar war sie weiterhin recht erfolgreich, erreichte aber später nicht mehr die Höhen der frühen 1970er Jahre als sie mit Musik und Habitus den Zeitgeist traf.

1995 schließlich spielte sie ein spektakuläres Konzert im größten Bahnhof der Welt, dem Grand Central in New York mit seinen 67 Gleisen. Sie erfuhr damit höchste Aufmerksamkeit und viel Zuneigung vom überraschten Publikum. Sie war stets eine New Yorkerin gblieben und so wurde das Konzert zu einem erfolgreichen Heimspiel, das sie zu ihrer ersten Tour seit dem Rückzug von 1981 inspirierte.

"Dieser Mitschnitt ist ein Stück Musikgeschichte, das einfach schön ist und sentimental macht. Mit Carly fing so vieles in der US-Musik an und sie hat bis heute einen prägenden Einfluss auf viele Künstlerinnen von Suzanne Vega bis Taylor Swift. Schön, dass an sie erinnert wird. Verdienstvolle Veröffentlichung!" (Thomas Waldherr, country.de)

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Carly’s body of work encompasses a significantly wide spectrum of activity. In addition to having recorded 22 concept albums of her own compositions, she has composed four film scores, including Heartburn, This Is My Life, Postcards from the Edge and Working Girl, for which she won a GRAMMY, a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar. Simon has also written four successful children's books for Doubleday, including her most recent, The Nighttime Chauffeur. The most far-reaching of her accomplishments is the opera, Romulus Hunt, for which she was commissioned jointly by The Metropolitan Opera Guild and The Kennedy Center. The co-production was performed both in New York and Washington. Referring to the opera, a recent review in CD Magazine states, "Here is a genuinely beloved artist, with years of popularity, with a vast public that American opera composers would kill for, bringing that public to opera with an ease few composers can match."

Carly Simon was born in New York City, the third of four children born to Richard and Andrea Simon. Richard Simon, the founder of Simon and Schuster, was also a pianist and Andrea Simon was a civil-rights activist as well as a singer. All four children were raised in an atmosphere conducive to self-expression. All three girls became musicians: Joanna, the eldest, a prominent opera singer and television personality; Lucy a two-time GRAMMY winner for her children's album; Peter, the only son in the Simon family, is a successful photographer.

Lucy and Carly Simon, while enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College, sang professionally for three years as The Simon Sisters, and scored a hit single record of Lucy's song, "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod," on Kapp Records. When Lucy married, Carly began singing and writing on her own. Her debut album, Carly Simon on Elektra Records, was released in 1971 and included the single, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." The album resulted in her first GRAMMY for Best New Artist. Following this release came an unbroken string of songs, all of which were to become classics with memorable but quirky melodies and personal, literate lyrics. The list includes songs like "Anticipation," "You're So Vain," "Loving You Is the Right Thing To Do," "Haven't Got Time for the Pain," "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), "Jesse," "Coming Around Again," "Give Me All Night," "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" and "Let the River Run (Theme from Working Girl)," among others.

Because Simon grew up in a household where show music and jazz was played along with classical, pop and folk, she wanted to do an album of her own favorite standards. The result was 1981's Torch. The album proved to be a sleeper and took Warner Bros. Records, to whom she was signed at the time, totally by surprise. Because of her acceptance in this genre, she convinced Clive Davis, President of Arista Records to do another jazz/standard album, My Romance, released in 1990. An HBO special was produced and aired in conjunction with the album. One of the songs from this collection, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," was featured in the smash soundtrack album for the film, Sleepless in Seattle, on Epic Records.

During the 1990’s, all of Simon's albums have been released on Arista, with the exception of the This Is My Life soundtrack on Quest/Reprise and Romulus Hunt, which will appear on Angel. She is also represented on the current Frank Sinatra Duets album, with two wonderful performances, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry." She also recorded a song for the album of music by the Gershwin's, produced by George Martin.

Carly Simon was married to James Hart, who was a writer, and has two children, Sally and Ben by her former husband, James Taylor.

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