Carly Elisabeth Simon
(born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work.
She is the former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor, with whom she has two children: Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor and Ben Taylor, who are also musicians.
Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Early career
Simon was born in
New York City,
New York. Her father was
Richard L. Simon (co-founder of
Simon & Schuster), a pianist who often played
Chopin and
Beethoven at home. Her mother was
Andrea Louise Simon (née
Heinemann),
[1] a
civil rights activist and singer. Simon's father was
Jewish and her mother was of black and Jewish descent. Simon, her sisters and brother Peter, were raised nominal Catholics according to a book of photography Peter published in the late 90's,
[2] yet she describes herself as Jewish and says she is of
black,
Cuban, and
French ancestry.
[3] Carly was raised in the
Riverdale neighborhood of the
Bronx,
New York City [4] and has two older sisters,
Joanna (b. 1940) and
Lucy (b. 1943), and a younger brother, Peter Simon (b. 1947). She attended
Riverdale Country School. She also briefly attended
Sarah Lawrence College and joined
Alpha Gamma Delta, before she dropped out to pursue music.
Simon's career began, with a short-lived attempt with her sister
Lucy as
The Simon Sisters. They had a minor hit, in 1964, which was called "Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod", and made three albums together before Lucy left to get married and start a family. Later Simon collaborated with eclectic New York rockers
Elephant's Memory for about six months. She also appeared in the
1971 Milos Forman movie
Taking Off
and played an auditioning singer and sang "Long Term Physical Effects", which was included in
Taking Off
, the 1971 soundtrack for the movie.
Her solo music career began in 1971, with the self-titled
Carly Simon
on
Elektra Records. The album contained her breakthrough top-ten hit "
That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be". It was followed quickly by a second album,
Anticipation
. The title song from that album, written about a romance between Simon and
Cat Stevens, received significant airplay. Another song - also written about Stevens - was "Legend in Your Own Time".
[5] After their brief liaison during 1970-1971 ended amicably, Stevens wrote his song "Sweet Scarlet" about Simon, who also had highly publicized relationships with
Warren Beatty,
Mick Jagger,
Kris Kristofferson, and
James Taylor during this period.
[6]
Simon scored the biggest success of her career with the classic 1972 global smash "
You're So Vain". It hit #1 on the US Pop and Adult Contemporary charts and sold nearly two million
45 rpm vinyl records in the United States alone. It was one of the decade's biggest hits and propelled Carly's breakthrough album
No Secrets
to #1 on the US album charts—where it stayed locked in for six consecutive weeks—and to Platinum status. "
You're So Vain" received
Grammy Award nominations for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. Additionally, as of 2008, it is listed at #72 on the
Billboard Hot 100's definitive list of the Hot 100's top 100 songs from the chart's first 50 years, August 1958 through July 2008.
The subject of the song itself has become one of the biggest enigmas in popular music, as this track also carries one of the most famous refrains: "You're so vain/I bet you think this song is about you." Simon has never publicly admitted who the song is about. She hinted that it could be a composite of several people, and for many people the top 2 on the list of possible "suspects" have always included both Beatty and Jagger, who sings backup vocals on this recording.
Regardless, it was a huge hit, spending three weeks at No. 1 in January 1973 on the
Billboard Hot 100's list, and Simon has given vague hints over the decades to a variety of talk shows and publications, including
The Washington Post
, and
USA Today
, as well as fending off questions from interviews as varied as from hosts
Phil Donohue,
Charlie Rose,
Ellen Degeneres,
Regis and Kelly and
NBC
s
Today Show, among many others, saying that riddles wouldn't be interesting if everyone knew the answers to them.
(On August 5, 2003, she did finally auction off the information to the winner of a charity function for a grand total of $50,000.00 USD, with the condition that the winner (a television executive,
Dick Ebersol on NBC's
Today Show
) not reveal who it is.
)
Also in 1973 the follow-up single, "The Right Thing To Do", was also a sizable hit and reached #4 Adult Contemporary and #17 Pop. Later on in the year Simon performed on
Lee Clayton's album
Lee Clayton
and co-sang on the song "New York Suite 409" and on
Livingston Taylor's album
Over the Rainbow
and sang with both Livingston and his famous brother,
James Taylor (who was, by then, her husband) on the songs "Loving Be My New Horizon" and "
Pretty Woman".
Carly followed the smash
No Secrets
album with the not-as-well received
Hotcakes
(1974). It still reached #3 on Billboard's Album Chart and was certified Gold. However, it went on to sell approximately one-quarter of what
No Secrets
sold. The same year, in 1974, Simon provided vocals on
Tom Rush's album
Ladies Love Outlaws
and co-sang with Rush on "No Regrets" and as backup on "Claim On Me". In 1975,
Elektra released her first greatest-hits album
The Best of Carly Simon
, which was Simon's best seller and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States, which made it her only Multi-Platinum certification.
1976 saw Simon contributing backup vocals on the song "Peter" on
Peter Ivers's album
Peter Ivers
. She also made her only appearance on
Saturday Night Live
. It was a pre-taped, as were most performances on the show then (not a live show), which was to her liking, because Simon suffered terrible bouts of
stage fright. In the appearance, she sang two songs: "Half A Chance" and her
signature song, "You're So Vain". In 1977, Simon
co-produced Libby Titus's album
Libby Titus
and sang backup on two songs: "Can This Be Our Love Affair?" and "Darkness 'Til Dawn".
Simon's record sales declined considerably with 1975's
Playing Possum
and 1976's
Another Passenger
. Neither album produced any hit singles. However, in 1977, she had a surprise international smash with "
Nobody Does It Better", from the soundtrack to the
James Bond film
The Spy Who Loved Me
. The million-selling Gold single held at #2 for several weeks, behind Debby Boone's monster mega-hit "
You Light Up My Life", which became the biggest hit of the entire decade. "Nobody Does It Better" remains Simon's all-time biggest US hit, after "You're So Vain". It was 1977's biggest
Adult Contemporary hit, where it held at #1 for seven straight weeks. It also received Grammy nominations for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance Female.
This success was followed by the 1978 hit album
Boys In The Trees
, which produced another Top 10 Pop and Adult Contemporary hit with the jazzy and sensual "You Belong To Me".
Boys In The Trees
was a major success, too, and returned Carly to Platinum album status in the US. It later earned Simon yet another Grammy nomination in her signature category. Carly was featured on the front covers of
People Magazine
and
Rolling Stone Magazine
that spring. Also in 1978, Simon and James Taylor sang
backing vocals on two songs for Taylor's sister
Kate's album
Kate Taylor
: "Happy Birthday Sweet Darling" and "Jason & Ida". Simon and Taylor also sang backup on three songs on
John Hall's debut solo album
John Hall
, "The Fault", "Good Enough" and "Voyagers". Simon and Taylor would also sing backup on one song, "Power", from Hall's next album, which is also titled
Power
(1979).
On November 2, 1978, Simon guested on the song "I Live In The Woods" at a live, four hour concert by
Burt Bacharach and the
Houston Symphony Orchestra at Jones Hall in
Houston, Texas. All of the songs at that concert became Bacharach's album
Woman
, which was released in 1979. That year, shortly after the
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, from September 19 to September 22, a series of concerts were held at New York's
Madison Square Garden and sponsored by
MUSE (
Musicians United for Safe Energy), a group of musicians against nuclear power, co-founded by John Hall. Always politically active, Simon and James Taylor were part of the concerts which later became
a film documentary, as well as a live album that was called
No Nukes
.
Simon released her last album for
Elektra , which was called
Spy
, in 1979. It sold poorly, although a harder-edged single from the album, "
Vengeance" was a modest hit and received airplay on US Album Rock stations. "
Vengeance" earned a Grammy nomination for Carly for Best
Rock
Vocal Performance Female in early 1980 - the first year of the new category.
From 1972 to 1979, Simon sang backup vocals on the following James Taylor songs and albums (not counting compilations): "One Man Parade" from 1972's
One Man Dog
, "Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now", "Let It All Fall Down", "Me And My Guitar", "Daddy's Baby" and "Ain't No Song" from 1974's
Walking Man
, "
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" from 1975's
Gorilla
, "
Shower the People", "A Junkie's Lament", "Slow Burning Love" and "
Family Man" from 1976's
In the Pocket
, and "B.S.U.R." from 1979's
Flag
. She also co-wrote with Taylor the song "
Terra Nova" on his 1977 album
JT
. At the end of the song, Simon sang what has come to be known as "
Lambert's Cove".
1980s
In 1980, Simon signed with Elektra's parent label
Warner Bros. Records. During a show in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania while she toured to promote her album,
Come Upstairs
, Simon collapsed onstage of exhaustion. She subsequently performed considerably less throughout the 1980s. Carly scored another million-selling US Gold single with the memorable hit, "Jesse", from that album. Simon also contributed the song "Be With Me" to the 1980 album
In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record
, which was produced by her sister
Lucy and Lucy's husband, David Levine. Simon can also be heard on the song "In Harmony", along with other members of the Simon/Taylor families. Carly and Lucy contributed a "
Simon Sisters" song - which was called "Maryanne" - to the 1982 follow-up album
In Harmony 2
, which was also produced by Lucy and her husband. Both albums won
Grammy Awards for
Best Album for Children.
Torch
(1981) was an album of melancholy
jazz standards and reflected her mood at the time. It had disappointing sales. The
Nile Rodgers &
Bernard Edwards produced "
Why" (1982), from the soundtrack to the
1982 movie
Soup For One
, was a top 10 hit single in the UK but stalled at #74 in the US. She had another minor UK success with the single "
Kissing With Confidence", a song off the 1983 album
Dancing For Mental Health
by
Will Powers (a
pseudonym for
photographer Lynn Goldsmith). Simon was the uncredited singer of the song on the album. Still, her singles were less successful in the 1980s, although some did quite well on
Adult Contemporary radio formats. In 1983, she made her last album for Warner —
Hello Big Man
. It was another sales failure. That same year, Simon performed on two albums,
The Perfect Stranger
by
Jesse Colin Young (co-sang on the song "Fight For It" with Young) and
Wonderland
by
Nils Lofgren (and co-sang on the song "Lonesome Ranger" with Lofgren). By this time, her sales had dropped and her contract with Warner Bros ended. She signed with
Epic Records , in 1985, and made one album for them,
Spoiled Girl
, which, unfortunately, had sales of approximately 150,000 copies. Her contract with Epic was cancelled, following the release.
In 1986, Simon signed with
Arista Records and soon rebounded from her career slump. Her first album for them,
Coming Around Again
(1987), was a strong comeback album, which was exemplified by the Top 10 Adult Contemporary hits, "Give Me All Night," "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of," "All I Want Is You," and the title track, "Coming Around Again." The title track in particular provided Simon with a sizable comeback hit, becoming a
Top 20 US Pop smash and her fourth
UK Top 10 hit as well. The album was her first Gold release in nine years. It went on to Platinum album status the following year, and Carly was again nominated for a Pop Grammy. These and older songs were featured in a picturesque
HBO concert special which was set on
Martha's Vineyard, where Simon and her band performed live on a pier. Most of these songs were compiled for her 1988 album;
Greatest Hits Live
, her second greatest hits album. This album continued her mounting comeback and was later certified platinum by the
RIAA in 1996.
Scoring music to film
Throughout the 1980s, Simon successfully contributed to several film and television scores, including the songs "Why" for the 1982 movie
Soup For One
, "Something More" for the 1982 movie
Love Child
, "Someone Waits For You" for the 1984 movie
Swing Shift
, "All The Love In The World" for the 1985 TV movie
Torchlight
, "It's Hard To Be Tender" for the 1986 TV miniseries
Sins
, "If It Wasn't Love" for
Nothing In Common
(1986), "Two Looking At One" for
The Karate Kid, Part II
(1986), "Coming Around Again" and "Itsy Bitsy Spider" for
Heartburn
(1987), and "Let the River Run" for
Working Girl
(for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Song and
Golden Globe Award for Best Song in 1988). The
Working Girl
soundtrack, which featured more music from Simon, came out in early 1989. In 1987, Simon sang "The Turn Of The Tide" for a
Marlo Thomas TV special called "Free to Be . . . A Family". The song was later included on the 1988 album
Free To Be . . . A Family
. She also wrote a song that was called "You're Where I Go", as a tribute to
Christa McAuliffe, who was slated to be the first teacher in space and who died in the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. McAuliffe was a Simon fan and had taken a cassette of her music on board the shuttle.
1990s
In 1990, Simon released two albums; her second
standards album,
My Romance
, and an album of original material
Have You Seen Me Lately
. The latter featured a major (#4) Adult Contemporary hit with "Better Not Tell Her". Her second children's book, "The Boy of the Bells" was also published in 1990 and she wrote the score for the 1990 film
Postcards from the Edge
. In 1991, Simon wrote her third children's book, "The Fisherman's Song", which was based on the song of the same name from her 1990 album "Have You Seen Me Lately". The same year, she performed a duet with
Plácido Domingo on the song "The Last Night Of The World" (from the
Miss Saigon musical) on Domingo's album
The Broadway I Love
. A year later, Simon wrote the music for the
Nora Ephron film "This Is My Life". In 1993, she contributed the song "
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" for the film
Sleepless In Seattle
and recorded the same song in combo with "
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" with
Frank Sinatra for his album
Duets
.
1993 saw Simon recording a contemporary opera called
Romulus Hunt
(having been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association and the Kennedy Center) and published of her fourth children's book, "The Nighttime Chauffeur". She also contributed to
Andreas Vollenweider's album
Eolian Minstrel
. Simon co-wrote the song "Private Fires" with Vollenweider and was featured vocalist on the song.
In 1994, she covered "
Take Me Out To The Ball Game" for
Ken Burns' 1994 film
Baseball
, as well as a recording of "I've Got a Crush On You" for
Larry Adler's covers album
The Glory of Gershwin
. That same year, Simon recorded another album of original songs,
Letters Never Sent
, and contributed a Christmas song, "The Night Before Christmas", to the movie and soundtrack
Mixed Nuts. In April 1995, Simon surprised thousands of commuters at New York's
Grand Central Terminal with an unannounced performance which was filmed for a
Lifetime Television Special. It was also released on home video in December of that year. Also in 1995, she put aside years of
stage fright long enough to perform on an American concert tour in conjunction with
Hall & Oates. That same year,
Clouds In My Coffee
, a boxed set (of highlights from her career from 1965 to 1995) was released. On August 30, 1995, Simon made a rare joint appearance with her ex-husband, James Taylor, for a concert on
Martha's Vineyard. Dubbed "Livestock '95", it was a benefit for the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, with over 10,000 people in attendance. She performed a duet with Mindy Jostyn on the song "Time, Be On My Side", on Jostyn's 1995 album
Five Miles From Hope
.
Simon wrote the theme songs to several more movies, including "Two Little Sisters" from the 1996 movie
Marvin's Room
and "In Two Straight Lines" from the 1998 movie
Madeline
. 1997 saw the release of Simon's third standards album,
Film Noir
, as well as her fifth children's book, "Midnight Farm". In 1998, Simon was diagnosed with
breast cancer and had a
mastectomy and received chemotherapy. In 1999
The Very Best Of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better
, a UK-only greatest hits album, was released. That year, Simon was the featured vocalist for "Your Silver Key" on the album
Cosmopoly
by Andreas Vollenweider.
During the 1990s, the American press reported on an incident between Carly and
the Pretenders'
Chrissie Hynde, at a
Joni Mitchell concert at New York's Fez Club. Some reports stated that a drunk and disorderly Hynde grabbed Simon around the neck and punched her, although Carly, herself, attempted to put these rumours to rest on her official website in 2002. Numerous witnesses, however, claim that Simon was, indeed, assaulted by Hynde.
[7]
2000s
In 2000, she returned from her illness with
The Bedroom Tapes
, her first album of original songs in almost six years. In 2001, Simon performed on "
Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" with
Janet Jackson on Jackson's album
All for You
. She also contributed back-up vocals on two songs, "Don't Turn Away" and "East Of Eden", for Mindy Jostyn's 2001 album
Blue Stories
. In November 2001, "Let the River Run" was used in a public service ad for the
United States Postal Service. Entitled "Pride", it was produced to boost public confidence and postal worker morale in the wake of the
September 11, 2001 attacks and the
2001 Anthrax attacks.
In 2002, Simon recorded a Christmas album,
Christmas Is Almost Here
, for
Rhino Records , while she was in Los Angeles to lend support to her son
Ben Taylor and his band. That same year, Simon personally chose all of the songs for a two disc anthology album, to be titled
Anthology
for
Rhino Records. 2003 saw a re-release of her 2002 Christmas album with two extra tracks and called
Christmas Is Almost Here Again
on Rhino Records. The two extra tracks, "White Christmas" and "Forgive", were also released as a single. Simon also performed several concerts during the 2004 holiday season at Harlem's
Apollo Theater , along with BeBe Winans, son Ben and daughter Sally, Rob Thomas, Livingston Taylor, Mindy Jostyn and Kate Taylor, along with other members of the Taylor and Simon family.
Among Simon's recent work, there were songs for the
Disney Winnie the Pooh films
Piglet's Big Movie
in 2003 and
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
in 2005. Several of her songs were also featured in the 2004 movie
Little Black Book
that starred
Brittany Murphy and
Holly Hunter. Simon appears in a cameo role as herself at the end of the movie. 2004 also saw the release of her fourth greatest hits album,
Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
, which peaked at #22 on the Billboard charts that year (#25 in the UK). The album became Carly's first Gold-certified disc since the late 1980s.
In 2005, she released her fourth album of standards, titled
Moonlight Serenade
. It reached #7 on the Billboard Album charts, her highest-charting album in nearly 30 years. To promote
Moonlight Serenade
, Simon performed two concerts onboard the
Queen Mary 2
which were recorded and released on DVD in 2005. She also performed in a concert tour in the United States - her first tour in 10 years. Simon also sang a duet, "Angel Of The Darkest Night", with Mindy Jostyn on Jostyn's 2005 album
Coming Home
, which was released several months after Jostyn's death, on March 10, 2005. As one of Simon's closest friends, Jostyn was married to
Jacob Brackman, Simon's long-time friend and musical collaborator. In 2005, she became involved in the legal defense of musician and family friend
John Forté with his struggle against a federal incarceration.
The following year, Carly recorded yet her fifth album of covers, a collection of "soothing songs and lullabies" which was called
Into White
for
Columbia Records. The eclectic collection featured covers of songs by
Cat Stevens,
Judy Garland,
The Beatles and the
Everly Brothers , as well as two new original songs. It also features the vocal collaborations of her children,
Ben Taylor and
Sally Taylor, both accomplished artists. Released in 2007, it became
Billboard Magazine
s "Hot Shot Debut", entering the chart at number #13.
Simon is also the featured vocalist on four songs on
Andreas Vollenweider's holiday album
Midnight Clear
, released in 2006: "
Midnight Clear", "Suspended Note", "Hymn to the Secret Heart" and "Forgive". "Forgive" is a song Simon wrote for her own holiday album on RHINO Records from 2002 (re-released in an expanded version in 2003),
Christmas Is Almost Here
.
In March 2008, it was announced that Simon had signed to the
Starbucks label
Hear Music. She released a new album entitled
This Kind of Love
with them in the spring of 2008. The album is her first collection of original songs since 2000's
The Bedroom Tapes
.
[8]
On June 19, 2008 Carly and her son, Ben, performed "You're So Vain" together on
The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite radio.
Simon is currently recording an album of reworkings of many of her classic songs, to be released in Fall of 2009 on Iris Records.
Film and television appearances
Besides music, Simon has also appeared (as herself) in films, such as the 1985 film
Perfect
, and an uncredited appearance in the 2004 film
Little Black Book
. On television, she appeared (also as herself) in a 1989 episode of
Thirtysomething
and voiced a 1995 episode of
Frasier
entitled "
Roz in the Doghouse".
Personal life
Simon married fellow singer-songwriter
James Taylor on November 3, 1972.
[9] Simon and Taylor had two children,
Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor (born January 7, 1974) and
Benjamin "Ben" Simon Taylor (born January 22, 1977), both of whom are musicians and political activists. Simon and Taylor divorced in 1983.
[10] In the June 20, 2004, issue of Askmen.com, Simon said that she no longer speaks to her ex-husband, James Taylor. "I would say our relationship is non-existent. It's not the way I want it."
[11] On October 4, 2007, Simon became a grandmother, when her daughter Sally gave birth to a son, Bodhi Taylor Bragonier.
Prior to her marriage to Taylor, Simon had been romantically linked to
Mick Jagger,
Cat Stevens,
Keith Hernandez,
Kris Kristofferson, and
Warren Beatty. She was briefly engaged in England to
William Donaldson in the 1960s(who jilted fiancee Sara Miles for her).
[12] Donaldson described her as "the answer to any sane man's prayers; funny, quick, erotic, extravagantly talented."
[13] She also was engaged to musician
Russ Kunkel, from 1985 to 1986.
[14]
Simon married James Hart, a writer, poet, and businessman, on December 23, 1987. The couple divorced in 2007. Simon is now dating Laparoscopic surgeon, Richard Koehler, who lives in Plymouth, Mass.
Simon underwent a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for
breast cancer during 1997 and 1998.
Simon currently lives on
Martha's Vineyard and is associated with a store in
Vineyard Haven named Midnight Farm, the title of one of her series of children's books from the late 1980s and 1990s.
In an interview with the
Bay Area Reporter
, which was published on May 1, 2008, Simon was asked about the possibility of a performance in the
True Colors Tour. She responded, "The part that I could be involved in is the
gay and
lesbian part. The part that would be hard for me is to commit to a tour, because I'm not very comfortable [with] being onstage. But the part that would be easiest for me would be singing on behalf of all of us. I don't consider myself to be
not
gay... I've enlarged all of my possibilities. I have a lot of extremely personal stories to tell about that, but we won't go into that right now. Let's just say that it just depends upon who I'm with." Simon addressed the rumors about her sexuality created by the interview on
The Howard Stern Show which aired June 18, 2008. "Have I made love to a woman? No. Now, I have been 'come on' to, but I was too uptight. But I wish that I had. I think that I'm too old for that (now). I have a fantastic boyfriend now who's almost a woman."
[15]
Awards and recognition
- Grammy Awards:
- * Best New Artist, 1971.
- * Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, 1990, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
.
- Academy Award:
- *Best Song, 1988, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
.
- Golden Globe Awards:
- *Best Original Song, 1989, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
.
- Other awards:
- * Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994..
Discography
Studio albums
- Carly Simon
, 1971
- Anticipation
, 1971
- No Secrets
, 1972
- Hotcakes
, 1974
- Playing Possum
, 1975
- Another Passenger
, 1976
- Boys in the Trees
, 1978
- Spy
, 1979
- Come Upstairs
, 1980
- Torch
, 1981
- Hello Big Man
, 1983
- Spoiled Girl
, 1985
- Coming Around Again
, 1987
- My Romance
, 1990
- Have You Seen Me Lately
, 1990
- This Is My Life
, 1992
- Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera
, 1993
- Letters Never Sent
, 1994
- Film Noir
, 1997
- The Bedroom Tapes
, 2000
- Moonlight Serenade
, 2005
- Into White
, 2007
- This Kind of Love
, 2008
- Never Been Gone
, announced for fall, 2009
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Compilations
- The Best of Carly Simon
, 1975 — US #17 (Singles Compilation)
- Greatest Hits Live
, 1988 — US #87; UK #49 (Singles Compilation)
- Clouds in My Coffee
, 1995 (3 Disc Retrospective Box Set)
- The Very Best Of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better
, 1999 (Singles Compilation)
- Christmas Is Almost Here
, 2002 (Christmas Compilation)
- Anthology
, 2002 (Singles Compilation)
- Christmas Is Almost Here Again
, 2003 (Christmas Compilation)
- Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
, 2004 — US #22 (Singles Compilation)
- Carly Simon Collector's Edition
, 2009 (Tin Box)
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Videography
- Live from Martha's Vineyard
, 1987
- Carly in Concert — My Romance
, 1990
- Live at Grand Central
, 1995
- A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2
, 2005
- Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars documentary, songs by Carly Simon 2006
Works
- Amy the Dancing Bear
, 1989
- The Boy of the Bells
, 1990
- The Fisherman's Song
, 1991
- The Nighttime Chauffeur
, 1993
- Midnight Farm
, 1997
References
- Andrea Heinemann Simon; Community Leader, 84 - New York Times
- Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation
- Carly Simon: romance, pain, anticipation—if it's a human impulse, then Carly Simon has sung about it. Now, the singer, who has provided the soundtrack to a thousand breakups, reveals how it all came together
- Maslin, Janet. "Heroines in the Footlights, From All Sides Now", ''The New York Times'', April 17, 2008. Accessed May 3, 2008.
- Lyrics from the songs which were written for Cat Stevens by Carly Simon- with photo
- Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs
- Carly Simon Official Website — Ask Carly
- Rolling Stone : Carly Simon Signs With Starbucks' Hear Music
- James Taylor: Long Ago and Far Away
- Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story
- AskMen.com - Celebrity News - Carly Simon
- The London Times - Simon's engagement to William Donaldson
- The Guardian - Donaldson's praise of Simon
- Carly Simon at Hollywood.com
- http://tv.gay.com/2008/06/carly-simon-on.html