Carly Simon

Carly Simon – These Are The Good Old Days: The Carly Simon & Jac Holzman Story (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 28, 2023 · Comments off

Carly Simon – These Are The Good Old Days: The Carly Simon & Jac Holzman Story (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:50 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Soft Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Elektra

When Elektra Records’ founder Jac Holzman signed Carly Simon to his label in 1970, it was the beginning of an extraordinary friendship. Their story unfolds in a new collection of songs chosen and sequenced by Holzman. He follows the arc of Simon’s meteoric rise with a mix of hits and deep cuts selected from the singer-songwriter’s first three albums.

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Carly Simon – These Are The Good Old Days The Carly Simon & Jac Holzman Story (2023) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Studio Masters By admin · September 18, 2023 · Comments off

Carly Simon - These Are The Good Old Days The Carly Simon & Jac Holzman Story (2023) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

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Carly Simon – Live At Grand Central (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 20, 2023 · Comments off

Carly Simon: Live at Grand Central is a 1995 concert special that aired on Lifetime Television. Performed in the middle of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, the surprise concert was a prelude to Simon’s first concert tour in 14 years. It featured Simon and a live band performing the majority of her Letters Never Sent album, as well as some of her classic hits such as “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”, “Anticipation”, “Legend in Your Own Time”, “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain”, “Jesse”, “Coming Around Again”, and “Let the River Run”. It was directed by English music video and film director Nigel Dick.

For this special, Simon was nominated for two CableACE Awards: Performance in a Music Special and Original Song for “Touched by the Sun”, winning for the latter.

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Carly Simon – Carly Simon (1971) [MSFL 2015] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · November 14, 2022 · Comments off

“That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” the leadoff track of Carly Simon’s first album and a Top Ten hit, in which the singer expresses reservations about getting married, benefited from a sense of role reversal – it’s such a guy sentiment, but sung by a woman in 1971, it came across as a feminist statement, consistent with the overall disillusionment so prevalent then. Nothing on the rest of the album was quite as pointed, though the other songs maintained the same ambivalence toward romance. The one other standout track, “Dan, My Fling,” in which the singer tries to rekindle a relationship with a man she has discarded, was, like the single, co-written by Jacob Brackman (in this case, with Fred Gardner, not Simon), suggesting that the real creative talent here was him and not her (especially since the writing credits also featured another four names). And since Simon, with her plaintive, proper, and relatively inexpressive voice, was such an unremarkable performer, her debut seemed less auspicious than the attention it attracted might have implied.

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Carly Simon – No Secrets (1972) [MFSL 2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · November 14, 2022 · Comments off

Carly Simon’s best album, No Secrets was also her commercial breakthrough, topping the charts and going gold, along with its leadoff single, “You’re So Vain.” That song set the album’s saucy tone, with its air of sexually frank autobiography (“You had me several years ago/When I was still quite naïve”) and its reflections on the jet-set lifestyle. But Simon’s honesty meant that her lyrical knife was double-edged; now that she felt she had found true love (“The Right Thing to Do,” another Top Ten hit, was her celebration of her relationship with James Taylor), she was as willing to acknowledge her own mistakes and regrets as she was to point fingers. But it wasn’t only Simon’s forthrightness that made the album work; it was also Richard Perry’s simple, elegant pop/rock production, which gave Simon’s music a buoyancy it previously lacked. And Perry paid particular attention to Simon’s vocals in a way that made her more engaging (or at least less grating) to listen to.

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Carly Simon – Hotcakes (1974) [MFSL 2016] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · November 14, 2022 · Comments off

A glowing, pregnant Carly Simon smiles out from the cover of Hotcakes, one of her biggest selling albums, which featured the gold single “Mockingbird,” a duet with her husband James Taylor that effectively remade the old Inez and Charlie Foxx hit and bested it on the charts. The album also included another hit, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain,” as well as “Misfit,” in which a wife implores her carousing husband to come home, and “Think I’m Gonna Have A Baby,” which celebrated the joys of same. With such tracks, Hotcakes was an autobiographical concept album that defined domestic bliss at a time when Simon’s listeners also were catching their breath and turning inward.

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Carly Simon – Anticipation (1971) [MFSL 2016] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · November 14, 2022 · Comments off

Carly Simon’s second album found her extending the gutsy persona she had established on her debut album, notably on the title track and “Legend in Your Own Time” (both of them hit singles), and “I’ve Got to Have You.” The latter especially suggested a frankly passionate person whose vulnerability was a source of strength, not weakness, a valuable feminist trait and one Simon would pursue in her later work.

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Carly Simon – The Studio Album Collection 1971-1983 (Édition StudioMasters) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 5, 2022 · Comments off

If you’re a regular visitor to our website, then you know that we generally offer an installment of our Digital Roundup column on Wednesdays, but you’re caught us on a slow week: we’ve only got a single item joining our digital catalog. As such, we’re bypassing the column in favor of shining a solo spotlight on this item, but to our way of thinking, it more than deserves the individual attention, given that this one release actually includes 11 – count ‘em – 11 albums.

Even if Carly Simon had never recorded a single song beyond her time on Elektra and Warner Brothers in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, she’d likely still be on most music fans’ radar, as it’s that era which not only served to define her sound but also provided her with her most substantial chart success. That’s certainly not to suggest that she didn’t have any beyond that: “Coming Around Again” was a top-20 pop hit, and it was just one of a half-dozen tracks to hit the Adult Contemporary top 10, including “Let the River Run,” from the soundtrack to Working Girl. Still, if you ask people to name a Carly Simon song, odds are that a significant number of those polled would answer with “You’re So Vain” or, if they’re a particularly big James Bond fan, “Nobody Does It Better.”

Unfortunately, as it was recorded for the soundtrack of The Spy Who Loved Me, “Nobody Does It Better” is not actually part of this set, so we’re sorry that we just sent the tune running through your head. (Clearly, we are not the best.) But on the other hand – and forgive us for sounding so unabashedly like a commercial – in addition to “You’re So Vain,” you’ll also get such signature Simon singles as “Anticipation,” “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” “The Right Thing to Do,” “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain,” “You Belong to Me,” and “Jesse,” as well as the classic duets Simon performed with then-husband James Taylor, “Mockingbird” and “Devoted to You.”

Here’s a full listing of the albums you’ll find in the set, along with their original years of release:

Carly Simon (February 1971)
Anticipation (November 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)

That last album, by the way, makes for a particularly interesting listen, as it features Simon collaborating with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare on several tracks. You may or may not have wanted to imagine her covering Bob Marley’s “Is This Love?” but now’s your chance to hear what it sounds like anyway.

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Carly Simon – No Secrets (1972/2001) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 5, 2022 · Comments off

Carly Simon’s 1972 album No Secrets remains a benchmark of the era’s singer-songwriter releases, both commercially and artistically. The platinum selling album topped the Billboard charts, yielded the #1 single “You’re So Vain” and the top 10 single “The Right Thing to Do.” The album also features an all-star set of cameos, including appearances by James Taylor, Paul and Linda McCartney, and Mick Jagger.

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Carly Simon – Hotcakes (1974/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 5, 2022 · Comments off

Beatles fans refer to the 1968 album, officially titled The Beatles, as The White Album. But for Carly Simon fans ‘the white album’ is unmistakably, undeniably “Hotcakes”. On the cover, a heavily pregnant Carly glows with happiness in a setting so gleamingly white that it immediately conveys sun-drenched domesticity. Once again, the photographer was Ed Caraeff, but this was not another session on the smart streets of fashionable London. There is nothing jet set here. Instead, Carly is pictured in the kitchen of the New York townhouse she shared with James Taylor, and in the months before the birth of their daughter, Sally.

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Carly Simon – Hello Big Man (1983/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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“Hello Big Man” is singer-songwriter Carly Simon’s eleventh studio album, originally released in 1983. It is also her last album for Warner Bros. Records. It was a commercial disappointment upon release, despite a positive reception from critics. The album featured Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare on a number of tracks, including one Bob Marley cover. The title of the album is an allude to the reply that Simon’s mother, Andrea Simon, gave to her father, Richard Simon, when they first met. He said “hello little woman”, and she replied “hello big man”.

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Carly Simon – Carly Simon (1971/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Carly Simon had released an obscure folkie record in 1965 and recorded with her sister Lucy as the Simon Sisters, but 1971’s „Carly Simon“ was her official debut. It was also one of the records that helped define the ’70s singer-songwriter genre. Simon had by this time shed many of the overtly folkie aspects of her songwriting and singing style, but her songs remained rooted in simple acoustic piano or guitar-based, folk-influenced styles. The simple, low-key arrangements keep her husky voice and quietly emotive lyrics front and center.

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