Carly Simon

by Carly Simon

Overview

"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. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1990
Label:	Elektra
UPC:	0075596067225

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Carly Simon   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals
Jimmy Wilkins   Drums
John Siomos   Drums
Harvey Shapiro   Cello
Jim Ryan   Guitar
Billy Mernit   Keyboards
Buzzy Linhart   Guitar
Mark "Moogy" Klingman   Keyboards
Jimmy Johnson   Guitar
Paul Griffin   Keyboards
David Bromberg   Guitar,Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Eddie Kramer   Audio Production,Mixing,Composer,Producer,Mixdown Engineer
Carly Simon   Composer
Fred Gardner   Composer
Mark Klingman   Composer
Ed Freeman   String Arrangements
Freddy Gardner   Composer
Joe Strummer   Composer
Dee Palmer   Mixing,Mixdown Engineer
Peter Frampton   Composer
Nacio Herb Brown   Composer
Mick Jones   Composer
Buzzy Linhart   Composer
Mark "Moogy" Klingman   Composer
Billy Mernit   Composer
Jac Holzman   Production Supervisor
Peter Simon   Photography
Pat Rebillot   String Arrangements
Joel Brodsky   Photography
Jerry Brandt   Producer
Bob Heimall   Design,Art Direction
Topper Headon   Composer
Jacob Brackman   Composer
Paul Simonon   Composer
Keith Holzman   Production Supervisor