Carly Simon

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Carly Simon是成名于上世纪70年代最为著名的歌手及作曲家之一。作为纽约一个上层社会家庭最小的女儿，在儿时就与姐姐Lucy组成了二重唱组合 “Simon姐妹组”。作为组合的一员，她在1964年4月就发行了一首单曲&Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod&。而作为其个人推出的首张专辑则是在1971年2月，包括她的首支热门单曲&That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be,&。这首与Jacob Brackman合作的描述反抗婚姻妇女心声的歌曲登上了当时的排行榜Top Ten. Simon的第二张专辑《Anticipation》于1971年11月发行，在随后的两年内销量达到了金唱片数量。同名主题曲入围排行榜前四十，并帮助她获得了1971年的格莱美最佳新人奖。1972年11月她发行了第三张专辑，No Secrets, 主打歌You're So Vain勇登金唱片榜首，并且引发了社会对此歌主题的探讨。此专辑另外一首主打歌The Right Thing to Do也入围了当年的四十佳。

Simon 于1972年11月嫁给了同为歌手、作曲家的James Taylor（在1983年离异）。她的第四张专辑于1974年1月发行，其中与丈夫Taylor合唱的Mockingbird以及另外一首主打歌 Haven't Got Time for the Pain全部入围当年十佳。这成为她连续三次唱片销量达到金唱片数量。而1975年4月发行的专辑Playing Possum又是一张黄金唱片，其中包括入围四十佳的年度主打歌Attitude Dancing。而其第六张专辑，于1976年7月发行的Another Passenger则让人略感失望。但是在1977年，她凭借演唱007系列电影The Spy Who Loved Me的主题曲Nobody Does It Better，再度成为年度十大金曲的获得者。1978年4月她发行了第七张专辑Boys in the Trees，获得了百万销量的巨大成功，并凭借You Belong to Me再度获得年度十大金曲，而与丈夫Taylor合作的Devoted to you也获得了当年的四十佳。相比之下，Simon的第八张专辑Spy(于1979年6月发行)以及第九张专辑Come Upstairs（于1980年6月发行）则相形失色。只有后者中的Jesse入围了当年的四十佳。1980年10月，Simon由于长时间的疲劳精神崩溃，之后她很少出现在现场舞台上。她的下一张专辑Torch于1981年9月发行，背离了她之前的非摇滚路线。1982年她凭借歌曲Why获得了英国年度十佳，并且在1983年凭借讽刺歌曲Kissing With Confidence再度入围英国年度四十佳。然而，她在美国的事业却日渐下滑，其1983年9月发行的专辑Hello Big Man以及1985年7月发行的专辑Spoiled Girl全都销量惨淡。直到1986年，她凭借演唱电影Heartburn的主题曲Coming Around Again重回美国年度四十佳。到了1988年，更是凭借演唱电影《上班女郎》的主题曲Let the River Run获得了当年的格莱美奖以及奥斯卡最佳电影歌曲奖。1990年，Simon在3月发行了流行曲风的专辑My Romance，并在9月发行了电影原声专辑Have You Seen Me Lately。1993年，Simon的“家庭戏剧”Romulus Hunt首次公演，并且发行了同名专辑。1994年11月她再度发行新专辑Letters Never Sent，之后在1995年11月推出了3CD装的回顾专辑Clouds in My Coffee 1965-1995。在2000年春天，Simon在沉默六年之后，以黑胶唱片的形式推出了她的新专辑The Bedroom Tapes。

by William Ruhlmann

Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early 70s. The youngest child in an upper-class New York family (her father, Richard Simon, co-founded the Simon and Schuster publishing company), Simon got her start in music as part of a duo with her sister Lucy (who later wrote the music for the Broadway show The Secret Garden). The Simon Sisters had a chart single with Winkin Blinkin and Nod in April 1964. But Simons solo debut did not come until the release of her self-titled first album in February 1971. It contained her first solo hit, Thats the Way Ive Always Heard It Should Be, an anti-marriage song co-written with Jacob Brackman that reached the Top Ten. Simons second album, Anticipation (November 1971) (which went gold in two years), contained a Top 40 follow-up in the title song, and she won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her third album, the gold number one No Secrets (November 1972), was produced by Richard Perry and contained the gold number one hit Youre So Vain, which aroused speculation about its subject. Mick Jagger, one of those suggested, sang backup on the recording. The Right Thing to Do, a second single from the album, made the Top 40. Simon married fellow singer/songwriter James Taylor in November 1972. (They divorced in 1983.) Her fourth album, the Top Ten Hotcakes (January 1974), contained a gold Top Ten remake of the Inez & Charlie Foxx hit Mockingbird sung with Taylor and the Top Ten hit Havent Got Time for the Pain; it became her third consecutive gold LP. Playing Possum (April 1975), containing the Top 40 hit Attitude Dancing, was another Top Ten LP. Simons sixth album, Another Passenger (June 1976), was a relative commercial disappointment. But in 1977, she sang Nobody Does It Better, the theme song for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, resulting in a gold Top Ten hit. Her seventh album, Boys in the Trees (April 1978), was a million-selling success, buoyed by the Top Ten hit You Belong to Me and a Top 40 duet cover of Devoted to You with Taylor. Simons eighth and ninth albums, Spy (June 1979) and Come Upstairs (June 1980), were less successful, though the latter contained the gold Top 40 hit Jesse.

In October 1980, Simon collapsed of exhaustion on-stage, after which her concert appearances became rare. Her next album, Torch (September 1981), was given over to pre- and non-rock covers. In 1982, Simon scored a Top Ten U.K. hit with Why, a song produced by the disco group Chic from the movie Soup for One. In 1983, she returned to the U.K. Top 40 as the uncredited singer on the Will Powers (Lynn Goldsmith) satire Kissing with Confidence. Simons career in the U.S. was in decline, however, as the albums Hello Big Man (September 1983) and Spoiled Girl (July 1985) were poor sellers. She returned to the Top 40 in 1986 with another movie theme, Coming Around Again, from Heartburn (the Coming Around Again LP [March 1987] went platinum) and had yet another movie-related hit with the Grammy- and Oscar-winning Let the River Run from the film Working Girl in 1988. In 1990, Simon released both My Romance (March), another album of pop covers, and Have You Seen Me Lately? (September), an album of original songs. She scored the film This Is My Life in 1992. In 1993, Simons family opera, Romulus Hunt, premiered and was released on record. 1994 brought the release of a new album, Letters Never Sent (November), and a three-CD/cassette box set retrospective, Clouds in My Coffee 1965-1995, appeared in November 1995. Film Noir followed two years later, and in the spring of 2000 Simon returned with her first record of original material in six years, The Bedroom Tapes. In 2002 she released Christmas Is Almost Here, a collection of holiday-themed material, followed by another collection of new material, Moonlight Serenade, in 2005. Into White, which featured mostly versions of standards, was released in 2006.

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