No Secrets (Remastered) Carly Simon

• 1 The Right Thing To Do 02:58
• 2 The Carter Family 03:30
• 3 You're So Vain 04:18
• 4 His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin 03:01
• 5 We Have No Secrets 03:57
• 6 Embrace Me, You Child 04:08
• 7 Waited So Long 04:29
• 8 It Was So Easy 03:08
• 9 Night Owl 03:50
• 10 When You Close Your Eyes 03:07
• Total Runtime 36:26

Info zu No Secrets (Remastered)

1971’s Carly Simon announced a major new talent, offerings songs like the epic and hauntingly personal “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” the folk-rock of “Alone” and country of “One More Time.” She followed her debut with the unforgettable Anticipation. Aided by super-producer Richard Perry, Simon refined her sound for the breakthrough No Secrets. Simon was often compared to Carole King, despite their very different backgrounds. Carole was a modest Brooklyn girl who practically grew up in the Brill Building scene, whereas the folk-singing Carly was daughter of the mighty Simon and Schuster publishing empire. Carole was an earth mother while Carly exuded sex appeal. Let’s not be disingenuous; among other things in common, Carly married one of Carole’s most sympathetic collaborators, James Taylor, and they frequently employed the same crop of LA musicians. But No Secrets definitively proved that Carly Simon was her own liberated woman.

Like her first two albums, 1972’s No Secrets was deeply autobiographical. It remains a testament to her sophisticated and timeless songwriting. Album opener “The Right Thing to Do” is a piano-driven pop song that marries one of Simon’s brightest, most infectious melodies to a perfect (and perfectly simple) horn and string arrangement subtly enhancing the tension under the surface. When she intones “Hold me in your hands like a bunch of flowers,” what man could resist? It’s joyful, inviting and sensual. The fierce “You’re So Vain” launched one of rock’s most enduring mysteries and will forever be Ms. Simon’s calling card. “We Have No Secrets” not only gave the album its title, but it has a typically clever lyric of self-discovery. James Taylor provided the bluesy “Night Owl.” “The Carter Family” and “His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin” are poetic yet accessible art songs.

Hit the jump for more on No Secrets, plus the track listing with discographical information and pre-order link!

No Secrets is one of the benchmarks by which all other singer/songwriter albums are measured (though Simon had some support, primarily from frequent co-writer Jacob Brackman). Guest appearances by Lowell George, Paul and Linda McCartney, Mick Jagger, Doris Troy and, of course, JT added to the sense of a seventies musical happening. The LP was rewarded with five weeks at No. 1 and “You’re So Vain” also topped the singles chart.

Carly Simon, acoustic guitar on 5 6 7 8, piano on 1 2 3 4 10, vocals, backing vocals on 1 7, string arrangements on 3, ARP synthesizer arrangements on 4
Andy Newmark, drums on 1 2 6 8 10
Jimmy Ryan, acoustic guitar on 2 3 4 5 10, bass on 1 10, electric guitar on 3 6 7 8 9 Klaus Voormann, bass on 2 3 5 6 7 8 9

Additional artists:
Paul Buckmaster, string arrangements
Kirby Johnson, string arrangements
Ray Cooper, congas on 1 9
Jim Gordon, drums on 3 5
Nicky Hopkins, piano on 7 9
Jim Keltner, drums on 7 9
Paul Keough, acoustic guitar on 5 8
Vicki Brown, backing vocals on 1
Liza Strike, backing vocals on 1
Richard Perry, percussion on 3
David Henshaw, ARP synthesizer on 4
Peter Robinson, piano on 6
Lowell George, slide guitar on 7
Bill Payne, organ on 7
James Taylor, backing vocals on 7
Bonnie Bramlett, backing vocals on 9
Bobby Keys, tenor saxophone on 9
Linda McCartney, backing vocals on 9
Paul McCartney, backing vocals on 9
Doris Troy, backing vocals on 9
Mick Jagger, backing vocals (uncredited) on 3

Digitally remastered.

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.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet