Boys In The Trees (Remastered) Carly Simon

• 1 You Belong To Me 03:53
• 2 Boys In The Trees 03:15
• 3 Back Down To Earth 03:09
• 4 Devoted To You 02:30
• 5 De Bat (Fly In Me Face) 02:30
• 6 Haunting 02:31
• 7 Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) 04:04
• 8 You're The One 03:40
• 9 In A Small Moment 03:10
• 10 One Man Woman 03:41
• 11 For Old Times Sake 03:42
• Total Runtime 36:05

Info for Boys In The Trees (Remastered)

Building on the strengths of its predecessor „Another Passenger“, „Boys In The Trees“ continues Carly Simon's artistic progress in the face of declining success on the pop singles charts. Unlike „Another Passenger“, Simon scored a hit off of „Boys In The Trees“ (the slinky 'You Belong To Me'), but the whole is constructed in such a way that even that song gains strength in the context of the rest of the album.

Arif Mardin's production gives the album a high gloss sheen without making it sound like a disco bandwagon-jumper, even on the dancefloor-ready 'Tranquillo (Melt My Heart).' The album is not without missteps--exhibit A is the bizarre fake-reggae 'De Bat (Fly in Me Face)'--but as a whole, this is one of Simon's finest albums, and those wanting to move beyond her greatest hits compilations could do worse than start right here.

„Her career revitalized by the success of 'Nobody Does It Better,' the theme from The Spy Who Loved Me, Carly Simon returned to record-making with this classy Arif Mardin-produced session, backed by New York's best studio players Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Will Lee, Richard Tee, David Sanborn, the Brecker Brothers, etc.. Simon reached the Top Ten with 'You Belong to Me,' a collaboration with Michael McDonald that showed both off at their best, and the album's other Top 40 single was another duet with husband James Taylor on the old Everly Brothers hit 'Devoted to You.' Taylor also turned up writing and singing elsewhere to good effect. But what really made the album a winner was that Simon had had a couple of years to write some strong songs in her unflinching, reflective style, and she continued to explore the loves and mores of her age and class movingly.“ (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Carly Simon, vocals, acoustic guitar
James Taylor, vocals, guitar
Hamish Stuart, vocals, guitar
Luther Vandross, vocals
Stu Scharf, acoustic & electric guitars, Autoharp
Jeff Minorov, acoustic & electric guitars
John Hall, guitar
Hugh McCracken, guitar
Cornell DuPree, guitar
Eric Gale, guitar
Onnie McIntyre, guitar
Margaret Ross, harp
Gloria Agostini, harp
Joe Farrell, flute
Harvey Estrin, soprano & tenor recorders, alto saxophone
George Marge, soprano & tenor recorders, alto saxophone
Phil Bodner, oboe
Michael Brecker, tenor saxophone
Jaroslav Jakubovic, baritone saxophones
Ronnie Cuber, baritone saxophones
David Sanborn, saxophone
Randy Brecker, trumpet
James Buffington, French horn
Brooks Tillotson, French horn
Eddie Bert, trombone
Barry Rogers, trombone
Richard Tee, acoustic and electric piano
Don Grolnick, piano, arp string ensemble
Ken Bischel, piano
David Carey, marimba
Gordon Edwards, bass
Will Lee, bass
Tony Levin, bass
Steve Gadd, drums
Crusher Bennett, percussion
Rubens Bassini, percussion
Roderick George, background vocals
Ken Williams, background vocals
John Hall, background vocals
Alyia Orme, background vocals
Lucy Simon, background vocals
Joanna Simon, background vocals
Steven Dickson, background vocals
Marc Embree, background vocals
Alex Ligertwood, background vocals

Recorded at Atlantic Studios, New Yor, New York
Additional Recording at A&R Studios, New York, New York
Engineered by Bobby Warner
Recorded and mixed by Lew Hahn
Produced by Arif Mardin

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.

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