Hello Big Man Carly Simon

• 1 You Know What To Do 04:18
• 2 Menemsha 04:44
• 3 Damn You Get To Me 03:19
• 4 Is This Love 04:17
• 5 Orpheus 03:56
• 6 It Happens Everyday 02:49
• 7 Such A Good Boy 04:03
• 8 Hello Big Man 05:33
• 9 You Don't Feel The Same 02:46
• 10 Floundering 03:51
• Total Runtime 39:36

Info zu Hello Big Man

Originally released in 1983, „Hello Big Man“ was Carly Simon's final album for Warner Brothers Records. Following 1981's well-reviewed but commercially lackluster collection of jazz and pop standards „Torch“, „Hello Big Man“ was another unexpected stylistic detour, featuring Simon recording with the pioneering reggae rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. While the resulting music bears an obvious reggae influence (most particularly on a cover of Bob Marley's 'Is This Love?'), the overall effect has more in common with slightly younger and more stylistically experimental singer-songwriters such as Joan Armatrading and Rickie Lee Jones. Unfortunately, for all their quirky charms, the album and its single, 'You Know What To Do,' were both commercial failures. The budget-line reissue from Rhino Flashback features remastered sound.

„Hello Big Man, Carly Simon's first new studio album of original material in more than three years, followed on from her 1981 album of standards, Torch, and the British Top Ten success of her collaboration with Chic, 'Why.' Both experiences (plus, perhaps, her 1980 hit 'Jesse') seemed to have reinvigorated her taste in pop music, if Hello Big Man was any indication. The sound was a return to the style of Anticipation and No Secrets after years of following trends -- the songs were romantic, with the erotic edge that had charged much of Simon's best material. The album was typically uneven, what with its reggae material (including a redundant cover of Bob Marley's 'Is This Love'), but also typically personal and compelling. The title track was a winning account of her parents' courting, complete with a happy-ever-after ending that didn't occur in real life.“ (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Carly Simon, vocals, guitars, piano, background vocals
Hugh McCracken, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Jimmy Ryan, acoustic guitar
Dean Parks, electric guitar
Elliott Randall, electric guitar
Eric Gale, electric guitar
Sid McGinnis, electric guitar
Andy Summers, electric guitar
David Sanborn, alto saxophone
Lou Marini, alto saxophone
Michael Brecker, tenor saxophone
Ronnie Cuber, baritone saxophone
Jon Faddis, trumpet
Alan Rubin, trumpet
Don Grolnick, piano, organ, synthesizer
Mike Mainieri, piano, synthesizer, marimba, chimes
Peter Wood, piano, Moog synthesizer
Rob Mounsey, synthesizer, background vocals
Rick Marotta, drums, cymbals, tom tom
Jimmy Bralower, drums
Sly Dunbar, drums
Errol Crusher Bennett, percussion
Lynn Goldsmith, background vocals
Elizabeth Witham, background vocals
Rachel Zabar, background vocals
Fonzi Thornton, background vocals
Julie Levine, background vocals
Hugh Taylor, background vocals
Kate Taylor, background vocals
Lucy Simon, background vocals
Marcus Miller, background vocals
Robbie Shakespeare, background vocals
Sally Taylor, background vocals
Tawatha Agee, background vocals
Ben Taylor, background vocals

Recorded 1983 at Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Power Station Studios, New York City
Mixed by Frank Filipetti
Produced by Mike Mainieri

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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