Carly Simon – Carly Simon (Hybrid SACD)
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Pianist, keyboards – Mark Klingman
Written by Carly Simon (1-4, 7-9), Jacob Brackman 1,6), Mark Moogy Klingman (5), Freddy Gardner (6), Eddie Kramer (8), Billy Mernit (8), Buzzy Linhart (10)
1 SACD, gatefold jacket
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Elektra
Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY, February 1971
Engineered by Dave Palmer, Ed Kramer
Produced by Eddie Kramer
Mastered by Rob LoVerde
Art Direction, design by Robert L. Heimall
Photography by Joel Brodsky, Peter Simon
Originally released in 1971
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
1. That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
2. Alone
3. One More Time
4. The Best Thing
5. Just a Sinner
6. Dan, My Fling
7. Another Door
8. Reunions
9. Rolling Down the Hills
10. The Love’s Still Growing
Reviews :
"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." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.37 / 5