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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom.

Biography

Family

Simon's father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Simon, a civil rights activist and singer. Carly was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of New York City and has two older sisters, Joanna and Lucy, and a younger brother, Peter.

Simon married fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor on November 3, 1972. Simon and Taylor had two children, Sarah Maria "Sally" (born on January 7, 1974) and Benjamin Simon "Ben" Taylor (born on January 22, 1977), prior to their 1983 divorce. She has been married to James Hart, a writer, poet and businessman, since December 23, 1987.

Early career

After a short-lived attempt at launching a career with her sister Lucy as "The Simon Sisters" (they had a minor hit in 1964 called "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod" and made 3 albums together before Lucy left to get married and start a family), Carly hooked up with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about 6 months. She also appeared in the 1971 Milos Forman movie Taking Off where she plays an auditioning singer. Carly sings the song "Long Term Physical Effects" which was included in Taking Off, the 1971 soundtrack for the movie. Simon launched her solo career in 1971 with the self-titled Carly Simon for Elektra Records. The album contained a top-ten hit, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", and was followed quickly by a second album, Anticipation, the title cut from which also scored airplay. Simon's major breakthrough, though, was 1972's No Secrets. The album spawned several successful singles, including Simon's biggest hit, "You're So Vain". (See that article for the enduring mystery of who the song is about).

Simon followed up the success of No Secrets with the well-received albums Hotcakes (1974) and Playing Possum (1975). In 1975 Elektra also released her first greatest-hits album The Best of Carly Simon. Her sales began moderating, though in the later 1970s she would have hits with "Nobody Does It Better" (from the soundtrack to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me; at #2, her second-biggest US hit after "You're So Vain") and "You Belong to Me" (from Boys in the Trees, 1978). Simon finished the decade with her last album for Elektra called Spy in 1979.

1980s

In 1980, Simon signed with Warner Brothers Records. During a show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while touring to promote her album, Come Upstairs, Simon collapsed onstage of exhaustion; she largely retired from performing in the 1980s. She had a top 20 hit with the single, "Jesse", from that album. Carly also contibuted the song "Be With Me" to the 1980 album In Harmony A Sesame Street Record produced by her sister Lucy and Lucy's husband, David Levine. Carly can also be heard on the song "In Harmony" along with other members of the Simon/Taylor families. Carly and Lucy contributed a "Simon Sisters" song called "Maryanne" to the 1982 follow-up album In Harmony 2, also produced by Lucy and her husband. Both albums won the Grammy for Best Album for Children.

Torch (1981) was an album of melancholy standards reflecting her mood at the time. "Why" (1982), from the soundtrack to the 1982 movie Soup For One, was a hit single in the UK (but stalled at #74 in the US). She had another minor UK success with the single "Kissing With Confidence", a song off the 1983 album Dancing For Mental Health by Will Powers (actually Lynn Goldsmith). Simon was the uncredited singer of the song on the album. Still, few of her singles in the 1980s rose in the pop charts, although some did better among adult contemporary audiences. In 1983 she made her last album for Warner — Hello Big Man. By this time her sales were dropping and Warner cut her loose. She was picked up by Epic Records in 1985 and made only one album for them — Spoiled Girl. Because of its lackluster sales, Epic dropped her.

During this time Simon successfully contributed to several film scores, including the songs "If It Wasn't Love" for Nothing In Common, "Two Looking At One" for The Karate Kid, Part II, "Coming Around Again" for Heartburn, and "Let the River Run" for Working Girl (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1988). In 1987 Simon signed with Arista Records. Her first album for them, Coming Around Again (1987), was her strongest during this decade, as exemplified by "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", and the title track, which wove in and out of the children's song "Itsy Bitsy Spider". These and older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO special set on Martha's Vineyard. Most of these songs were compiled for her 1988 album — Greatest Hits Live, her second greatest hits album. She also wrote the theme songs to several movies, including "Something More" for the 1982 movie Love Child, "Someone Waits For You" for the 1984 movie Swing Shift, "All The Love In The World" for the 1985 TV movie Torchlight as well as "It's Hard To Be Tender" for the 1986 TV miniseries Sins and "Love Of My Life" for 1992's This Is My Life. In 1987, Simon sang "The Turn Of The Tide" for a Marlo Thomas TV special called "Free to Be . . . A Family". The song was later included on the 1988 album Free To Be . . . A Family. In 1989 Simon's first of several children's books, "Amy the Dancing Bear" was published.

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