Carly Simon

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Video:

• Intimate Portrait, interviews with Carly and her friends and family 1995
• Live at Grand Central Station 1995
• 03/01/95 Grammy Awards presenter with Tori Amos
• 05/15/95 VH-1 Interview and "Anticipation"
• 12/14/95 Good Morning America "Anticipation"
• 12/21/95 This Morning "We Have No Secrets" and "Coming Around Again", long interview
• 09/28/96 Carly at the Fleet Center in Boston with President Clinton
• 09/12/97 Good Morning America
• 09/16/97 The Making of "Film Noir"
• 02/25/98 Grammy Awards
• 05/11/98 The View (ABC), interview
• 05/17/00 sings "Big Dumb Guy" on the Late Show with David Letterman
• 05/18/00 Interview on PBS's Charlie Rose Show
• 05/18/00 Part II of an interview on Good Morning America
• 05/19/00 Live performances on Good Morning America with Ben and Sally (taped 5/16)
• 05/22/00 Carly is the subject of an episode of "Bravo Profiles"
• 05/23/00 Interview and sings "So Many Stars" and "Anticipation" on the Rosie O'Donnell Show
• 05/29/00 Interview and sings "So Many Stars" and "We Have No Secrets" on ABC's The View
• 06/09/00 Interview on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
• 01/28/01 Interview on CBS' "Sunday Morning"
• 12/04/02 Christmas in Rockefeller Center, sings with son Ben Taylor
• 12/13/02 The Caroline Rhea Show, interview and sings "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "O Come, All Ye Faithful"
• 12/19/02 Carly and son Ben Taylor sing "Silent Night" and "Twelve Gates to the City" on Good Morning America
• 03/19/03 Good Morning America
• 05/04/04 Good Morning America - interview and Carly sings "Jesse" and "Let The River Run" (recorded 5/3/04)
• 05/04/04 Late Night with Conan O'Brien - interview and Carly sings "Anticipation"
• 05/06/04 Live With Regis and Kelly - interview and Carly sings "You Belong To Me" and "You're So Vain"
• 05/08/04 CNN: People in the News - 30 minute look at Carly's career with interview
• Video compilation: Includes - VH-1 Carly Simon Weekend ("You're So Vain" live from the Vineyard, live version of "That's the Way I've Always Heard it Should be", "Do the Walls Come Down" from the Vineyeard, live version of "Anticipation", "Nobody Does it Better" from the Vineyard, "You Belong to Me" from the Vineyard, "Give me All Night" video, "Vengeance" video, "Coming Around Again" video, "All I Want is You" from the Vineyard, and "The Stuff that Dream are Made of" from the Vineyard), CNN Segment from the Vineyard, Entertainment Tonight segment of the Vineyard Concert, "Let the River Run" video and Oscar win, McNeil/Lehear News Hour segment, "My Romance" live (Grammys?), "Better Not Tell Her" video, CNN Interview, Carly explaining the song "Better Not Tell Her", David Letterman - interview and sings "Holding me Tonight", "Holding me Tonight" video, VH-1 to One

Carly Simon News:

• May 2000 - article about Carly in the May issue of Mirabella magazine
• There is a book of Mother Goose rhymes with a cassette on the back that features some songs by Carly. This was released in March 1999.
• Carly and her daughter Sally have written their first collaboration, a song called "Amity" that is on the soundtrack to the new movie "Anywhere But Here", a mother-daughter drama starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman.
• Carly's daughter, Sally, has an album for sale titled "Tomboy Bride". This is available at Sally's website by clicking here.
• Carly's son, Ben, is working on finishing his album in England. Ben was featured early this year in Vanity Fair and Newsweek. Click here to go to Ben's site.
• Carly, Sally, and Ben appear on Jim Brickman's latest album, called "Destiny". They sing the original lullaby that "Mockingbird" was based on called "Hush Li'I Baby" and that's how it's labeled on his CD and cassette.
• The U.K. version of Live at Grand Central is now available on video for U.K. fans.
• Interviews with Carly are featured in a book called "Follow the Music", a book about Electra Records.
• Carly is featured on the soundtrack for "Madeline", with a song called "In Two Straight Lines".
• Carly received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Berkeley College in May of 1998. Carly received a "Heroes Award" in New York City for her charitable work. If you know of any other news, please let me know.

Here are some comments from fans:

From Josh Smith (September 22, 2000):

Carly Simon is simply amazing. I have always loved female singer-songwriters, so naturally my music manager at the Borders I work with assumed I liked Carly, too, and put promotional stuff for Carly's new CD in my mailbox back in April a few weeks before it came out. I informed my manager that I was *not* a fan of Carly's music and that she was being very presumptious to put that promotional stuff in my mailbox!!! But, then we got the album advance copy of Carly's new CD and of course, I sort of felt obligated to listen to it. Well, I fell in love with it from the very first time I popped it in the CD-player at work. From then on, the customers at my Borders heard a LOT of Carly's new CD!!! It's pretty much all I ever played during my shifts for the next 5 months or so. I must say, Carly's new CD [The Bedroom Tapes] remains my favorite of her CD's that I've gotten so far but I am currently buying up the Carly Simon catalogue one CD at a time (boo-hoo that "Hello Big Man" is not available!!! Shame on WEA for discontinuing it!!!) so we'll just have to see which one reigns supreme in the end. I also really like "Letters Never Sent"--what an incredible emotional roller coster ride it takes you on!!! And, of course, I like "Have You Seen Me Lately" and "Coming Around Again", too. The only other CD I have of hers right now is the classic "No Secrets" which I am falling head-over-heels in love with!!! This is especially exciting because now I know I can love the Carly of the seventies and so I am sure to become a die-hard fan now. So, I just wanted to blast my trumpet for Carly a little bit. I strongly urge everybody to go to Carly's official site and read her notes on the recording process for "The Bedroom Tapes." It is simply amazing to read about how this amazing album came to exist!!! That's all for now.

From Ellis:

I saw Carly in concert FINALLY in August of 95 at Blossom Music Center. She was supposed to play Cleveland during her tour when Come Upstairs was out but then she collapsed in Pittsburgh and that was the end of that. So I had to wait another 15 years. But it was worth the wait. The first time I saw No Secrets in the store I fell in love with her picture. I didn't know who she was, but I knew her hits up to that time. Since then I have bought every album, most more than once. I watched Billboard every week to see how high her new albums would get on the charts. And whenever she appeared on TV (rare in the 70s) the whole family had to watch. And now that they're all available on CD I have those. But I keep the albums because the pictures are so large! When my friend and I were 17, we called Carly's old manager Arlyne Rothberg in Beverly Hills (we got her number from directory assistance) so that she could pass on our birthday greetings to Carly. I don't know if she ever did. I'm not even sure who answered the phone. And I have a signed Carly picture from 1975 (during PLAYING POSSUM summer. Did you know PLAYING POSSUM was banned at Sears because of the cover art? While at the same time HONEY by the Ohio Players was not. I guess Carly Simon is more suggestive WITH clothes than the model on HONEY without!). It's pretty dog-eared now. And once we went to a James Taylor concert and saw his bass player mingling- he is VERY tall and used to wear distinctive jumpsuits. We cornered him and got his autograph and then proceeded to grill him about Carly instead of James.

From Dave:

I saw your site mentioning Carly's new album STARK, but I haven't seen it out in the stores yet. Do you have any more info on it? I'm a big C.S. fan and am always looking for her stuff. She's been my favorite singer since 1971. I have all her records and as many of other artist's records that she sings on. By the way, Carly dropped out of doing the music for PRIMARY COLORS. Ry Cooder ended up doing it. Never heard the reasons but I did wonder if her medical problems had something to do with it. I just picked up the soundtrack to MADELINE, a new movie that tells the story of a little girl living in Paris. It's based on a series of children's books. She sings a song called IN TWO STRAIGHT LINES. Took my 9 year old neice to see the movie so I could see where the song fit in. It comes at the end when the credits start rolling.

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From me! - I saw Carly in concert at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA on July 21, 1995. It was a great show with guests Hall + Oates, and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. The concert began with "Jesse" and ended with "Let the River Run." Carly also did a full version of "Coming Around Again", followed by "Itsy Bitsy Spider." I am a member of Carly's fan club, and find all of her songs amazing. The song that first got me interested in Carly's music is "Jesse". Since then I've become familiar with about every album and song I can find. I am a member of Carly's fan club as well. Anyone wishing to write to me about Carly and her music can do so by clicking here.