The Best of Carly Simon

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The Best of Carly Simon

Compilation album by Carly Simon
Released	1975
Recorded	n/a
Genre	Rock
Length	38:18
Label	Elektra
Producer(s)	Eddie Kramer, Richard Perry, Paul Samwell-Smith
Playing Possum (1975)	The Best of Carly Simon (1975)	Another Passenger (1976)

The Best of Carly Simon is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's sixth album, and her first greatest-hits compilation of previously released songs. Covering the first five years of her career, 1971 to 1975, the compilation includes six top ten hit singles, two minor hits ("Legend In Your Own Time", "Attitude Dancing") and two album cuts that were never released as singles ("Night Owl", "We Have No Secrets").

For many years, this was Simon's only greatest hits collection, and, as a result, it became by far her best selling album. In the late 1990s, sales in the United States alone stood at over three million copies. However, in later years the collection could not be considered a complete or definitive representation of Simon's best or most popular work because it did not include her major hits from the mid-1970s onward, such as "Nobody Does It Better", "You Belong to Me", "Jesse" and "Coming Around Again". The fact that Simon had changed record labels several times (moving from Elektra to Warner Brothers to Epic to Arista) made a more a wide-ranging collection a difficult proposition. A live album, Greatest Hits Live (1988), went some way to rectifying this issue, but the original recorded versions were eventually collected on the three-disc boxed-set Clouds in My Coffee (1995), the two-disc set Anthology (2003) and - at last - the single disc compilation Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits (2004).

[edit] Track listing

"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (C. Simon/J. Brackman) – 4:15
"The Right Thing to Do" (C. Simon) – 2:57
"Mockingbird" (C. Foxx/I. Foxx/additional lyrics by J. Taylor) – 4:11
"Legend in Your Own Time" (C. Simon) – 3:45
"Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (C. Simon/J. Brackman) – 3:50
"You're So Vain" (C. Simon) – 4:17
"We Have No Secrets" (C. Simon) – 3:57
"Night Owl" (J. Taylor) – 3:47
"Anticipation" (C. Simon) – 3:19
"Attitude Dancing" (C. Simon/J. Brackman) – 4:00

[edit] Personnel

Carly Simon — Acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, vocals, background vocals, arrangements
Eddie Bongo — Conductor, conga
Bonnie Bramlett — Vocals, background vocals
Michael Brecker — Saxophone, tenor saxophone
Vicki Brown — Vocals, background vocals
Ray Cooper — Percussion, conga
Dr. John — Organ, guitar, piano, keyboards
Paul Glanz — Piano
Andrew Gold — Guitar, drums
Jim Gordon — Drums
Paul Griffin — Piano
Lani Groves — Vocals, background vocals
Carl Hall — Vocals, background vocals
Abigale Haness — Vocals, background vocals
Nicky Hopkins — Piano
Mick Jagger — Vocals
Jimmy Johnson, Jr. — Drums
Jim Keltner — Drums
Paul Keough — acoustic guitar
Bobby Keys — Saxophone, Sax (Baritone), tenor saxophone
Carole King — Vocals, background vocals
Tony Levin — Bass
Ralph MacDonald — Percussion
Linda McCartney — Vocals
Paul McCartney — Vocals
Ken Moore — Vocals, background vocals
Andy Newmark — Percussion, drums
Richard Perry — Percussion
Robbie Robertson — Guitar, electric guitar
Jim Ryan — Acoustic guitar, Bass, guitar, electric guitar
John Ryan — Bass
Liza Strike — Background vocals
James Taylor — Acoustic guitar, guitar, vocals
Tasha Thomas — Vocals, background vocals
Doris Troy — Vocals, background vocals
Klaus Voormann — Bass
Willie Weeks — Bass