Still Crazy After All These Years

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Still Crazy After All These Years
Studio album by Paul Simon
Released	October 25, 1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Rock
Length	34:33
Label	Columbia Records, then Warner Brothers
Producer	Phil Ramone
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B) link Rolling Stone (mixed) link
Paul Simon chronology
Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin' (1974) Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) Greatest Hits, Etc. (1977)

Still Crazy After All These Years is an album and a song by Paul Simon.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Chart positions 4 Notes

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Paul Simon

1. "Still Crazy After All These Years" - 3:26
2. "My Little Town" - 3:51
3. "I Do It For Your Love" - 3:35
4. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - 3:37
5. "Night Game" - 2:58
6. "Gone at Last" - 3:40
7. "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" - 3:14
8. "Have a Good Time" - 3:26
9. "You're Kind" - 3:20
10. "Silent Eyes" - 4:12

Bonus tracks 2004 CD reissue

1. "Slip Slidin' Away" [Demo Version] - 5:30
2. "Gone at Last" [Demo Version] - 4:38

[edit] Personnel

Paul Simon - vocals, guitar

• John Tropea - electric guitar
• Patti Austin - background vocals
• Art Garfunkel - vocals
• Phoebe Snow - background vocals
• Joe Beck - electric guitar
• Michael Brecker - saxophone soloist
• Bob James - electric piano
• David Sanborn - saxophone
• Grady Tate - drums
• Pete Carr - electric guitar
• Sivuca - accordion, vocals
• Ralph MacDonald - percussion
• Chicago Community Choir - background vocals
• Barry Beckett - electric piano
• Eddie Daniels - saxophone
• Gordon Edwards - bass
• Jerry Friedman - electric guitar
• Steve Gadd - drums
• Roger Hawkins - drum
• David Hood - bass
• Jessy Dixon Singers - background vocals
• Tony Levin - bass
• Hugh McCracken - guitar
• Leon Pendarvis - piano
• Valerie Simpson - background vocals
• Richard Tee - piano
• Toots Thielemans - harmonica
• Phil Woods - saxophone
• Ken Asher - organ, electric piano
• Dave Matthews - horn arrangements

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Billboard 200	1

[edit] Notes

Recorded in 1975, this album produced at least three hits, the title track, "Gone at Last", and "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover." It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1976, as did Graceland in 1987. In Simon's acceptance speech for the Album of the Year award he jokingly thanked Stevie Wonder, who had won the award the two previous years for Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale, for not releasing an album that year. Wonder won the award again for Songs in the Key of Life in 1977.

The liner notes for "My Little Town" contain this quote from "Crow" by Ted Hughes:

To hatch a crow, a black rainbow

Bent in emptiness

over emptiness

But flying

"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time since 1970.

Simon credits studio drummer Steve Gadd with creating the unique drum beat that became the hook for "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover".

Rosemary Clooney recorded a jazz-flavored version of "Still Crazy After All These Years" for her album Still on the Road (1993).

Preceded by Rock of the Westies by Elton John

Billboard 200 number-one album December 6 - December 12, 1975

Succeeded by Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits by Chicago

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