Coming Around Again (album)

Coming Around Again
Studio album by Carly Simon
Released April 1987
Recorded at Right Track Recording, Power Station Studios, Pin Wheel Studio, Unique Recording and Flying Monkey, New York City and Cliffhanger Studio, Vancouver
Genre adult contemporary, rock
Length 47:22
Label Arista
Producer Bryan Adams, John Boylan, Frank Filipetti, Russ Kunkel, George Massenburg, Rob Mounsey, Bill Payne, Richard Perry and Paul Samwell-Smith
Clive Davis: Executive Producer
Carly Simon chronology
Spoiled Girl
(1985)		 Coming Around Again
(1987)		 Greatest Hits Live
(1988)
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Allmusic [1]

Coming Around Again is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 14th album, and 13th studio album, released in 1987. It is her first of many albums for Arista Records. The title track and "Itsy Bitsy Spider" were both written for and featured in the 1986 film Heartburn.

The title song peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simon's twelfth Top 40 hit in the USA. Additionally, it was a top 10 hit in the UK. The album itself reached #25 in both the US and the UK. It was certified Silver by the BPI in September 1987, and Platinum by the RIAA in early 1988. It has since sold nearly two million copies in the US.

Shortly after the album's release, a live outdoor concert also entitled "Carly Simon - Coming Around Again" was recorded in June 1987 at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and later released on video. On a pier in front of an invited audience, Simon and her band performed most of the songs from the album as well some of her older hits. The concert was also released as a live album in 1988 entitled Greatest Hits Live, and has also since been released on DVD as "Carly Simon - Live From Martha's Vineyard".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Carly Simon; except where indicated

  1. "Coming Around Again" — 3:41
  2. "Give Me All Night" (Simon, Gerard McMahon) — 4:23
  3. "Do The Walls Come Down" (Simon, Paul Samwell-Smith) — 3:48
  4. "Hold What You've Got" (Joe Tex, Simon) — 3:48
  5. "It Should Have Been Me" (Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance) — 4:25
  6. "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" — 4:59
  7. "You Have To Hurt" (Frank Musker, Dominic King) — 4:05
  8. "All I Want Is You" (Andy Goldmark, Simon, Jacob Brackman) — 3:59
  9. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) — 5:08
  10. "Two Hot Girls (On A Hot Summer Night)" — 4:53
  11. "Coming Around Again/Itsy Bitsy Spider" — 3:42

Charts

Coming Around Again - #25 USA, #25 UK
"Coming Around Again" - #18 USA, #5 USA Adult Contemporary, #10 UK (B-side: "Itsy Bitsy Spider")
"Give Me All Night" - #61 USA, #5 USA Adult Contemporary (B-side: "Sleight Of Hand")
"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" - #8 USA Adult Contemporary (B-side: "As Time Goes By")
"All I Want Is You" - #54 USA, #7 USA Adult Contemporary (B-side: "Two Hot Girls")

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review

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