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Topic: Carly Simon Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer/songwriter and musician. She is also an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winner. Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. Wiki Bio | ON THE WEB | IMAGES | SHOP Carly Simon
In the most seductive cut on "Moonlight Serenade," Carly Simon's likable new collection of popular standards, the album's brisk foxtrot rhythms are briefly interrupted by a silky pop-samba arrangement of the Howard Dietz-Arthur Schwartz ballad "Alone Together." Crooning against a luminescent backdrop of strings and electric keyboard, Ms. Simon, whose voice has deepened into a weathered contralto, invests this Depression-era vision of lovers clinging to each other in the darkness with the forthright openheartedness that has always been her calling card. ...LINK to complete news story
Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early '70s. She got her start in music as part of the Simon Sisters, a duo with her sister Lucy that had a charting single in 1964. Her eponymous solo debut album appeared in 1971, and she found a Top 40 hit with the title track from her second album, Anticipation. Her third album, No Secrets, was a gold number one, and included her best-known hit "You're So Vain." During 1977-1978, two singles ("Nobody Does It Better," from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and "You Belong to Me") became Top Ten hits.
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Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early '70s. She got her start in music as part of the Simon Sisters, a duo with her sister Lucy that had a charting single in 1964. Her eponymous solo debut album appeared in 1971, and she found a Top 40 hit with the title track from her second album, Anticipation.