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Carly Elizabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New
York City) is an United States|American musician
who emerged as one of the leading lights of the
early 1970s singer-songwriter boom.

==Biography==
===Family===
Simon's father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of
Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist
who often played Chopin and Ludwig van
Beethoven|Beethoven at home.  She was raised in
the Riverdale, The Bronx|Riverdale neighborhood of
New York City and has two sisters and a brother.

===Early career===
After a short-lived attempt at launching a career
with her sister Lucy Simon|Lucy (they had a minor
hit in the mid-1960s with a version of the
children's song "Winken, Blinken, and Nod" as "The
Simon Sisters"), and a short spell with eclectic
New York rockers Elephant's Memory, Simon launched
her solo career in 1971 in music|1971 with the
self-titled Carly Simon (album)|Carly Simon.  The
album contained a top-ten hit, "That's the Way
I've Always Heard It Should Be", and was followed
quickly by a second album, Anticipation
(album)|Anticipation, the title cut from which
also scored airplay.  Simon's major breakthrough,
though, was 1972 in music|1972's No Secrets
(album)|No Secrets.  The album spawned several
successful singles, including Simon's biggest hit,
"You're So Vain" (see that article for the
enduring mystery of who the song is about).

Simon married fellow singer-songwriter James
Taylor in 1972 and followed up the success of No
Secrets with a series of well-received albums
Hotcakes (album)|Hotcakes (1974 in music|1974) and
Playing Possum (album)|Playing Possum (1975 in
music|1975).  Her sales began moderating, though
in the later 1970s she would have hits with
"Nobody Does It Better" (from the soundtrack to
the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me) and "You
Belong to Me" (from Boys in the Trees, 1978 in
music|1978).

Simon and Taylor had two children, Sally
Taylor|Sarah Maria "Sally" (born on January 7,
1974) and Ben Taylor (musician)|Benjamin Simon
"Ben" Taylor (born on January 22, 1977), prior to
their 1983 divorce.

===1980s===
In 1980 in music|1980, Simon collapsed onstage of
exhaustion, and largely retired from performing in
the 1980s.  Torch (1981) was an album of
melancholy standards reflecting her mood at the
time. "Why (song)|Why" (1982 in music|1982) was a
hit in the UK, but few of her singles in the 1980s
rose in the pop charts, although some did better
among adult contemporary audiences.  Moreover,
during this time Simon successfully contributed to
several film scores, including the songs "In The
Wee Small Hours" for Sleepless In Seattle, "Coming
Around Again" for Heartburn, and "Let the River
Run" for Working Girl (for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Song in 1988).  The album
Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)|Coming Around
Again (1987) was her strongest during this decade,
as exemplified by "Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of",
and the title track, which wove in and out of the
children's song "Itsy Bitsy Spider". These and
older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO
special set on Martha's Vineyard.

===Later career===
Simon worked on several projects in the 1990s
including an opera Romulus Hunt and a cover of
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" for Ken Burns' 1994
film Baseball.  In 1995 she put aside years of
stage fright long enough to stage an American
concert tour in conjunction with Hall and Oates.
In 1998, Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer
and received chemotherapy.  She survived her
disease, and in 2000 in music|2000 recorded her
first album since her illness, The Bedroom Tapes.

Among Simon's recent work were songs for the Walt
Disney|Disney Winnie the Pooh film Piglet's Big
Movie. Her songs were also prominently featured in
the movie Little Black Book starring Brittany
Murphy and Holly Hunter .  In 2005 she released a
new album of standards titled Moonlight Serenade. 


Also in 2005, she became involved in the legal
defense of fellow musician and family friend John
Forté with his struggle against a federal
incarceration.

Carly Simon currently lives on Martha's Vineyard
and co-owns a store in Vineyard Haven,
Massachusetts|Vineyard Haven named Midnight Farm,
which is also the title of one of the series of
children's books she wrote in the 1990s.

===Awards and recognition===
Grammy Awards:
* Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New
Artist, 1972
* Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion
Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best
Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or
Television, 1990, "Let the River Run"  from
Working Girl
Academy Award:
*Academy Award for Best Song|Best Song, 1988, "Let
the River Run"  from Working Girl
Other awards:
* Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
1994.

== Discography ==
=== Albums ===
* Carly Simon (album)|Carly Simon, 1971
* Anticipation (album)|Anticipation, 1971
* No Secrets (Carly Simon)|No Secrets, 1972
* Hotcakes (Carly Simon)|Hotcakes, 1974
* Playing Possum, 1975
* The Best Of Carly Simon, 1975
* Another Passenger, 1976
* Boys In The Trees, 1978
* Spy (Carly Simon)|Spy, 1979
* Come Upstairs, 1980
* Torch (Carly Simon)|Torch, 1981
* Hello Big Man, 1983
* Spoiled Girl, 1985
* Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)|Coming Around
Again, 1987
* Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon)|Greatest Hits
Live, 1988
* Have You Seen Me Lately, 1990
* My Romance, 1990
* Letters Never Sent, 1994
* Clouds In My Coffee, 1994 (three-disc career
retrospective box set)
* Film Noir (Carly Simon)|Film Noir, 1997
* Nobody Does It Better, 1999
* The Bedroom Tapes, 2000
* Anthology (Carly Simon)|Anthology, 2002
* Christmas Is Almost Here, 2003
* Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, 2004
* Moonlight Serenade, 2005

===Top-20 hit singles ===
* "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should
Be",1971, US  Adult Contemporary, #6; US  Pop
Singles, #10
* "Anticipation (song)|Anticipation", 1972, US 
Adult Contemporary, #3; US  Pop Singles, #13
* "You're So Vain", 1973, US  Adult Contemporary,
#1; US  Pop Singles, #1
* "The Right Thing to Do", 1973, US  Adult
Contemporary, #4; US  Pop Singles, #17
* "Haven't Got Time For the Pain", 1974, US  Adult
Contemporary, #2; US  Pop Singles, #14
* "Mockingbird (Carly Simon)|Mockingbird" (with
James Taylor), 1974, US  Pop Singles, #5
* "Nobody Does It Better", 1977, US  Adult
Contemporary, #1; US  Pop Singles, #2
* "Devoted To You" (with James Taylor),  1978, US 
Adult Contemporary, #2; US  Country Singles , #33;
US  Pop Singles, #36
* "You Belong to Me (1978 song)|You Belong to Me",
1978, US  Adult Contemporary, #4; US  Pop Singles,
#6
* "Jesse (song)|Jesse", 1980, US  Pop Singles, #11
* "Why (song) |Why", 1982, UK #10
* "Coming Around Again (song)|Coming Around
Again", 1986, US  Adult Contemporary, #5; US 
Billboard Hot 100, #18
* "All I Want Is You", 1987, US  Adult
Contemporary, #7; US  Adult Contemporary, #5
* "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", 1987, US 
Adult Contemporary, #8
* "Let the River Run", 1989, US  Adult
Contemporary, #11
* "Better Not Tell Her", 1990, US  Adult
Contemporary, #4
* "Love of My Life", 1992, US  Adult Contemporary,
#16

==Bibliography==
* Amy the Dancing Bear, 1989
* The Boy of the Bells, 1990
* The Fisherman's Song, 1991
* The Nighttime Chauffeur, 1993
* Midnight Farm, 1997

==External links==
*http://www.carlysimon.com/ Carly Simon official
website
**http://www.carlysimon.com/timeline/HerWords1.htm
Carly Simon official website: Autobiography
*http://www.carlysimon.net/ Carly Simon Online
(unofficial website)
**http://www.carlysimon.net/albums/ Carly Simon
Online: Discography & lyrics
*imdb name|id=0800089|name=Carly Simon
*http://www.nndb.com/people/082/000023013/ NNDB
entry on Simon

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Carly Elizabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New
York City) is an United States|American musician
who emerged as one of the leading lights of the
early 1970s singer-songwriter boom.

==Biography==
===Family===
Simon's father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of
Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist
who often played Chopin and Ludwig van
Beethoven|Beethoven at home.  She was raised in
the Riverdale, The Bronx|Riverdale neighborhood of
New York City and has two sisters and a brother.

===Early career===
After a short-lived attempt at launching a career
with her sister Lucy Simon|Lucy (they had a minor
hit in the mid-1960s with a version of the
children's song "Winken, Blinken, and Nod" as "The
Simon Sisters"), and a short spell with eclectic
New York rockers Elephant's Memory, Simon launched
her solo career in 1971 in music|1971 with the
self-titled Carly Simon (album)|Carly Simon.  The
album contained a top-ten hit, "That's the Way
I've Always Heard It Should Be", and was followed
quickly by a second album, Anticipation
(album)|Anticipation, the title cut from which
also scored airplay.  Simon's major breakthrough,
though, was 1972 in music|1972's No Secrets
(album)|No Secrets.  The album spawned several
successful singles, including Simon's biggest hit,
"You're So Vain" (see that article for the
enduring mystery of who the song is about).

Simon married fellow singer-songwriter James
Taylor in 1972 and followed up the success of No
Secrets with a series of well-received albums
Hotcakes (album)|Hotcakes (1974 in music|1974) and
Playing Possum (album)|Playing Possum (1975 in
music|1975).  Her sales began moderating, though
in the later 1970s she would have hits with
"Nobody Does It Better" (from the soundtrack to
the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me) and "You
Belong to Me" (from Boys in the Trees, 1978 in
music|1978).

Simon and Taylor had two children, Sally
Taylor|Sarah Maria "Sally" (born on January 7,
1974) and Ben Taylor (musician)|Benjamin Simon
"Ben" Taylor (born on January 22, 1977), prior to
their 1983 divorce.

===1980s===
In 1980 in music|1980, Simon collapsed onstage of
exhaustion, and largely retired from performing in
the 1980s.  Torch (1981) was an album of
melancholy standards reflecting her mood at the
time. "Why (song)|Why" (1982 in music|1982) was a
hit in the UK, but few of her singles in the 1980s
rose in the pop charts, although some did better
among adult contemporary audiences.  Moreover,
during this time Simon successfully contributed to
several film scores, including the songs "In The
Wee Small Hours" for Sleepless In Seattle, "Coming
Around Again" for Heartburn, and "Let the River
Run" for Working Girl (for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Song in 1988).  The album
Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)|Coming Around
Again (1987) was her strongest during this decade,
as exemplified by "Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of",
and the title track, which wove in and out of the
children's song "Itsy Bitsy Spider". These and
older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO
special set on Martha's Vineyard.

===Later career===
Simon worked on several projects in the 1990s
including an opera Romulus Hunt and a cover of
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" for Ken Burns' 1994
film Baseball.  In 1995 she put aside years of
stage fright long enough to stage an American
concert tour in conjunction with Hall and Oates.
In 1998, Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer
and received chemotherapy.  She survived her
disease, and in 2000 in music|2000 recorded her
first album since her illness, The Bedroom Tapes.

Among Simon's recent work were songs for the Walt
Disney|Disney Winnie the Pooh film Piglet's Big
Movie. Her songs were also prominently featured in
the movie Little Black Book starring Brittany
Murphy and Holly Hunter .  In 2005 she released a
new album of standards titled Moonlight Serenade. 


Also in 2005, she became involved in the legal
defense of fellow musician and family friend John
Forté with his struggle against a federal
incarceration.

Carly Simon currently lives on Martha's Vineyard
and co-owns a store in Vineyard Haven,
Massachusetts|Vineyard Haven named Midnight Farm,
which is also the title of one of the series of
children's books she wrote in the 1990s.

===Awards and recognition===
Grammy Awards:
* Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New
Artist, 1972
* Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion
Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best
Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or
Television, 1990, "Let the River Run"  from
Working Girl
Academy Award:
*Academy Award for Best Song|Best Song, 1988, "Let
the River Run"  from Working Girl
Other awards:
* Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
1994.

== Discography ==
=== Albums ===
* Carly Simon (album)|Carly Simon, 1971
* Anticipation (album)|Anticipation, 1971
* No Secrets (Carly Simon)|No Secrets, 1972
* Hotcakes (Carly Simon)|Hotcakes, 1974
* Playing Possum, 1975
* The Best Of Carly Simon, 1975
* Another Passenger, 1976
* Boys In The Trees, 1978
* Spy (Carly Simon)|Spy, 1979
* Come Upstairs, 1980
* Torch (Carly Simon)|Torch, 1981
* Hello Big Man, 1983
* Spoiled Girl, 1985
* Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)|Coming Around
Again, 1987
* Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon)|Greatest Hits
Live, 1988
* Have You Seen Me Lately, 1990
* My Romance, 1990
* Letters Never Sent, 1994
* Clouds In My Coffee, 1994 (three-disc career
retrospective box set)
* Film Noir (Carly Simon)|Film Noir, 1997
* Nobody Does It Better, 1999
* The Bedroom Tapes, 2000
* Anthology (Carly Simon)|Anthology, 2002
* Christmas Is Almost Here, 2003
* Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, 2004
* Moonlight Serenade, 2005

===Top-20 hit singles ===
* "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should
Be",1971, US  Adult Contemporary, #6; US  Pop
Singles, #10
* "Anticipation (song)|Anticipation", 1972, US 
Adult Contemporary, #3; US  Pop Singles, #13
* "You're So Vain", 1973, US  Adult Contemporary,
#1; US  Pop Singles, #1
* "The Right Thing to Do", 1973, US  Adult
Contemporary, #4; US  Pop Singles, #17
* "Haven't Got Time For the Pain", 1974, US  Adult
Contemporary, #2; US  Pop Singles, #14
* "Mockingbird (Carly Simon)|Mockingbird" (with
James Taylor), 1974, US  Pop Singles, #5
* "Nobody Does It Better", 1977, US  Adult
Contemporary, #1; US  Pop Singles, #2
* "Devoted To You" (with James Taylor),  1978, US 
Adult Contemporary, #2; US  Country Singles , #33;
US  Pop Singles, #36
* "You Belong to Me (1978 song)|You Belong to Me",
1978, US  Adult Contemporary, #4; US  Pop Singles,
#6
* "Jesse (song)|Jesse", 1980, US  Pop Singles, #11
* "Why (song) |Why", 1982, UK #10
* "Coming Around Again (song)|Coming Around
Again", 1986, US  Adult Contemporary, #5; US 
Billboard Hot 100, #18
* "All I Want Is You", 1987, US  Adult
Contemporary, #7; US  Adult Contemporary, #5
* "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", 1987, US 
Adult Contemporary, #8
* "Let the River Run", 1989, US  Adult
Contemporary, #11
* "Better Not Tell Her", 1990, US  Adult
Contemporary, #4
* "Love of My Life", 1992, US  Adult Contemporary,
#16

==Bibliography==
* Amy the Dancing Bear, 1989
* The Boy of the Bells, 1990
* The Fisherman's Song, 1991
* The Nighttime Chauffeur, 1993
* Midnight Farm, 1997

==External links==
*http://www.carlysimon.com/ Carly Simon official
website
**http://www.carlysimon.com/timeline/HerWords1.htm
Carly Simon official website: Autobiography
*http://www.carlysimon.net/ Carly Simon Online
(unofficial website)
**http://www.carlysimon.net/albums/ Carly Simon
Online: Discography & lyrics
*imdb name|id=0800089|name=Carly Simon
*http://www.nndb.com/people/082/000023013/ NNDB
entry on Simon