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Carly Simon: Coming Around Again 1987
After the debacle that was Spoiled Girl, Carly Simon moved to her fourth record label, Arista, and returned to soundtrack work, which had given her her second biggest hit, “Nobody Does It Better,” from The Spy Who Loved Me, in 1977. This time, she wrote “Coming Around Again” for Heartburn, and it hit number 18 in early 1987, her biggest hit in more than six years. That set up Simo’s comeback with this album, which became her biggest hit in a decade, producing two more chart singles, “Give Me All Night” (number 61) and “All I Want Is You” (number 54), and going platinum. Along with “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of,” all made the Top Ten of the adult contemporary chart. On the surface, this hit album had a lot in common with her last, failed effort. Once again, a bevy of producers — nine this time — weighed in, in an attempt to vary Simon’s appeal. This time, they included rocker Bryan Adams and lush popmeister Richard Perry. The big difference was that Simon was willing to go to her strengths as a ballad singer rather than romping amid synthesized blips. Better to flirt with retro (there’s a nice cover of “As Time Goes By” with a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder) than disco, at least as far as Simon’s audience is concerned.
Video: Carly Simon – Coming Around Again 1986
Tracklist:
| 1. | “Coming Around Again“ | Carly Simon | 3:38 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | “Give Me All Night“ |
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4:20 |
| 3. | “As Time Goes By” featuring Stevie Wonder (harmonica ) | Herman Hupfeld | 5:06 |
| 4. | “Do the Walls Come Down” |
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3:48 |
| 5. | “It Should Have Been Me” | 4:20 | |
| 6. | “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of“ | Simon | 5:01 |
| 7. | “Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night)” | Simon | 4:51 |
| 8. | “You Have to Hurt” |
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4:04 |
| 9. | “All I Want Is You” (Roberta Flack – backing vocals) |
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3:58 |
| 10. | “Hold On to What You’ve Got” |
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3:40 |
| 11. | “Itsy Bitsy Spider“ | Simon (based on the original nursery rhyme) | 3:40 |
- Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 7, 10), keyboards (1, 11), arrangements (3, 11), acoustic piano (4), Yamaha DX7 (6)
- Scott Martin – keyboards (1), backing vocals (1)
- Bill Payne – keyboards (1, 11)
- Peter-John Vettese – keyboards (2, 7), backing vocals (4)
- Rob Mounsey – MIDI piano (3), programming (3), drum programming (3), string arrangements and conductor (3, 6, 9), acoustic piano (6), keyboard bass (6)
- Dave Pickell – keyboards (5)
- Robbie Kilgore – keyboards (8, 9), keyboard programming (8), synth bass (9)
- Chuck Kentis – additional keyboards (8), string synthesizer (8)
- Andy Goldmark – keyboards (9), drum machine (9)
- Leon Pendarvis – synthesizers (10), arrangements (10)
- Barbara Markay – synthesizer programming (10)
- Hugh McCracken – guitars (2, 7), tiple (8)
- Jimmy Ryan – guitars (3, 6, 8), backing vocals (4, 7, 8)
- Keith Scott – guitars (5)
- John McCurry – acoustic guitar (9)
- Tom “T-Bone” Wolk – guitars (10)
- Tony Levin – bass guitar (2, 7)
- Dave Taylor – bass guitar (5)
- Neil Jason – bass guitar (8)
- Russ Kunkel – drums (1–4, 6, 10, 11), drum machine (6)
- Frank Filipetti – LinnDrum (2, 7), drum machine programming (8)
- Mickey Curry – drums (5)
- Jimmy Bralower – percussion (2, 4), drum machine programming (8)
- Jimmy Maelen – percussion (9)
- Stevie Wonder – harmonica (3)
- Michael Brecker – EWI (4), saxophone (7)
- David Nadien – concertmaster (3, 6, 9)
- Terri Homberg – backing vocals (1)
- Paul Samwell-Smith – backing vocals (1, 4, 8), E-mu Emulator(4), LinnDrum (4)
- Lucy Simon – backing vocals (4, 7)
- Marc LaFrance – backing vocals (5)
- Timothy Wright Concert Choir – choir (6)
- Caz Lee – backing vocals (8)
- Will Lee – backing vocals (8)
- Roberta Flack – backing vocals (9)
- Gordon Grody – backing vocals (10)
- Lani Groves – backing vocals (10)
- Janice Pendarvis – backing vocals (10)
- Alexandra Taylor – backing vocals (11)
- Ben Taylor – backing vocals (11)
- Isaac Taylor – backing vocals (11)
- Sally Taylor – backing vocals (11)
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