Playing Possum (Remastered) Carly Simon

• 1 After The Storm 02:49
• 2 Love Out In The Street 03:45
• 3 Look Me In The Eyes 03:37
• 4 More And More 04:05
• 5 Slave 03:57
• 6 Attitude Dancing 03:52
• 7 Sons Of Summer 03:08
• 8 Waterfall 03:35
• 9 Are You Ticklish 02:28
• 10 Playing Possum 03:58
• Total Runtime 35:14

Info for Playing Possum (Remastered)

From the see-through skirt on the cover photo of 1971's „Anticipation“ onwards, Carly Simon has never minded showing off her body. However, the cover shot for 1975's „Playing Possum“—a photo to which the only possible response is 'yowza'--is so provocative that in many folks' minds, it's eclipsed the album itself. This seems to have happened even to Simon--her three-disc career compilation „Clouds in My Coffee“ includes nothing from this hit album.

Simon's last album to be produced by mid-'70s hitmaker Richard Perry, „Playing Possum“ does show why she chose to go into a new, more sonically adventurous direction with her next album, „Another Passenger“. It's not that „Playing Possum“ is dull--the single 'Attitude Dancing' is a minor gem, slight but awfully fun, as is 'Are You Ticklish?'--just that Simon occasionally sounds as if she feels somewhat hemmed-in by Perry's arrangements. Regardless, this is terrific, underrated '70s pop.

Carly Simon, vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, background vocals
James Taylor, vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Carolyn Willis, background vocals
Clydie King, background vocals
Abigale Haness, background vocals
Julia Tillman Waters, background vocals
Rodney Richmond, background vocals
Ken Moore, background vocals
Maxine Willard Waters, background vocals
Rita Coolidge, background vocals
Vini Poncia, background vocals
Carole King, background vocals
Liza Strike, background vocals
Lee Ritenour, guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Dr. John, guitar, piano, keyboards
Andrew Gold, guitar, drums, tambourine
Jeff Baxter, guitar
Alvin Robinson, guitar
Lon Van Eaton, sitar, flute, clarinet
Lon & Derrek Van Eaton, sitar, synthesizer
Derrek Van Eaton, fiddle, flute
Tommy Morgan, harmonica
Trevor Lawrence, saxophone, alto saxophone
Billy Mernit, piano
James Newton Howard, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer
Andy Newmark, drums, percussion
Ivy Cottler, drums
Jim Gordon, drums
Leland Sklar, drums
Ringo Starr, drums
Russ Kunkel, drums
Irving Cottler, drums
Eddie Bango, congas
Richard Perry, tambourine
Alan Estes, percussion
Fred Staehle, percussion
Emil Richards, percussion
Kenny Moore, background vocals
Julia Tillman, background vocals

Recorded at Sound Labs, Sunset Sound Recorders, Crystal Sound, A&M Studios and Burbank Studios

Digitally remastered

Carly Simon
Carly’s body of work encompasses a significantly wide spectrum of activity. In addition to having recorded 22 concept albums of her own compositions, she has composed four film scores, including Heartburn, This Is My Life, Postcards from the Edge and Working Girl, for which she won a GRAMMY, a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar. Simon has also written four successful children's books for Doubleday, including her most recent, The Nighttime Chauffeur. The most far-reaching of her accomplishments is the opera, Romulus Hunt, for which she was commissioned jointly by The Metropolitan Opera Guild and The Kennedy Center. The co-production was performed both in New York and Washington. Referring to the opera, a recent review in CD Magazine states, "Here is a genuinely beloved artist, with years of popularity, with a vast public that American opera composers would kill for, bringing that public to opera with an ease few composers can match."

Carly Simon was born in New York City, the third of four children born to Richard and Andrea Simon. Richard Simon, the founder of Simon and Schuster, was also a pianist and Andrea Simon was a civil-rights activist as well as a singer. All four children were raised in an atmosphere conducive to self-expression. All three girls became musicians: Joanna, the eldest, a prominent opera singer and television personality; Lucy a two-time GRAMMY winner for her children's album; Peter, the only son in the Simon family, is a successful photographer.

Lucy and Carly Simon, while enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College, sang professionally for three years as The Simon Sisters, and scored a hit single record of Lucy's song, "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod," on Kapp Records. When Lucy married, Carly began singing and writing on her own. Her debut album, Carly Simon on Elektra Records, was released in 1971 and included the single, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." The album resulted in her first GRAMMY for Best New Artist. Following this release came an unbroken string of songs, all of which were to become classics with memorable but quirky melodies and personal, literate lyrics. The list includes songs like "Anticipation," "You're So Vain," "Loving You Is the Right Thing To Do," "Haven't Got Time for the Pain," "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), "Jesse," "Coming Around Again," "Give Me All Night," "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" and "Let the River Run (Theme from Working Girl)," among others.

Because Simon grew up in a household where show music and jazz was played along with classical, pop and folk, she wanted to do an album of her own favorite standards. The result was 1981's Torch. The album proved to be a sleeper and took Warner Bros. Records, to whom she was signed at the time, totally by surprise. Because of her acceptance in this genre, she convinced Clive Davis, President of Arista Records to do another jazz/standard album, My Romance, released in 1990. An HBO special was produced and aired in conjunction with the album. One of the songs from this collection, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," was featured in the smash soundtrack album for the film, Sleepless in Seattle, on Epic Records.

During the 1990’s, all of Simon's albums have been released on Arista, with the exception of the This Is My Life soundtrack on Quest/Reprise and Romulus Hunt, which will appear on Angel. She is also represented on the current Frank Sinatra Duets album, with two wonderful performances, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry." She also recorded a song for the album of music by the Gershwin's, produced by George Martin.

Carly Simon was married to James Hart, who was a writer, and has two children, Sally and Ben by her former husband, James Taylor.

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