Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain”, “The Right Thing To Do”, “Nobody Does It Better”, “Jesse”, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain”, “Anticipation” and “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”

I was thinking that “You’re So Vain”, from 1972, was the only song by Carly Simon song I knew.

I soon found there were a number of others.

At the time everyone was trying to work out who the song was about. As it turns out, she now says it was the result of various scraps of words noted at different times and then put to the music of another song in the making (see below).

In any case the song was one of the biggest hits of the Seventies.

So here it is, “You’re So Vain”

And here is Carly’s explanation of how the song was written, divulged in an episode of “Conversations with Michael Eisner” aired in late June 2008:

From the same album (“No Secrets”), in 1973 “The Right Thing To Do” became a favourite for many:

Another Carly Simon song that really stands out for me is the theme song from the James Bond Film “The Spy Who Loved Me”.

“Nobody Does It Better” went to Number 2 in 1977:

Three years later, in 1980, Carly Simon had another million-selling US Gold single with “Jesse”, sung here live in New York’s Grand Central Station in the mid Nineties:

From that same performance in New York, here are three more beautiful Carly Simon songs from the Seventies, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain”, “Anticipation” and “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” (her first hit):

Now that was worth waiting for.

Paul

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