music.wikisort.org - CompositionStill Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (No. 40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.
1975 studio album by Paul Simon
Still Crazy After All These Years |
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Released | October 25, 1975 (1975-10-25) |
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Recorded | 1975 |
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Studio | A&R Recording, New York City[1] |
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Genre | Folk rock, pop rock, soul |
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Length | 35:24 |
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Label | Columbia |
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Producer | Paul Simon, Phil Ramone |
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Retrospective professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic | [2] |
Blender | [3] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B[5] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[7] |
The Guardian | [8] |
Record Collector | [9] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [10] |
Uncut | [11] |
"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow. Two tracks featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as a backing band.
The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her 1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album released posthumously in 1996), and Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys).
Track listing
All tracks are written by Paul Simon.
Side twoTitle |
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1. | "Gone at Last" | 3:40 |
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2. | "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" | 3:14 |
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3. | "Have a Good Time" | 3:26 |
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4. | "You're Kind" | 3:20 |
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5. | "Silent Eyes" | 4:12 |
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Total length: | 35:24 |
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Personnel
- Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 3, 4, 9), electric guitar (5), string arrangements (7), horn arrangements (7, 9)
- Barry Beckett – Fender Rhodes (1), acoustic piano (2)
- Bob James – woodwind arrangements (1), string arrangements (1, 3), Fender Rhodes (7, 8)
- Kenneth Ascher – Fender Rhodes (3), organ (4)
- Sivuca – accordion (3), vocal solo (3)
- Richard Tee – acoustic piano (6)
- Leon Pendarvis – acoustic piano (10)
- Hilary James – piano
- Pete Carr – electric guitar (2)
- Joe Beck – electric guitar (3, 8, 9)
- Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (3)
- Hugh McCracken – electric guitar (4, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (9)
- John Tropea – electric guitar (4)
- David Hood – bass (1, 2)
- Tony Levin – bass (3, 4, 5, 7–10)
- Gordon Edwards – bass (6)
- Roger Hawkins – drums (1, 2)
- Steve Gadd – drums (3, 4, 7-10)
- Grady Tate – drums (6)
- Dave Mattacks – drums (6)
- Ralph MacDonald – percussion (2, 3, 4, 6, 8)
- Toots Thielemans – harmonica (5)
- Michael Brecker – tenor sax solo (1), saxophone (7)
- Eddie Daniels – saxophone (7)
- David Sanborn – saxophone (7)
- Phil Woods – alto sax solo (8)
- David Mathews – horn arrangements (2, 8)
- Art Garfunkel – vocals (2)
- Patti Austin – backing vocals (4)
- Valerie Simpson – backing vocals (4, 8)
- Phoebe Snow – backing vocals (4), vocals (6)
- The Jessy Dixon Singers – backing vocals (6)
- Chicago Community Choir – backing vocals (10)
Production
- Paul Simon – producer
- Phil Ramone – producer, engineer
- Jerry Masters – engineer (2)
- Glenn Berger – recording
- Bert Szerlip – recording
- John Berg – design
- Anthony Maggiore – design
- Edie Baskin – cover photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1975–76) |
Position |
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[12] |
39 |
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[13] |
8 |
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[14] |
11 |
Finnish Albums Chart[15] |
29 |
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[16] |
18 |
New Zealand Albums Chart[17] |
24 |
Norwegian Albums Chart[18] |
8 |
Swedish Albums Chart[19] |
9 |
UK Albums Chart[20] |
6 |
United States Billboard Pop Albums[21] |
1 |
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Year-end charts
Chart (1975) |
Position |
Canadian Albums Chart[22] |
82 |
Chart (1976) |
Position |
Canadian Albums Chart[23] |
64 |
U.S. Billboard Year-End[24] |
14 |
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Certifications
References
- "New York, New York 1975: Oh What a Year!". mixonline.com.
- Ruhlmann, William. "Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- Powers, Ann (November 2006). "Back Catalogue: Paul Simon". Blender. No. 53. New York.
- Kot, Greg (October 14, 1990). "The Evolution Of Simon's Diverse Solo Career". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- Christgau, Robert (1981). "S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0-89919-026-X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- Larkin, Colin (2011). "Simon, Paul". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
- Browne, David (January 18, 1991). "Rating Paul Simon's albums". Entertainment Weekly. New York. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- Sweeting, Adam (August 6, 2004). "Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
- "Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years". Record Collector. London. p. 97.
[With] Simon enlisting a crack squad of New York jazz session players for a record that was clearly more personal than anything that had gone before.
- Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Paul Simon". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Fireside Books. pp. 736–37. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- Torn, Luke (October 2004). "St. Paul's Gospel". Uncut. No. 89. London.
- Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- Library and Archives Canada. Archived 2015-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-02-12
- "dutchcharts.nl Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 263. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
- Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
- "charts.nz – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- "norwegiancharts.com Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin' Simon" (ASP). Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- "swedishcharts.com Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- "The Official Charts Company – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (PHP). UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- Allmusic – Still Crazy After All These Years> Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
- "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1975". RPM. Archived from the original on 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1976". RPM. Archived from the original on 2014-02-24. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
- "Top Pop Albums of 1976". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- "Canadian album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Music Canada.
- "British album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". British Phonographic Industry.
- "American album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Recording Industry Association of America.
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На других языках
[de] Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years ist ein Musikalbum von Paul Simon.
- [en] Still Crazy After All These Years
[it] Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years è il quarto album discografico in studio da solista del cantautore statunitense Paul Simon, pubblicato nel 1975.
[ru] Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years — четвёртый студийный альбом американского фолк-певца и музыканта Пола Саймона, изданный 25 октября 1975 года на лейбле Columbia Records. Выиграл две премии Грэмми, включая награду в номинации «Лучший альбом года».
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