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The Best of Carly Simon is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's first greatest hits album, released by Elektra Records, on November 24, 1975. Covering the first five years of her career, the compilation includes eight top 20 hit singles from her first five albums, as well as two album cuts from No Secrets (1972): "Night Owl" and "We Have No Secrets", the latter of which was released as the B-side to the single "The Right Thing to Do".

The Best of Carly Simon
Greatest hits album by
Carly Simon
ReleasedNovember 24, 1975
Recorded1970–1975
GenreRock
Length38:18
LabelElektra
ProducerEddie Kramer, Richard Perry, Paul Samwell-Smith
Carly Simon chronology
Playing Possum
(1975)		 The Best of Carly Simon
(1975)		 Another Passenger
(1976)

For many years, this was Simon's only greatest hits collection, and as a result, it became her best selling album. In the late 1990s, sales in the United States alone stood at over three million copies.[1] However, in later years the collection could not be considered a complete or definitive representation of Simon's best or most popular work because it did not include her major hits from the mid-1970s onward, such as "Nobody Does It Better", "You Belong to Me", "Jesse", "Coming Around Again", "Let the River Run", and "Better Not Tell Her". The fact that Simon had changed record labels several times (moving from Elektra to Warner Bros. to Epic to Arista) made a more wide-ranging collection a difficult proposition. A live album, Greatest Hits Live (1988), went some way to rectifying this issue, but the original recorded versions were eventually collected on the three-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee (1995), the two-disc set Anthology (2002), and the single-disc collections The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better (1998) and Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits (2004). Reflections went on to become a great critical and commercial success, and was certified Gold by both the Recording Industry Association of America on March 2, 2007,[1] and the British Phonographic Industry on July 22, 2013.[2]


Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic link
Christgau's Record GuideC+[3]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Jim Newsom rated the album 41⁄2-stars-out-of-5, and wrote "Opening with the powerful "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", and including four tunes from the classic No Secrets album, Simon's insightful lyrics and evocative voice remain fresh years later. This album is a good starting point for those interested in discovering why."

A contemporary review from Robert Christgau stated "Given her self-knowledge and her fans' taste, a compilation isn't going to get her at her best, though this does collect some of her more attractive melodies."[3]


Track listing


Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[4]

No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"
Carly Simon (1971)4:15
2."The Right Thing to Do"SimonNo Secrets (1972)2:57
3."Mockingbird (with James Taylor)"
Hotcakes (1974)4:11
4."Legend in Your Own Time"SimonAnticipation (1971)3:45
5."Haven't Got Time for the Pain"
  • Simon
  • Brackman
Hotcakes (1974)3:50
6."You're So Vain"SimonNo Secrets (1972)4:17
7."(We Have) No Secrets"SimonNo Secrets (1972)3:57
8."Night Owl"TaylorNo Secrets (1972)3:47
9."Anticipation"SimonAnticipation (1971)3:19
10."Attitude Dancing"
  • Simon
  • Brackman
Playing Possum (1975)4:00
Total length:38:18

Notes


Personnel


Credits adapted from the album's liner notes[4]


Musicians



Credits



Charts


Album – Billboard (North America)[5]

Year Chart Position
1975 Pop Albums 17

Album – International

Year Country Position
1975 Australia[6] 42
Canada[7] 40

Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[8] Gold 50,000^
Australia (ARIA)[9] 5× Platinum 350,000^
United States (RIAA)[10] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


References


  1. "Carly Simon certifications". RIAA.com. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  2. "British certifications – Carly Simon". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved April 20, 2022. Type Carly Simon in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Carly Simon". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0-89919-025-1. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  4. The Best of Carly Simon (booklet). Carly Simon. Elektra. 1975.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. "Carly Simon – Chart history - Albums". Billboard.com. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Charts Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. "CAN Charts > Carly Simon". RPM. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  8. "Canadian album certifications – Carly Simon – Best of Carly Simon". Music Canada. April 1, 1977. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  9. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  10. "American album certifications – Carly Simon – Best of". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 21, 2021.




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