Hotcakes (Remastered) Carly Simon

• 1 Safe and Sound 03:39
• 2 Mind On My Man 02:58
• 3 Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby 03:56
• 4 Older Sister 03:08
• 5 Just Not True 05:18
• 6 Hotcakes 01:09
• 7 Misfit 03:07
• 8 Forever My Love 03:27
• 9 Mockingbird 04:14
• 10 Grownup 03:46
• 11 Haven't Got Time for the Pain 03:54
• Total Runtime 38:36

Info zu Hotcakes (Remastered)

Beatles fans refer to the 1968 album, officially titled The Beatles, as The White Album. But for Carly Simon fans 'the white album' is unmistakably, undeniably Hotcakes. On the cover, a heavily pregnant Carly glows with happiness in a setting so gleamingly white that it immediately conveys sun-drenched domesticity. Once again, the photographer was Ed Caraeff, but this was not another session on the smart streets of fashionable London. There is nothing jet set here. Instead, Carly is pictured in the kitchen of the New York townhouse she shared with James Taylor, and in the months before the birth of their daughter, Sally.

The photograph and design concept perfectly represent a set of songs that opens by observing the madness of the world outside the home ('Safe and Sound'), and then extolls the virtues of daydreaming about love ('Mind on My Man'), of having a baby rock on your knee ('Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby'), of looking forward to looking back on a happy marriage ('Forever My Love'), and of turning away from angst and accepting happiness ('Misfit', 'Haven't Got Time for the Pain').

This is not to say that the album represents a turn to the conventional or conservative. Carly's full-length white linen kaftan is one sign that the bohemian spirit lives on. Her broad smile also suggests the playful, intelligent humour found in many of these songs. And we should recall how unusual it was - and still is - for a singer to appear fully pregnant on an album cover. Had this ever been done before Hotcakes? Has it been done since? It seems unlikely, and this cover is all the more remarkable given that, on the heels of No Secrets, Carly Simon was the most popular and best-selling singer around. The autobiographical intensity of her singing and her songs has always been at the core of her appeal, though, and so it was entirely right that her pregnancy should be pictured in all its glory. Any thought of attempting to be discreet about it - for example by using the head-and-shoulders shots on the left, which came from the same session - was wisely rejected. Thankfully, the sixties-psychedelic backdrop was discarded too.

Many commentators have observed that Hotcakes can be seen as a marker of a wider social trend; that it emerged as American baby boomers, exhausted by the upheavals of Vietnam and Watergate era, settled down and hoped for quieter times. Yet the idea that this album somehow blended in, or simply reflected a wider zeitgeist, underestimates its originality. Rock music was largely driven by testosterone in the mid-1970s: by phallic guitars, crashing drums, and strutting popinjays. Even its more acoustic domain was dominated by drugstore cowboys. Carly Simon's music always served to expand the horizons of rock, and this ambition was never so apparent as on the cover of Hotcakes, where it is signalled directly and with apparent pride.

„A glowing, pregnant Carly Simon smiles out from the cover of Hotcakes, one of her biggest selling albums, which featured the gold single 'Mockingbird,' a duet with her husband James Taylor that effectively remade the old Inez and Charlie Foxx hit and bested it on the charts. The album also included another hit, 'Haven't Got Time For The Pain,' as well as 'Misfit,' in which a wife implores her carousing husband to come home, and 'Think I'm Gonna Have A Baby,' which celebrated the joys of same. With such tracks, Hotcakes was an autobiographical concept album that defined domestic bliss at a time when Simon's listeners also were catching their breath and turning inward.“ (William Ruhlmann)

Carly Simon, vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Jimmy Ryan, acoustic & electric guitar
Bucky Pizzarelli, electric guitar
David Spinozza, electric guitar
Bobby Keyes, tenor & baritone saxophone
Steven Madaio, trumpet
Barry Rogers, trombone
Howard Johnson, tuba, baritone saxophone
Ken Asher, piano, organ
Dr. John, piano, organ
Klaus Voorman, bass
Richard Davis, bass
Larry Brean, bass
Rick Marotta, drums
Jim Keltner, drums
Jim Gordon, drums
Billy Cobham, drums
Russell Kunkel, drums
Ralph McDonald, congas, percussion
George Devons, cabaza
Tasha Thomas, background vocals
Carl Hall, background vocals
Lani Groves, background vocals
Lucy Simon, background vocals
Todd Graff, background vocals
Bennie Diggs and the Revelations, background vocals
Richard Perry, background vocals

Recorded from September - November 1973 at Producers Workshop, Los Angeles and The Hit Factory, New York City
Engineered by Harry Maslin, Bill Schnee
Produced by Richard Perry

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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