Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years | ||||
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Studio album by Paul Simon | ||||
Released | 25 October 1975 | |||
Recorded | 1975 | |||
Genre | Folk rock, pop rock, soul | |||
Length | 36:25 (original album) 45:32 (2004 CD reissue) |
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Label | Columbia, | |||
Producer | Paul Simon, Phil Ramone | |||
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Singles from Still Crazy After All These Years | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | B[2] |
Rolling Stone | mixed[3] |
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (#1) and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976. In Simon's acceptance speech for the Album of the Year award, on February 28, he jokingly thanked Stevie Wonder, who had won the award the two previous years for Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale, for not releasing an album that year.[4] (Wonder won the award again for Songs in the Key of Life, a double album, in 1977.)
"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970.
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).
Contents
Track listing
All songs were written by Paul Simon.
- Side one
- "Still Crazy After All These Years" – 3:26
- "My Little Town" – 3:51
- "I Do It for Your Love" – 3:35
- "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" – 3:37
- "Night Game" – 2:58
- Side two
- "Gone at Last" – 3:40
- "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" – 3:14
- "Have a Good Time" – 3:26
- "You're Kind" – 3:20
- "Silent Eyes" – 4:12
- Bonus tracks (2004 remaster)
- "Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) – 5:30
- "Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers – 4:38
Personnel
- Paul Simon – vocals, guitar
- John Tropea – electric guitar
- Patti Austin – background vocals
- Art Garfunkel – vocals on "My Little Town"
- Phoebe Snow – background vocals, vocals on "Gone at Last"
- Joe Beck – electric guitar
- Michael Brecker – saxophone soloist
- Bob James – electric piano
- David Sanborn – saxophone
- Grady Tate – drums
- Pete Carr – electric guitar
- Sivuca – accordion, vocals
- Ralph MacDonald – percussion
- Chicago Community Choir – background vocals
- Barry Beckett – electric piano
- Eddie Daniels – saxophone
- Gordon Edwards – bass
- Jerry Friedman – electric guitar
- Steve Gadd – drums
- Roger Hawkins – drums
- David Hood – bass
- The Jessy Dixon Singers – background vocals
- Tony Levin – bass
- Hugh McCracken – guitar
- Leon Pendarvis – piano
- Valerie Simpson – background vocals
- Richard Tee – piano
- Toots Thielemans – harmonica
- Phil Woods – saxophone
- Kenny Ascher – organ, electric piano
Charts
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Year-end charts
Certifications
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References
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Preceded by | Billboard 200 number-one album December 6–12, 1975 |
Succeeded by Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits by Chicago |
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