Released April 13, 1987 Artist Carly Simon Label Arista Records | Length 47:22 Release date 13 April 1987 | |
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Recorded 1986-1987 at Right Track Recording, Power Station Studios, Pin Wheel Studio, Unique Recording and Flying Monkey, New York City and Cliffhanger Studio, Vancouver Producer Bryan Adams, John Boylan, Frank Filipetti, Russ Kunkel, George Massenburg, Rob Mounsey, Bill Payne, Richard Perry and Paul Samwell-Smith
Clive Davis: Executive Producer Coming Around Again
(1987) Greatest Hits Live
(1988) Genres Rock music, Adult contemporary music Similar Spoiled Girl, Letters Never Sent, This Is My Life, Have You Seen Me Lately, Into White | ||
Carly simon coming around again
Coming Around Again is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 14th album, and 13th studio album, released in 1987. It is her first of many albums for Arista Records. The title track, along with "Itsy Bitsy Spider", was written for and featured in the 1986 film Heartburn.
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The title song peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simon's twelfth Top 40 hit in the USA. Additionally, it was a top 10 hit in the UK. The album itself reached #25 in both the US and the UK. It was certified Silver by the BPI in September 1987, and Platinum by the RIAA in early 1988. It has since sold nearly two million copies in the US.
Shortly after the album's release, a live outdoor concert also entitled "Carly Simon - Coming Around Again" was recorded in June 1987 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts for HBO, and later released on video. On a pier in front of an invited audience, Simon and her band performed most of the songs from the album as well some of her older hits. The concert was also released as a live album in 1988 entitled Greatest Hits Live, and has also since been released on DVD as Live From Martha's Vineyard.
Critical Reception
Writing for Rolling Stone, Rob Hoerburger gave a positive review of the album and wrote, "Coming Around Again is a strong reminder of how refreshing a diversion Carly Simon can be".
People was also positive, "Simon remains, even after all this emotional turmoil, perhaps the most interesting of women pop singers. This album, proves she is still captivating."
Stephen Holden, writing for The New York Times, stated, "Coming Around Again, the latest and one of the strongest chapters in a growing catalogue, embodies everything that the 41-year-old singer-songwriter does best. Of all the confessional singer-songwriters who emerged out of the 60's counterculture to confide their personal feelings in recorded pop song cycles, she has been one of only a handful to sustain a major label recording career of such duration. And of that handful, she has stayed the closest to the personal confessional mode."
Awards
Grammy Awards
Track listing
- "Coming Around Again" (Simon) 3:38
- "Give Me All Night" (Simon, Gerard McMahon) 4:20
- "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) 5:06
- "Do The Walls Come Down" (Simon, Paul Samwell-Smith) 3:48
- "It Should Have Been Me" (Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance) 4:20
- "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" (Simon) 5:01
- "Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night)" (Simon) 4:51
- "You Have to Hurt" (Frank Musker, Dominic King) 4:04
- "All I Want Is You" (Andy Goldmark, Simon, Jacob Brackman) 3:58
- "Hold What You've Got" (Joe Tex, Simon) 3:40
- "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (Simon) 3:40
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
Album - International
Singles - Billboard (North America)
Songs
1Coming Around Again3:41
2Give Me All Night4:23
3As Time Goes By5:08