173-537: Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include " Anticipation " (No. 13), " The Right Thing to Do " (No. 17), " Haven't Got Time for the Pain " (No. 14), " You Belong to Me " (No. 6), " Coming Around Again " (No. 18), and her four Gold -certified singles " You're So Vain " (No. 1), " Mockingbird " (No. 5,
346-592: A CD single. She also performed two concerts during the 2004 holiday season at Harlem 's Apollo Theater , along with BeBe Winans , Rob Thomas , son Ben and daughter Sally, Livingston Taylor , Mindy Jostyn and Kate Taylor , along with other members of the Taylor and Simon family. Simon wrote and recorded songs for the Disney Winnie the Pooh films Piglet's Big Movie in 2003 and Pooh's Heffalump Movie in 2005, as well as
519-622: A Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance that same year. In October 2017, Hot Shot Records released a two-disc 30th Anniversary deluxe edition of the album. These and older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO concert special titled Live from Martha's Vineyard , where Simon and her band performed live on a specially built stage in the town of Gay Head in early June 1987. Most of these songs were compiled for her 1988 album, Greatest Hits Live . Simon's first live album; Greatest Hits Live continued her mounting comeback, quickly going Gold, before later certified Platinum by
692-462: A Gun " with Janet Jackson on Jackson's album All for You . According to Jackson, she phoned Simon to ask for permission to use samples of "You're So Vain", but Simon wanted to re-record her vocals. She agreed, with Simon wanting to write new lines. Jackson's producer Jimmy Jam sent her the tracks they were already working on, and she went into a studio on Martha's Vineyard to record some material. She rapped , initially thinking that Jackson and
865-473: A Hot 100 Top 40 hit in each of the four decades from the 1980s through the 2010s: Michael Jackson , Madonna , "Weird Al" Yankovic , U2 , and Kenny G . Mariah Carey is the first artist to have a number-one single in four different decades. SiriusXM Pop2K uses the Hot 100 charts for the 2000s for the "Pop2Kountdown", where radio personal Rich Davis plays the top 30 songs on the Hot 100 from that specific week in
1038-407: A Top Ten hit to boot." Ruhlmann additionally singled out the title track as "frisky and seductive" and referred to the album's second single, "Take Me as I Am", as "an upbeat raver." Following the major commercial and critical success of "Jesse", Simon's singles became generally less successful in the mid-1980s, although most of them did well on Adult Contemporary radio formats. Simon also contributed
1211-595: A balance that best suits [Simon] for the time being." He also singled out the tracks "Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby", "Forever My Love", and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" as "substantial songs and performances, superior to almost everything else she has so far recorded." The same year, Simon provided vocals on Tom Rush 's album Ladies Love Outlaws and co-sang with Rush on "No Regrets" and as backup on "Claim on Me". Simon's Playing Possum (1975) and Another Passenger (1976) continued her run of high-profile and generally well-received album releases. Playing Possum hit
1384-466: A book of photography Peter published in the late 1990s. Simon has stated that when she was seven years old, a family friend in his teens sexually assaulted her. She stated, "It was heinous", adding, "It changed my view about sex for a long time." Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old. A psychiatrist tried unsuccessfully to cure her stuttering. Instead, Simon turned to singing and songwriting. "I felt so strangulated talking that I did
1557-468: A children's poem by Eugene Field that Lucy had put to music. Their second album, Cuddlebug (1966), soon followed. These albums were made available on CD in 2006 as Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod: The Kapp Recordings , a remastered limited edition single-disc compilation. The duo made one more album together, 1969's The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children (which
1730-404: A classical pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother, Andrea ( née Heinemann), was a civil rights activist and singer. Her father was from a German-Jewish family, while her mother was Catholic. Her maternal grandfather, Friedrich Heinemann, was of German descent; her maternal grandmother, Ofelia Oliete, known as "Chibie", was a Catholic originally from Cuba , and
1903-570: A contemporary opera that would appeal to younger people. The result was Romulus Hunt (named after its 12-year-old protagonist), released in November of that year. In December 2014, the Nashville Opera Association premiered a new performance edition of the opera. Also in 1993, Simon published her fourth children's book, The Nighttime Chauffeur , and contributed to Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider 's album Eolian Minstrel ; she co-wrote
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#17328595689812076-458: A duet with James Taylor ), " Nobody Does It Better " (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me , and " Jesse " (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children's books. In 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Lucy Simon in the Simon Sisters . Their debut album, Meet the Simon Sisters , featured the song " Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod ", based on
2249-532: A full orchestral version of the theme in the track "Chateau Flight". Another full orchestral version was intended for the end titles of the film. You Only Live Twice had a funereal orchestration with Bond's "burial" at sea sequence in Hong Kong harbour . A full orchestral version of the theme was used in the Little Nellie autogyro fight scene. The George Lazenby film On Her Majesty's Secret Service used
2422-475: A group of musicians against nuclear power, co-founded by John Hall. Always politically active, Simon and James Taylor were part of the concerts which later became a documentary and concert film : No Nukes (1980), as well as a live album of the same name (1979). In 1979, Simon released her eighth studio album: Spy . The album's sales were a disappointment, peaking at only No. 45 on the Billboard 200, and it
2595-495: A handful of them to music. Entertainment Weekly stated "The results are funky, fascinating, and sumptuous. A daring move that pays off." From the album, Simon wrote "Like A River" in honor of her mother, Andrea Simon , and "Touched by the Sun" for her dear friend, Jackie Onassis , both of whom died from cancer in 1994. The song "The Night Before Christmas", originally written for the 1992 Nora Ephron film This Is My Life and featured on
2768-405: A music group with her sister Lucy Simon as the Simon Sisters , with Lucy singing soprano and Carly contralto . Signed to Kapp Records , they made their television debut performing on Hootenanny on April 27, 1963. They released two albums for the label, the first being Meet the Simon Sisters (1964). The album produced a minor hit for the duo with the single " Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod ",
2941-460: A new single, featuring the former B-side as the A-side, along with a "new" B-side. The inclusion of album cuts on the Hot 100 put the double-sided hit issues to rest permanently. As many Hot 100 chart policies have been modified over the years, one rule always remained constant: songs were not eligible to enter the Hot 100 unless they were available to purchase as a single. However, on December 5, 1998,
3114-402: A nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female at the 21st Annual Grammy Awards —the first ceremony to feature the new category. Simon made a music video for the track, and she would later become the second female solo artist to be featured on MTV's first day of the air in 1981 ( Pat Benatar was the first female solo artist to appear on MTV , with " You Better Run ", and Juice Newton
3287-577: A point system that typically gave sales (purchases) more weight than radio airplay. The first No. 1 in that chart was " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " by The Four Aces . The Best Sellers in Stores , Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. On June 17, 1957, Billboard discontinued the Most Played in Jukeboxes chart, as
3460-491: A rare joint appearance with her ex-husband, James Taylor, for a concert on Martha's Vineyard . Dubbed "Livestock '95", it was a benefit for the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, with over 10,000 people in attendance. Simon performed a duet with Mindy Jostyn on the song "Time, Be on My Side", which featured on Jostyn's 1995 album Five Miles from Hope about her recent battle with colon cancer. Ten years later, Jostyn died from
3633-473: A show to promote the album, Simon collapsed onstage from exhaustion; "Fourteen shows were booked. I made it through eight and collapsed on stage. I had gotten very thin - only 114lbs. I canceled the rest of the shows," Simon later stated. She subsequently performed considerably less throughout the 1980s. From that album, Simon scored another million-selling U.S. Gold single with the hit " Jesse ", which peaked at No. 11 on Billboard Pop singles chart and remained on
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#17328595689813806-434: A single until airplay was at its absolute peak, thus prompting a top ten or, in some cases, a number-one debut. In many cases, a label would delete a single from its catalog after only one week, thus allowing the song to enter the Hot 100, make a high debut and then slowly decline in position as the one-time production of the retail single sold out. It was during this period that several popular mainstream hits never charted on
3979-629: A specific year from the 2000s. '90s on 9 also does a similar countdown show called the "Back in the Day Replay Countdown" hosted by Downtown Julie Brown ; however, this focuses on the Hot 100 charts from the 1990s. A new chart, the Pop 100 , was created by Billboard in February 2005 to answer criticism that the Hot 100 at the time was too dominated by hip hop and R&B. It was discontinued in June 2009 due to
4152-532: A summer I quit." In 1968, Simon met and befriended Jacob Brackman . Brackman would later become a frequent songwriting collaborator, with Simon describing him as her best friend: "When I moved to my apartment on 35th St. (Murray Hill), Jake lived around the corner and we were inseparable, sharing our social lives. He introduced me to so many of the friends I still have." Simon was signed by Jac Holzman to Elektra Records in 1970. She released her self-titled debut album on February 9, 1971, and it peaked at No. 30 on
4325-479: A symphonic version with the melody played on strings. This version of the Bond theme is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra – at the time, a relatively new innovation. In Licence to Kill , the Bond theme was arranged by Michael Kamen using rock drums to symbolise a harder and more violent Bond. This gun barrel is the first one since Dr. No not starting with
4498-435: A trend they had started in the 1960s by putting the same song on both sides of the singles provided to radio. More complex issues began to arise as the typical A-and-B-side format of singles gave way to 12 inch singles and maxi-singles, many of which contained more than one B-side. Further problems arose when, in several cases, a B-side would eventually overtake the A-side in popularity, thus prompting record labels to release
4671-470: A unique high-pitched arrangement with the melody played on a Moog synthesizer . The cue is called "This Never Happened to the Other Feller" and a similar recording was used over the film's end credits. The film has a downbeat ending and the explosive burst of the "James Bond Theme" at the film's very end suggests Bond will return in spite of the situation he finds himself in at the climax of this movie. With
4844-468: A variety of commercials to market the ketchup of the H. J. Heinz Company . The single was written in 15 minutes while Simon waited for Cat Stevens to pick her up for a date. The pair had become romantically involved shortly after Simon had opened for Stevens at L.A.'s Troubadour around the time her debut album was released. The next single release, " Legend in Your Own Time ", made a more modest impact on
5017-537: A very long time to gain mainstream success. These rare cases are handled on a case-by-case basis and ultimately determined by Billboard ' s chart managers and staff. Older songs are allowed to re-enter to the Hot 100 provided they chart higher than number 50. Christmas songs have been a regular presence on the Hot 100 each December since the relaxation of recurrent rules, culminating in Mariah Carey 's 1994 recording " All I Want for Christmas Is You " reaching No. 1 on
5190-600: A very straightforward cumulative total of yearlong sales, streaming, and airplay points. This gives a more accurate picture of any given year's most popular tracks, as the points accrued by one song during its week at number one in March might be less than those accrued by another song reaching number three in January. Songs at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November/December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked on
5363-403: A week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position 99 and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number one). Other factors including the total weeks a song spent on the chart and at its peak position were calculated into its year-end total. After Billboard began obtaining sales and airplay information from Nielsen SoundScan, the year-end charts are now calculated by
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5536-407: Is Jennifer Lopez 's " I'm Real ". Originally entering the Hot 100 in its album version, a "remix" was issued in the midst of its chart run that featured rapper Ja Rule . This new version proved to be more popular than the album version and the track was propelled to number one. To address this issue, Billboard now separates airplay points from a song's original version and its remix, if the remix
5709-409: Is complemented by deft arrangements." Her second album, Anticipation , followed November 1971. Like its predecessor, the album peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard 200, and earned Simon a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards . Writing for Rolling Stone , Stephen Davis gave a glowing review of the album, calling the title track "a spirited examination of
5882-471: Is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio
6055-452: Is determined to be a "new song". Since administering this new chart rule, several songs have charted twice, normally credited as "Part 1" and "Part 2". The remix rule is still in place. Billboard , in an effort to allow the chart to remain as current as possible and to give representation to new and developing artists and tracks, has (since 1991) removed titles that have reached certain criteria regarding its current rank and number of weeks on
6228-429: Is disguised as a snake charmer , plays a few notes of the tune for Roger Moore's James Bond, presumably as a pre-arranged identification signal. This is an example of the tune being used as diegetic music . In Moore's last Bond film, A View to a Kill , the melody of the theme was played on strings. The first Bond film with Timothy Dalton , The Living Daylights , which was the last Bond film scored by Barry, used
6401-586: Is miles better than the version I did". Released as a single, "James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)" charted at number eight on the UK Singles Chart , besting " Go "'s number 10 peak six years earlier to become, at the time, Moby's highest-peaking single on the chart. It also reached number one in Iceland and peaked within the top 20 in Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland. The song features two samples of dialogue from
6574-703: Is not included in the GoldenEye soundtrack. Additionally, Starr Parodi composed a version of the James Bond Theme for the 1995 trailer. David Arnold 's gun barrel arrangements in Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough dropped the guitar melody line, jumping straight from the tune's opening to its concluding bars. An electronic rhythm was added to the gun barrel of The World Is Not Enough . The typical Bond guitar line can be heard during some action scenes. The Die Another Day gun barrel recalls
6747-433: Is post-dated with the "week-ending" issue date four days after the charts are refreshed online (i.e., the following Saturday). For example: The methods and policies by which this data is obtained and compiled have changed many times throughout the chart's history. Although the advent of a singles music chart spawned chart historians and chart-watchers and greatly affected pop culture and produced countless bits of trivia,
6920-529: Is repeated ("tracked") in various scenes of the first Bond film. This is consistent with the account given by Barry and some of the film-makers, contained in supplementary material on the DVD release of Dr. No : Barry was called in to make an arrangement of Norman's motif after Norman had completed the score. There is no information about the distinctive ostinati , countermelodies , and bridges introduced by Barry that are juxtaposed with Norman's motif in order to flesh out
7093-454: Is still a charmer." Writing for Billboard , Steve Baltin called the album "A feast for fans of intelligent, richly crafted pop music", while People wrote that the album "unfolds like a one-woman show", calling it a "Boffo performance." The opening track, "Our Affair", was remixed by Richard Perry and featured on the soundtrack album of the 2000 film Bounce , starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck . In 2001, Simon performed on " Son of
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7266-522: Is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital ), online streaming , and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by Billboard' s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales
7439-640: The Billboard 200 . The album contained her breakthrough hit " That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be ", which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Pop singles (Hot 100) chart, and earned Simon a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards , where she also won Best New Artist . In his review of the album for Rolling Stone , Timothy Crouse stated "Carly's voice perfectly matches her material" and her "...superbly controlled voice
7612-517: The Coming Around Again album appeared the following year, to further critical and commercial success. The album earned Simon two Grammy nominations, went Platinum, and spawned three more Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit singles: " Give Me All Night ", " The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of ", and " All I Want Is You ". With her 1988 hit " Let the River Run ", from the film Working Girl , Simon became
7785-642: The Billboard 200, and remaining on the chart for 19 weeks. On March 2, 2007, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA. An international version of the album was also released; it hit No. 25 on the UK charts and went Gold there as well. Also in 2004, Simon performed a duet version of " The Right Thing to Do " with Megan Mullally for the TV soundtrack Will & Grace : Let the Music Out! . Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100
7958-553: The Billboard 200, went Gold within two weeks of release, and spawned the hit singles "Mockingbird" and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain". In 1975, Simon's fifth album, Playing Possum , and the compilation, The Best of Carly Simon , both appeared; the former hit the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the hit single " Attitude Dancing " (No. 21), and the latter eventually went 3× Platinum, becoming Simon's best-selling release. In 1977, Simon recorded "Nobody Does It Better" as
8131-585: The Billboard 200, while Stephen Holden, writing in The New York Times , called the album "superb" and the title track "the album's most stunning moment." The album also features the major (No. 4) Adult Contemporary chart hit " Better Not Tell Her ", which remained on the chart for 21 weeks, becoming Simon's biggest hit of the 1990s. A second single, "Holding Me Tonight", was also a successful Adult Contemporary chart hit, peaking at No. 36. That same year, Simon published her second children's book, The Boy of
8304-523: The Billboard Hot 100 tracks paid digital downloads from such internet services as iTunes , Musicmatch , and Rhapsody . Billboard initially started tracking downloads in 2003 with the Hot Digital Tracks chart. However, these downloads did not count towards the Hot 100 and that chart (as opposed to Hot Digital Songs ) counted each version of a song separately. This was the first major overhaul of
8477-513: The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children , in 1981 and 1983 , respectively. Simon's 10th release, Torch (1981), was an album of melancholy jazz standards, recorded long before it became fashionable for rock artists to delve into the "great American songbook". It peaked outside the Top 40 on Billboard 200 (at No. 50), but remained on the charts for nearly six months and subsequently became one of her best-selling catalogue albums. The album
8650-495: The Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards -produced single " Why ", from the soundtrack album to the film Soup for One . It was a Top 10 hit in the U.K., and successful throughout Europe. Although "Why" stalled at No. 74 in the U.S., the song became a mellow classic in the aftermath of its being picked up to be covered and sampled by different artists from around 1989 onward. In 2015, Pitchfork ranked it No. 188 on their list of
8823-464: The RIAA in 1996. From the album, a recording of Simon's evergreen "You're So Vain" was released as a single in the UK. Throughout the 1980s, Simon successfully contributed to several film and television scores, including the songs: After the success of "Coming Around Again", Nichols asked Simon to score his next film, Working Girl . She spent the better part of 1988 scoring the film, and according to Simon,
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#17328595689818996-656: The RIAA . Simon achieved international fame with her third album, No Secrets (1972), which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks and was certified Platinum. The album spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", which sat at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and earned Simon three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year . The second single "The Right Thing to Do", as well as its B-side " We Have No Secrets ", were also successful. Her fourth album, Hotcakes (1974), soon followed and became an instant success; it reached No. 3 on
9169-555: The Sean Connery era although it was also used in some Roger Moore films, in Timothy Dalton 's final film Licence to Kill and in the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig with the arrangement by David Arnold . For every Bond movie which John Barry scored, he orchestrated a slightly different version of the Bond theme, as can be heard during the gun barrel sequence . These specialised Bond themes often reflected
9342-473: The UK Official Charts Company gave it the accolade of 'ultimate song of the 1970s'. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 495 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . The subject of "You're So Vain" became one of the biggest mysteries in popular music, with the famous lyric "You're so vain/I bet you think this song is about you". For more than 40 years, Simon never publicly revealed
9515-501: The UK Singles Chart on the week of 6–12 December 1962. Apart from the James Bond soundtracks themselves, John Barry re-recorded the James Bond Theme in 1966 for his CBS album The Great Movie Sounds of John Barry , which features driving percussion ostinati (with a prominent role for bongos ), as well as a piano and brass improvisation superimposed over the last few bars. For his 1972 Polydor album The Concert John Barry , he re-scored
9688-531: The family comedy Madeline (1998). She released her fifth children's book, Midnight Farm , on August 1, 1997. Simon's third standards album, Film Noir , was released on September 16, 1997. Recorded in collaboration with Jimmy Webb (who duets with Simon on the track "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year"), the album was nominated for the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance the following year. John Travolta duets with Simon on
9861-740: The soundtrack album was released shortly thereafter. It includes the song " Love of My Life ", a No. 16 Adult Contemporary hit. In 1993, she contributed her performance of " In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning ", from her 1990 album My Romance , to the Nora Ephron film Sleepless in Seattle . It was also included on the film's soundtrack album. Simon recorded the same song in combination with " Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry " with Frank Sinatra for his album Duets (1993). By this point, Sinatra's health
10034-478: The title track (which was written for and featured in the 1986 Mike Nichols film Heartburn ), returning her to the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the UK top 10. The album also featured the top 10 Adult Contemporary hits " Give Me All Night ", " The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of ", " All I Want Is You " (which featured Roberta Flack on backing vocals), and the standard " As Time Goes By " (featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica). Critical reception
10207-460: The "James Bond Theme" was in Dr. No . There it was used as part of the actual gun barrel and main title sequence. It was also used when Bond first introduces himself. In From Russia with Love , the "James Bond Theme" appears not only in the gun barrel pre-title sequence, but as part of the main title theme and in the track "James Bond with Bongos". It is a slower, jazzier, somewhat punchier rendition than
10380-399: The 10 top selling records of three leading record companies, as reported by the companies themselves. In October 1938, a review list, "The Week's Best Records", was retitled "The Billboard Record Buying Guide" by incorporating airplay and sheet music sales, which would eventually become the first trade survey of record popularity. This led to the full-page "Billboard Music Popularity Chart" for
10553-473: The 1990s many record companies stopped releasing singles altogether (see Album Cuts , below). Eventually, a song's airplay points were weighted more so than its sales. Billboard has adjusted the sales/airplay ratio many times to more accurately reflect the true popularity of songs. Billboard has also changed its Hot 100 policy regarding "two-sided singles" several times. The pre-Hot 100 chart "Best Sellers in Stores" listed popular A- and-B-sides together, with
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#173285956898110726-538: The 1993 film Philadelphia ). Her musical work on the film also earned Simon her first BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Film Score in 1990 . "Let the River Run" became a major hit, peaking at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 2004, AFI ranked the song at No. 91 on their list of the 100 greatest songs in American cinema . The Working Girl soundtrack album
10899-432: The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s. She had another UK success (No. 17) with the single " Kissing with Confidence ", a song from the 1983 album Dancing for Mental Health by Will Powers (a pseudonym for photographer Lynn Goldsmith ). Simon was the uncredited singer of the song co-written and mixed by Todd Rundgren . In 1983, Simon released her 11th album, Hello Big Man . Although it suffered from disappointing sales,
11072-481: The Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at No. 39. Despite the lukewarm commercial reception, the album was, and remains one of Simon's best reviewed works; Rolling Stone called it "Carly Simon's best record", and it became a favorite among many of Simon's fans. To promote the album, Simon made her only appearance on Saturday Night Live , on May 8, 1976 . It was a pre-taped performance—a rare occurrence on that show—because she suffered terrible bouts of stage fright . In
11245-609: The Adult Contemporary chart. Simon filmed a music video for the song at her home on Martha's Vineyard , which received moderate airplay on MTV in the autumn of 1983. That same year, Simon performed on two albums: The Perfect Stranger by Jesse Colin Young (singing on the track "Fight For It" with Young) and Wonderland by Nils Lofgren (singing on the track "Lonesome Ranger" with Lofgren). In 1984, Simon made an uncredited cameo appearance in Ray Parker Jr. 's music video for " Ghostbusters ",
11418-594: The Bells . In 1991, she wrote her third children's book, The Fisherman's Song , which was based on the song of the same name from her 1990 album Have You Seen Me Lately . That same year, Simon performed a duet with Plácido Domingo on the song "The Last Night of the World" (from the stage musical Miss Saigon ) on Domingo's album The Broadway I Love . In 1992, Simon wrote the music for the Nora Ephron film This Is My Life , and
11591-404: The Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies . It first appeared as the second track on I Like to Score , a compilation of Moby's songs used in films, and later featured as the fifteenth and final track on the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack album . Moby has said "It did feel a little strange remixing something that was perfect in its original state", further admitting that he "still thinks the original
11764-516: The Bond theme, but orchestral hits though the surf guitar makes returns soon after. The gun barrel of the Pierce Brosnan film GoldenEye opened with a synthesised arrangement by Éric Serra which plays the guitar riff on (almost indistinct) kettle drums. A more traditional rendition by John Altman is heard in the film during the tank chase in St. Petersburg . This version of the "James Bond Theme"
11937-469: The Circle that features "Bad Sign, Good Sign", the "James Bond Theme", and a similar-sounding song titled "Dum Di-Di Dum Dum". For these songs Norman added lyrics that explain the origin and history of the "James Bond Theme". Though the "James Bond Theme" is identified with John Barry's jazz arrangement, parts of it are heard throughout Monty Norman's score for Dr. No in non-jazzy guises. Barry's arrangement
12110-471: The Hot 100 (then called Top 40 Radio Monitor ). The ongoing splintering of Top 40 radio in the early 1990s led stations to lean into specific formats, meaning that practically no station would play the wide array of genres that typically composed each weekly Hot 100 chart. An artist or band's ability to have hits in the Hot 100 across multiple decades is recognized as a sign of longevity and being able to adapt to changing musical styles. Only five artists had
12283-416: The Hot 100 changed from being a "singles" chart to a "songs" chart. During the 1990s, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without ever releasing them as singles. It was claimed by major record labels that singles were cannibalizing album sales, so they were slowly phased out. During this period, accusations began to fly of chart manipulation as labels would hold off on releasing
12456-401: The Hot 100's chart formula since December 1998. The change in methodology has shaken up the chart considerably, with some songs debuting on the chart strictly with robust online sales and others making drastic leaps. In recent years, several songs have been able to achieve 80-to-90 position jumps in a single week as their digital components were made available at online music stores. Since 2006,
12629-420: The Hot 100's early history, singles were the leading way by which people bought music. At times, when singles sales were robust, more weight was given to a song's retail points than to its radio airplay. As the decades passed, the recording industry concentrated more on album sales than singles sales. Musicians eventually expressed their creative output in the form of full-length albums rather than singles, and by
12802-479: The Hot 100, or charted well after their airplay had declined. During the period that they were not released as singles, the songs were not eligible to chart. Many of these songs dominated the Hot 100 Airplay chart for extended periods of time: As debate and conflicts occurred more and more often, Billboard finally answered the requests of music industry artists and insiders to include airplay-only songs (or "album cuts") in
12975-426: The Hot 100, while the retail component was reduced from 40% to 25%. Extended play (EP) releases were listed by Billboard on the Hot 100 and in pre-Hot 100 charts (Top 100) until the mid-to-late 1960s. With the growing popularity of albums, it was decided to move EPs (which typically contain four to six tracks) from the Hot 100 to the Billboard 200 , where they are included to this day. Since February 12, 2005,
13148-716: The Pop singles chart, peaking at No. 50. It was very successful on the Easy Listening chart, nearly cracking the top 10 at No. 11. The closing song, "I've Got to Have You" (written by Kris Kristofferson ), was released as a single in Australia and reached the Top 10 on the Kent Music Report in 1972. Also in 1971, Simon appeared as an auditioning singer in Miloš Forman film Taking Off , performing "Long Term Physical Effects", which
13321-596: The River Run " was used in a public service ad for the United States Postal Service . Titled "Pride", it was produced to boost public confidence and postal worker morale in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks . In January 2002, Simon recorded a Christmas album, Christmas Is Almost Here , while she was in Los Angeles to lend support to her son Ben Taylor and his band. It
13494-466: The Top 10 album Boys in the Trees . The album produced two Top 40 singles: the jazzy and sensual " You Belong to Me " (written with Michael McDonald), which hit the Top 10 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts, and " Devoted to You ", a duet with James Taylor which hit No. 2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Boys in the Trees was a major success, and returned Simon to Platinum album status in
13667-622: The Top 10 on the Billboard 200, and garnered a successful Top 40 single with " Attitude Dancing ", as well as two other charting singles, but its racy album cover, which depicts Simon wearing only a black negligee and knee-high black boots, generated controversy. It was nominated for Best Album Package at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards . Shortly after the release of Playing Possom , Elektra released her first greatest hits album, The Best of Carly Simon . A major success, it went Gold within three weeks of release, and eventually became Simon's all-time best-selling disc, reaching Triple-Platinum status in
13840-714: The U.S. "You Belong to Me" later earned Simon yet another nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 21st Annual Grammy Awards , where the album also won Best Album Package. She was featured on the front covers of People and Rolling Stone magazines that year. Also in 1978, Simon and Taylor sang backing vocals on two songs for Taylor's sister Kate 's album Kate Taylor : "Happy Birthday Sweet Darling" and "Jason & Ida". They sang backup on three songs on John Hall 's debut solo album John Hall : "The Fault", "Good Enough", and "Voyagers". They also sing backup on one song, "Power", from Hall's next album, also titled Power (1979). On November 2, 1978, Simon guested on
14013-629: The United States by the mid-1990s. The album also went Gold in Canada and Quintuple-Platinum in Australia. Another Passenger reached No. 29 on Billboard 200 and produced only one charting single on the Pop singles chart, " It Keeps You Runnin' " (written by Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers ), which peaked just outside the Top 40 at No. 46. The second single, " Half a Chance ", only charted on
14186-413: The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be " (No. 10), which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance . Simon's second album, Anticipation , followed later that year and became an even greater success; it spawned the successful singles "Anticipation" and " Legend in Your Own Time ", earned her another Grammy nomination, and became her first album to be certified Gold by
14359-531: The Year , Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 16th Annual Grammy Awards , where No Secrets also earned a nomination for Best Engineered Recording . Additionally, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004 and was listed at No. 72 in 2008 on the Billboard Hot 100 's list of the top 100 songs from the chart's first 50 years, August 1958 through July 2008. On August 23, 2014,
14532-411: The album received critical acclaim. Rolling Stone stated "Simon has returned to the sort of beautiful, folk-based singing and songwriting that originally made the world fall in love with her." Additionally, they singled out the title track and "It Happens Everyday" as "two of the album's best songs." The lead single, " You Know What to Do ", peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and No. 36 on
14705-429: The album, Rolling Stone also singled out "We're So Close", calling the track "the record's gem." In 2009, Simon released Never Been Gone , an album which includes a newly recorded version of "Never Been Gone", along with some of her other greatest hits. In 1980, Simon signed with Elektra's sibling label Warner Bros. Records and released her ninth studio album: Come Upstairs . In Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, during
14878-549: The album, Simon later said: "It was one of the best memories I shall ever have of recording. I had a band. The entire album was just that band ( Andy Newmark , Jimmy Ryan, Paul Glanz) and myself. Cat Stevens did some vocals and there were strings on a few songs, but on the whole, it was sparse, and I loved it." The album's lead single, also titled " Anticipation ", became a significant hit, reaching No. 3 at Easy Listening radio and No. 13 on Billboard's Pop singles chart. It subsequently became notable in popular culture for its use in
15051-535: The all-time record for the biggest single-week upward movement was broken nine times. In the issue dated August 11, 2007, Billboard began incorporating weekly data from streaming media and on-demand services into the Hot 100. The first two major companies to provide their statistics to Nielsen BDS on a weekly basis were AOL Music and Yahoo! Music . On March 24, 2012, Billboard premiered its On-Demand Songs chart, which ranks web radio streams from services such as Spotify , as well as on-demand audio titles. Its data
15224-487: The appearance, she sang two songs: "Half a Chance" and her signature song , "You're So Vain". That same year saw Simon contributing backup vocals on the song "Peter" on Peter Ivers 's self-titled album. In 1977, Simon had an international hit with the million-selling Gold single " Nobody Does It Better ", the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me . The song, her second-biggest U.S. hit after "You're So Vain",
15397-406: The arrangement. These added musical figures have become as recognizable to listeners as Norman's motif, which is probably responsible for the controversy over the authorship of the "James Bond Theme" as listeners have come to know it. The "James Bond Theme" was recorded on 21 June 1962, using five saxophones , nine brass instruments , a solo guitar and a rhythm section. The guitar motif heard in
15570-432: The audience like a fight. It was not. I just couldn't believe that no one was interceding and saying anything to her. I love her music and respect her as an artist. It was just one of those things. Go figure." Simon continued to write and record music for films, and wrote the theme songs to several more movies; these included "Two Little Sisters" from the drama film Marvin's Room (1996), and "In Two Straight Lines" from
15743-498: The chart for nearly eight months, and went Gold. Hotcakes included two top ten singles: " Mockingbird ", a duet with James Taylor that peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, and " Haven't Got Time for the Pain ", which hit No. 2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. The album was also well received critically; Jon Landau , writing in Rolling Stone , stated " Hotcakes is playful-sounding with some serious overtones —
15916-462: The chart for six months. According to Billboard , "the melody is simple yet powerful, the words are complex and Simon's voice has never been better." Simon later said of the track: "'Jesse' was a song laying plain the fact that good intentions go to hell when you are crazy for someone." AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann retrospectively called the track "the album's highlight" and declared it "Simon's best-written pop/rock song since 'You're So Vain' and
16089-467: The chart in December 2019. Billboard altered its tracking-week for sales, streaming and radio airplay in order to conform to a new Global Release Date, which now falls on Fridays in all major-market territories (United States product was formerly released on Tuesdays before June 2015). This modified tracking schedule took effect in the issue dated July 25, 2015. Billboard ' s "chart year" runs from
16262-417: The chart. Recurrent criteria have been modified several times and currently (as of 2015 ), a song is permanently moved to "recurrent status" if it has spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100 and fallen below position number 50. Additionally, descending songs are removed from the chart if ranking below number 25 after 52 weeks. Exceptions are made to re-releases and sudden resurgence in popularity of tracks that have taken
16435-507: The charts becoming increasingly similar. The Canadian Hot 100 was launched June 16, 2007. Like the Hot 100 chart, it uses sales and airplay tracking compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BDS . The Billboard Japan Hot 100 was launched in the issue dated May 31, 2008, using the same methodologies as the Hot 100 charts for the U.S. and Canada, using sales and airplay data from SoundScan Japan and radio tracking service Plantech. The Vietnamese edition of Hot 100, Billboard Vietnam Hot 100 ,
16608-451: The direct-to-video A Very Merry Pooh Year in 2002. Several of her songs were also featured in the 2004 film Little Black Book , which starred Brittany Murphy and Holly Hunter , with Simon appearing as herself in a cameo role at the end of the film. In the spring of 2004, Simon released her fourth greatest hits album: Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits . The album was a great critical and commercial success, peaking at No. 22 on
16781-493: The disease at the age of 43. On November 7, 1995, Simon released the three-disc boxed set Clouds in My Coffee . A full career retrospective at the time of its release, the box set features 58 songs spanning Simon's career from 1965 to 1995. Nine tracks were previously unreleased on any of Simon's albums, and the booklet includes numerous photographs and extensive liner notes by Simon. That same year, Simon and her sister Lucy sang on
16954-566: The distinctive rhythm of the guitar in the first few bars of the "James Bond Theme" as "Dum di-di dum dum". He said that it was inspired by "Bad Sign, Good Sign", a song he composed for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul 's novel A House for Mr Biswas , set in the Indian community in Trinidad . Norman showed his manuscript music from A House for Mr Biswas in a filmed interview and sang its lyrics. In 2005, Norman released an album called Completing
17127-440: The end credits. The next film, Skyfall , includes the theme as part of the harmony to Adele's vocals and is used as the chord progression, including a faint surf guitar riff. Also, in a similar way to Quantum of Solace , the gun barrel sequence is shown at the end of the film. The theme that plays along with the sequence and into the end credits is David Arnold's Casino Royale track "The Name's Bond…James Bond". Despite this,
17300-434: The end of that film). The "James Bond Theme" has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens Dr. No and then again in the opening credits of From Russia with Love . It has been used as music over the end credits for Dr. No , Thunderball , On Her Majesty's Secret Service , The World Is Not Enough , Casino Royale , Quantum of Solace , Skyfall , and Spectre . In 2008,
17473-496: The end of the film. The theme here is very similar to the classic style in Casino Royale . It appears sparingly throughout the score itself, never in an immediately recognizable variation. David Arnold said in an interview on the DVD extras for Tomorrow Never Dies that the "James Bond Theme" is what he expects to hear as an audience member in action scenes, yet his scores for Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace only use it during
17646-439: The film as a substitute for the "James Bond Theme". A new recording of the classic theme, titled "The Name's Bond…James Bond", only plays during the end credits to signal the beginning of the character's new arc as the 21st century version of James Bond. Although that is the first time the theme is played in its entirety, the first bars of the song (the chord progression) appeared as a slow background music in seven moments throughout
17819-483: The film's score was composed by Thomas Newman , who also incorporated the "James Bond Theme" throughout the entire film. In Spectre , the theme appears at the beginning of the film as part of the opening gun barrel sequence, indicating a return to the franchise's classic era of 1962 to 2002 . The theme is used again in No Time to Die , in the tracks named "Gun Barrel" and "Back to MI6". A reworked, salsa-like version
17992-463: The first artist to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award , and a Golden Globe Award for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist. One of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early 1970s, Simon has 24 Billboard Hot 100-charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles. Among her various accolades , she has won two Grammy Awards (from 14 nominations), and
18165-411: The first week of December to the final week in November. This altered calendar allows for Billboard to calculate year-end charts and release them in time for its final print issue in the last week of December. Before Nielsen SoundScan, year-end singles charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a song's performance on the Hot 100 (for example, a song would be given one point for
18338-413: The following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years, but often are ranked lower than they would have been had the peak occurred in a single year. The Hot 100 served for many years as the data source for the weekly radio countdown show American Top 40 . This relationship ended on November 30, 1991, as American Top 40 started using the airplay-only side of
18511-403: The head of United Artists Music, that though the producers would not give him any more money or a writing credit they would get in touch with him if there was another Bond film made. Within the Bond films themselves, many different arrangements of the theme have been used, often reflecting the musical tastes of the specific times. The electric guitar version of the theme is most associated with
18684-690: The industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13, 1958. The Hot 100 was created by journalists Tom Noonan, Paul Ackerman , and Seymour Stein ; Stein did not recall who chose the name. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a song's popularity is measured in the United States. The Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan (both at retail and digitally) and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to
18857-413: The main purpose of the Hot 100 is to aid those within the music industry: to reflect the popularity of the "product" (the singles, the albums, etc.) and to track the trends of the buying public. Billboard has (many times) changed its methodology and policies to give the most precise and accurate reflection of what is popular. A very basic example of this would be the ratio given to sales and airplay. During
19030-537: The movie: after Bond's conversation with M (during his flight), after winning the Aston Martin, when he makes his first appearance in a tuxedo (accompanied by a few bars of the bridge), after he has survived the poisoned martini, when he wins the final match at Casino Royale, when Bond is following Vesper Lynd , and when Bond speaks with M on the phone. At the end of Quantum of Solace , the theme appears with Craig's new official gun barrel sequence, unusually shown at
19203-416: The name of the subject. She hinted that it could be a composite of several people, with most press speculation considering Mick Jagger , who sings backup vocals on the recording, and Warren Beatty . Simon hinted the identity to a variety of talk shows and publications over the years, and, on August 5, 2003, auctioned off the information to the winner of a charity function for US$ 50,000, with the condition that
19376-560: The natural thing, which is to write songs, because I could sing without stammering, as all stammerers can." She has also spoken about growing up with dyslexia as well as her belief that the condition has positively influenced her songwriting, saying that her hit song " Anticipation " "came down from the universe into my head and then out my mouth, so it bypassed the mind." Simon attended Riverdale Country School and spent at least four semesters at Sarah Lawrence College . She also attended Juilliard School of Music . Simon's career began with
19549-475: The original orchestration. The original Barry arrangement from Dr. No is heard during a check of Bond's room for listening devices . In Goldfinger , the "James Bond Theme" can be heard on the soundtrack in "Bond Back in Action Again" (gun barrel and pre-title sequence). The "James Bond Theme" for this movie is heavily influenced by the brassy, jazzy theme song sung by Shirley Bassey . Thunderball used
19722-462: The original recording of "The James Bond Theme" by The John Barry Seven And Orchestra on the United Artists label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . Monty Norman wrote and composed the "James Bond Theme" and received royalties from 1962 until his death in 2022. Norman collected around £600,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999. For Dr. No , Norman scored the film and the theme
19895-453: The original recording of the theme was played by Vic Flick on a 1939 English Clifford Essex Paragon Deluxe guitar plugged into a Fender Vibrolux amplifier. Flick was paid a one-off fee of £6 for recording the famous James Bond Theme motif. John Scott played the saxophone. Barry, who was paid £250 for his work, was surprised that his theme appeared so often in Dr. No . He was told by Noel Rogers,
20068-433: The overall calculation of the Hot 100. The most significant ones are: The tracking week for sales, streaming and airplay begins on Friday and ends on Thursday (airplay used to have a tracking week from Monday to Sunday, but effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021, the week was adjusted to align with the other two metrics ). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesday. Each chart
20241-448: The poem by Eugene Field and put to music by Lucy. The song became a minor hit and reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo would release two more albums: Cuddlebug (1966) and The Simon Sisters Sing for Children (1969). After Lucy left the group, Carly found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album , which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and spawned her first Top 10 single " That's
20414-485: The popularity of jukeboxes waned and radio stations incorporated more and more rock-oriented music into their playlists. The week of July 28, 1958, had the final Most Played by Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which had Perez Prado 's instrumental version of " Patricia " ascending to the top. On August 4, 1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart: the Hot 100 , with " Poor Little Fool " by Ricky Nelson its first No. 1. The Hot 100 quickly became
20587-423: The previous couple of years, it was Simon's first album of original songs since Letters Never Sent , nearly six years earlier. The Bedroom Tapes peaked at only No. 90 on the Billboard 200, but received widespread critical acclaim. AllMusic wrote that Simon was "as raw as she was on 1975's Playing Possum , and just as sweet as 1987's Coming Around Again , but Simon is fresh. Although in her mid-fifties, she
20760-490: The producers would not use it, but they decided to marry both tracks, as the singers thought it "worked perfectly", and it became a duet. Simon expressed that Jackson "could not have been sweeter or more appreciative." The song was released as a single and peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. Simon also contributed backup vocals on two songs, "Don't Turn Away" and "East of Eden", for Mindy Jostyn's 2001 album Blue Stories . In November 2001, Simon's Oscar-winning song " Let
20933-487: The return of Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever , the guitar made a comeback along with a full orchestral version during a hovercraft sequence. On the soundtrack , this track is named "Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd/Bond to Holland." When Roger Moore came to the role, the "James Bond Theme" became a string orchestra driven piece. In Live and Let Die , the James Bond theme was featured in a Funk -inspired version of
21106-618: The shuttle. In 1987, Simon co-wrote and recorded the title song to the Broadway play Sleight of Hand . The song was later released as the B-side to the single "Give Me All Night", from the Coming Around Again album. That same year, Simon also sang the theme for the 1988 Democratic National Convention , "The Turn of the Tide", for a Marlo Thomas television special Free to Be... a Family . The song
21279-506: The side that was played most often (based on its other charts) listed first. One of the most notable of these, but far from the only one, was Elvis Presley 's "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog". During the Presley single's chart run, top billing was switched back and forth between the two sides several times. But on the concurrent "Most Played in Juke Boxes", "Most Played by Jockeys" and the "Top 100",
21452-481: The song "Be With Me" to the 1980 album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record , which was produced by her sister Lucy and Lucy's husband, David Levine. Simon can also be heard on the song "In Harmony", along with other members of the Simon/Taylor families. Carly and Lucy contributed a Simon Sisters song—"Maryanne"—to the 1982 follow-up album In Harmony 2 , which was also produced by Lucy and her husband. Both albums won
21625-695: The song "I Live in the Woods" at a live, four-hour concert by Burt Bacharach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra at Jones Hall in Houston , Texas. All the songs at that concert became Bacharach's album Woman , which was released in 1979. That year, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, from September 19 to 22, a series of concerts were held at New York City's Madison Square Garden and sponsored by Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE),
21798-456: The song "New York Suite 409". She also performed on brother-in-law Livingston Taylor 's album Over the Rainbow , and sang with both Livingston and his famous brother James on the songs "Loving Be My New Horizon" and " Pretty Woman ". In 1974, Simon followed the hugely successful No Secrets album with Hotcakes , which became an instant hit. It reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, remained on
21971-721: The song "Private Fires" with Vollenweider, and was featured vocalist on the song. Simon wrote and performed the theme song, titled "The Promise and the Prize", for the short-lived sitcom Phenom (1993–1994). In 1994, she covered the song " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " for Ken Burns ' film Baseball , as well as a recording of "I've Got a Crush on You" for Larry Adler 's tribute album The Glory of Gershwin . That same year, Simon recorded and released her 16th album, Letters Never Sent . The album originated from Simon finding an old box of letters that she'd written, but never mailed, and she set
22144-593: The soundtrack album, was also featured in Ephron's 1994 film Mixed Nuts , as well as its soundtrack album. That same year, Simon released Bells, Bears and Fishermen , a spoken word recording of her first three children's books: Amy the Dancing Bear , The Boy of the Bells , and The Fisherman's Song , complete with sound effects and original music. In April 1995, Simon surprised thousands of commuters at New York's Grand Central Terminal with an unannounced performance which
22317-447: The studio threatened to replace "Let the River Run" with " Witchy Woman " by the Eagles . Nichols's decision prevailed, and Simon became the first artist to win all three major awards ( Oscar , Golden Globe and Grammy ) for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist (the only other such artist being Bruce Springsteen for " Streets of Philadelphia ", from
22490-465: The style and locations featured in the movie, and the actor playing Bond. The "James Bond Theme" and its variations found in the movies are played during many different types of scenes. Early in the series, the theme provided background music to Connery's entrances. It was not until Goldfinger that John Barry began to use the theme as an action cue. Since then, the primary use of the "James Bond Theme" has been with action scenes. The first appearance of
22663-400: The tensions involved in a burgeoning romantic situation in which nobody has any idea of what's going on or what's going to happen." He also singled out "Our First Day Together" as "a quiet song, lovely and quite enigmatic, with a trace of the minor chord influence of Joni Mitchell ," as well as "I've Got To Have You", which he described as "an absolute clincher." On her experience of recording
22836-523: The theme again as part of a James Bond suite for full symphony orchestra, in this case the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . This more lush arrangement was to feature in his later Bond film scores, notably Octopussy . Over 70 cover versions of the "James Bond Theme" have been recorded by artists such as: American electronica musician Moby produced a remixed version of the theme entitled "James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)" for
23009-401: The theme song from the film of the same name . By this time, her contract with Warner Bros. had ended. In 1985, she signed with Epic Records and released her 12th album, Spoiled Girl . The album yielded two singles: " Tired of Being Blonde " and " My New Boyfriend ", with only the former charting on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 71) and Adult Contemporary chart (No. 34). The album
23182-525: The theme song to the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me , and it became a worldwide hit. The song garnered her another Grammy nomination, and was the No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit of 1977. Retrospectively, it has been ranked one of the greatest Bond themes . Simon began recording more songs for films in the 1980s, including "Coming Around Again" for the film Heartburn (1986). The song became a major Adult Contemporary hit, and
23355-442: The third-greatest James Bond theme song, while Billboard ranked it the second-greatest. In 2021, USA Today crowned it the greatest James Bond Theme Song. Also in 1977, Simon co-produced Libby Titus 's album Libby Titus , and sang backup on two songs: "Can This Be Our Love Affair?" and "Darkness 'Til Dawn", the later which comes from Simon's album Another Passenger . Simon's career took another upward swing in 1978 with
23528-611: The track " Two Sleepy People ", and Martin Scorsese penned the liner notes featured in the album's booklet. Songs in Shadow: The Making of Carly Simon's Film Noir aired as a special presentation on AMC . This documentary also features footage of Webb, Arif Mardin and Van Dyke Parks in the studio recording the album with Simon. Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 1997, and underwent surgery, as well as chemotherapy ; "I
23701-533: The track "The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)" from Peter, Paul and Mary 's album LifeLines . In November 1995, the American press reported an incident between Simon and the Pretenders ' vocalist Chrissie Hynde at a Joni Mitchell concert at New York's Fez Club . Some reports stated that a drunk and disorderly Hynde grabbed Simon around the neck and punched her, although Simon attempted to put these rumors to rest on her official website in 2002, writing "Chrissie
23874-509: The tune reflecting the music of Blaxploitation films popular at the time. The brief quote of the theme in the pre-credits music of The Spy Who Loved Me , titled "Bond 77", featured a disco sound, reflecting a style of music which was very popular at the time. The Spy Who Loved Me returned briefly to using the surf-rock guitar associated with the theme from the early days. One unusual instance occurred in Octopussy , when Bond's contact, who
24047-428: The two songs were listed separately, as was true of all songs. With the initiation of the Hot 100 in 1958, A- and-B-sides charted separately, as they had on the former Top 100. Starting with the Hot 100 chart for the week ending November 29, 1969, this rule was altered; if both sides received significant airplay, they were listed together. This started to become a moot point by 1972, as most major record labels solidified
24220-407: The version of From Russia with Love but with a more techno -influenced rhythm. It also contains the guitar riff of the "James Bond Theme". Daniel Craig 's first James Bond film, Casino Royale , does not feature the "James Bond Theme" in its entirety until the very end of the movie during a climactic scene. In Casino Royale , the main notes of the song " You Know My Name " are played throughout
24393-410: The week ending July 20, 1940, and published in the July 27 issue, with lists covering jukebox play, retail sales, sheet music sales, and radio play. Listed were 10 songs of the national "Best Selling Retail Records", which was the fore-runner of today's pop chart, with " I'll Never Smile Again " by Tommy Dorsey its first number one. Starting on March 24, 1945, Billboard ' s lead popularity chart
24566-490: The winner, television executive Dick Ebersol , not reveal it. Finally, in November 2015, Simon, promoting her about-to-be-published memoir, said, "I have confirmed that the second verse is Warren" and added that while "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him", he is the subject only of that verse, with the remainder of the song referring to two other, still unnamed men. The follow-up single, " The Right Thing to Do " (a love song directed to Simon's then husband James Taylor ),
24739-419: Was arranged by John Barry , who would later go on to compose the soundtracks for eleven James Bond films. Courts have ruled that the theme was written by Norman, despite claims and testimony by Barry that he had actually written the theme. Norman consequently won two libel actions against publishers for claiming that Barry wrote the theme, most recently against The Sunday Times in 2001. Norman describes
24912-469: Was "Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among the Popular Songs", a list of best-selling sheet music, in July 1913. Other charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals. In 1928, "Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders" appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances. On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", which listed
25085-424: Was 1977's biggest Adult Contemporary hit, where it held No. 1 for seven consecutive weeks. The single peaked one step behind Debby Boone 's hugely successful hit " You Light Up My Life " on Billboard ' s Pop Singles chart from October 22 to November 5, 1977, and received nominations for Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards . In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it
25258-404: Was a bit intoxicated and was yelling out during Joni's performance which needless to say, everybody wanted to hear. Chrissie was sitting right next to me and I asked her to be a little quieter. She started choking me in a loving way, saying: 'you're great too Carly, get up there, you need to do this too'. That's all it was about. I must say that her choking me in 'fun intoxication' looked to a lot of
25431-405: Was a tactic generally used by certain artists to boost their chart positions. Instead, such physical releases are now only counted when they are shipped to the consumer, rendering the tactic "ineffectual". A growing trend early in the first decade of the 21st century was to issue a song as a "remix" that was so drastically different in structure and lyrical content from its original version that it
25604-621: Was also included on the soundtrack album for the film. Simon scored the biggest success of her career in 1972–73 with " You're So Vain ". The single hit No. 1 on the U.S. Pop and Adult Contemporary charts, sold over a million copies in the United States alone, and became one of the decade's biggest hits. The song's success propelled Simon's breakthrough album, No Secrets , to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for five consecutive weeks. The album achieved Gold status that year, and by its 25th anniversary in 1997, it had been certified Platinum . "You're So Vain" received nominations for Record of
25777-495: Was also largely positive; People wrote "Simon remains perhaps the most interesting of women pop singers. This album proves she is still captivating." Similarly, The New York Times called it "the latest and one of the strongest chapters in a growing catalogue," it "embodies everything that the 41-year-old singer-songwriter does best." The album remained on the Billboard 200 for over a year, became Simon's first Gold release in nine years, and went Platinum in 1988. It garnered her
25950-521: Was another sizable hit later in 1973, reaching No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 17 on the Pop chart. The single's B-side, " We Have No Secrets ", also became noteworthy; Rolling Stone critic Stephen Holden regarded the track as exemplifying the theme of No Secrets , which he saw as the "difficulty of being happy," by "painfully" expressing "the realization that emotion and rationalization are often irreconcilable." That same year, Simon performed on Lee Clayton 's self-titled album and co-sang on
26123-447: Was essentially a whole new song. Under normal circumstances, airplay points from a song's album version, "radio" mix and/or dance music remix, etc. were all combined and factored into the song's performance on the Hot 100, as the structure, lyrics and melody remained intact. Criticisms began when songs were being completely re-recorded to the point that they no longer resembled the original recording. The first such example of this scenario
26296-516: Was filmed for a Lifetime television special, titled Live at Grand Central . It was also released on home video in December of that year. It was re-released on Blu-ray , Vinyl and CD on January 27, 2023. Simon also featured in an episode of the Lifetime original series Intimate Portrait , which was broadcast the same night. Also in 1995, she performed on an American concert tour in conjunction with Hall & Oates . On August 30, 1995, Simon made
26469-484: Was her last album for Elektra. A hard-edged single from the album, " Vengeance ", became a modest hit and received airplay on U.S. album rock stations, and peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard Pop singles chart. Cash Box said that it has "an urban rock feeling, with ominous guitar chording and touches of syndrums," saying that "Simon's vocals are...sharp and bold" but "less restrained than usual." "Vengeance" earned Simon
26642-439: Was in the hospital for one night," Simon said, "Because they got everything during the procedure, and the prognosis was good, my doctor gave me the option of whether to have chemo. I decided to play it safe." The following year, the single-disc UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better was released, and became a UK Albums Chart hit, peaking at No. 22. In 1999, Simon worked again with Andreas Vollenweider, and
26815-616: Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004. AllMusic called her "one of the quintessential singer-songwriters of the '70s". She has a contralto vocal range, and cited Odetta as a significant influence. Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. She was honored with the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement in 1995, and received a Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree in 1998. In 2005, Simon
26988-468: Was later included on the 1988 soundtrack album on A&M Records . In 1990, Simon released her second standards album, My Romance , and an album of original material, Have You Seen Me Lately . My Romance was quickly followed by another concert special for HBO , titled Carly in Concert: My Romance and featuring Harry Connick, Jr. Have You Seen Me Lately features a title track that
27161-535: Was launched on January 14, 2022. Bond theme The " James Bond Theme " is the main signature theme music of the James Bond films and has been used in every Bond film since Dr. No in 1962. Composed in E minor by Monty Norman (with arrangements for film provided by John Barry and others), the piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in every Eon Productions Bond film besides Casino Royale (played fully, instead, at
27334-782: Was met with mixed reviews and was a commercial disappointment, peaking only at No. 88 on the Billboard 200, and her contract with Epic was cancelled. The album became a cult favorite within Simon's back catalogue. In July 2012, Hot Shot Records re-released the album as a deluxe edition with four bonus tracks. One of the album's tracks, "The Wives Are in Connecticut", caught the attention of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols , who asked Simon to score their upcoming film Heartburn . In 1986, Simon signed with Arista Records and soon rebounded from her career slump. Her first album for Arista, Coming Around Again (1987), gave Simon another international hit with
27507-681: Was nominated for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , but she has yet to claim her star. In 2012, she was honored with the Founders Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . In 2022, Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Simon was born on June 25, 1943, in New York City. Her father, Richard L. Simon , was the co-founder of Simon & Schuster and
27680-674: Was of Pardo heritage, a freed-slave descendant. Ofelia was raised primarily in England by nuns until the age of 16. A 2017 episode of PBS show Finding Your Roots tested Simon's DNA, which included 10% African and 2% Native American, likely via her maternal grandmother. Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, and had two elder sisters, Joanna and Lucy , and a younger brother, Peter, all of whom died of cancer, predeceasing her. They were raised as nominal Roman Catholics , according to
27853-543: Was released by Rhino Records that October. That same year, Simon personally chose all of the songs for a new two-disc anthology album, simply titled Anthology . This release represented every one of her studio albums (up until that point) with at least one song, digitally remastered, and also released on Rhino Records. The following year saw a re-release of her Christmas album with two extra tracks: " White Christmas " (with Burt Bacharach ) and "Forgive" (with Andreas Vollenweider). These two tracks were also released together as
28026-475: Was released in August 1989, and featured more music from Simon. That same year, she released her first children's book, Amy the Dancing Bear . As a tribute to Christa McAuliffe , who was slated to be the first teacher in space and who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster , Simon wrote and recorded a song titled "You're Where I Go". McAuliffe was a Simon fan and had taken a cassette of her music on board
28199-426: Was released on CD in 2008 under the title Carly & Lucy Simon Sing Songs for Children ). Simon collaborated with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about six months in the late '60s. Simon later said of her time with the band: "I hated the gigs. We played clubs where everyone smoked dope and cigarettes at the same time. The sound systems were so dreadful I lost my voice easily and regularly, and after
28372-547: Was supposed to have been the main theme for the Mike Nichols film Postcards from the Edge ; the entire title sequence – including the song – was deleted by producers, although a great deal of Simon's underscore compositions and thematic interludes remain in the film, eventually earning Simon her second BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Film Score in 1991 . The album was a critical and commercial success, spending eight months on
28545-456: Was the Best Sellers in Stores chart, and the magazine refers to that when discussing a song's performance before the creation of the Hot 100. In its issue of November 12, 1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time (for the survey weeks ending October 26 and November 2). The Top 100 combined all aspects of a single's performance (sales, airplay and jukebox activity), based on
28718-506: Was the Honor Roll of Hits . This chart ranked the most popular songs regardless of performer (it combined different versions of the same song by different artists) based on record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard ' s weekly nationwide survey. At the start of the rock era in 1955, there were three charts that measured songs by individual metrics: Billboard ' s primary chart among these
28891-423: Was the featured vocalist for the song "Your Silver Key" on Vollenweider's album Cosmopoly . That same year, Simon and her daughter Sally Taylor contributed the track "Amity" to the soundtrack album of the film Anywhere but Here . On May 16, 2000, Simon released her 18th studio album, The Bedroom Tapes . Largely written and recorded at home in her bedroom while she was recuperating from her health problems of
29064-437: Was the third, with " Angel of the Morning "). Spy also features the songs "Never Been Gone" and "We're So Close", which have become fan favorites and stand among Simon's personal favorites of her own songs. Simon later called "We're So Close" "the saddest song I've ever written. It was about how close you can pretend to be when you know it's all coming undone. How you can use excuses to make it all look okay." In their review of
29237-602: Was then incorporated into the equation that compiles the Hot 100, and this was expanded to a broader Streaming Songs chart in January 2013. In February 2013, U.S. views for a song on YouTube were added to the Hot 100 formula. " Harlem Shake " was the first song to reach number one after the changes were made. In July 2020, Billboard announced that they would no longer allow sales of physical/digital bundles to be reported as digital sales. This refers to songs being bought along with merchandise , either from an artists website or through another vendor. The magazine stated that this
29410-552: Was too poor for him to record, so the feat was accomplished by producers lifting an isolated prerecorded vocal track from an earlier performance and laying a new background – and Simon – behind it. The album later earned a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards . In 1993, Simon was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association and the Kennedy Center to record
29583-440: Was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before July 2015, Wednesday–Tuesday. The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool " by Ricky Nelson , on August 4, 1958. As of the issue for the week ending on November 30, 2024, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,175 different number-one entries. The current number-one song on the chart is " A Bar Song (Tipsy) " by Shaboozey . The first chart published by Billboard
29756-545: Was used in "Cuba Chase". This is the only film in the Craig era that doesn't use the Bond theme in the credits, instead using " We Have All the Time in the World " from On Her Majesty's Secret Service . This is because of Bond's death at the end of the film. Additionally, the film's title track performed by Billie Eilish features a single trumpet solo interpolating the theme. The John Barry Orchestra recording peaked at number eleven on
29929-470: Was well-received critically; Stephen Holden, writing in Rolling Stone , called the album "a gorgeous throwback", stating Simon's "magnificent alto, with its rough-and-tumble lows and wistful highs, has never sounded better." Torch also features one original song by Simon, "From the Heart", as well as Stephen Sondheim 's "Not a Day Goes By", from his then-new musical Merrily We Roll Along . In 1982, Simon sang
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