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    Carly Simon

    American musician (born 1943)

    This article is about the performer. For her eponymous album, see Carly Simon (album).

    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, 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.[1] Their debut album, Meet the Simon Sisters, featured the song "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod",

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    Boys in the Trees

    December 6, 2015
    If you were a child of the Seventies, the music of Carly Simon was part of the soundtrack of your life. And since she wrote or co-wrote most of her own music, her albums were barometers of her happiness or sadness, her ups and downs from adolescent struggles to adult loves. Fans read (probably too much) into the lyrics of her songs and those of her then husband James Taylor. So, from a fan’s perspective, Simon’s new memoir, “Boys in the Trees” is the perfect complement to her songs with an intimate narrative and revealing backgrounds on the genesis of various songs. For example, here’s the response to her first publicly singing “We’ll Marry,” the song that would later be named “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”: “When the song ended, the room was utterly still, then my small audience applauded rapturously….the applause that Jake [co-writer Jacob Brackman] and I got lasted years. It was the beginning of a beat to a bigger life.” The b
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    Boys in the Trees (memoir)

    2015 memoir by Carly Simon

    Boys in the Trees is a memoir by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon.[1]

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    Boys in the Trees was published on November 24, 2015 by Flatiron Books.[2][3] The book is titled after Simon's 1978 album, Boys in the Trees. A two-disc compilation album, Songs From The Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection), was released on November 20, 2015 to accompany the memoir, and includes a previously unreleased track entitled "Showdown", which was originally recorded during the Boys in the Trees sessions.[4]

    Content

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    Reviewing Boys in the Trees, Fiona Sturges describes the book as "primarily about [Simon's] family, her interior life and her stormy relationships with men, and her candour is frequently startling." Simon describes her early life as the child of privileged parents (her father Richard L. Simon founded the publishing company Simon & Schuster). Sh