Clouds in My Coffee

Clouds in My Coffee
Clouds in My Coffee
Box set by Carly Simon
Released	November 7, 1995
Recorded	1965–1995
Genre	Rock
Length	222:20
Label	Arista
Producer	Frank Filipetti and Carly Simon – Executive Producers
Carly Simon chronology

Clouds in My Coffee: 1965-1995 is a three-disc box set by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Arista Records, on November 7, 1995.

A full career retrospective at the time of its release, it contains 58 songs spanning Simon's career from 1965 to 1995.^[1] Simon personally curated the collection: "Choosing the material was quite a test. What makes it and what doesn't after all this time is partially a matter of where the taste and mood is on the day(s) you have to make the editorial decisions."^[2] Nine tracks were previously unreleased on any of Simon's albums.^[1] The booklet includes numerous photographs and extensive liner notes by Simon.^[1] The album's title is taken from a refrain in Simon's song "You're So Vain".^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]

A contemporary review from People stated: "It’s no secret that Carly Simon plumbs the Sturm und Drang of her life for source material. This triple-CD boxed set, spanning 30 years of her work, is a virtual autobiography in song. It boasts 58 tracks, including Top 40 hits, previously unreleased studio cuts (like 1972’s lovely country-flavored "I’m All It Takes to Make You Happy"), and collectors' items (her spare version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"). For those doubting her range, Simon proves here that she is more than a lite-FM goddess. The biggest surprise is the way she can wrap her sultry voice around a classic like the Gershwins' "I've Got a Crush on You" or Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Something Wonderful". All in all, the package is some kinda wonderful."^[5]

A retrospective review from AllMusic stated: "Rather than focusing on hits and other material most beloved by fans, retrospectives compiled by the artists themselves tend to reflect personal favorites, overbalanced with more recent material. By organizing this three-disc set into three different, non-chronological collections, Carly Simon partially defeats those tendencies. The first disc, The Hits, performs the valuable function of bringing together most of her biggest singles, previously spread across many records on many labels. The second disc, Miscellaneous & Unreleased, seems aimed at the collector. And the third, Cry Yourself to Sleep, is the best-intentioned one of all -- though perceived as a singles artist, Simon has written some of her best and most personal music on isolated album tracks."^[4]

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[6]

Disc 1: *The Hits*
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Let the River Run"	Carly Simon	Working Girl (soundtrack) (1989)	3:40
2.	"You Belong to Me"	Simon Michael McDonald	Boys in the Trees (1978)	3:53
3.	"Nobody Does It Better"	Carole Bayer Sager Marvin Hamlisch	The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack) (1977)	3:33
4.	"Coming Around Again"	Simon	Coming Around Again (1987)	3:39
5.	"Jesse"	Simon	Come Upstairs (1980)	4:15
6.	"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"	Simon	Coming Around Again (1987)	4:56
7.	"You're So Vain"	Simon	No Secrets (1972)	4:19
8.	"Touched by the Sun"	Simon	Letters Never Sent (1994)	5:28
9.	"Haven't Got Time for the Pain"	Simon Jacob Brackman	Hotcakes (1974)	3:55
10.	"Better Not Tell Her"	Simon	Have You Seen Me Lately (1990)	5:12
11.	"Legend in Your Own Time"	Simon	Anticipation (1971)	3:45
12.	"Mockingbird"	Inez Foxx Charlie Foxx Taylor^[a]	Hotcakes (1974)	4:11
13.	"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"	Simon Brackman	Carly Simon (1971)	4:17
14.	"All I Want Is You"	Simon Brackman Andy Goldmark	Coming Around Again (1987)	3:58
15.	"The Right Thing to Do"	Simon	No Secrets (1972)	2:58
16.	"Like A River"	Simon	Letters Never Sent (1994)	4:45
17.	"Anticipation"	Simon	Anticipation (1971)	3:21
18.	"Give Me All Night"	Simon Gerard McMahon	Coming Around Again (1987)	4:23
Total length:				74:28

Disc 2: *Miscellaneous & Unreleased*
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Angel From Montgomery"	John Prine	Previously unreleased (1972)	4:29
2.	"Raining"	Simon	Previously unreleased (1990, 1995)	3:12
3.	"I'm All It Takes To Make You Happy"	Simon	Previously unreleased (1972)	3:35
4.	"Easy on the Eyes"	Simon Goldmark	This Is My Life (soundtrack) (1992)	4:44
5.	"Turn of the Tide"	Simon Brackman	Free to Be... a Family (1988)	4:05
6.	"Libby"	Simon	Another Passenger (1976)	4:57
7.	"Have You Seen Me Lately?"	Simon	Have You Seen Me Lately (1990)	4:14
8.	"My New Boyfriend"	Simon	Spoiled Girl (1985)	4:19
9.	"Voulez-Vous Danser"	Simon	Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera (1993)	3:12
10.	"The Night Before Christmas"	Simon	This Is My Life (soundtrack) (1992)	3:41
11.	"Halfway 'Round The World"	Simon	Letters Never Sent (1994)	4:33
12.	"Life Is Eternal"	Simon Teese Gohl	Have You Seen Me Lately (1990)	5:25
13.	"We Have No Secrets"	Simon	No Secrets (1972)	3:57
14.	"Why"	Bernard Edwards Nile Rodgers	Soup for One (soundtrack) (1982)	4:06
15.	"Take Me Out to the Ballgame"	Albert Von Tilzer Jack Norworth Traditional	Previously unreleased - from the documentary Baseball (1994)	2:34
16.	"Back the Way"	Simon	This is My Life (soundtrack) (1992)	4:51
17.	"Itsy Bitsy Spider"	Simon (based on original nursery rhyme)	Coming Around Again (1987)	3:42
18.	"Play With Me"	Simon	Previously unreleased (1965)	2:28
19.	"My Luv Is Like A Red, Red Rose"	Lucy Simon from the poem "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns	The Simon Sisters Sing for Children (1969)	2:57
Total length:				75:01

Disc 3: *Cry Yourself To Sleep*
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"It Happens Every Day"	Simon	Hello Big Man (1983)	2:45
2.	"Boys in the Trees"	Simon	Boys in the Trees (1978)	3:13
3.	"Julie Through The Glass"	Simon	Anticipation (1971)	3:24
4.	"Orpheus"	Simon	Hello Big Man (1983)	3:53
5.	"Never Been Gone"	Simon Brackman	Spy (1979)	3:35
6.	"Happy Birthday"	Simon	Have You Seen Me Lately (1990)	4:52
7.	"Devoted To You"	Felice and Boudleaux Bryant	Boys in the Trees (1978)	2:29
8.	"Davy"	Simon	Letters Never Sent (1994)	3:41
9.	"Do The Walls Come Down"	Simon Paul Samwell-Smith	Coming Around Again (1987)	3:54
10.	"Danny Boy"	Frederick Weatherly Traditional	My Romance (1990)	3:21
11.	"Dink's Blues"	Traditional	Cuddlebug (1964) as The Simon Sisters	3:48
12.	"We're So Close"	Simon	Spy (1979)	5:09
13.	"Someone Waits For You"	Peter Allen Will Jennings	Previously unreleased on CD, from the film Swing Shift (1984)	3:00
14.	"Born To Break My Heart"	Simon	Letters Never Sent (1994)	5:00
15.	"Time After Time"	Jule Styne Sammy Cahn	My Romance (1990)	2:06
16.	"What Shall We Do with the Child"	Simon Nicholas Holmes Kate Horsey	Torch (1981)	2:44
17.	"I've Got a Crush on You"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	The Glory of Gershwin (1994)	3:35
18.	"Something Wonderful"	Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II	My Romance (1990)	2:12
19.	"You're The Love of My Life"	Simon	This is My Life (soundtrack) (1992)	3:35
20.	"I Get Along Without You Very Well"	Hoagy Carmichael	Torch (1981)	3:24
21.	"By Myself / I See Your Face Before Me"	Howard Dietz Arthur Schwartz Howard Dietz Arthur Schwartz	My Romance (1990)	3:11
Total length:				72:51

Notes

^a signifies a writer by additional lyrics

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Clouds In My Coffee". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "Timeline 90's". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on September 1, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^ "You're So Vain lyrics". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Ruhlmann, William. "Clouds in My Coffee 1965-1995". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2007.
^ "Picks and Pans Review: Clouds in My Coffee: 1965-1995". People. Archived from the original on May 29, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
^ Clouds in My Coffee (booklet). Carly Simon. Arista. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

Carly Simon's Official Website

[carlysimon.com-1] "Clouds In My Coffee". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[2] "Timeline 90's". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on September 1, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

[3] "You're So Vain lyrics". Carlysimon.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[allmusic-4] Ruhlmann, William. "Clouds in My Coffee 1965-1995". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2007.

[5] "Picks and Pans Review: Clouds in My Coffee: 1965-1995". People. Archived from the original on May 29, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2022.

[6] Clouds in My Coffee (booklet). Carly Simon. Arista. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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v t e Carly Simon
Studio albums	Carly Simon Anticipation No Secrets Hotcakes Playing Possum Another Passenger Boys in the Trees Spy Come Upstairs Torch Hello Big Man Spoiled Girl Coming Around Again My Romance Have You Seen Me Lately Letters Never Sent Film Noir The Bedroom Tapes Moonlight Serenade Into White This Kind of Love Never Been Gone
Compilations	The Best of Carly Simon Clouds in My Coffee The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better Anthology Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits Carly Simon Collector's Edition Original Album Series Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon Songs from the Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection) These Are the Good Old Days: The Carly Simon and Jac Holzman Story
Live albums	Greatest Hits Live Live at Grand Central
Christmas albums	Christmas Is Almost Here
Soundtrack albums	Working Girl This Is My Life Piglet's Big Movie The Best of Pooh and Heffalumps, Too
Other albums	No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record In Harmony 2 Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera
Concert films	Live from Martha's Vineyard Carly in Concert – My Romance Live at Grand Central A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2
Singles	"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" "Anticipation" "Legend in Your Own Time" "You're So Vain" "The Right Thing to Do" "Mockingbird" "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" "Attitude Dancing" "Waterfall" "It Keeps You Runnin'" "Half a Chance" "Nobody Does It Better" "You Belong to Me" "Devoted to You" "Vengeance" "Jesse" "Hurt" "Why" "Kissing with Confidence" "You Know What to Do" "Tired of Being Blonde" "My New Boyfriend" "Coming Around Again" "Give Me All Night" "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" "All I Want Is You" "Let the River Run" "Better Not Tell Her" "Love of My Life" "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" "Let It Snow"
Other songs	"Angel from Montgomery" "We Have No Secrets" "Night Owl" "You Can Close Your Eyes" "When Manhattan Was a Maiden"
The Simon Sisters	Meet the Simon Sisters Cuddlebug The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod: The Kapp Recordings
Memoirs	Boys in the Trees: A Memoir Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
Family	Richard Simon (father) Andrea Heinemann Simon (mother) George Simon (uncle) Joanna Simon (sister) Lucy Simon (sister) James Taylor (ex-husband) Sally Taylor (daughter)
Related articles	Awards and nominations Discography The Simon Sisters