Still Crazy After All These Years

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Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976. In Simon's acceptance speech for the Album of the Year award, on February 28, he jokingly thanked Stevie Wonder, who had won the award the two previous years for Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale, for not releasing an album that year.[4] (Wonder won the award again for Songs in the Key of Life, a double album, in 1977.)

"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow.

The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her 1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album released posthumously in 1996), and Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys).

Track listing

All songs were written by Paul Simon.

Side one
  1. "Still Crazy After All These Years" – 3:26
  2. "My Little Town" – 3:51
  3. "I Do It for Your Love" – 3:35
  4. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" – 3:37
  5. "Night Game" – 2:58
Side two
  2. "Gone at Last" – 3:40
  3. "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" – 3:14
  4. "Have a Good Time" – 3:26
  5. "You're Kind" – 3:20
  6. "Silent Eyes" – 4:12
Bonus tracks (2004 remaster)
  2. "Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) – 5:30
  3. "Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers – 4:38

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Robert Christgau review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ “”. "18th Grammy Awards Album Of The Year". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2012-02-12
  7. ^ "dutchcharts.nl Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  8. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 263. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  9. ^ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
  10. ^ "charts.org.nz – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  11. ^ "norwegiancharts.com Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin' Simon" (ASP). Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  12. ^ "swedishcharts.com Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  13. ^ "Chart Stats – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (PHP). UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 2011-08-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ Allmusic – Still Crazy After All These Years> Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
  15. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1975". RPM. Retrieved 2011-10-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1976". RPM. Retrieved 2011-10-03. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ "Top Pop Albums of 1976". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  18. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Music Canada.
  19. ^ "British album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type Still Crazy After All These Years in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  20. ^ "American album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Recording Industry Association of America.
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
December 6–12, 1975 		Succeeded by
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