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Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)

Where the lyrics of Still Crazy After All These Years take you, and where it was really made.

Two of the album's four U.S. Top 40 hits were credited to other names: "Gone at Last" to Paul Simon with Phoebe Snow, and "My Little Town" to Simon & Garfunkel.

Key places

Recording at A&R Recording, New York (1975)

Recording site Record Plant Studios — The source lists A&R Recording in New York as a recording location for this album. The place is given only at city level, so the exact studio building is not confirmed here. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mixing at Sound Labs, Inc. (1975)

Recording site Sound Labs — The source names Sound Labs, Inc. as the place where the album was mixed. The record is kept as a mixing location, not as the main recording site. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon
• Released October 25, 1975 by Columbia Records
• Four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23), "My Little Town" (No. 9), and the title track (No. 40)
• "Gone at Last" is credited to Paul Simon and Phoebe Snow; "My Little Town" is credited to Simon & Garfunkel

Background

• The album came out as Paul Simon's fourth solo studio album
• Its single "My Little Town" brought Simon back on record with former partner Art Garfunkel

Recording

• "My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970
• "Gone at Last" is a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow
• Two tracks used members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as the backing band
• Credited production: Paul Simon as producer; Phil Ramone as producer and engineer
• Recording credits: Glenn Berger and Bert Szerlip
• Session players include Steve Gadd on drums, Tony Levin on bass, and Michael Brecker on saxophone

Cover

• Cover photography by Edie Baskin
• Design credits: John Berg and Anthony Maggiore

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941, Newark, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• He met Art Garfunkel in elementary school in 1953 and they became known as Simon & Garfunkel in the 1960s.
• The duo's folk-rock hits such as "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "America" and "The Boxer" defined the 1960s counterculture.
• Their final album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970), is among the best-selling albums of all time.

Career

• As a solo artist, Simon explored gospel, reggae, soul and world music.
• Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973) and Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) drew acclaim and hits such as "Mother and Child Reunion" and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover".
• Graceland (1986), incorporating South African influences, became his most successful and acclaimed album.
• He wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998), which was poorly received.
• His later albums include You're the One (2000), So Beautiful or So What (2011), Stranger to Stranger (2016) and Seven Psalms (2023).
• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice and won 16 Grammy Awards.

Honors

• He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001 and the first Library of Congress Gershwin Prize in 2007.
• He co-founded the Children's Health Fund, a nonprofit providing medical care to children.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Four U.S. Top 40 hits came from the album
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" reached No. 1
• "Gone at Last" reached No. 23, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow
• "My Little Town" reached No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel
• The title track reached No. 40
• "My Little Town" was released as an advance single in September
• The album was recorded with many fusion musicians

Records

• Won two Grammy Awards in 1976: Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
• First Grammy for Simon since Simon & Garfunkel broke up
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" was cut as a single and reached No. 1 on the U.S. chart in February 1976

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ja.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" uses the rhythm pattern Steve Gadd had been playing during rehearsal, kept as is
• An alternate version of "Silent Eyes", mostly sung as humming, was used in the Warren Beatty film Shampoo before the album came out
• The Japanese manga title "my little town" by Fumi Shibamon takes its name from the song "My Little Town"
• Herbie Hancock included a version of "I Do It for Your Love" featuring Paul Simon on his 2005 album Possibilities
• Rosemary Clooney and Brad Mehldau also recorded covers of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ja.wikipedia.org

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