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| Artist: Carly Simon |
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
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1. Moonlight Serenade ~ Carly Simon
2. I've Got You Under My Skin ~ Carly Simon
3. I Only Have Eyes For You ~ Carly Simon
4. Moonglow ~ Carly Simon
5. Alone Together ~ Carly Simon
6. In The Still Of The Night ~ Carly Simon
7. More I See You, The ~ Carly Simon
8. Where Or When ~ Carly Simon
9. My One And Only Love ~ Carly Simon
10. All The things You are ~ Carly Simon
11. How Long Has This Been Going On ~ Carly Simon
| Recorded over a four month period, Moonlight Serenade showcases Carly Simon's dusky and sensual vocal stylings on eleven romantic standards penned by some of the world's greatest songwriters including Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II, George & Ira Gershwin, and Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz. Moonlight Serenade reunited Simon with the legendary producer Richard Perry, who first worked with Carly on her career-defining #1 breakthrough masterpiece, No Secrets.
The DualDisc edition features the full album on the audio-only side. The DVD side includes the album in its entirety as well as exclusive new footage of Carly at-home and a "making of the album" documentary including in-the-studio footage, photos, and interviews with Carly Simon and Richard Perry. |
Album Notes and Credits
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Personnel: Carly Simon (vocals); Vin "Vinny" D'Onofrio (guitar); Alyssa Park, Shalini Vijayan, Samuel Formicola, Samuel Fischer (violin); Danny Seidenberg (viola); Victor Lawrence (cello); Doug Webb (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Tom Evans (saxophone); Lee Thornburg (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone); Larry Lunetta (trumpet); Mike Thompson (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Jim Cox (piano); Alex Navarro (string synthesizer); Chris Golden (bass instrument); John Ferraro (drums); Sammy Merendino (percussion, programming). |
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Additional personnel: Andy Chukerman (string synthesizer). |
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Since 1981's TORCH, Carly Simon has recorded three more collections of pre-rock standards. 2005's MOONLIGHT SERENADE is the best of the lot, and one of the best albums of standards yet recorded by a singer of Simon's generation. It beats the pants off of similar sets by Linda Ronstadt and Rod Stewart, for example. For one thing, Simon is simply a great singer, even at this late stage in her career; she's taken care of her instrument, and her tone throughout MOONLIGHT SERENADE is superb, as is her increasingly jazzy and unconventional phrasing. (Listen to her subtle but effective vibrato on "All The Things You Are," for starters.) More importantly, Simon chooses songs to suit her voice, not her audience's expectations, which means that along withsuch familiar tunes as "I Only Have Eyes For You," listeners are treated to readings of relative obscurities like "My One and Only Love" instead of the umpteenth rendition of "Stardust." |
Producer: Richard Perry |
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Engineer: Bobby Ginsburg |
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Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
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Original Soundtrack |
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Simon, Lucy |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 07/19/2005 |
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Original Release Date : 2005 |
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Catalog ID : 94881 |
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Label : Columbia (USA) |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00827969488126 |
Professional Reviews
Mojo (Publisher)
(p.108)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "Once more it's the open-top bus ride down memory lane for those who recall the songwriting joys of Gershwin, Kern, Cole Porter, etc....The songs, of course, are impeccable."
(p.108)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "Once more it's the open-top bus ride down memory lane for those who recall the songwriting joys of Gershwin, Kern, Cole Porter, etc....The songs, of course, are impeccable."
