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August 15, 2008I've been looking for this CD for a while now. ITunes didn't have it and because it's "ancient" to the youth of today, I could never find it in any retail music stores. My favortie songs are Older Sister and Grown Up. If you're a Carly Simon fan, I highly recommend this CD.
December 27, 2007This was one of my favorite albums, but I am not enjoying the CD as
much as I thought. I still love "Think I'm Gonna Have A Baby" which
was the reason I purchased this CD.
November 1, 2007 |  | In the eye of the beholder..... |  |
Probably half the overage guys in the country have had a vicarious crush on Carly at some point in the last 35 years. She has had a lot of great albums, and this is one of the best. [The recent "Moonlight Serenade" shows her voice to be as good as ever]. This recording is a joy-filled journey back to the 70's, and has a great singer in her absolute prime.
The two BIG HITS here are "Mockingbird" and "Haven't Got Time For The Pain". For those of us now in the grandkid years, "Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby" will sure bring back some memories, most of them wonderful. I kind of liked "Older Sister", and I suppose the title cut was meant as a joke.
Carly has also had some fabulous album covers, but I think that this tops them. WOW! Sexiest album jacket I ever saw. Anywhere. The girl absolutely glows. Proof that sexy isn't the same as provocative; she's completely covered except for hands and face, but, again, WOW. How James Taylor could be fool enough to let her get away is beyond me. Just one overage guy's opinion....
June 3, 2007I have been on a Carly kick for awhile now and decided I was going to go through her back catalog and snatch up all of her 70's CDs. Hotcakes, Carly's fourth album was recorded while she was pregnant with her first baby, the follow up to her highly successful No Secrets ("You're So Vain") album, this followed along those same lines though I have to say the songs are a tad more peppy and in a happier mode than her previous records. I'm sure this had something to do with the glow of her marriage and pregnancy. Opening with the hilarious yet poignant "Safe & Sound" Carly describes how the world is going crazy, Hong Kong's divorce rate is high, the Mexican touradors "have all gone gay, the Roman [...] have quit to seek a better way" and motorcycle gangs are driving around naked down Hollywood Boulevard but as long as Carly and her man can stick together through all the madness they'll be safe from all of it. "I Think I'm Having A Baby" is pretty straight forward and her chorus of "they're making too many phonograph records" leaves you wondering whether she's contemplating giving up her career for her family. In a clever little line she lets us know she "won't be naughty for the sake of naught/or different just to differ." The excellant "Grown Up" is typical Carly reflections remembering how she viewed the grown ups at her parent's cocktail parties and now she's one of those people, quite excellant in delivery and lyrical; "I've just gotten older/ I've just gotten taller" and the crazed little jazz fest that is the title track is something you wouldn't expect to hear. The lyrics are just insanity about making pancakes, which perhaps is a child's nursery rhyme I'm not familar with, no matter what the intent it's a little dose of fun. The two singles released "Haven't Got Time For The Pain" and the romping duet with husband James Taylor in "Mockingbird" are nice little additions that don't necessarily take away from the rest of the album. Next to 1975's Playing Possum, this is probably my favorite of the Carly Simon albums in my collection thus far.
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