Still Crazy After All These Years

Still Crazy After All These Years
Studio album by Paul Simon
Released 25 October 1975
Recorded 1975
Studio A&R Recording, New York City[1]
Genre Folk rock, pop rock, soul
Length 36:25 (original album)
45:32 (2004 CD reissue)
Label Columbia
Producer Paul Simon, Phil Ramone
Paul Simon chronology
Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin'
(1974)Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin'1974		 Still Crazy After All These Years
(1975)		 Greatest Hits, Etc.
(1977)Greatest Hits, Etc.1977
Singles from Still Crazy After All These Years
  1. "Gone at Last"
    Released: 1975
  2. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
    Released: December 1975
  3. "Still Crazy After All These Years"
    Released: 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Chicago Tribune[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[6]
Record Collector[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]
The Village VoiceB[9]

Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released 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.[10] (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 tracks 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

  1. "Gone at Last" – 3:40
  2. "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" – 3:14
  3. "Have a Good Time" – 3:26
  4. "You're Kind" – 3:20
  5. "Silent Eyes" – 4:12

Bonus tracks (2004 remaster)

  1. "Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) – 5:30
  2. "Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers – 4:38

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ↑ "New York, New York 1975: Oh What a Year!". mixonline.com.
  2. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. "Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ Powers, Ann (November 2006). "Back Catalogue: Paul Simon". Blender. New York (53).
  4. ↑ Kot, Greg (October 14, 1990). "The Evolution Of Simon's Diverse Solo Career". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  6. ↑ Browne, David (January 18, 1991). "Rating Paul Simon's albums". Entertainment Weekly. New York. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years". Record Collector. London: 97. [With] Simon enlisting a crack squad of New York jazz session players for a record that was clearly more personal than anything that had gone before.
  8. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Paul Simon". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. London: Fireside Books. pp. 736–37. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  9. ↑ Christgau, Robert (December 1, 1975). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  10. ↑ “”. "18th Grammy Awards Album Of The Year". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  11. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  12. ↑ Library and Archives Canada. Archived 2015-11-18 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-02-12
  13. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
  16. ↑ "charts.org.nz – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  17. ↑ "norwegiancharts.com Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin' Simon" (ASP). Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  18. ↑ "swedishcharts.com Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (ASP). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
  19. ↑ "Chart Stats – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years" (PHP). UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  20. ↑ Allmusic – Still Crazy After All These Years> Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
  21. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1975". RPM. Archived from the original on 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  22. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Albums of 1976". RPM. Archived from the original on 2014-02-24. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
  23. ↑ "Top Pop Albums of 1976". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  24. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Music Canada.
  25. ↑ "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.
  26. ↑ "American album certifications – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
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