Track listing
All tracks composed by Paul Simon
"Still Crazy After All These Years" - 3:26
"My Little Town" - 3:51
"I Do It For Your Love" - 3:35
"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - 3:37
"Night Game" - 2:58
"Gone at Last" - 3:40
"Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" - 3:14
"Have a Good Time" - 3:26
"You're Kind" - 3:20
"Silent Eyes" - 4:12
Bonus tracks 2004 CD reissue
"Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) - 5:30
"Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers - 4:38
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Personnel
Paul Simon - vocals, guitar
John Tropea - electric guitar
Patti Austin - background vocals
Art Garfunkel - vocals on My Little Town
Phoebe Snow - background vocals
Joe Beck - electric guitar
Michael Brecker - saxophone soloist
Bob James - electric piano
David Sanborn - saxophone
Grady Tate - drums
Pete Carr - electric guitar
Sivuca - accordion, vocals
Ralph MacDonald - percussion
Chicago Community Choir - background vocals
Barry Beckett - electric piano
Eddie Daniels - saxophone
Gordon Edwards - bass
Jerry Friedman - electric guitar
Steve Gadd - drums
Roger Hawkins - drums
David Hood - bass
The Jessy Dixon Singers - background vocals
Tony Levin - bass
Hugh McCracken - guitar
Leon Pendarvis - piano
Valerie Simpson - background vocals
Richard Tee - piano
Toots Thielemans - harmonica
Phil Woods - saxophone
Ken Asher - organ, electric piano
Dave Matthews - horn arrangements
Chart positions
Year Chart Position
1975 Billboard 200 1 (1 week)
Notes
Recorded in 1975, this album produced four US Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last"
(#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), "50
Ways To Leave Your Lover" (#1) and the title track (#40). It won the Grammy
Award for Album of the Year in 1976 as did Graceland in 1987. 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. (Wonder
won the award again for Songs in the Key of Life in 1977.)
The liner notes for "My Little Town" contain this quote from "Crow" by Ted Hughes:
To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying
"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel
for the first time since 1970.
Simon credits studio drummer Steve Gadd with creating the unique drum beat that became the hook for "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover".
Rosemary Clooney recorded a jazz-flavored version of "Still Crazy After All These Years" for her album Still on the Road (1993).
