Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-4

1. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (0:00)
2. Paul Simon - My Little Town (3:26)
3. Paul Simon - I Do It For Your Love (7:18)
4. Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (10:53)

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" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (No. 40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.

"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. Two tracks featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as a backing band.

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).

Personnel:
Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 3, 4, 9), electric guitar (5), string arrangements (7), horn arrangements (7, 9)
Barry Beckett – Fender Rhodes (1), acoustic piano (2)
Bob James – woodwind arrangements (1), string arrangements (1, 3), Fender Rhodes (7, 8)
Kenneth Ascher – Fender Rhodes (3), organ (4)
Sivuca – accordion (3), vocal solo (3)
Richard Tee – acoustic piano (6)
Leon Pendarvis – acoustic piano (10)
Hilary James – piano
Pete Carr – electric guitar (2)
Joe Beck – electric guitar (3, 8, 9)
Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (3)
Hugh McCracken – electric guitar (4, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (9)
John Tropea – electric guitar (4)
David Hood – bass (1, 2)
Tony Levin – bass (3, 4, 5, 7–10)
Gordon Edwards – bass (6)
Roger Hawkins – drums (1, 2)
Steve Gadd – drums (3, 4, 7-10)
Grady Tate – drums (6)
Dave Mattacks – drums (6)
Ralph MacDonald – percussion (2, 3, 4, 6, 8)
Toots Thielemans – harmonica (5)
Michael Brecker – tenor sax solo (1), saxophone (7)
Eddie Daniels – saxophone (7)
David Sanborn – saxophone (7)
Phil Woods – alto sax solo (8)
David Mathews – horn arrangements (2, 8)
Art Garfunkel – vocals (2)
Patti Austin – backing vocals (4)
Valerie Simpson – backing vocals (4, 8)
Phoebe Snow – backing vocals (4), vocals (6)
The Jessy Dixon Singers – backing vocals (6)
Chicago Community Choir – backing vocals (10)

Production:
Paul Simon – producer
Phil Ramone – producer, engineer
Jerry Masters – engineer (2)
Glenn Berger – recording
Bert Szerlip – recording
John Berg – design
Anthony Maggiore – design
Edie Baskin – cover photography

[TheRt]

Nice to meet you, your video vividly reminded me of my youth. As a junior high school student at the time, I was inspired by this album. This album was given to me by a childhood friend of mine. I still have a good relationship with him. Thank you for reminding me of my youth.
from jp (*^^)v

[francescaruby]

Thanks for sharing I interviewed them in 1983 for their reunion tour in Paris.