Carly Simon / That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be (1971)
I would imagine most millenials and younger are unfamiliar with Carly Simon.
She was a major power house of a singer-song writer in the 70s.
I’ll admit, on the whole, I do not really enjoy and modern women singers. There’s something that has just been missing for me… or at least something in new women singers that doesn’t hit me hard in the feels.
I used to play my mother’s Carly Simon vinyl all the time and there are times when I just need to hear that sublime voice.
Here early albums are just amazing. She had a few hits again in the 80s but the music is just very different. 80’s fluffiness. The old 70’s stuff is the peak stuff.
I love how haunting the opening is of That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be.
Nobody Does It Better is just perfect. (And was a theme to a James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me even!)
You’re So Vain is a classic.
I would die for Carly Simon to do a cover album of all my favorite songs. Sure her voice isn’t quite the same. She’s 82 now.
But oh… that voice….
Just listen to That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be. You may understand why that voice sends chills into me!