This day in music - December 6, 1975: Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years goes to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart
Still Crazy After All These Years was Simon's fourth studio album. It was a great effort that produced four U.S. top 40 hits: "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon and 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 a saxophone player, I have a special place in my heart for recording artists who know how to make use of the horn. David Sanborn, Michael Brecker, and Phil Woods played on the album, which is a pretty serious bunch of people to be wielding Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax's invention on one recording.
This is really a good record. The title track is fabulous, but I've always been partial to "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Great use of percussion. And it did get to No. 1 as a single, arriving on February 7, 1976.
It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1976.
As a saxophone player, I have a special place in my heart for recording artists who know how to make use of the horn. David Sanborn, Michael Brecker, and Phil Woods played on the album, which is a pretty serious bunch of people to be wielding Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax's invention on one recording.
This is really a good record. The title track is fabulous, but I've always been partial to "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Great use of percussion. And it did get to No. 1 as a single, arriving on February 7, 1976.
(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)
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