Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (1987)
Tracklist front / back album covers
1. "Coming Around Again" 3:38
2. "Give Me All Night" 4:20
3. "As Time Goes By" 5:06
4. "Do the Walls Come Down" 3:48
5. "It Should Have Been Me" 4:20
6. "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" 5:01
7. "Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night)" 4:51
8. "You Have to Hurt" 4:04
9. "All I Want Is You" 3:58
10. "Hold On to What You've Got" 3:40
11. "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (based on the original nursery rhyme) 3:40
Total length: 46:26
Bonus tracks on 2017 special edition
12. "Raining" 3:12
13. "The Wives Are in Connecticut" 4:30
14. "If it Wasn't Love" 4:17
15. "Let the River Run" 3:43
16. "Sleight of Hand" 3:28
17. "Give Me All Night (12" Extended Remix)" 5:43
Total length: 71:19
Carly Simon Band Members / Musicians
Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 7, 10), keyboards (1, 11), arrangements (3, 11), acoustic piano (4), Yamaha DX7 (6)
Scott Martin – keyboards (1), backing vocals (1)
Bill Payne – keyboards (1, 11)
Peter-John Vettese – keyboards (2, 7), backing vocals (4)
Rob Mounsey – MIDI piano (3), programming (3), drum programming (3), string arrangements and conductor (3, 6, 9), acoustic piano (6), keyboard bass (6)
Dave Pickell – keyboards (5)
Robbie Kilgore – keyboards (8, 9), keyboard programming (8), synth bass (9)
Chuck Kentis – additional keyboards (8), string synthesizer (8)
Andy Goldmark – keyboards (9), drum machine (9)
Leon Pendarvis – synthesizers (10), arrangements (10)
Barbara Markay – synthesizer programming (10)
Hugh McCracken – guitars (2, 7), tiple (8)
Jimmy Ryan – guitars (3, 6, 8), backing vocals (4, 7, 8)
Keith Scott – guitars (5)
John McCurry – acoustic guitar (9)
Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – guitars (10)
Tony Levin – bass guitar (2, 7)
Dave Taylor – bass guitar (5)
Neil Jason – bass guitar (8)
Russ Kunkel – drums (1–4, 6, 10, 11), drum machine (6)
Frank Filipetti – LinnDrum (2, 7), drum machine programming (8)
Mickey Curry – drums (5)
Jimmy Bralower – percussion (2, 4), drum machine programming (8)
Jimmy Maelen – percussion (9)
Stevie Wonder – harmonica (3)
Michael Brecker – EWI (4), saxophone (7)
David Nadien – concertmaster (3, 6, 9)
Terri Homberg – backing vocals (1)
Paul Samwell-Smith – backing vocals (1, 4, 8), E-mu Emulator (4), LinnDrum (4)
Lucy Simon – backing vocals (4, 7)
Marc LaFrance – backing vocals (5)
Timothy Wright Concert Choir – choir (6)
Caz Lee – backing vocals (8)
Will Lee – backing vocals (8)
Roberta Flack – backing vocals (9)
Gordon Grody – backing vocals (10)
Lani Groves – backing vocals (10)
Janice Pendarvis – backing vocals (10)
Alexandra Taylor – backing vocals (11)
Ben Taylor – backing vocals (11)
Isaac Taylor – backing vocals (11)
Sally Taylor – backing vocals (11)
Strings (3, 6, 9)
Warren Lash, Beverly Lauridsen, Richard Locker, Carol McCracken and Charles McCracken – cello
Lamar Alsop, Julien Barber, Theodore Israel, Carol Landon and Sue Pray – viola
Marin Alsop, Lewis Eley, Barry Finclair, Regis Iandiorio, Harry Lookofsky, Jan Mullen, John Pintavalle, Matthew Raimondi, Richard Sortomme, Marti Sweet and Gerald Tarack – violin
Coming Around Again is the 13th studio album by the American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Arista Records, on April 13, 1987.
It is the first of many albums Simon recorded for Arista. The title track, along with "Itsy Bitsy Spider", was written for and featured in the 1986 film Heartburn. It peaked at No. 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simon's twelfth Top 40 hit in the United States. Additionally, it was a Top 10 hit in the UK. The album itself reached No. 25 in both the US and the UK. It was certified Silver by the BPI in September 1987, and Platinum by the RIAA in early 1988. It has since sold nearly two million copies in the US.
