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Coming Around Again: Carly Simon's "Live at Grand Central" Comes to CD, LP, Blu-ray

November 21, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Carly Simon Live at Grand Central

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Earlier this month, Carly Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  It was a long-overdue recognition for the singer-songwriter whose thirteen U.S. top 40 hits include such radio staples as "Anticipation," "The Right Thing to Do," "Nobody Does It Better," "Coming Around Again," and the chart-topping "You're So Vain."  Any fan of Simon knows that any live appearance is a true rarity-and the same was true back on April 2, 1995, when she performed her first full-length concert in 14 years for a stunned and surprised crowd of usually-jaded New Yorkers.  On January 27, 2023, Live at Grand Central is coming to CD, LP, Blu-ray, and digital platforms from MRI and Legacy Recordings.

The genesis of Live at Grand Central began with Simon's close friend Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  In 1975, the former First Lady had been appalled when the courts had voided the landmark designation of the venerable train station built in 1913; this action would have allowed the building to be transformed beyond recognition.  Onassis was joined in the fight by the Municipal Art Society, a group which had pioneered the Landmarks Preservation Law after the historic Pennsylvania Station had been demolished in 1965 and replaced with the modern, dingy basement station familiar to commuters today. "If we don't care about our past, we can't have very much hope for the future," she told reporters at Grand Central's Oyster Bar.  Jackie appealed to then-Mayor Beame, and he appealed to the court system.  Her crusade was successful, and Grand Central remains a gleaming and majestic symbol of New York City today.  (Carly shared her memories of Jackie in her 2019 book Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie.)

Jackie, for whom Carly had written the song "Touched by the Sun" for her 1994 album Letters Never Sent, had encouraged her friend to join in the ongoing efforts to preserve and restore Grand Central.  She had suggested that Simon stage a concert there.  Though Onassis had passed away almost a year earlier on May 19, 1994, Carly went ahead with the show in tribute to her.  The 15-song show in the middle of the main terminal took commuters by surprise; it was an afternoon that fans in attendance would never forget.  Simon performed five songs from Letters Never Sent (including "Touched by the Sun" in honor of Jackie) as well as selected favorites including "Anticipation," "Legend in Your Own Time," "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," "Jesse," "Coming Around Again," and the Academy Award-winning "Let the River Run."  Notably, she did not perform "You're So Vain."

The Lifetime television network's cameras were there to preserve the concert.  It aired just a few weeks later, on May 21, 1995, to coincide with an Intimate Portrait docu-special celebrating Simon.  Later that year, Live at Grand Central was issued on VHS.  Now, it makes its debut on Blu-ray as well as in audio formats (CD, LP, download/streaming) as newly remixed by Carly's longtime collaborator Frank Filipetti.  The concert's "Like a River" is currently available to stream.

Live at Grand Central captures a vivid moment in the extraordinary career of Carly Simon.  It arrives in all formats on January 27 from MRI/Legacy and can be pre-ordered at the links below.

Carly Simon, Live at Grand Central (MRI/Legacy, 2023)

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  1. Touched by the Sun
  2. Anticipation
  3. I've Got to Have You
  4. We Have No Secrets
  5. Haven't Got Time for the Pain
  6. Jesse
  7. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
  8. Letters Never Sent
  9. Legend In Your Own Time
  10. De Bat (Fly in My Face)
  11. Davy
  12. Halfway Around the World
  13. Like A River
  14. Coming Around Again
  15. Let The River Run

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. zubb says

    November 21, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    This is wonderful news. Carly was in fine form in this concert. I am looking forward to the CD and especially the Blu Ray. I have had a nearly worn out VHS copy since the 90s. This is a must have for me!

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  2. Charles Clough says

    November 21, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    I was excited to find the audio CD of Carly's Live at Martha's Vineyard a/k/a "Greatest Hits Live" as the second CD in the expanded "Coming Around Again" deluxe edition a few years ago. Now this one - great news for a classic artist that deserves to be honored. "You're So Vain" was the first 45 I'd ever purchased! So sorry she's lost two sisters one day after another in October to cancer, that was heartbreaking to learn of.

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  3. DLG1971 says

    December 12, 2022 at 9:21 am

    Very cool. I saw Carly on her subsequent tour, where she was co-headliner with Hall & Oates; if I recall correctly members of the H&O band had played on Letters Never Sent, which was the connection.

    She was really good, and I remember Hall coming back out after their set to sing backgrounds on a few Carly tunes.

    And a few years later when H&O did A&E's Live By Request, one of the callers that made a request was - you guessed it - Carly Simon.

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