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Still Crazy After All These Years

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, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow), "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.

Still Crazy After All These Years

October 17, 1975 (1975-10-17)[1]

May and June 1975

35:24

Paul Simon, Phil Ramone

"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), Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys), and Robert Ellis (on his 2016 self-titled solo album).

Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 3, 4, 9), electric guitar (5), string arrangements (7), horn arrangements (7, 9)

Fender Rhodes (1), acoustic piano (2)

Barry Beckett

– woodwind arrangements (1), string arrangements (1, 3), Fender Rhodes (7, 8)

Bob James

– Fender Rhodes (3), organ (4)

Kenneth Ascher

accordion (3), vocal solo (3)

Sivuca

– acoustic piano (6)

Richard Tee

– acoustic piano (10)

Leon Pendarvis

– electric guitar (2)

Pete Carr

– electric guitar (3, 8, 9)

Joe Beck

Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (3)

– electric guitar (4, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (9)

Hugh McCracken

– electric guitar (4)

John Tropea

– bass (1, 2)

David Hood

– bass (3, 4, 5, 7–10)

Tony Levin

– bass (6)

Gordon Edwards

– drums (1, 2)

Roger Hawkins

– drums (3, 4, 7-10)

Steve Gadd

– drums (6)

Grady Tate

– percussion (2, 3, 4, 6, 8)

Ralph MacDonald

harmonica (5)

Toots Thielemans

– tenor sax solo (1), saxophone (7)

Michael Brecker

– saxophone (7)

Eddie Daniels

– saxophone (7)

David Sanborn

– alto sax solo (8)

Phil Woods

– horn arrangements (2, 8)

David Mathews

– vocals (2)

Art Garfunkel

– backing vocals (4)

Patti Austin

– backing vocals (4, 8)

Valerie Simpson

– backing vocals (4), vocals (6)

Phoebe Snow

– backing vocals (6)

The Jessy Dixon Singers

Chicago Community Choir – backing vocals (10)

Paul Simon – producer

– producer, engineer

Phil Ramone

Jerry Masters – engineer (2)

Glenn Berger – recording

Bert Szerlip – recording

– design

John Berg

Anthony Maggiore – design

Edie Baskin – cover photography