Carly Simon: Hotcakes

A glowing, pregnant Carly Simon smiles out from the cover of Hotcakes, one of her biggest selling albums, which featured the gold single "Mockingbird," a duet with her husband James Taylor that effectively remade the old Inez and Charlie Foxx hit and bested it on the charts. The album also included another hit, "Haven't Got Time For The Pain," as well as "Misfit," in which a wife implores her carousing husband to come home, and "Think I'm Gonna Have A Baby," which celebrated the joys of same. With such tracks, Hotcakes was an autobiographical concept album that defined domestic bliss at a time when Simon's listeners also were catching their breath and turning inward.
-- William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide

Robbie Robertson was hired as a sessionman for the recording of the Carly Simon/James Taylor Top 10 hit "Mockingbird".

Tracks

1. Safe and Sound
2. Mind on My Man
3. Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby
4. Older Sister
5. Just Not True
6. Hotcakes
7. Misfit
8. Forever My Love
9. Mockingbird
10. Grown Up
11. Haven't Got Time for the Pain

Sidemen

• Robbie Robertson, guitar

Carly Simon - Hotcakes - 1974 - Asylum 7E-1002
Compact Disc: WEA/Elektra Entertainment 1002

AMG Rating: 4 (out of 9)