All of Carly Simon’s Albums Ranked

Carly Simonwas just 20 when she and her sister Lucy released the first of their three albums together as the Simon Sisters in 1964. The folkyMeet the Simon Sisters included the duo’s only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, “Winkin’, Blinkin’ and Nod,” which reached No. 73. It was a sign of things to come.

By the time the ’70s started, Lucy had left the group to focus on her marriage, leaving Carly to pursue a solo career. In 1971, she released her self-titled debut, which reached No. 30; its follow-up, Anticipation, released nine months later,reached the same position. A year later, she had her first No. 1 single and album.

“You’re So Vain” and its accompanying LP,No Secrets, positioned the singer-songwriter for a busy decade, astraced in the list below of Carly Simon Albums Ranked.Her 1972 marriage to fellow singer-songwriter icon James Taylormade them one of the decade’s leading musical power couples.

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As her career stabilized and tastes changed, Simon, whowas inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Famein 2022,moved toward other areas of popular music, adding more rock-oriented sounds to her adult pop,testingout some ’80s conventions and recording a series of albums based on the Great American Songbook, one of the first pop and rockartists of the era to give her voice to songs from an earlier period.

The list doesn’t include Simon’s 2002 Christmas album or the soundtrack records she’s made as a featured artist over the years, including Working Girl, This Is My Life and two Winnie the Pooh companions,or the 1993 contemporary opera, Romulus Hunt, which she composed. Most ofthese would place somewhere near the bottom.