The Simon Sisters

No matter how old I get, whoever donates records to Goodwill seems to be older. It's always Engelbert Humperdinck, Herb Alpert, Jim Nabors, Roger Williams, Mantovani...that kind of stuff. Stuff my parents listened to. But hope springs eternal, so if I see a batch of old vinyl, I stoop down and go through it.

Sometimes there are interesting surprises.

Today, I saw something called 

I just had time for my brain to think, "That looks like Carly Simon" before my eyeball looked above the album title and saw Lucy & Carly. Well dip me in mud and sprinkle me with kitty litter. 

So of course I bought it. ($1.99, by the way.) And when I got home I had a look at Carly Simon's discography on Wikipedia, the first entry of which is Carly Simon, released in 1971. * Hmmm. Because the album I bought originally came out in 1969. So I poked around a bit more, and found out that The Simon Sisters discography was on a separate list, and included 3 items:

1964: Meet the Simon Sisters
1966: Cuddlebug
1969: The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children

Which is kind of interesting, because astute observers will note that my album is not included in this list. That's because all of these albums were reissued under different titles:


1973: Lucy & Carly – The Simon Sisters Sing for Children [re-issue of "Lobster Quadrille"]
2006: Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod: The Kapp Recordings [re-issue of their first two albums]
2008: Carly & Lucy Simon Sing Songs for Children [re-issue of "Lobster Quadrille"]

(All of this information comes to you courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simon_Sisters.)

So that's a bit confusing, isn't it?

At any rate...in 1964, Carly was a mere 21 years old, and big sister Lucy was 24. Lucy went on to have a very successful career of her own, including winning two Grammy awards. And if that's not enough, get this: Carly and Lucy's dad was Richard Simon, co-founder of Simon & Schuster.

Okay, Jeopardy!...I'm ready.

* And including the great song, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," written by Carly and Jacob Brackman, who was also her songwriting partner on "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" and some other songs which did not earn millions of dollars.