Still Crazy After All These Years

Still Crazy After All These Years
Studio album by Paul Simon
Released	October 17, 1975 (1975-10-17) [1]
Studio	A&R Recording, New York [2]
Genre	Jazz pop [3]
Length	35:24
Label	Columbia
Producer	Paul Simon Phil Ramone
Paul Simon chronology
Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin' (1974) Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) Greatest Hits, Etc. (1977)
Singles from Still Crazy After All These Years
"Gone at Last" Released: August 1975 "My Little Town" Released: October 1975 "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Released: December 1975 "Still Crazy After All These Years" Released: March 1976

Retrospective professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Blender	[5]
Chicago Tribune	[6]
Christgau's Record Guide	B [7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]
Entertainment Weekly	B+ [9]
The Guardian	[10]
Record Collector	[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[12]
Uncut	[13]

Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 17, 1975, by Columbia Records. 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.

"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) and Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys ).

Track listing

All tracks are written by Paul Simon

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Still Crazy After All These Years"	3:26
2.	"My Little Town"	3:51
3.	"I Do It for Your Love"	3:35
4.	"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"	3:37
5.	"Night Game"	2:58

Side two

No.	Title	Length
6.	"Gone at Last"	3:40
7.	"Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy"	3:14
8.	"Have a Good Time"	3:26
9.	"You're Kind"	3:20
10.	"Silent Eyes"	4:12
Total length:		35:24

Personnel

• Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 3, 4, 9), electric guitar (5), string arrangements (7), horn arrangements (7, 9)
• Barry Beckett – Fender Rhodes (1), acoustic piano (2)
• Bob James – woodwind arrangements (1), string arrangements (1, 3), Fender Rhodes (7, 8)
• Kenneth Ascher – Fender Rhodes (3), organ (4)
• Sivuca – accordion (3), vocal solo (3)
• Richard Tee – acoustic piano (6)
• Leon Pendarvis – acoustic piano (10)
• Pete Carr – electric guitar (2)
• Joe Beck – electric guitar (3, 8, 9)
• Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (3)
• Hugh McCracken – electric guitar (4, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (9)
• John Tropea – electric guitar (4)
• David Hood – bass (1, 2)
• Tony Levin – bass (3, 4, 5, 7–10)
• Gordon Edwards – bass (6)
• Roger Hawkins – drums (1, 2)
• Steve Gadd – drums (3, 4, 7-10)
• Grady Tate – drums (6)
• Ralph MacDonald – percussion (2, 3, 4, 6, 8)
• Toots Thielemans – harmonica (5)
• Michael Brecker – tenor sax solo (1), saxophone (7)
• Eddie Daniels – saxophone (7)
• David Sanborn – saxophone (7)
• Phil Woods – alto sax solo (8)
• David Mathews – horn arrangements (2, 8)
• Art Garfunkel – vocals (2)
• Patti Austin – backing vocals (4)
• Valerie Simpson – backing vocals (4, 8)
• Phoebe Snow – backing vocals (4), vocals (6)
• The Jessy Dixon Singers – backing vocals (6)
• Chicago Community Choir – backing vocals (10)

Production

• Paul Simon – producer
• Phil Ramone – producer, engineer
• Jerry Masters – engineer (2)
• Glenn Berger – recording
• Bert Szerlip – recording
• John Berg – design
• Anthony Maggiore – design
• Edie Baskin – cover photography

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1975–76) Position Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart [14] 39 Canadian RPM Albums Chart [15] 8 Dutch Mega Albums Chart [16] 11 Finnish Albums Chart [17] 29 Japanese Oricon Albums Chart [18] 18 New Zealand Albums Chart [19] 24 Norwegian Albums Chart [20] 8 Swedish Albums Chart [21] 9 UK Albums Chart [22] 6 United States Billboard Pop Albums [23] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1975) Position Canadian Albums Chart [24] 82 Chart (1976) Position Canadian Albums Chart [25] 64 U.S. Billboard Year-End [26] 14

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [27]	Platinum	100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [28]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA) [29]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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