Carly Simon on Music, Life and Baseball
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Singer/songwriter Carly Simon is best known for hits such as “You’re So Vain” and “Anticipation.” “Let the River Run,” written for the film Working Girl, won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy. When Carly Simon was a little girl, her parents brought Jackie Robinson and his family to live with them. Robinson broke baseball’s color line, but he still was not allowed to own property in those pre-civil-rights-movement days. She draws on memories of going with him to see the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field for her rendition of the baseball classic, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Like the main character of the song - the baseball mad Katie Casey – Simon describes how she learned to defy convention and blaze her own path in music and in life.
Guests
Carly Simon
award-winning singer and songwriter and the author of five children’s books.
Related Items
Audio Clip from Simon's New Album
Carly Simon Sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
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This is the most wonderful verision of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Brought tears to my eyes. And took my mind off me oral surgery of this afternoon.
If memory serves (and at my age it often serves up faults) you and your sister were nursing students at New York Hospital and once had a small sing along for a dozen of us medical students in the lounge at Olin Hall. You sang, Puff the Magic Dragon, also a children's song and one associated with your publisher Peter Yarrow. Or maybe I just imagined it?
I was on my way to work this morning in the hinterlands of Eastern Oregon in a dour mood when I heard Carly sing the song and my spirit sailed cross country to Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford and all the boys of summer.
Thanks so much.
I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Staten Island, and despite living in NH am still a Brooklyn Dodger fan. I'm staring at the baseball Duke Snyder gave to my uncle who owned a grocery store on 86th st. It's from the 1955 season when they beat the Yankees. There is Jackie Robinson's signature. Duke lived up one block and Pee Wee Reese around the corner. My uncle let his 8 year old nephew deliver a grocery order to the Reese's. Duke would also give me Dodger pennants and pictures.
What a magic time.
Have always treasured Carly Simon's songs and have several albums.
Thanks for the show.
I've always been a huge Carly Simon fan, and how fun that she has participated in a project like this!
One question regarding the lyrics: Isn't it "Crackerjack" without the "s"?
Either way, a delightful rendition!
Dear Ms. Simon:
At Christmas, when we were gathered as a family, my 24 year old son asked, "Mom, have you heard "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon". And of course, I not only had, but it is a favorite, and we all sang it together. Then, I said, "You know that song is about______________," and I said who I had always heard it was about. But my son said, "Mom, I think it actually isn't. That's why it says, "You probably think this song is about you. I think it is about her revelation in terms of that relationship." Thought that was interesting. Then, we all watched "Anticipation" online, being performed outside on the coast-Beautiful! And just now it was my 18 year old son who yelled, "Mom, Carly Simon is on NPR". Love your music; love what you do with your life.
Michelle
Listening to Carly Simon singing "Take out to the Ball Game) reminds me of when she sang on her uncle Peter Dean's album. One of my favorites. Lot's of tunes that he had sung back in the 1920's. I seems to be one of the places she got a love for vintage tunes from. She always seems like such a nice person. -- Lee Cramp
When my daughter was little we would listen to Amy the Dancing Bear.
Also she would sing "clowns in my coffee"
This brought back alot of good memories.
I am proud to hear this show, broadcast from my alma mater. I studied art, art history, and journalism from Prof. Donald Moore in the early seventies at The American University. I fell under Carly Simon's spell in those days too. Ms Rehm, I so enjoy your shows for their intellectual honesty and more compellingly, for your profound courage in life. You are a beautiful woman, from top to bottom, inside and out.
When I was a nerdy 13 year old, You're So Vain was the first popular song I learned the lyrics to. Carly helped me become hip. When my 16 year-old was 8 years old she asked for Carly's greatest hits because she so loved listening to my old albums. Ms. Simon is timeless. Thanks for helping us get to know her better. It was also great to hear the stories about stammering. One of my favorite teachers in High School had a terrible stammer but we all admired his courage for continuing to teach every day, even though it was a terrible struggle at times. Herman Ramakers was a terrific calculus teacher. Thanks for stirring up fond memories.
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a Lady and her Mister
Because of it 'we' laughed as natures does so common green.
Realized it is to I become, such implied there in her favor.
And being left off distant of, but near to her, I thus became.
Whose teeth that flashed, when in the sun as she did show them.
I was drawn inside by sweet each breath she 'made', as was it
temporary, I inhaled with each profound look, I rediscovered.
Lost then finally found within, dark caves of sound, so deep
and smooth, so rich and throaty, singing music all the time.
Never ravaged but by scotch and time and filtered cigarettes.
Though detached always above, I look again below, such is an
undulation, visitation, invisible muscles, 'I' see them moving.
A young woman; on the beach 'she' hurries past us saying,
drawing briefly it aside a red and white, checker/ed bandanna.
Made it 'said' in 'Kansas' hot a sweating mask, I look beyond her.
Bronzed this body made, I think of poesies, confusing she with her.
“If your woman and the Mister' (wish to take it to the ocean,
does the lady and the Mister) 'wish to wash it lightly off'
One day one time a grain of sand and foam, 'she did - politely ask '
I decided this next lightning bolt, when it hit could not be stopped,
certain repercussions of those acute remarks, might thus be lost.
She with her and I, this afternoon could still be, maybe salvaged.
I concentrated on both, by my seat a well of deep intentions.
With a careful, deeper why, I trust my mind, too find consensus.
Kept thus safe this time, inside I've grown to know, to ponder why.
Wistful is for she/her much and subtle for my this, could be her double.
Once was I, of kind like mind, a person drifts some times so far away,
pulled out of life
and washed amongst the rocks and foam the wind it blows away.
Create Date : Friday, January 22, 2010
Update Date : Saturday, January 23, 2010
Is It Poetry
Take me out to the ballgame made me happy. And made me cry. I loved Carly Simon's story, too.