Film Noir (album)

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Film Noir
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Studio album by Carly Simon
Released September 16, 1997
Genre Standards
Length 42:26
Label Arista
Producer Carly Simon, Jimmy Webb & Arif Mardin
Carly Simon chronology
Clouds in My Coffee
(1995)Clouds in My Coffee1995		 Film Noir
(1997)		 The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better
(1999)The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better1999
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars link

Film Noir is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's twenty-second album, nineteenth studio album, and third album devoted to standards, released in 1997. Jimmy Webb co-produced the album and contributed his vocals, orchestration and piano skills to the project which was filmed for an AMC documentary (which premiered in September 1997). He also co-wrote the title song "Film Noir" with Simon. John Travolta duets with Simon on the song "Two Sleepy People". Film director Martin Scorsese provided liner notes in the fold out booklet.[1]

Promotion

Simon made and released a music video for Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye.[2] She also performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno[3] and The Late Show with David Letterman.[4] and appeared on The View and CBS This Morning. She performed Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year, along with Jimmy Webb, on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.[5]

Songs In Shadow: The Making of Carly Simon's Film Noir aired as a special presententation on AMC. This documentary also features footage of Jimmy Webb, Arif Mardin and Van Dyke Parks in the studio recording the album with Simon.[1]

Awards

40th Annual Grammy Awards

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result
1998 Film Noir Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Nominated

Track listing

  1. "You Won't Forget Me" (Kermi Goel, F. Speilman) — 2:52
  2. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) — 4:33
  3. "Lili Marlene" (M. David, Norbert Schultze, H. Leip) — 3:41
  4. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Edgar Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen) — 4:42
  5. "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (Frank Loesser) — 3:34
  6. "Film Noir" (Jimmy Webb, Carly Simon) — 3:35
  7. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) — 4:44
  8. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Joel Herron, John Wolf) — 3:32
  9. "Fools Coda" (Torrie Zito) — 1:13
  10. "Two Sleepy People" (Frank Loesser, Hoagy Carmichael) — 3:37
  11. "Don't Smoke In Bed (Willard Robison) — 2:54
  12. "Somewhere In the Night" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) — 3:29

Credits

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1997 The Billboard 200 84

References

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