Hotcakes (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Hotcakes
Type = Album
Artist = Carly Simon


Released = January 1974
Recorded = Sep 1973 at Producers Workshop, Los Angeles and Oct–Nov 1973 at The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre = Rock
Length = 38:41
Label = Elektra
Producer = Richard Perry
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9fixqy5ldte link] |
Last album = "No Secrets"
(1972)
This album = "Hotcakes"
(1974)
Next album = "Playing Possum"
(1975)

"Hotcakes" is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's fourth studio album, released in 1974.

"Hotcakes" became one of Simon's biggest selling albums. It featured the hits "Mockingbird", a duet with her then-husband James Taylor (a cover of a 1963 hit for Inez and Charlie Foxx), and "Haven't Got Time For The Pain", as well as many other songs that reflected Simon's upbeat beat mood during her pregnancy with her first child. On the album cover, Simon sits in a gleamingly white kitchen, robustly pregnant, smiling brightly and wearing a somewhat bohemian white linen dress.

The album went gold immediately and it stayed on the charts for eight months. Yet it was overshadowed commercially by two other major albums released by Simon's own label, Elektra/Asylum, in the same month as "Hotcakes", Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" and Bob Dylan's "Planet Waves". These took the number two and number one spots, respectively, on the Billboard album chart while "Hotcakes" peaked at number three.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Carly Simon; except where indicated

# "Safe and Sound" (Simon, Jacob Brackman) – 3:36
# "Mind on My Man" – 2:57
# "Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby" – 3:55
# "Older Sister" – 3:06
# "Just Not True" – 5:16
# "Hotcakes" – 1:07
# "Misfit" – 3:04
# "Forever My Love" (Simon, James Taylor) – 3:25
# "Mockingbird" (Inez and Charlie Foxx, with additional lyrics by James Taylor) – 4:11
# "Grownup" – 3:44
# "Haven't Got Time For the Pain" (Simon, Jacob Brackman) – 3:50

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)