A glowing, pregnant
Carly Simon smiles out from the cover of
Hotcakes, one of her biggest selling albums, which featured the gold single "Mockingbird," a duet with her husband
James Taylor that effectively remade the old
Inez and Charlie Foxx hit and bested it on the charts. The album also included another hit, "Haven't Got Time For The Pain," as well as "Misfit," in which a wife implores her carousing husband to come home, and "Think I'm Gonna Have A Baby," which celebrated the joys of same. With such tracks,
Hotcakes was an autobiographical concept album that defined domestic bliss at a time when
Simon's listeners also were catching their breath and turning inward. ~ William Ruhlmann