Her career revitalized by the success of "Nobody Does It Better," the theme from
The Spy Who Loved Me,
Carly Simon returned to record-making with this classy
Arif Mardin-produced session, backed by New York's best studio players (
Steve Gadd,
Eric Gale,
Will Lee,
Richard Tee,
David Sanborn,
the Brecker Brothers, etc.).
Simon reached the Top Ten with "You Belong to Me," a collaboration with
Michael McDonald that showed both off at their best, and the album's other Top 40 single was another duet with husband
James Taylor on the old
Everly Brothers hit "Devoted to You."
Taylor also turned up writing and singing elsewhere to good effect. But what really made the album a winner was that
Simon had had a couple of years to write some strong songs in her unflinching, reflective style, and she continued to explore the loves and mores of her age and class movingly. ~ William Ruhlmann