{"id":1085,"date":"2009-02-15T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2011-03-26T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T03:06:22","slug":"classic-carly-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/classic-carly-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Carly Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlysimon.com\/vain\/vain.html\">People have been asking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/artists\/carlysimon\/biography\">Carly Simon<\/a> to tell them who inspired &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%27re_So_Vain\">You&#8217;re So Vain<\/a>&#8221; since the song was a No. 1 hit in 1973.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mQZmCJUSC6g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mQZmCJUSC6g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always loved Carly&#8217;s sexy-hippy &#8217;70s style.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anticipation-Carly-Simon\/dp\/B000002I2Q\/ref=pd_bbs_10?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1234642564&amp;sr=8-10\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302747174908714194\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 301px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZckdd4j3NI\/AAAAAAAAHPc\/JpS7iBoCGmY\/s320\/Carly_Simon_-_Anticipation.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The cover of her 1971 Anticipation album<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Secrets-Carly-Simon\/dp\/B000002I2V\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1234642564&amp;sr=8-4\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302743898494054322\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZchewSbr7I\/AAAAAAAAHPM\/QKLZnJUUqwA\/s320\/ppcs1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">From the cover of her 1972 No Secrets album<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hotcakes-Carly-Simon\/dp\/B000002GXN\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1234642623&amp;sr=8-1\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302744564507120498\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZciFhYUk3I\/AAAAAAAAHPU\/iq9typEbYF4\/s320\/ppcs3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pregnant on the cover of her 1974 Hotcakes album<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>You can read more about Carly in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Girls-Like-Us-Simon-Generation\/dp\/0743491475\" target=\"_blank\">Girls Like Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone inspired me to write this post, but I&#8217;m not going to tell you who it is. I will say that it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyapple.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/apple-336-youre-so-vain.html\">Warren Beatty<\/a>. I have to put that out there or else Warren will be calling me nonstop. When I don&#8217;t pick up the phone, he&#8217;ll start texting me, &#8220;I know ur blog is about me.&#8221; He&#8217;s pesky that way. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking Carly Simon to tell them who inspired &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8221; since the song was a No. 1 hit in 1973. &#8220;You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte.&#8221; I&#8217;ve always loved Carly&#8217;s sexy-hippy &#8217;70s style. The cover of her 1971 Anticipation album From the cover of her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/classic-carly-simon\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,42,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-music","9":"category-style-icons","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}