Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio

album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the

album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways To Leave Your
Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited
to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two
Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance in 1976. In Simon's acceptance speech for the
Album of the Year award, on February 28, he jokingly thanked
Stevie Wonder, who had won the award the two previous years
for Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale, for not releasing
an album that year.[10] (Wonder won the award again for Songs
in the Key of Life, a double album, in 1977.)
 Still Crazy After All These Years

Studio album by Paul Simon

Released 25 October 1975

Recorded 1975

Studio A&R Recording, New York City[1]

Genre Folk rock, pop rock, soul

Length 36:25 (original album)

45:32 (2004 CD reissue)

Label Columbia

Producer Paul Simon, Phil Ramone

Paul Simon chronology

Paul Simon in Still Crazy After All Greatest Hits, Etc.

Concert: Live Rhymin' These Years (1977)
(1974) (1975)

Singles from Still Crazy After All These Years

1. "Gone at Last"
 Released: 1975

2. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"

Released: December 1975

3. "Still Crazy After All These Years"

Released: 1976

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]

Blender [3]

Chicago Tribune [4]

Encyclopedia of Popular Music [5]

Entertainment Weekly B+[6]

Record Collector [7]

The Rolling Stone Album Guide [8]

The Village Voice B[9]

"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art

Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at
Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow.

The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her
1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album
My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album
released posthumously in 1996), and Willie Nelson (on the
soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys).
Track listing

All tracks written by Paul Simon.

Side one

1. "Still Crazy After All These Years" – 3:26

2. "My Little Town" – 3:51

3. "I Do It for Your Love" – 3:35

4. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" – 3:37

5. "Night Game" – 2:58

Side two

6. "Gone at Last" – 3:40

7. "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" – 3:14

8. "Have a Good Time" – 3:26

9. "You're Kind" – 3:20

10. "Silent Eyes" – 4:12

Bonus tracks (2004 remaster)

11. "Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) – 5:30

12. "Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers

– 4:38

Personnel
Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar on "My Little Town", "I Do
it For Your Love", "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "You're
Kind", electric guitar on "Night Game", horn and string
arrangements

John Tropea – electric guitar on "50 Ways to Leave Your

Lover"

Patti Austin – background vocals

Art Garfunkel – vocals on "My Little Town"

Phoebe Snow – background vocals, vocals on "Gone at Last"

Joe Beck – electric guitar on "I Do it For Your Love", "Have a

Good Time" and "You're Kind"

Michael Brecker – alto saxophone on "Still Crazy After All

These Years", saxophone on "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy"

Bob James – Fender Rhodes electric piano on "Some Folks'

Lives Roll Easy" and "Have a Good Time", string and horn
arrangements

David Sanborn – saxophone on "Some Folks' Lives Roll

Easy"

Grady Tate – drums on "Gone at Last"

Pete Carr – electric guitar on "My Little Town"

Sivuca – accordion and vocals on "I Do it For Your Love"

Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "My Little Town", "I Do it

For Your Love", "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "Gone at
Last" and "Have a Good Time"

Chicago Community Choir – background vocals

Barry Beckett – Fender Rhodes electric piano on "Still Crazy

After All These Years", piano on "My Little Town"

Eddie Daniels – saxophone on "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy"

Gordon Edwards – bass on "Gone at Last"

Jerry Friedman – electric guitar on "I Do it For Your Love"

Steve Gadd – drums on all songs except where noted and

"Night Game"

Roger Hawkins – drums on "Still Crazy After All These Years"

and "My Little Town"

David Hood – bass on "Still Crazy After All These Years" and
"My Little Town"

The Jessy Dixon Singers – background vocals

Tony Levin – bass on all songs except where noted

Hugh McCracken – electric guitar on "50 Ways to Leave Your

Lover", "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" and "Have a Good
Time" acoustic guitar on "You're Kind"

Leon Pendarvis – piano on "Silent Eyes"

Dave Mathews – horn arrangements

Valerie Simpson – background vocals

Richard Tee – piano on "Gone at Last"

 Toots Thielemans – harmonica on "Night Game"

Phil Woods – alto saxophone on "Have a Good Time"

Kenny Ascher – Hammond organ on "50 Ways to Leave Your

Lover", Fender Rhodes electric piano on "I Do it For Your
Love"

Uncredited – percussion on "You're Kind", Hammond organ

on "Gone at Last", oboe on "I Do it For Your Love", strings,
horns, brass, woodwinds

Charts
Weekly charts

Chart (1975/76) Position

Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[11] 39

Canadian RPM Albums Chart[12] 8

Dutch Mega Albums Chart[13] 11

Finnish Albums Chart[14] 29

Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[15] 18

New Zealand Albums Chart [16] 24

Norwegian Albums Chart[17] 8

Swedish Albums Chart[18] 9

UK Albums Chart[19] 6
United States Billboard Pop Albums[20] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1975) Position

Canadian Albums Chart[21] 82

Chart (1976) Position

Canadian Albums Chart[22] 64

U.S. Billboard Year-End[23] 14

Certifications
Region Certification
Canada (Music Canada)[24] Platinum

United Kingdom (BPI)[25] Gold

United States (RIAA)[26] Gold

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Succeeded by
Preceded by
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Rock of the
one album Chicago's
Westies by Elton
December 6–12, 1975 Greatest Hits by
John
Chicago

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