Posted on 10/12/2009 9:30:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior
Singer Carly Simon is suing Starbucks Corp., saying the coffee company's now-defunct music venture didn't adequately promote her 2008 album, dooming the record before it was even released.
The singer, whose biggest success came during the 1970s and '80s with hits like "You're So Vain" and "Anticipation," is seeking unspecified damages related to the release of the 14-track "This Kind of Love" in April 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Carly, maybe the CD just sucked.
I thought Carly Simon was a venereal disease
How was the album cover? LOL
TTIUWOP
Yes, LIBERALS must always BLAME SOMEONE ELSE.
Personal repsonisbility or humblness is NEVER promoted by LIBERALS.
Her last hit was what 30 years ago? *LOL*
she is kinda slutty i kinda like it
I’ll bet Carly could put three pool balls in her mouth.
Allmusic.com panned it this way:
This Kind of Love is Carly Simon's debut for Starbucks' Hear Music imprint, and it is even stranger than 2007's Into White, where the seed for this recording was sown. Simon was approached by no less than songwriter Jimmy Webb to make a Brazilian record. According to her notes, this was an event of pure synchronicity, as she had been listening to a great deal of Jorge Ben's and Caetano Veloso's music. That may be, but it was on Into White where she recorded Luiz Bonfá's classic "Manha de Carnaval," the theme from the film Black Orpheus. Webb arranged and co-produced the album with Frank Filipetti, who also engineered the session, with musical direction by longtime collaborator Peter Calo. Some of the session players include the great percussionists Cyro Baptista and Rick Marotta; drummer Robby Ameen; bassist Lincoln Goines; Calo, Ben Mauro, David Saw, and others on guitars; and Webb doing everything from playing bass and acting as concertmaster to playing synth and piano. Simon is part of the band as a player this time out as well, playing piano and Fender Rhodes. Teese Gohl is back again doing orchestrations and Elena Barere acts as concertmaster on most tracks. ...
A liberal suing a company full of liberals.
I love it.
And it is not like Carly Simon was in huge demand. Hell. Starbuck was doing HER a favor by even putting her disc in the stores.
Maybe Ben and Jerry's can name an ice cream after her...
Carmelly Cinnamon.
She did one of the best James Bond movie songs.
Last time I saw a mouth like hers, it was in the Winner’s Circle at Churchill Downs.
She’s still recording? For Starbucks? Oh, the mighty have fallen.
AllMusic seemed to like this release.
It didn't seem like they panned it at all (pan to me indicates a negative critique). At the end of the review they summed it up by saying it was her best album since the 70s.
For me it was a flathead catfish.
Nah, you’re thinking of Julia Roberts.
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