Carol Kaye of the Wrecking Crew plays that famous opening bass blibble blibble blibble of Your So Vain.
“Your So Vain” was recorded in UK at “Trident Studios” with (primarily) UK musicians including Klaus Voormann (Beatles friend) on bass playing the opening riff...
Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano, string arrangement
Jimmy Ryan – guitars
Klaus Voormann – bass
Jim Gordon – drums
Richard Perry – percussion
Paul Buckmaster – orchestration
Mick Jagger - backing vocals
Vicki Brown - backing vocals
Liza Strike - backing vocals