1971 Carly Simon – That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be (US:#10)
“That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” is a 1971 song performed by Carly Simon. Her friend and frequent collaborator Jacob Brackman wrote the lyrics and Simon wrote the music. The song was released as the lead single from her self-titled debut album, Carly Simon, and it reached peak positions of number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and 6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
It was an art song with a semiclassical melody in the style of Gabriel Fauré, and Elektra staffers were worried the single was too emotionally complex to be released as Simon’s first single. With subject matter that includes “the parents’ bad marriage; the friends’ unhappy lives; the boyfriend’s enthusiasm for marriage but controlling nature; the woman’s initial resistance and ultimate capitulation.”
Simon was quoted as saying, “When I first wrote it I thought it was an unusual thing for people to break up, and now all my friends are divorced.”
Album
Carly Simon is the debut studio album by singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released in February 1971 by Elektra Records. The album was produced by Eddie Kramer, who had previously worked with Joe Cocker and Jimi Hendrix. The album included her first Top 10 hit, “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”, a somber ballad […]
Musicians
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Produced By
Eddie Kramer
Songwiters
Carly Simon
Jacob Brackman
Charts
US:#10
UK:# —