One-Trick Pony (album)

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One-Trick Pony
Studio album by Paul Simon
Released	August 1980
Recorded	1979 - 1980
Genre	Rock
Length	38:12
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Paul Simon, Phil Ramone
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B-) link Rolling Stone (mixed) link
Paul Simon chronology
Greatest Hits, Etc. 1977 One-Trick Pony 1980 Hearts and Bones 1983

One-Trick Pony is an album released by Paul Simon in 1980.

Paul Simon's One-Trick Pony is a record released to coincide with the movie of the same name, in which Simon also stars. Although considered a soundtrack to the movie, the original album did not contain some songs from the movie; likewise there are some songs from the album that are not in the movie. The record is best known for the track "Late in the Evening" which was a hit for Simon in 1980, peaking at #6 in the U.S. Two of the tracks (the title song and "Ace in the Hole") were recorded live at the Agora Theatre and Ballroom in Cleveland, the rest are studio cuts.

The record features several top session musicians (who also appeared in the movie as the character Jonah's backing band), including Eric Gale on lead guitar, Richard Tee on piano, Tony Levin on bass, and Steve Gadd on drums.

In 2004, "One-Trick Pony" was remastered and re-released by Warner Bros. Records. This reissue contains four bonus tracks in addition to the original ten songs: two songs which originally appeared in the movie but not the album "Soft Parachutes" and "Spiral Highway (an early version of "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns")", an outtake "All Because of You" (an early version of "Oh Marion"), and "Stranded in a Limousine", which originally appeared on the 1977 compilation Greatest Hits, Etc.

Contents 1 Miscellanea 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 External links

[edit] Miscellanea

• The Victoria, B.C. band Immaculate Machine takes their name from the lyrics of the track "One-Trick Pony".
• Douglas Adams' novel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was dedicated to this album.
• The film has yet to have an official DVD release.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Late in the Evening"
2. "That's Why God Made the Movies"
3. "One-Trick Pony"
4. "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns"
5. "Oh, Marion"
6. "Ace in the Hole"
7. "Nobody"
8. "Jonah"
9. "God Bless the Absentee"
10. "Long, Long Day (with Patti Austin)"

[edit] Personnel

Paul Simon - vocals, guitar, percussion

• John Tropea - acoustic guitar
• Patti Austin - vocals
• Joe Beck - electric guitar
• Michael Brecker - saxophone
• Hiram Bullock - electric guitar
• Jon Faddis - flugelhorn
• Don Grolnick - synthesizer
• David Sanborn - saxophone
• Marvin Stamm - trumpet
• Ralph MacDonald - percussion
• Randy Brecker - trumpet
• Dave Grusin - horn & string arrangements
• Gordon Edwards - bass
• Steve Gadd - drums, percussion
• Eric Gale - guitar
• Lani Groves - background vocals
• Anthony Jackson - bass
• Tony Levin - bass
• Irwin "Marky" Markowitz - trumpet
• Hugh McCracken - acoustic guitar
• Jeff Mironov - electric guitar
• Richard Tee - piano, tambourine, background vocals
• Bob Friedman - horn & string arrangements

[edit] External links

• One-Trick Pony at the Internet Movie Database