I remember going to see ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ in 1977 and Carly Simon’s song ‘Nobody Does It Better’ as the theme. I bought that record and took a keen interest in her music from them on. Years later I bought the theme song to ‘Working Girl’ starring Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffiths which came on a
3 inch CD and was accompanied by this song as one of the three tracks on that diskette. I immediately loved this song as it the lyrics combine the ordinary aspects of life, like burning the soufflé and the baby sneezing with the simple idea that life and love and everything goes in a cycle and as one door closes another one opens.
I had this song on my Walkman and listened to it on the way to work when I was working for a well-known Private bank in the city back in 2000. As a genuinely happy worker I have a bad habit of singing as I cheerfully go about my duties and one morning I was singing this song as I was sorting out a few international
cock- ups! As I sang my colleague Christopher leaned over and asked me what I was singing and I answered that it was ‘Coming Around Again’ by Carly Simon.
Christopher told me he really loved that song too and the conversation we had about Carly Simon and her work made an interesting diversion from our work. This song reminds me that through music all manner of people may be brought together and share a common love of a song or a piece of music entirely on their own terms and for their own reasons.
Now listen to the song….
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