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Group Members: Carly Simon
All Music Guide:
The Simon Sisters were Carly Simon and Lucy Simon, who as a duo made a few obscure folky albums in the 1960s, predating Carly Simon's rise to fame as a star singer/songwriter. In the mid-'60s they recorded a couple of albums for Kapp in a pleasing if hardly innovative pop-flavored folk style, with tight coffeehouse harmonies in the manner of Peter, Paul & Mary and early Simon & Garfunkel. One of those recordings, "Winken, Blinken and Nod," was a small hit single, and although they did write some original material, much of their recorded repertoire consisted of covers of contemporary and traditional folk songs.
In the latter part of the 1960s Lucy Simon got married and the act broke up, Carly Simon of course going solo. However, Lucy continued to write, and in 1969 the Simon Sisters recorded a children's album for Columbia, The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children, consisting of classic poems set to music by Lucy Simon. Not very similar to Carly Simon's well-known solo work, and pretty hard to find, the Simon Sisters' albums contain respectable folk and light folk-rock, worth hearing both by devoted Carly Simon fans and intense folk-rock fans in general.
Wikipedia:
The Simon Sisters was a band of two sisters, Carly Simon and Lucy Simon. They were signed up by Kapp Records in 1964. That same year Kapp released their only albums with the record label: Meet The Simon Sisters (also released as "The Simon Sisters - Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod") and later Cuddlebug. They had one minor hit with the single "Winkin' Blinkin' And Nod", a children's poem by Eugene Field that Lucy had put to music. In 1969, the duo was signed by Columbia Records and released a third album, The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children, later re-released by Columbia in 1973 as Lucy & Carly - The Simon Sisters Sing For Children. They performed Turn! Turn! Turn! on the Hootenanny TV series, and that performance was selected for inclusion in the DVD set with selected performances from that program. The duo disbanded when Lucy left to get married. Lucy had a minor solo career and released 2 albums in the seventies before having more recent success writing music for Broadway plays. Carly, beginning in 1971, went on to a very successful solo career that continues to this day.
