Detailed item info | 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
11. Soft Parachutes - (previously unreleased)
12. All Because of You - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
13. Spiral Highway - (previously unreleased)
14. Stranded in a Limousine - (previously unreleased)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Eric Gale, Joe Beck, Jon Faddis, Patti Austin, Richard Tee, Tony Levin | | Producer: | Paul Simon, Phil Ramone | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar, percussion); Richard Tee (vocals, piano, tambourine); Patti Austin (vocals); Hugh McCracken (acoustic guitar, slide guitar); John Tropea (acoustic guitar); Eric Gale, Hiram Bullock, Jeff Mironov, Joe Beck (electric guitar); Jon Faddis (flugelhorn); Don Grolnick (synthesizer); Tony Levin (bass guitar, background vocals); Anthony Jackson (bass guitar); Steve Gadd (drums); Ralph MacDonald (percussion); Lani Groves (background vocals).
Recording information: A&R Studios; The Hit Factory, New York City.
The 1980 film ONE TRICK PONY starred and featured the music of Paul Simon, who portrayed a singer-songwriter of considerably less renown than himself. Full of heart, humor and realism, it's one of the best music-oriented dramas extant, and this soundtrack album is equally substantial. ONE TRICK PONY marked an important turning point in Simon's artistic development. Though his musical sophistication had grown, previous to this album his lyrical approach was still oriented towards the linear storytelling style he began with in the '60s. Here, Simon began to develop a more poetic, imagistic approach to lyric-writing.
While the salsa horn section of the hit "Late In The Evening" foreshadows Simon's later cultural experiments, it's tracks like "Jonah" and "Oh, Marion" that really tell of things to come. In the former, Simon plumbs the biblical metaphor, skillfully interspersing it with more autobiographical-sounding details. On the latter, he uses metaphysical, slightly surreal imagery to tell the story of a man at odds with his own emotions. Both tunes are representative of the great literary leap Simon's writing took with ONE TRICK PONY, an album full of inventively constructed lyrics matched with Simon's usual harmonic sophistication.
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