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No Secrets
Studio album by Carly Simon
Released	November 28, 1972
Recorded	September–October 1972
Studio	Trident Studios (London, England)
Genre	Pop rock[1]
Length	35:58
Label	Elektra
Producer	Richard Perry
Carly Simon chronology
Anticipation (1971) No Secrets (1972) Hotcakes (1974)
Singles from No Secrets
"You're So Vain" Released: November 1972 "The Right Thing to Do" Released: March 1973

No Secrets is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Carly Simon, released on November 28, 1972 by Elektra Records.

The album was Simon's commercial breakthrough. It spent five weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and quickly went Gold,^[2] as did its lead single, "You're So Vain", which remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks, and topping on the Adult Contemporary chart for two weeks.^[3] 25 years after its initial release, the album was officially certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 12, 1997.^[2]
The album is ranked number 997 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd. edition, 2000) ^[4].

Recording and packaging

At the invitation of producer Richard Perry, Simon recorded the album at Trident Studios in London, where Perry was keen for Simon to work with engineer Robin Cable. Trident Studios had previously been the venue for the recording of notable albums including The Beatles' White Album, David Bowie's Space Oddity and Elton John's second album.

The photograph for the cover, taken by Ed Caraeff, was shot in front of the Portobello Hotel, on Stanley Gardens in London's Notting Hill.^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B-)[6]
Rolling Stone	(positive)[7]

Initial reviews for No Secrets were mixed to positive. Robert Christgau, writing in Creem, rated the album a B- and stated that "if a horse could sing in a monotone, the horse would sound like Carly Simon, only a horse wouldn't rhyme 'yacht', 'apricot', and 'gavotte'. Is that some kind of joke?"^[6]Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone concluded that "what finally makes No Secrets so refreshing is her singing, which conveys the finest spirit of patrician generosity."^[7]

More recent reviews have been much more positive. For example, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann gave the album four-and-a-half stars (out of five). Ruhlmann noted that "You're So Vain", "set the album's saucy tone, with its air of sexually frank autobiography and its reflections on the jet-set lifestyle." He also stated that "now that she felt she had found true love, she was as willing to acknowledge her own mistakes and regrets as she was to point fingers." He concluded that "Perry paid particular attention to Simon's vocals and gave her music a new pop/rock 'buoyancy that previous albums lacked'."^[1]

"You're So Vain" is ranked at number 72 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time.^[8] The song was also voted number 216 in RIAA's Songs of the Century. It remains Simon's biggest hit and is considered her signature song.

Awards

Grammy Awards

Track listing

All songs written by Carly Simon, unless otherwise noted.

Side one

1. "The Right Thing to Do" – 2:57


2. "The Carter Family" (Simon, Jacob Brackman) – 3:29


3. "You're So Vain" – 4:17


4. "His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin" – 3:00


5. "We Have No Secrets" – 3:57

Side two

1. "Embrace Me, You Child" – 4:06


2. "Waited So Long" – 4:14


3. "It Was So Easy" (Simon, Brackman) – 3:06


4. "Night Owl" (James Taylor) – 3:47


5. "When You Close Your Eyes" (Simon, Bill Mernit) – 3:05

Personnel

• 
  Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 7), acoustic piano (1-4, 10), string arrangements (3), ARP synthesizer arrangements (4), acoustic guitar (5-8)


• 
  Andy Newmark – drums (1, 2, 6, 8, 10)


• Jimmy Ryan – bass guitar (1, 10), acoustic guitar (2-5, 10), electric guitar (3, 6-9)


• 
  Klaus Voormann – bass guitar (2, 3, 5-9)

Additional personnel

• 
  Paul Buckmaster – orchestration (3, 6), conductor (6, 10), synthesizer arrangements (6, 10), choir arrangement (6), string and woodwind arrangements (10)


• Kirby Johnson – string arrangements (2, 5), woodwind arrangements (2), electric piano (5), conductor (5)


• 
  David Hentschel – ARP, synthesizer (4)


• 
  Peter Robinson – piano (6)


• 
  Bill Payne – Hammond organ (7)


• 
  Nicky Hopkins – piano (7, 9)


• Paul Keough – acoustic guitar (5, 8)


• 
  Lowell George – slide guitar (7)


• 
  Jim Gordon – drums (3, 5)


• 
  Jim Keltner – drums (7, 9)


• 
  Ray Cooper – congas (1, 9)


• 
  Richard Perry – percussion (3)


• 
  Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone (9)


• Vicki Brown – backing vocals (1)


• Liza Strike – backing vocals (1)


• 
  Mick Jagger – backing vocals (uncredited) (3)


• 
  James Taylor – backing vocals (7)


• 
  Bonnie Bramlett – backing vocals (9)


• 
  Linda McCartney – backing vocals (9)


• 
  Paul McCartney – backing vocals (9)^[10]
  


• 
  Doris Troy – backing vocals (9)

Production

• 
  Produced – Richard Perry


• 
  Engineers – Robin Geoffrey Cable and Mark Berry


• 
  Remixing – Bill Schnee and Robin Geoffrey Cable at Sound Labs (Los Angeles, CA) and AIR Studios (London, England).


• 
  Mastering – Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).


• Art Direction and Design – Robert Heimall


• Cover Photography – Ed Caraeff
  


• Inner Sleeve Photography – Peter Simon


• Music Contractor – David Katz

Charts and certifications

References

External links

• Official website