Anticipation by Carly Simon

Anticipation, Carly Simon's second album, came out on Elektra in November 1971, only months after her debut had won her the Grammy for Best New Artist, and it did even better than the first one. Paul Samwell-Smith produced, keeping the sound close and mostly acoustic so that rich, unhurried voice sits right in your ear.

The title track, her account of the jittery wait before a date with Cat Stevens, became a top-20 hit in the US, and from 1973 it found a second life selling Heinz ketchup on television. "Legend in Your Own Time" was the other big single, and the record signs off with Kris Kristofferson's "I've Got to Have You", which went to number six in Australia in 1972. The Grammy voters nominated her again, and the RIAA certified it gold, a first for her. Peter Simon took the cover photo, Carly at the gates of Queen Mary's Garden in Regent's Park.

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