Name: One Trick Pony
Brand: LEGACY RECORDINGS
SKU: 20962566
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One Trick Pony

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Album: One Trick Pony
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Late in the Evening	More Info...	0:04
2)	That's Why God Made the Movies	More Info...	0:03
3)	One-Trick Pony	More Info...	0:04
4)	How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns	More Info...	0:02
5)	Oh, Marion	More Info...	0:04
6)	Ace in the Hole	More Info...	0:05
7)	Nobody	More Info...	0:03
8)	Jonah	More Info...	0:03
9)	God Bless the Absentee	More Info...	0:03
10)	Long, Long Day	More Info...	0:04
11)	Soft Parachutes	More Info...	0:02
12)	All Because of You	More Info...	0:04
13)	Spiral Highway	More Info...	0:03
14)	Stranded in a Limousine	More Info...	0:03

Album: One Trick Pony
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Late in the Evening	More Info...	0:04
2)	That's Why God Made the Movies	More Info...	0:03
3)	One-Trick Pony	More Info...	0:04
4)	How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns	More Info...	0:02
5)	Oh, Marion	More Info...	0:04
6)	Ace in the Hole	More Info...	0:05
7)	Nobody	More Info...	0:03
8)	Jonah	More Info...	0:03
9)	God Bless the Absentee	More Info...	0:03
10)	Long, Long Day	More Info...	0:04
11)	Soft Parachutes	More Info...	0:02
12)	All Because of You	More Info...	0:04
13)	Spiral Highway	More Info...	0:03
14)	Stranded in a Limousine	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Lyricist: Paul Simon.
Audio Remasterers: Daniel Hersch; Bill Inglot.
Audio Remixer: Phil Ramone.
Recording information: A&R Studios, New York (09/1979); The Agora Club, Cleveland, OH (09/1979).
Photographer: Louis Goldman.
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.