Carly Simon - Come Upstairs (1980)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
1. "Come Upstairs" 4:18
2. "Stardust" 4:13
3. "Them" 3:44
4. "Jesse" 4:15
5. "James" 2:28
Side two
1. "In Pain" 6:10
2. "The Three Of Us in the Dark" 4:14
3. "Take Me As I Am" 4:50
4. "The Desert" 4:44
Total length: 38:56
Carly Simon Band Members / Musicians
Carly Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals (1–4, 7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (4)
Billy Mernit – electric piano (1, 9)
Mike Mainieri – acoustic piano (1, 5, 7, 8, 9), Oberheim synthesizer (1), Prophet-5 (2), Oberheim OB-X (2), Yamaha CS30 (3), backing vocals (3), synthesizers (8, 9), marimba (9)
Ed Walsh – Oberheim OB-X (1), synthesizer programming (1, 8), Oberheim 8 Voice (2)
Ken Landrum – Prophet-5 (1)
Larry Fast – synthesizers (3)
Don Grolnick – acoustic piano (4, 6)
Pete Hewlett – electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 6), backing vocals (3, 4), acoustic guitar (4, 8)
Sid McGinnis – lead guitar (1, 2, 3), guitar solo (2, 6), backing vocals (3, 4), electric slide guitar (4), electric guitar (7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (9), 12-string guitar (9)
Tony Levin – bass guitar (1–4, 6, 7, 8), fretless bass (5, 9)
Steve Gadd – drums (1)
Rick Marotta – drums (2–9)
Jerry Grossman – cello (5)
James Taylor – backing vocals (2, 3, 4)
Mariah Aguiar – backing vocals (3)
Christine Martin – backing vocals (3)
Laraine Newman – backing vocals (3)
Hugh Taylor – backing vocals (3, 4)
Alex Taylor – backing vocals (3, 4)
Sally Taylor – backing vocals (4)
Gail Boggs – backing vocals (4)
Producer – Mike Mainieri
Production Coordination – Christine Martin
Engineered and Mixed by Scott Litt
Assistant Engineers – James Farber, Jeff Hendrickson, Lucy Laurie and Raymond Willard
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
Art Direction – Peter Whorf
Design – Bill Gerber
Photography – Mick Rock
Hand Lettering – Susan Turner
Come Upstairs is the 9th studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Warner Bros. Records, on June 16, 1980.
It was the first of her three albums for Warner Bros. and it has a harder, more rock-oriented sound than her previous albums. Whereas those earlier records were prime examples of the singer-songwriter genre, with soft-rocking arrangements primarily built around piano and/or acoustic guitar accompaniment, Come Upstairs uses electric guitars and synthesizers prominently.
