Editing Carly Simon (section)

===1986–1989: Move to Arista, ''Coming Around Again'', and career resurgence===
In 1986, Simon signed with [[Arista Records]] and soon rebounded from her career slump. Her first album for Arista, ''[[Coming Around Again (album)|Coming Around Again]]'' (1987), gave Simon another international hit with the [[Coming Around Again (Carly Simon song)|title track]] (which was written for and featured in the 1986 Mike Nichols film ''Heartburn''), returning her to the top 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and the UK top 10. The album also featured the top 10 Adult Contemporary hits "[[Give Me All Night]]", "[[The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (song)|The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of]]", "[[All I Want Is You (Carly Simon song)|All I Want Is You]]" (which featured [[Roberta Flack]] on backing vocals), and the standard "[[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]]" (featuring [[Stevie Wonder]] on harmonica).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carlysimon.com/as-time-goes-by/ |title=As Time Goes By lyrics |access-date=February 17, 2016 |website=Carlysimon.com |archive-date=August 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817210953/https://www.carlysimon.com/as-time-goes-by/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Critical reception was also largely positive; ''People'' wrote "Simon remains perhaps the most interesting of women pop singers. This album proves she is still captivating."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20096137,00.html |title=Coming Around Again review |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date= April 27, 1987 |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070102/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20096137,00.html |archivedate=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Similarly, ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it "the latest and one of the strongest chapters in a growing catalogue," it "embodies everything that the 41-year-old singer-songwriter does best."<ref>{{cite news |author=Holden, Stephen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/arts/recordings-carly-simon-s-emotion-laden-self-portrait.html |title=Carly Simon's Emotion-Laden Self-Portrait |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 3, 1987 |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202611/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/arts/recordings-carly-simon-s-emotion-laden-self-portrait.html?src=pm |archivedate=March 5, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The album remained on the ''Billboard'' 200 for over a year, became Simon's first Gold release in nine years, and went Platinum in 1988. It garnered her a Grammy Award nomination for [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] that same year. In October 2017, Hot Shot Records released a two-disc 30th Anniversary deluxe edition of the album.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coming Around Again: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition |url=https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/coming-around-again-30th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/ |publisher=Cherry Red Records |access-date=November 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163344/https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/coming-around-again-30th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/ |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> These and older songs were featured in a picturesque [[HBO]] concert special titled ''[[Carly Simon: Live from Martha's Vineyard|Live from Martha's Vineyard]]'', where Simon and her band performed live on a specially built stage in the town of [[Aquinnah, Massachusetts|Gay Head]] in early June 1987.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Radel |first=Cliff |date=July 19, 1987 |title=A Peek At Simon |work=TView |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83717993/article-about-carly-simons-1987-concert/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=August 18, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523164930/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83717993/article-about-carly-simons-1987/ |archivedate=May 23, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Most of these songs were compiled for her 1988 album, ''[[Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon album)|Greatest Hits Live]]''. Simon's first live album; ''Greatest Hits Live'' continued her mounting comeback, quickly going Gold, before later certified Platinum by the [[RIAA]] in 1996. From the album, a recording of Simon's evergreen "You're So Vain" was released as a single in the UK.<ref name="the official charts"/>

[[File:Carly Simon (210255316).jpg|thumb|Simon, with her Oscar in hand, at the [[61st Academy Awards]] (March 1989)]]

Throughout the 1980s, Simon successfully contributed to several film and television scores,<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=http://www.carlysimon.com/catalogue/ |title=Soundtracks |access-date=August 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111130417/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/soundtracks/Soundtracks.html |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> including the songs:

*"[[Why (Carly Simon song)|Why]]" for the film ''[[Soup for One (film)|Soup For One]]'' (1982).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Soup_For_One.html |title=Soup For One (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706073304/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Soup_For_One.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"Something More" for the film ''[[Love Child (1982 film)|Love Child]]'' (1982).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Love_Child.html |title=Love Child (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706074622/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Love_Child.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"Someone Waits for You" for the film ''[[Swing Shift (film)|Swing Shift]]'' (1984).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Swing_Shift.html |title=Swing Shift (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706121524/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Swing_Shift.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"All the Love in the World" for the film ''[[Torchlight (1985 film)|Torchlight]]'' (1985).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Torchlight.html |title=Torchlight (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706063529/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Torchlight.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"It's Hard To Be Tender" for the television [[miniseries]] ''[[Sins (miniseries)|Sins]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Sins.html |title=Sins (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706061801/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Sins.html |archivedate=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"If It Wasn't Love" for the film ''[[Nothing in Common]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Nothing_In_Common.html |title=Nothing in Common (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706121545/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Nothing_In_Common.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"Two Looking at One" for the film ''[[The Karate Kid Part II]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/The_Karate_Kid_II.html |title=The Karate Kid Part II (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706074947/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/The_Karate_Kid_II.html |archivedate=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"[[Coming Around Again (Carly Simon song)|Coming Around Again]]"/"[[Itsy Bitsy Spider]]" for the film ''[[Heartburn (film)|Heartburn]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Heartburn.html |title=Heartburn (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706061517/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Heartburn.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref>
*"[[Let the River Run]]" for the film ''[[Working Girl]]'' (1988),<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Working_Girl.html |title=Working Girl (Soundtrack) |access-date=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706073212/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Working_Girl.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014}}</ref> for which she won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] (1988), the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song]] (1988), and the [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media|Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media]] (1990).

After the success of "Coming Around Again", Nichols asked Simon to score his next film, ''Working Girl''. She spent the better part of 1988 scoring the film, and according to Simon, the studio threatened to replace "Let the River Run" with "[[Witchy Woman]]" by the [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]].<ref name=carlysimontimeline80s/> Nichols's decision prevailed, and Simon became the first artist to win all three major awards ([[Academy Awards|Oscar]], [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] and [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]) for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist (the only other such artist being [[Bruce Springsteen]] for "[[Streets of Philadelphia]]", from the 1993 film ''[[Philadelphia (film)|Philadelphia]]''). Her musical work on the film also earned Simon her first [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Award]] nomination for [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Music|Best Original Film Score]] in [[43rd British Academy Film Awards|1990]].<ref name=bafta1990>{{cite web |title=Original Film Score in 1990 |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1990/film/original-film-score |publisher=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] |access-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020001523/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1990/film/original-film-score |url-status=live}}</ref> "Let the River Run" became a major hit, peaking at No. 49 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 2004, [[American Film Institute|AFI]] ranked the song at No. 91 on their list of the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs|100 greatest songs in American cinema]].<ref name=afi100songs>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs |url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/songs.aspx |website=AFI.com |access-date=June 16, 2014 |archive-date=February 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211142525/https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-songs/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Working Girl (soundtrack)|''Working Girl'' soundtrack]] album was released in August 1989, and featured more music from Simon. That same year, she released her first children's book, ''Amy the Dancing Bear''.<ref name="carlysimon.com">{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=http://www.carlysimon.com:80/books/Books.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217183254/http://www.carlysimon.com/books/Books.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 17, 2011 |title=Books |access-date=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

As a tribute to [[Christa McAuliffe]], who was slated to be the first teacher in space and who died in the 1986 [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]], Simon wrote and recorded a song titled "You're Where I Go". McAuliffe was a Simon fan and had taken a cassette of her music on board the shuttle.<ref name=christa>{{Cite web |url=https://traipsingthrufilms.com/christa-mcauliffe-film |title=Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars |access-date=September 28, 2010 |publisher=Traipsing Thru Films |archive-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612122133/https://traipsingthrufilms.com/christa-mcauliffe-film |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1987, Simon co-wrote and recorded the title song to the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] play ''Sleight of Hand''. The song was later released as the B-side to the single "Give Me All Night", from the ''Coming Around Again'' album.<ref>{{cite web |website=Carlysimon.com |url=https://www.carlysimon.com/music/Sleight_Of_Hand.html |title=Sleight of Hand (Play) |accessdate=April 23, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706080025/http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Sleight_Of_Hand.html |archivedate=July 6, 2014}}</ref> That same year, Simon also sang the theme for the [[1988 Democratic National Convention]], "The Turn of the Tide", for a [[Marlo Thomas]] television special ''[[Free to Be... a Family]]''. The song was later included on the 1988 soundtrack album on [[A&M Records]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Free to Be a Family |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/free-to-be-a-family-mw0000197757 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=August 30, 2014 |archive-date=January 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124224156/http://www.allmusic.com/album/free-to-be-a-family-mw0000197757 |url-status=live}}</ref>