Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Amy the Dancing Bear by Carly Simon Carly Simon, Amy, Signed. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1989 Doubleday, hardcover with dust jacket, Inscribed by Carly Simon, cover is bright, pages are clean. Inscribed by Author(s). Amy the Dancing Bear. Simon, Carly. Published by Doubleday, 1989. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. On "This book belongs to" page Carly Simon has written "Elizabeth Anne, love from Carly Simon". Inscribed by Author(s). Book. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Amy the Dancing Bear by Carly Simon. Gender: Female Religion: Jewish [1] Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Singer/Songwriter, Author. Nationality: United States Executive summary: You're So Vain. In 1968 Simon worked briefly as the lead singer for Elephant's Memory , a band that subsequently earned their fame as backing for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A contract with Elektra in 1970 finally put her solo career back on track, and her self-titled debut reared its head in 1971; the album received a warm reception from most quarters, with the anti-marriage single That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be even finding its way into the top ten. The follow-up Anticipation was released later the same year, giving her two more charting singles in the form of the title track and Legend in Your Own Time . 1972's No Secrets and 1974's Hotcakes both maintained her popularity, and in the space between the two Simon married singer/songwriter James Taylor and started a family. By the arrival of Playing Possum in 1975, however, interest in the singer began to decline; it wouldn't be until her recording Nobody Does It Better for the James Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me in '77 that her career once again took an upswing, continued with Boys In The Trees in 1978. A switch to Warner Brothers was made in 1980 after her final release on Elektra, Spy (1979), failed to generate much attention. Occasional peaks took place during the 80s, but on the whole her best years in music seemed to be behind her. A collection of standards entitled Torch (1981) received a slow-burn kind of popularity, while the ballad and the subsequent album Coming Around Again -- written for the Mike Nichols film Heartburn (1986) -- made a reasonable impact on the charts. By this time a jump from Warner to Arista had been made (with a sole album for Epic surfacing in between). In 1987 another song ( Let The River Run ) written for another Mike Nichols feature ( Working Girl (1988)) provided perhaps the greatest accomplishment of her career: earning her an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy award for a single song. At the close of the 80s, Simon embarked on a parallel career of writing books for children. The first of these, Amy The Dancing Bear , was published in 1989; four further stories ( The Boy Of The Bells , The Fisherman's Song , The Nighttime Chauffeur , and Midnight Farm ) materialized in later years. Soundtrack work continued throughout the 1990's, both songs and full scores being contributed to a number of films -- amongst them Mike Nichols' Postcards From The Edge (1990) and Primary Colors (1998), and Nora Ephron's This Is My Life (1992). Her recorded output became somewhat less regular towards the end of the decade, but two more collections of standards, a recording of her 'family opera' Romulus Hunt , and three more albums of original material were issued by the arrival of 2000. Father: Richard L. Simon (Co-Founder of Simon & Schuster, d. 1960) Mother: Andrea Louise Heinemann Sister: Joanna (opera singer, b. 1940) Sister: Lucy (b. 1943) Brother: Peter Simon (b. 1947) Boyfriend: Cat Stevens Boyfriend: Milos Forman Boyfriend: Warren Beatty Husband: James Taylor (singer/songwriter, m. 3-Nov-1972, div. 1983) Daughter: Sarah Maria Taylor ("Sally", b. 7-Jan-1974) Son: Benjamin Simon Taylor (musician, b. 22-Jan-1977) Boyfriend: Russ Kunkel (musician) Husband: James Hart (writer, m. 23-Dec-1987) High School: Riverdale Country Day School, Bronx, NY University: Sarah Lawrence College (dropped out) Author of books: Midnight Farm ( 1987 , juvenile) The Boy of the Bells ( 1990 , juvenile) Amy the Dancing Bear ( 1990 , juvenile) The Fisherman's Song: A Romantic Story for All Ages ( 1991 , juvenile) The Nighttime Chauffer ( 1993 , juvenile) ISBN 13: 9780385266376. Singer Carly Simon's warm and charming story of a little bear named Amy, who would rather dance than sleep. Beautifully illustrated, entertaining bedtime reading for sleepless children and adults alike. About the Author : Carly Simon is known internationally for her singing and songwriting. She has numerous singles and albums to her credit, and she has contributed music to several films. She won an Oscar for the song Let the River Run from the film Working Girl. She is also noted for her involvement in children's entertainment. The Artistry of a Creative Friendship. In 1979, Carly Simon opened the Hot Tin Roof nightclub with two partners in a steel hangar off a dirt road near the Martha’s Vineyard Airport. To decorate the venue, she hired Margot Datz, a 26-year-old sculptor who had recently moved to the Vineyard from New Orleans and who happened to have spent many adolescent hours studying the way the light diffused through Ms. Simon’s skirt on the cover of her 1971 album Anticipation. Eager to secure the job and as much a fan as ever, Ms. Datz said she would do the whole place for $2,000 including materials: a proposal that essentially required her to work for free. The club was built and finished in 67 days, according to the Vineyard Gazette archives. The job would lead to decades of artistic collaboration between the two women, including dozens of murals in Ms. Simon’s homes and four illustrated children’s books. But for Ms. Datz the encounters with her idol were initially overwhelming. When they first met, Ms. Simon was 34 years old, a creative powerhouse with a string of top-10 hits, and a mother. “I was this small-town girl, and it was like meeting God or something,” Ms. Datz said as she reminisced with Ms. Simon in Ms. Simon’s Vineyard Haven home. After it opened, the Hot Tin Roof routinely drew lines of hopeful patrons that stretched out to the road. Ms. Datz painted hubcaps commemorating some of the notable performances: Bonnie Raitt, Peter Tosh, Cyndi Lauper, James Taylor, the Blues Brothers and Ms. Simon. Ms. Simon’s phone rang all day, she said, with calls from people hoping she could get them in. “You knew that if you went there you’d be a part of some fun activity, you know, something that would be talked about later,” Ms. Simon said. When she was planning to create a music video for her 1983 song You Know What To Do, shot on the Vineyard, Ms. Simon again called Ms. Datz for help. In the video, Ms. Simon scampers down the stairs of her house and into the woods to meet a somewhat sinister lover. “There’s the dress!” Ms. Simon said as the two women watched the video together during an interview, Ms. Datz for the first time. The dress is blue and translucent. It was handmade by Ms. Datz. “I remember doing the measurements in front of this mirror,” Ms. Simon said. “I had collected antique lace,” Ms. Datz said. “It was a hobby, and I had these beautiful old lace collars that I sewed onto the dress.” After that collaboration, several years passed, and the two women lost touch until Ms. Simon wrote a children’s book based on her daughter, Sally, about a bear who refuses to go to sleep. She asked Ms. Datz to illustrate it. The story was called Amy the Dancing Bear and the publisher gave Ms. Datz just five weeks to complete the illustrations. “I set up an art table in the living room, and I put two little mattresses underneath it for my children, and they would kind of live under my art table and eat pizza under there while Mommy worked 15 hours a day to try to get this done,” Ms. Datz remembered. In her illustrations, Amy the Dancing Bear wears a pink skirt and twirls a vine of purple flowers. “It’s so much fun to see her come up with a character,” Ms. Simon said. Three children’s books followed in quick succession, including an adaptation of one of Ms. Simon’s lovesongs called The Fisherman’s Song. After that, they turned back to the Hot Tin Roof, which was being renovated and reopened. Ms. Datz filled it with new murals of fishermen and farmers, kissing in cornfields and dancing by the sea. She also began painting in Ms. Simon’s house, which is now full of her work: a swan paddles past lily pads, a painted hen sits in a laying box, painted flowers creep up around doorways, and vines cover indoor columns. Sometimes, Ms. Datz painted while Ms. Simon worked out new music on her piano. Their conversations inspired many of Ms. Simon’s songs, including Happy Birthday. “I remember writing that song,” Ms. Simon said. “It was both of our birthdays, and the first line of that song is, ‘It’s all of our birthdays this summer, another year older, another year younger.’” Ms. Datz continues her work in the house, moving recently to the studio where Ms. Simon has written much of her music. Reflecting on their friendship, the singer and the painter fell into an easy rhythm. They remembered the perfumed waitresses who used to serve illicit drinks at the Ocean Club, how people had to lean in to be heard over the music in the shadowy corners of the Hot Tin Roof, how a comet once glowed in the nighttime sky over Sengekontacket for three whole months. “I think part of the journey of greatest importance for me with you was learning to move from awe to intimacy,” Ms. Datz told Ms. Simon. “And over the years, I would notice that if I got nervous you would get nervous, and I thought, I’ve got to just stop getting nervous. I’ve got to be myself.” Carly Simon, Amy. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1992. Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Paperback. Condition: Fair. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1992. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Paperback. Condition: Good. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1992. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Amy the Dancing Bear. Carly Simon. Published by Doubleday, 1992. Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. AMY THE DANCING BEAR. Simon, Carly. Published by Doubleday, 1989. 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