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Carly Simon: Hotcakes (Elektra)

Kim Fowley, Phonograph Record, March 1974

IT USED TO be said in the late '60s that if you wanted to give your kid sister an LP the choice would be the Guess Who. Well, times have changed. My kid sister wouldn't be caught dead with the Guess Who of the '70s, the Raspberries; but she would sure crave Hotcakes by Carly Simon. So would mom.

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