Hotcakes (album)

Hotcakes became one of Simon's biggest selling albums. It featured the hits "Mockingbird", a duet with her then-husband James Taylor (a cover of a 1963 hit for Inez and Charlie Foxx), and "Haven't Got Time For The Pain", as well as many other songs that reflected Simon's upbeat beat mood during her pregnancy with her first child. On the album cover, Simon sits in a gleamingly white kitchen, robustly pregnant, smiling brightly and wearing a somewhat bohemian white linen dress.

The album went gold immediately and it stayed on the charts for eight months. Yet it was overshadowed commercially by two other major albums released by Simon's own label, Elektra/Asylum, in the same month as Hotcakes, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark and Bob Dylan's Planet Waves. These took the number two and number one spots, respectively, on the Billboard album chart while Hotcakes peaked at number three.

Track listing

1. "Safe and Sound" (Simon, Jacob Brackman) – 3:36
2. "Mind on My Man" – 2:57
3. "Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby" – 3:55
4. "Older Sister" – 3:06
5. "Just Not True" – 5:16
6. "Hotcakes" – 1:07
7. "Misfit" – 3:04
8. "Forever My Love" (Simon, James Taylor) – 3:25
9. "Mockingbird" (Inez and Charlie Foxx, with additional lyrics by James Taylor) – 4:11
10. "Grownup" – 3:44
11. "Haven't Got Time For the Pain" (Simon, Jacob Brackman) – 3:50

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)