Carly Simon released her self-titled debut solo album in February 1971, and within two years, she stood alongside Carole King and Joni Mitchell as one of the most popular female singer-songwriters on the planet. Her major hits during those early years included “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” “Anticipation,” and the chart-topping “You’re So Vain.”
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Prior to her solo fame, Carly recorded with her sister Lucy as a folk duo called The Simon Sisters. In 1968, she also briefly sang with New York City rockers Elephant’s Memory, who later collaborated with John Lennon.
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Not long before Simon hit it big, Simon earned some extra money by lending her voice to a few commercial jingles. According to a post on her social media pages, “These sessions were part of how Carly honed her craft and made a living as a young singer, building a foundation for everything that followed.”
One of those jingles was for a 1971 ad for Good & Fruity, a popular candy featuring various fruit flavors.
Simon shared grainy footage of the commercial on her socials. The animated clip featured Carly belting a country-style anthem all about the deliciousness of the chewy and colorful confection.
“There are rainbows in the flavor of Good & Fruity candy,” she sings. “The cherry tastes as good as the Fourth of July / The lemon stole the sun right out of the sky / The orange makes you laugh till the sun goes down / And lime is love, and love is green, and love is all around / So take a box, open it, and you’ll see / There are rainbows in the flavor of Good & Fruity candy.”
One of Simon’s Hits Was in a Popular Series of Commercials
After Simon became famous, her 1971 hit “Anticipation” became the centerpiece of a series of commercials for Heinz Ketchup. The ads, which began airing in the mid-1970s, showed how slowly the condiment poured out of the bottle while noting that Heinz was “worth the wait.”
Heinz continued to use “Anticipation” in its commercials into the 2000s. A YouTube video has collected a few of the commercials that aired during the 1970s.
“Anticipation” was the title track of Carly’s second solo album. It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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