“We went to cocktail parties and had guitars and sang,” Lucy Simon told The New York Times in 2015.
Eventually, they said to each other, “Let’s see if we can make money singing.”
Carly was a student at Sarah Lawrence College, and Lucy studied at Cornell University’s New York Hospital School of Nursing in New York in the early 1960s. (She hitchhiked, but her mother crushed the plan.) They soon landed a gig at a bar called Moore’s, where they wore carefully selected matching blouses to their first show. Arrived.
In her 2015 memoir, Boys in the Trees, Carly Simon said, “It wasn’t until later that I realized Moors was a gay and lesbian bar.” “What an audience in barely-rumpled, ripped jeans and a motorcycle jacket has made about these two sisters will be lost in time. was taken pretty seriously, so in return the audience probably thought we were twin milkmaids from Switzerland, or escapees from a nearby carnival.
They called themselves the Simon Sisters, as Carly Simon wrote.
In the book, Ms. Simon recalled the sisters’ dynamic during their first performance foray.
“Anyone who’s been paying close attention has probably seen how hard it was for my little sister Carly to look and act like my big sister Lucy,” she wrote. was taller than Lucy, but emotionally speaking, Lucy was still high, the center of light, beauty, and everything. Yes, a heroine and a pilot.”