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  • Carly Simons has a mouth like a crazy donkey

  • no need to be bitchy, she has a good voice

  • beartalon- how right you are. I sent this to a friend, and told her that yesterday, after watching the inauguration, I had this song stuck in my head, all day....fitting, I think.

  • I think that this is a good song for the hope that was inspired by the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration.

  • KaitainCPS, you are very right. Germany's war on the Eastern Front depleted much of its resources, else the war would have gone on longer. (A book on the White Rose resistance spoke of German losses and morale in these Russo wars)

    Thought this song is so appropriate to the start of the Obama era.

  • the song is far better without the dreadful 80's big haired girls all over the place.

    and carly is the only one of them that looks really timeless.

  • True, but I have to say that when I watched this film recently I was shocked by:

    a) How much Melanie Griffith looked like a real woman rather than a lingerie model, in a way that would probably not be possible in a Hollywood movie today (when she's in Harrison Ford's bed)

    and

    b) How much sexier she was than the aforementioned skinny minnies who seem so ubiquitous today.

  • New York = New Jerusalem

  • Wow, I sang this for awards night in the second grade. I love this song.

  • Just enjoy the music it always take me back way back :)

  • O.K kids, calm down. It's just a music video. England and America are like two body builders in the gym, comparing the size of each others balls. Get over it guys, and just enjoy the music!!!

  • In the mid=80's, I worked in New York for six weeks and I swear there was a girl in our office that looked just like the Joan Cussack character. The hair, the eye make up, the accent,,,everything. That was New York in the 80's. They nailed it on the head. This song is the greatest. I've always loved it.

  • barjumbo, you have got it all wrong. Carly Simon has done some brilliant work in her career. Nobody does it better (from The spy who loved me) was okay but her finest work was the "No secrets" album and the work she did with Mick Macdonald on "Another passenger" (also with Libby Titus) and 'Boys in the trees" (also with Mike Macdonald).

  • did u ever see working girl? its great

  • Best movie of 1988!!! I remember watching it at a friend's sleepover party and we were all dancing to this song. Aaaaah, the days of innocence! :)

  • i was born right before it came out so i saw it much later but it was def a funny good movie

  • she spanking

  • haha! im singing this in choir! :) lol

  • I love Carly Simon. Her voice is unmistakeable. No one sound her sound. I can only imagine how beautiful she was at 25. She beauty isa unique as her voice. All her own. A stunning beauty.

  • O M G.. theres alot of big ass hair in this video hehe.. great song ! carly simon rocks

  • Love this song, and love the movie, Working Girl. Yes, it's sad, that the twin towers are no longer there, and that 9/11 happened. Wish I could go back to the 80's sometimes, when we weren't hit by 9/11 terrorism yet. Sad, very sad, but it's reality now. But I guess the more important question is, what do we, or individuals do with the knowledge of 9/11 now that it has come to pass? What lesson have we learned, and what do we still have to learn?

  • Carly did THREE, GREAT things, in, her career.

    Firstly, she sang the theme tune to 'The Spy Who Loved Me.'

    Secondly, she sang 'Coming Around Again.'

    Then, she did this song - which, I'll love, til the day I die!

    A,REALLY, REALLY, INSPIRATIONAL song!

  • "Lucie Vondráčková - Láska umí víc"..diferrent version!!...

  • fricking love working girl..Melanie Griffith Hot Hot Hot in this movie..:):):) Nice Ending.. :)

  • lol About the last time Carly Simon actually looked good! :-p She's aaaall teeth!

  • stupid idea.

  • It's Asking for the Taking... Wake The Nation !

  • LOVE Carly. The Best Blessed 2009 All : )

  • I surfed over to listen to a good song, and I was saddened to read a really stupid argument. Sorry the people died, don't care about the buildings either way. I am a brit, but I visited NYC before the twin towers were built, so people's nostalgia is very short term. What's with the anti-brit tone, though? As I said to a pro-Argentina American during the Falklands War, you will wait a long time before Argentina backs the USA in a war. More than 50000 died on UK soil in the blitz. We got over it.

  • then dont read the comments and stop bitching about it. just watch the fucking video.

  • oh, and one more thing. Brits are assholes so fuck them.

  • i suppose you forgot who founded america you twat it was the english ,also who took the brunt of the Nazis during ww2 ,the english so before you open your blow hole think of history ,america and england are close except for the small bunch of twats in both countrys

  • This is to supernaturalist9 are you a complete twat or do you have to practice ,i think reading your reply you have become top of your class

  • since "founding" america, the brits have become what?? a tiny island country that is smaller than its former colonies, the brits were so fucked up they couldnt hold on to their mighty british empire, and now the US dominates your tiny country that is full of twats such as yourself. i aint even descended from the brits thanfully. I guess the handful twats that I have in my country are all descended from the brits. and whats up with nazi brunt? bitch about that to germans dumbass.

  • What do you mean since finding America what have we become, it was after finding you we went on to have the biggest empire the world has ever known which we only lost because we were weakned fighting an evil power called nazism how does that make us f**ked-up.

    And what does the size of our country matter it doesn't make us inferior to anyone unless your inferior because your smaller than Russia, Australia and Canada

  • and when you went into deep shit after fighting the nazis, who bailed your "empire" out? Britain itself was left virtually bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a $3.5 billion loan from the United States, the last instalment of which was repaid in 2006.

  • and its not just the size of the country that makes you inferior, it is also the size of the economy, the size of the military power. so yeah, you may have founded America, but America bails your shithole out when you run out of money after a war. I never wanted to make this about the 2 countries, but thanks to that "twat" 2dg57's bullshit, I had to go this way. Think before you come in here talkin shit.

  • We are the 4th biggest economy which isn't bad for a country of our size. So you gave us a loan we paid it back in full and one of the conditions of you helping us in the war was that we gave you the blueprints of how a jet engine works I don't need to tell you how important that was.

    Any way I'm not Anti-American there is good and bad with every nation and we are supposed to be friends aren't we?

  • yeah, it took your country 61 years to repay it, and at the time, you guys wanted it as a gift for taking the Nazi burnt. Also, don't forget that in 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4bn of World War I debt (about £866m at 1934 exchange rates). Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn. That loan was has never been repaid, and made the UK one of the least trusted countries.

  • As for the aviation history and the Jet engine blueprints, if you wanna walk down the history path to show some kind of British pioneer accomplishments, walk down a little more and look up the Wright Brothers. anyway you should not have butted your nose in my argument between me and the "twat" i am not anti-brit but dont come in here tellin us that u founded us so u r superior because you are not even close.

  • Wouldn't you agree that if America had not come into the war Britains chances of winning wouldv'e have diminished and nobody could then stop him taking over the whole of Europe not to mention getting his hands on jet engine technolgy. We had a job defeating him toghether do you really think come the 1950s say he wouldn't have his eyes on America and the whole world. He dreamt of world domination so really it was your duty as "Gods own country" to intervene, so you shouldn't have charged us.

  • Sorry, a debt is a debt, and isn't it enough that your country didn't pay off its WWI debt, let alone expected the second bailout package as a gift, and we never demanded the first debt? What is this, distribution of wealth philosophy? And you said it youself, had it not been for the US, your country would have been taken over. America just as well could have taken care of itself with that kind of money had Hitler tried to invade. He didn't, we bailed you out, and now your people talk smack.

  • The idea that the US entered the war just to do Britain a big favour is a fallacy. In truth, Germany declared war on the US, not vice versa, although Roosevelt was obviously geared up for it. But most of those who haven't studied WWII don't realise that the nation who really defeated Hitler, above any other, was the USSR. Even D-Day was something of a sideshow compared with Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration. Don't preach too much unless you're sure of your history.

  • Ah geez we are talking about wartime loans, LOL. without involving myself in your, well, forgive me for saying, pointless arguments, All I got to say is that the loan was awfully generous, at 2% fixed interest rate and 50 annual payments! I wish I could take out that kind of loan today. Sigh.

  • haha! well, pretend you are a financial institute and demand a loan because of the lovable key interest rates. haha.

  • I know we didn't discover you that was Christopher Columbus and he wasn't British so if thats what the other fella said then he's wrong.

  • well he didn't say about discovery. he said that the English colonized America so that makes them superior. Thats where he was wrong and that is why this debate started. I am gonna stop now, as iakny said, it is pointless.

  • after reading your comments you really are a twat ,not one itelligent response from you ,to be honest i think we would be better of with out our satallite country in tow ,im glad you are not related in any way to the british, but you are right in one thing ,englands twats are called the british goverment,and i agree with you there 100% also read history america and the uk have never been close its the bullshit poloticians which make it so

  • And have the Brits gotten over the July 2007 attacks? NO!

  • Great song! Totally weird shoulder pads

  • It's the 80s!

  • i love Carly but this is a typical BAD american song...Simon would say NO NO NO

  • bad song in your opinion. This is a pretty good song.

  • Does anyone remember when the Post Office used this song after 9/11? I hardly think about "Working Girl" or the 80's when I hear this.

  • Carly's shoulder pads are also horrendous.

  • 661st!

  • "real humans respect other people's feelings" - well, you have trouble respecting mine? Keep whitewashing, friend. Knock yourself out.

  • your feelings are, " twin towers were hideous", and you want me to respect your feelings? your feelings are that people shouldn't be nostalgic about something they loved and miss, and don't want them to be hopeful? you want me to respect that? you want people to feel how the people who died were feeling at the moment of their death, and you want me to respect that?

    there is freedom of speech, and then there is being an inconsiderate prick, which you are.

  • You don't care to imagine what people were feeling before they lost their lives. YOU are the pitifully sick one in this argument. The victims are not even people to you. They are all one now, with your fucking towers. You've claimed INDIVIDUALS for your own agenda, for your sick self regarding sense of patriotism. Go to hell.

  • yet another proof of your mental sickness and your pathetic, presumptuous being, and your ridiculous self-defensive acts after stating something as execrable as calling the twin towers horrendous ( or is the covetousness that you are unsuccessfully trying to hide by your noxious philosophy, and by questioning one's position and the status of patriotism.) you are a sad, bitter little Brit who just isn't capable of comprehending simple nostalgia and memories that normal people are accustomed to.

  • normal people would understand that they were not just the towers. I don't know what it is? The infamous jealousy and animosity that the Brits are known to feel towards Americans, or is that you people don't really have anything to be nostalgic about in your tiny Island country. One thing I do know is that as Americans, we remember 9/11. we remember the people who died, and remember what was destroyed in our homeland, but we move on because in America, life goes on.

  • You just sit there in the sad little bubble of yours, with your assumptions and your venom for American and its fallen icons, and just as well be damned to hell because as it is, your life already seems like it. you are lucky that you are not physically here, near me, because if you were here, and questioned my patriotism, you would get the answer which would be hard to forget and would prevent you in the future to question a true American's patriotism, you miserable fool. now bugger off.

  • You are hilarious!

  • fuck the britains. they r nuthin but a bunch of whiny ass pussies with no dental plan. a tiny fuckin country and wannabe americans. if everone in texas pissed, your shitty little cuntry would drown, you pansy ass, so b4 u badmouth our tours and attack americans, go dig a big shithole and hide in it. LOL@ arminhank.. stonehenge wha....? LOL!!!

  • the simple fact that you would post your poisoned thoughts on this video shows that you need some serious help or have nothing better to do than trying to spread your bullshit philosophy about how everyone should be miserable simply because you are mentally sick. but like arminhank said, people dont buy into your asshole philosophies. people want to be happy, and that is what you failed to respect. piss off.

  • if you see three of the same posts by me, sorry about that, cuz youtube isnt working properly.

  • Random fact...my third grade teacher had 2 sons in the St. Thomas Boys Choir (of New York) who sang the background vocal on "Let the River Run" so I have 3 degrees of separation from Carly Simon, Melanie Griffith, Joan Cusack AND Harrison Ford.

  • Great movie, and love this song, Carly Simon rocks!

  • Serious Mojo in this wonderful song. Sea It ?

    It's asking for the TAKING... Hear That ???

  • Harrison Ford owned the 80s.

  • like Tom Hanks owned the 90s.

  • AND I SHALL HAVE THE 10s!!!

  • singing this song in chorus its amazin!

  • It sounds so much better with male voices; we did it too.

  • Me recuerda "Working Girl" bonita película

    de finales  de los años 80's . Nichols, Melanie

    congratulations !

  • hu sings this?

    anyone no cuz i wanna get it on frasotwire cuz im doin a gymnastics routine to it lol

  • Carly Simon

  • Awesome song!!! Such a great classic from the golden 80's! 5 stars!!!

  • Wonderful song! I looove it! 5*! It`s on my favourites box now!

  • from blueeaglesmom

    When the need to see the beautiful Trade Towers occurs, I watch "Working Girl" The evil ones stole so many from us as well as my now-never-celebrated birthday...I WILL NEVER FORGET, I PROMISE !!

  • Our current economy turns this beautiful song very sad indeed.

  • True. Music Heals. Sing/Play Loud. Psalms 33

  • New Jerusalem = New York.

  • Great Song. Music Heals... You

  • the big hair makes this video haha

  • Ahh the 80's, the golden age of big hair =P

  • However, I am always proud to be a New Yorker. To me, New York is the greatest city on the face of this planet.

  • Harrison Ford is awesome!

  • WTC :(

  • I heard this song used a 9-11 memeorial service...it's also known as "The Wall Street Hymn"

  • Although this song is really great, and would be a wonderful choice at the inauguration, I would imagine folks would start singing "We Shall Overcome" instead.

  • Inspiring....

  • Awesome song....hugely catchy!

    Working Girl was amazing..one of the best movies of the 80s!!

  • "Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation Come, the New Jerusalem.Silver cities rise,the morning lights the streets that lead them and sirens call them on with a song. It's asking for the taking trembling

    shaking. Oh, my heart is aching,We're coming to the edge,running on the water,coming through the fog,your sons and daughters

    We the great and small,stand on a star

    and blaze a trail of desire

    through the darkening dawn...

    Beautiful words for all!

  • I hope people start singing this when Obama gets inaugurated.

  • i know lol. this song matches him perfectly

  • yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it. they aren't really connected to the song, and with the WTC in the backgroud, they actually kind of take away from it.

  • canadianfreespirit

    yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it.

    I humbly disagree. I lived in New York during the 80's. This song brings out the essence of those times. The freedom, the spirit of 80's new york. The World trade center was an integral part of New York city culture. It was a symbol that represented the greatness of the city and it's people. I am honored to have walked ( many times ) through it's hallways.

  • its a shame, that I live on Long Island, and I have never been to the WTC. I wish I did.

  • was she ever?

  • Ahhhh.....Back when Melanie Griffith was hot.

  • working girl is such a good movie!! and this is song is aboslutely amazing. full of hope... and rhyde88, i think that's why people were talkin about obama, cuz of the whole hope thing.

  • I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day? and, I'll be honest, it gives me tears, too. every time. I can't listen to it that often, but I love it.

    God Bless Us All.

  • canadianfreespirit

    I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day?

    agreed

  • I have never gotten to see NY as an adult or when it had a twin tower. I was a baby when my family went there. What's more touching is to see the lights on in one of the pics. To me, it represents life going on inside the building, when it was filmed so many years ago.This song is really about a new day, a new city, a new Jerusalem will rise. What ever the terrorists think out there, they are never going to destroy God's children/ people. A new day is coming in the future, but in God's time.

  • In New York, everything is about hopes and dreams. Everyday is a new day in this great metropolis. Those monsters may have destroyed the towers, but they will never be able to shake this great city and its residents.

  • I happen to think the Towers were hideous. We shouldn't start glorifying buildings over the people who died in them. You really think the innocents who died there would have wanted to even be in those buildings? No, they wanted to be out of them, at home, in a safe haven.

    Also, it's a brazen assumption to think that huge cities, especially in these times of indulgence and excess even in the wake of recession are the key to hopes, dreams and happiness.

  • It figures. You are from Britain, hence this nasty, asshole comment. I was wondering, what American would be so bitter and depressed to talk like the way you do. Do us a favor, and shut your pie hole up. If you have nothing nice to say, then zip it. We loved the twin towers, and we love our city. so shhhh...

  • I'm not bitter, just distraught that people had to die and be martyred in THERE, in those towers - you see them , you think of virility, success and power. I see them, and think of a veritable death trap.

  • when we look at them, we remember them as the symbol of the freedom and an icon of the free world that was attacked. You will never understand that it had become fabric of our lives. people have memories and nostalgia about those towers, and you have to be a goddamn robot to not feel that nostalgia. yes, people died there, but memories didn't. this country is our home and if a part of your home is destroyed or taken away, you just cant simply forget about it. you remember what you loved abot it.

  • fair enough. I understand that completely... but think to yourself, when all those people were crowding at the windows gasping for air, they were beyond desperate to be out of there and probably CURSED the buildings, built so stupidly high that the possibility of being rescued and safe was impossible.

  • like I said, if everyone had these deep and depressing thoughts and assumptions of what the people who were dying were saying and thinking, this world would be ever more miserable than it already this. why do we have to think and assume what people thought when they were dying? I am sure they didn't want us to be depressed thinking about their pain. they would want us to recall pleasant memories to cheerish, not some bullshit about why the tower was build so high.

  • Actually, I am sure they would have wanted the world to know exactly what they went through. It's a quality which may be alien to you - it's called being human.

  • its funny how you should be talking about being human. real humans dont try to make other humans sad and miserable. real humans respect other people's feelings and value their memories, which you clearly aren't capable of. well you keep questioning why the building was so high, and I am going to remember my friend who worked there. I am going to remember what happened, and I am going to remember those towers. people who died would want us to live.

  • I agree. AdArmand is a stupid red-coat. dont worry about him. people like him are inconsiderate pricks who will probably jump off the building and kill themselves because the world doesnt buy into their asshole philosophies.

    sorry to learn about your loss.

  • not exactly. I am sure they would have hoped to tell their loved ones they love them and wanted them to take care of themselves. not everyone is a suicidal maniac like u. but what do you know, you brit jackass.

  • LOL I can picture you saying " aaah wanker!!! these bloody stonehenges on fire, falling on me arse, damn those eejits who put these hideous rocks here, oh CRICKEY here goes me torso, gud bye luv, remember how me body was crushed under then cursed stones and curse em for ever, love! oh, my arse is on fire now love, here goes...STATIC".

    asshole.

  • LOL!!!!!!!!!

  • you need to lighten up, or at least keep you depressing, troubling thoughts to yourself. dont be an inconsiderate asshole, because people have memories of this place, and if you don't respect their feelings, then you need some serious help.

  • Lighten up? We're talking about a tragedy aren't we? I won't keep feed into your obsession with glorifying those buildings, nearly three thousand lives are worth so much more than them.

  • we were moving on with our lives, trying to put the tragedy in the past, because you dont kill yourself over something terrible that happened, or you become a depressed maniac, which you apparently are. I have lost a friend in those towers, but if he was alive, he wouldn't want me to be talking about the tragedy, thats the kinda man he was.

  • wonderful song and singer but so sad to see the trade center in the fog.

  • this is so uplifting it gives me goose bumps

  • great song!!

  • Why's everyone talkin bout Obama? What's it got to do with Carly?

  • Carly is my hero, would lose one of my digits to see her play live, shame she suffers stage fright, LOVE HER!

  • and I hope the secret service reads both these postings.

    have a nice day.

  • oh jmar1371 shut up and grow up, I just thought it was funny.

  • The Secret Service can read all they like - and act all they like. But if they get ambitious, it won't bring 2-3-5 or more of them back to life.

  • Thank you OBAMA for bringing HOPE to America!

  • super song, to go with a great film

  • This song is so inspirational; it would be a nice theme song for the new positive world order we all crave and need!!

  • Esta canción es genial! Te anima a luchar en el día a día y te sube los ánimos!

    This song is awesome! It gives you the mood to work day after day trying to achieve more and more objectives and also makes you stronger!

  • Totally powerful. This song is awesome!

  • A wonderful song and a hilarious movie - but my heart aches seeing the towers of the World Trade Center (at the very beginning, and lit up at 2:40). God bless those who lost their lives on that day.

  • She is THE BEST. Always. Who else had that voice? Who else wrote those songs?

  • Asta, copii, vedeam la "video", pe cand...

  • I love the working girl!!! and of course Carly Simons.

  • j'adore carly simon!

  • Both the movie and the song warm my " Big Apple " heart and make me homesick.

  • gran canción

  • me encanta es ta peli, y la cancion es increible

  • New York City and Corporate America in the 80's. Fascinating.

  • God knows I wish I could go back..

  • God bless the big hair of the 80's

  • they used a shortened version of this in a post 9/11 postal service ad, it was actually pretty touching

  • This is a beautiful song

  • this song was in our fall chorus concert in 1989

  • mine too, in fall 2001. ( high school )

  • yay for big eighties hair !

  • I love Carly. But not so much this song. The imagery is far to Zionist for me.

    Peace to all.

    Be well.

  • Zionist? Well first of all, Carly is half Jewish.  But you entirely miss the point. She is not singing about Jerusalem, she is singing about New York, about it's own siren call to young people. This is an amazing song and I wish Obama would use it as part of his campaign...for us older uncool voters. Oh hell, he uses Stevie Wonder, Springsteen and Billy Joel, all from my time. :) But this song is so beautiful when sung like a church song.

  • I love this song. There is an spanish singer called Rosa, who won the first edition of the "Spanish Idol or Operación Triunfo". She is one of the best voices of Spain, but she doesn't have the success that she deserves. You can look for others versions like "I have nothing" or "Something". For me it's incredible

  • This song is so wonderful. I'm a asst at my job. So, I totally feel the pain lol. It also reminds me of barack obama winning the election this year. OBAMA 08

  • I agree, makes me think of Obama too. More than Sign Sealed, Delivered, though I love Stevie too.

  • makes me cry :(

    i do it at my stage skl and it sounds beautiful :) still sad

    <3 x

  • This song makes me want to put on a dress with shoulder pads and a pair of nice pumps and go out there and defeat all of those sexist yuppies... This is odd since I am a dude.

  • LOL....do it anyway!

  • we're doing this in chior too!

  • we are also doing this for choir

  • buh-bye, twin towers. :-(

    the lobby scenes were shot there. damn you, rudy g.!!!!

  • we r singing this song in chior...

  • Seems more like a "theme" song than a "real" song...

  • Were singing this song for best foot forward

  • hi i love this song

  • There are many ways for a person to allow oneself to become victimized. Very inspirational to both women AND men.

    Thanks for posting this!