Still Crazy After All These Years ( song ) - wikipedia Still Crazy After All These Years ( song ) `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' Single by Paul Simon from the album Still Crazy After All These Years B - side `` I Do It For Your Love '' ( US ) `` Silent Eyes '' ( Europe ) Released March 26, 1976 ( 1976 - 03 - 26 ) Format 7 '' Genre Soft rock folk rock folk jazz Length 3 : 24 Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Paul Simon Producer ( s ) Paul Simon Phil Ramone Paul Simon singles chronology `` 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover '' ( 1975 ) `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' ( 1976 ) `` Slip Slidin ' Away '' ( 1977 ) `` 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover '' ( 1975 ) `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' ( 1976 ) `` Slip Slidin ' Away '' ( 1977 ) `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' is a song by the American singer - songwriter Paul Simon. It was the third and final single from his fifth studio album of the same name ( 1975 ), released on Columbia Records. Though the song briefly reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., it was a bigger hit on the magazine 's Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at number four. Contents 1 Composition 2 Reception 3 Charts 4 Notes 4.1 References 4.2 Sources 5 External links Composition `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' begins with the singer singing that `` I met my old lover on the street last night. '' The `` old lover '' has been variously interpreted to be either Simon 's ex-wife Peggy Harper, from whom he was recently divorced, his former girlfriend from the 1960s Kathy Chitty, or even Simon 's former musical partner Art Garfunkel, who appears on the song that follows ' Still Crazy After All These Years '' on the album. After sharing a few beers, the singer and the old lover part ways again. The singer notes that he is `` not the kind of man who tends to socialize '' but rather leans `` on old familiar ways '' and is `` still crazy after all these years. '' The lyrics acknowledge a nostalgia for the past, but also subtly suggest that once the sweet nostalgia is gone, it is replaced by loneliness and even bitterness. The song features the Muscle Shoals rhythm section : Barry Beckett ( Fender Rhodes ), David Hood ( bass ) and Roger Hawkins ( drums ). The saxophone, played by Michael Brecker, emphasizes the jazz character of the song. Music theorist Peter Kaminsky analyzed how the key progression of the introduction to `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' anticipates the key progressions throughout the album. The song has an AABA form, with the first, second and fourth verses sharing the same basic melody. The first and second verses are primarily in the key of G major, although there are some unexpected harmonies that differ between the verses. The key of the third verse, the B section, is never resolved. G major returns in the final verse, but modulates to the slightly higher key of A major, which according to author James Bennighof gives `` a faint sense of slightly demented triumph to the singer 's declaration that he would n't be held responsible for his potential mayhem. '' Music critic Walter Everett considers this modulation to reflect the singer 's `` unpredictable emotional and mental state. '' Reception Rolling Stone critic Paul Nelson considered `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' to be the best song on the album. He praises the `` poignancy and openness '' of the first verse and Brecker 's passionate sax solo, and the fact that the song demonstrates `` the fierceness of ( Simon 's ) will. '' Simon performed an unfinished version of the song on the September 5, 1974 episode of The Dick Cavett Show during a discussion of his songwriting techniques. At that point he only had the first two verses finished and was unsure of how to proceed musically or lyrically. Simon has performed the song twice on the late - night comedy series Saturday Night Live. He first performed the song during the show 's October 18, 1975 episode, during its first season, second season in a turkey costume shortly before Thanksgiving 1976, and again for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015. Charts Chart ( 1976 ) Peak position Australia ( Kent Music Report ) 10 Canada ( RPM ) Top Singles 38 Canada MOR Playlist ( RPM ) US Easy Listening ( Billboard ) 5 US Billboard Hot 100 40 Notes References Jump up ^ `` Still Crazy After All These Years awards ''. Allmusic. Retrieved 2014 - 07 - 05. ^ Jump up to : Charlesworth, C. ( 1997 ). The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel. Omnibus Press. p. 74. ISBN 0711955972. Jump up ^ Eliot, M. ( 2010 ). Paul Simon : A Life. John Wiley & Sons. p. 142. ISBN 9780470900871. ^ Jump up to : Fineman. M.A. ( 2009 ). `` Equality : Still Illusive After All These Years ''. In McCain. L.C. ; Grossman, J.L. Gender Equality : Dimensions of Women 's Equal Citizenship. Cambridge University Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780521766470. ^ Jump up to : Bennighof, J. ( 2007 ). The Words and Music of Paul Simon. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 70 -- 71. ISBN 9780275991630. ^ Jump up to : Everett, W. ( 1997 ). `` Swallowed by a Song : Paul Simon 's Crisis of Chromaticism ''. In Covach, J. ; Boone, G.M. Understanding Rock : Essays in Musical Analysis. Oxford University Press. pp. 120 -- 126. ISBN 9780199880126. ^ Jump up to : Nelson, P. ( December 4, 1975 ). `` Still Crazy After All These Years ''. Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved 2014 - 07 - 05. Jump up ^ Kent, David ( 1993 ). Australian Chart Book 1970 -- 1992. St Ives, NSW : Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0 - 646 - 11917 - 6. Jump up ^ `` RPM100 : Singles '' ( PDF ). RPM. Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada. 25 ( 12 ). June 19, 1976. Retrieved November 12, 2015. Jump up ^ `` The Programmers ' MOR Playlist '' ( PDF ). RPM. Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada. 25 ( 14 ). July 3, 1976. Retrieved November 12, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Paul Simon -- Chart history ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 11, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Paul Simon Chart History ( Hot 100 ) ''. Billboard. Retrieved November 11, 2015. Sources Bennighof, James ( 2007 ). The Words and Music of Paul Simon. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978 - 0 - 275 - 99163 - 0. Eliot, Marc ( 2010 ). Paul Simon : A Life. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978 - 0 - 470 - 43363 - 8. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Paul Simon songs Discography The Paul Simon Songbook `` I Am a Rock '' Paul Simon `` Mother and Child Reunion '' `` Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard '' `` Duncan '' There Goes Rhymin ' Simon `` Kodachrome '' `` Loves Me Like a Rock '' `` American Tune '' `` Take Me to the Mardi Gras '' Paul Simon in Concert : Live Rhymin ' `` The Sound of Silence '' Still Crazy After All These Years `` Gone at Last '' `` My Little Town '' `` 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover '' `` Still Crazy After All These Years '' Greatest Hits, Etc. `` Slip Slidin ' Away '' `` Stranded in a Limousine '' One - Trick Pony `` Late in the Evening '' `` One - Trick Pony '' `` Oh, Marion '' Hearts and Bones `` Allergies '' `` The Late Great Johnny Ace '' `` Think Too Much '' Graceland `` You Can Call Me Al '' `` Graceland '' `` The Boy in the Bubble '' `` Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes '' `` Under African Skies '' `` Homeless '' The Rhythm of the Saints `` The Obvious Child '' `` Proof '' `` Born at the Right Time '' You 're the One `` Old '' `` You 're the One '' Surprise `` Father and Daughter '' `` That 's Me '' `` Outrageous '' So Beautiful or So What `` Getting Ready for Christmas Day '' `` The Afterlife '' Stranger to Stranger `` Wristband '' `` Cool Papa Bell '' `` The Werewolf '' Featured singles `` Wonderful World '' `` The Blues '' `` The Boxer '' `` New York Is My Home '' Other songs `` Something So Right '' `` St. Judy 's Comet '' `` Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War '' `` Thelma '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Still_Crazy_After_All_These_Years_(song)&oldid=835543422 '' Categories : Paul Simon songs 1975 songs 1976 singles Songs written by Paul Simon Song recordings produced by Phil Ramone Song recordings produced by Paul Simon Columbia Records singles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Billboardhot100 Singlechart making named ref Talk Contents About Wikipedia 日本 語 Edit links This page was last edited on 9 April 2018, at 09 : 54 ( UTC ). 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Question: who sang still crazy after all these years
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