Bridge Over Troubled Water

Genius ^ | 1970 | Simon & Garfunkel

[bigbob]

You would really love the SXM interview with Jimmy Webb, but get his book where he tells the whole MacArthur Park story and more.

[Fiji Hill]

Laura Nyro's version of Wedding Bell Blues was a big hit in Southern California in December, 1966, getting regular airplay on KRLA, KFWB and Boss Radio 93 KHJ, my station of choice. However, it apparently didn't make it over the Cajon Pass into the rest of the country.

[xoxox]

Like Randy Newman’s version of “Mama Told Me Not To Come.”

[Fiji Hill]

I loved “MacArthur Park” when it first came out. For one thing, I was a fan of MacArthur at the time and still am. I also liked the fact that a song about Los Angeles was a worldwide hit.

[Nervous Tick]

I have always liked the song. Who knows, maybe I’m a little sappy myself.

Musically, I think it’s excellent, and that includes the poetry in the lyrics.

[Fiji Hill]

I love “outdated” music. The only modern music that I find to be listenable is movie music.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Art Garfunkel was an incredible singer.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite tune by the Wrecking Crew is My World Fell Down (1967), which they released under the name Sagittarius. Although I never heard it during its chart run (I had begun to listen to an all-Oldies station beginning in the spring of '67), I find it to be a beautiful song.

[mairdie]

That’s one of my very favorites.

Here’s another that I don’t know how many times I’ve played. I have a fan piece of art by Caren in my living room showing Jeremy Brett and the second Watson.

Sherlock Holmes - Jeremy Brett Memorial - Auld Lang Syne - James Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Ki4iyxrVU

[Steely Tom]

Thank you for that. I’ve never heard Laura Nyro sing anything before. She was a tragic figure, dying of the same disease that killed her mother, at the same age her mother made it to. She was a remarkable talent, with a tremendously flexible, intuitive imagination, so at home in the time in which she lived (although she might have disagreed with that).

I’ve read about her over the years, and remember hearing her name mentioned on TV, as a child. I guess many musicians admired her, particularly other composers, and for good reason.

[equaviator]

"“Bridge over Troubled Water” is the titular song of Simon & Garfunkel’s album of the same name."

Come on, man!...It's the title track!..."titular"?...LOL!

[Steely Tom]

Thank you for that! Glad to have been wrong.

Ksenia Buzina is painful to look at, but in a good way.