Oh, Hello Stanley! Proud of your son?
Posted on 07/17/2013 7:20:08 PM PDT by lee martell
That song came into my head today for no good reason. I was much younger back when it was released in 1970. The recording still resonates today. I say recording, and not just the song, which was beautifully written. In fact, Paul Simon (formerly married to Carrie Fisher) said that there are times when he considers this one the best song he ever wrote. The song starts in a subtle way, like little waves lapping on the shore. There is gospel styling of the lead piano, a promenade becomes a dirge. Then the soaring tenor of Art Garfunkle. Simon asked for Art to sing the lead, he now regrets it, but that is how it was probably meant to be presented. Every adult can identify a little with the purposely vague and esoteric tone. I listened to the song on my cell phone right before I went into the local gym to do my "War on Fat" exercises.This was the first time in about thirty years that I really, really walked along with this song, listening to it, allowing the song to lead me in some musical manner. I'm glad I did not listen to this song for the first time in 30 years through my earphones while I satinside the gym on a stationary bike. The other folks might wonder why I had this stunned expression on my face, or why I had to keep wiping my eyes. Go ahead and laugh at my melodrama, ha, ha, ha. If you ever liked Simon and Garfunkle back then, YOU take the dare and really listen to the musical structures and production techniques and the crescendos,(production based on some Phil Spector innovations) then describe to yourself how you feel. And that, ladies and gentlemen is what you call talent!
There’s no love these days for songs like What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9unK5-3ehiY
Gotta get up all in people’s grill and shout, yo! dawg! send in some b!ches and go to the cluuuuuuub.
Jump Jump! Jump Jump!
Sqwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeee durrrrrr dubstep dubstep.
Music is sh!t today on radio, television, and movies.
Lol, thanks.
Oh, Hello Stanley! Proud of your son?
I think she was a year younger than me but by little, I mean she was 5’1”. I was 6’3”.
In the fall of 1969, I brought my reel-to-reel tape recorder to my college dormitory and suddenly became quite popular. At the time, there was a rumor that Paul McCartney was dead and that the Beatles' recording of "Revolution #9" would provide clues about his death if played backwards. With my device, I could play the tune backwards after recording it.
Indeed, the expression "number nine," which was repeated throughout the tune sounded sort of like "turn me on, dead man" when played backwards, but that was the only clue that we found. In any case, McCartney showed up in the media very much alive soon afterwards.
Then listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=458l7AEvim8
Guess who’s coming for (your)dinner, and dessert, and maybe some breakfast too.
Nice to see S&G, my all-time favorite musicians with The Who, getting some love on FR!! Proud to say I was at the concert in Central Park in 1986 and saw Paul at the Hard Rock in Florida lately. What a great concert! Played for 2 hours without a break at age 70+! The first winner of the George Gershwin award for popular songwriting.
And you never saw him in any major scandal. Always kept a sane head on his shoulders even as a liberal; never went overboard like so many of his peers.
I hope to see him in concert again.
Artie Garfunkel, doper, once walked, yes, walked, across these continental United States. (As did Werner Herzog, film director.)
I’m a big Paul Simon fan, but this song demands a singer with a powerful voice. Simon has or had a good voice, but it was simply not strong enough to carry the emotional power of the song. Garfunkel had that voice to do the song justice.
But only Werner Herzog ate his shoe.
Saw Simon in concert for the first time two years ago. The concert was held the day after Bin Laden was killed. I know Simon’s a big lib, but right at the start of concert, he said he was glad justice was finally done. Plus the rest of the concert was excellent. His newest songs aren’t nearly as good as his old ones, but fortunately he sang mostly his old hits.
Ah, Kodachrome, a sentimental favorite of mine--it was playing on the radio the moment I parked my car in front of my family's home, to which I had returned after successfully completing four years of college. However, there's another song that was moving up the charts at the time that I like even better:
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)--The Andrews Sisters (1973)
YOU are absolutely correct. Breaks over. OK people, let's get back to the lies, the hate, the fear, the spying, the killing...
Don't you have enough lies on this thread?
brag brag brag
Hormones my friend. A lot more powerful than we realized at the time.
Besides, when you are young you're still trying to figure out just what you really want in the opposite sex. Besides sex, of course. That's a given.
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