You had, what, 43 years to learn to spell your “Garfunkle’s” name! FAIL!
thinking lately that Paul Simon is a genius in music...
I just knew your second sentence was wrong. But lo and behold - Wikipedia says you’re right.
I woulda bet money this song was from before 1970.
Doesn’t rate a vanity. Especially from a n00b who signed on last month.
I think I’d better start a vanity about Bobby Vinton’s “Roses Are Red”. Whoever wrote it, I think is a “genius”.
I dated a little girl back in the Summer of 1970. She was cute and smart but now that I look back on it, I don’t see what I saw in her back then.
One thing I do remember about her was “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” was her favorite song. She later became President of Chi Omega at Mississippi State or at least that is what one of their football players told me.
Hey, School Girl--Tom & Jerry
Great song. Now I’ll have to find a YouTube and listen to the song. Next time include a link please ;)
The ONLY album I ever received as a gift was a Simon & Garfunkel from my ex-h....both long gone...but, they were my favorite when I was 18...and still in the top few...
YES...and I liked them much more than the BEATLES!!! (And, I was told I looked like Paul McCartney....being a young woman, I did NOT take that as a compliment, but the gal was a Beatle crazy girl.)
I especially like the Mumford and Sons version of “The Boxer”.
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.
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.
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.
I was an S & G addict in late 60’s - 70’s, and so many of their pieces have incredible musical nuances and harmonies and still hit me today as they did then (I’m a guitarist).
Sounds of Silence is still one of my fav pieces.
Yes, Bridge Over Troubled Waters is their highpoint. It’s really a spiritual song with the deepest meaning for Christians about the love of God.
Have their Greatest Hits CD.
There will never be anyone like them.
Yes, I understand; wiping my eyes a bit too. It was in 1970 that I contracted an illness that progressively took away my hearing. Today, I have only 5% left, and the biggest thing I miss (next to hearing my husband and children speak) is music. But I well remember the tune of this song (and all the other incredible music of that time); it was gorgeous. I remember the lyrics, too, and I thank you for posting!!
FULL DISCLOSURE: (For what it’s worth)
In recent years, I got over S&G, finding them after after all this time whiny, kind of New York Jew whiny, like Carole King in her solo career. “You’ve go a friend”, Oy, vey. Jackson Browne (L.A. whine.) Flame me if it’ll make you feel better.
Their last song together I think was The Only Living Boy In New York. The back up vocals are by different singers they knew that stopped in the studio the day they were recording it. The next day I think I read somewhere Art was going to Mexico to be in a movie. Thus the opening lines "Tom get your plane right time. I know you'll part will go fine. Fly down to Mexico..."