Simon & Garfunkel Lyrics


Simon & Garfunkel Lyrics

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From the Album Live 1969 (2009) (buy at amazon.com)

59th Street Bridge Song
At The Zoo
Bridge Over Troubled Water
For Emily Whenever I May Find Her
Homeward Bound
I Am A Rock
Kathy's Song
Leaves That Are Green
Mrs Robinson
Old Friends/Bookends Theme
Scarborough Fair
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Song For The Asking
That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine
The Boxer
The Sound Of Silence
Why Don't You Write Me


From the Album Old Friends: Live On Stage (2004) (buy at amazon.com)
Old Friends: Live On Stage
Opening Montage
Old Friends
Bookends Theme
A Hazy Shade Of Winter
I Am A Rock
America
At The Zoo
Baby Driver
Kathy's Song
Hey, Schoolgirl
Wake Up Little Susie
All I Have To Do Is Dream
Bye Bye Love
Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Homeward Bound
The Sound Of Silence
Opening Montage
Mrs. Robinson
Slip Slidin' Away
El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
The Only Living Boy In New York
American Tune
My Little Town
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Cecilia
The Boxer
Leaves That Are Green
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Citizen Of The Planet


From the Album The Concert In Central Park (1982) (buy at amazon.com)
The Concert In Central Park
Mrs. Robinson
Homeward Bound
America
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Scarborough Fair / Canticle
April Come She Will
Wake Up Little Susie
Still Crazy After All These Years
American Tune
Late In The Evening
Slip Slidin' Away
A Heart In New York
Kodachrome
Mabellene
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover
The Boxer
Old Friends
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
The Sound Of Silence


From the Album Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) (buy at amazon.com)
1971 Bridge over Troubled Water Grammy Award for Album Of The Year
1971 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year


From the Album Bookends (1968) (buy at amazon.com)
1969 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year
1968 Edison Award


From the Album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme (1966) (buy at amazon.com)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme


From the Album Sounds Of Silence (1966) (buy at amazon.com)
Sounds Of Silence


From the Album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964) (buy at amazon.com)
Wednesday Morning, 3 AM


Other Songs:
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
A Hazy Shade of Winter
A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert
An American Tune
Benedictus, (Original Latin Version)
Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
Bleecker Street


Simon & Garfunkel Info:

Simon & Garfunkel are an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They are well known for their vocal harmonies and were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s.

As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate (1967).

Close friends through childhood, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel grew up in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, just three blocks away from each other. They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat).

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis and Garfunkel as Tom Graph (names they were given by the recording studio). -Wikipedia

Also known as:
Tom and Jerry

From:
Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, U.S.

Genres:
Folk rock, folk, soft rock, worldbeat

Years active:
1957-70
(1975, 1981-83, 1993, 2003-04, 2009-10) (Reunion)

Labels:
Columbia

Members:
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel

Breakthrough Singles:
The Sounds of Silence/We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin’ (1965)

Homeward Bound/Leaves That Are Green (1966)

I Am A Rock/Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall (1966)

Mrs. Robinson/Old Friends/Bookends (1968)

The Boxer/Baby Driver (1969)

Bridge Over Troubled Water/Keep The Customer Satisfied (1970)


Simon & Garfunkel Quotes:
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.

Both of us had a significant amount of studio time prior to our Columbia recording days. I did a lot of demos.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

Central Park was done because there was an overwhelming demand. People seemed to like those songs, which I found surprising, because I felt they were dated.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.


After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.


Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.


An artistic bent is innate. Then there are those who work on their technique, because good art has a lot to do with technique. And that can be learned.


Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.


Artie made the kind of records that he wanted to make, and that's a real achievement. The drag of it was that people didn't buy them in sufficient numbers for him to feel that he was successful.


Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.


Artie wanted to do a Bach chorale thing, which I didn't want to do. We were fightin' over which was gonna be the 12th song, and then I said, put it out with 11 songs.


As I got older, I got better-looking. Which is the reverse of what happens to most people. I lost weight. I worked on my hair so it would look better.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.


I did Loves Me with a Gospel quartet. I went to Alabama to play with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. I was the first white pop artist to play with them.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.


I didn't particularly like sweet, soft music. That is Artie's taste. There's nothing wrong with that; there's a place for lushness. It's not generally the way I go.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.


Simon And Garfunkel Awards

1970
Grammy Award for Record of the Year “Bridge Over Troubled Water,”
Grammy Award for Album of the Year Bridge Over Troubled Water,

1968
Grammy Award for Record of the Year “Mrs. Robinson,”
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Duo or Group “Mrs. Robinson,”


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