Just drop off the key Lee, and get yourself free.
Unless it’s an Italian girl.
Then you have to change SS number and legal name and go into witness protection :)
The Boxer is one of the greatest songs ever written IMHO.
Lovely song and an amazing vocal by Garfunkle.
Art singing Bridge solo at their NY Central Park concert is my favorite YouTube video. He’s such a much better singer than Simon.
I don’t care for them personally but they were extremely talented.
In 1970 I dated a little cutie whose favorite song was “Bridge”. I never heard her say why but I am sure she had a reason to like it. Something in her past.
“Kodachrome” by Simon is one swinging song.
I tweeted to Steyn today that I heard the end of Feelin Groovy yesterday and recalled how cool that song was.
In 1980 or 81, I saw Simon and Garfunkel perform at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan.
No disrespect to S & G, but having just listened to Elvis’s rendition of the song, he knocked it out of the park.........
BOTW was written about the impending separation of Paul Simon & his wife.
“Sail on silver girl, sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way”
BOTW is not Paul Simon’s best composition...but it is very good nonetheless.
“René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” is HUGELY underrated.
Without a doubt, Paul Simon is truly one of the great pop songwriters of our time.
A few weeks ago, my kid had to take a 20 hour Greyhound trip. I sent him a playlist of road songs and of course, America was right in the mix.
I have a soft spot for “me and julio down by the school yard”. I spent a few years of my childhood in a small community with a lot of hispanics, and a radical priest. I still can’t believe somebody actually wrote a song about it.
Absolutely great music, Simon and Garfunkel. Most all of their songs really.
And I turned my amp up loud and began to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away!!!!
February 28th, 1970. One week after my late wife today me she loved me the first time. Met in September of 1969 in the dinner line and became best friends. The following February we made our feelings for each other official to little surprise of our friends. A year and a half later we were married. Troubled Water was always one of my top “Sweetie” songs. Played it at her much too early funeral at age 46.
At some point in time, we’ll set aside the effin 1960’s.
S&G where wonderful, but . . .
David Bowie’s 1971 “Changes” launched more progress and innovation in music than the tired hippie singer/songwriter shiite.
Around the same time, Frank Zappa was redefining collaborations and the approach to “pop” music.
A short time later, Sid and the gang reinvented everything all over again, but the hippies kept groovin.
S&G played the Burnt Out Hippie Genre for decades, the Grateful Dead did it with better weed.
50 years is long enough. Let the tired, old, sleepy, hippie smoldering crap finally go out.
We mean it, man!