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Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel became good friends after first meeting at elementary school in New York City, and grew into one of the most popular songwriting duos in the world. Though their friendship would be rocky over the intervening years, their partnership was artistically fruitful, yielding a clutch of classic albums and songs such as "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
Though the American folk movement of the early '60s would influence bands like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and a score of oh-so-sensitive '70s singer-songwriters, its two most looming successes during the decade--Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel--couldn't have seemed more disparate. While Dylan turned hard-left, outraging many a folk purist by zealously embracing rootsy blues-rock and its electrified cacophony, S&G veered toward the center, equally infuriating snooty pundits by embracing a Top 40 pop sense whose ostensible shallowness often belied its rich musical diversity. In retrospect, Simon and Garfunkel's career as a duo was remarkably brief (five albums in six years), if no less commercially potent (a slew of Top 40 singles, two Number One albums, and the requisite handful of Grammy Awards). This box set compiles digitally remastered versions of the original S&G albums, each expanded to include bonus tracks (mostly previously unissued demos with a few scattered outtakes, the quartet on Sounds of Silence the best of the lot) and a booklet featuring new notes for each album and song lyrics. It's a rewarding journey, wending from the almost slavish folk devotion of Wednesday Morning 3 AM through the greeting-card iconoclasm of Sounds of Silence, the madrigal-pop of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme to the increasingly impressionistic lyrical landscape of Bookends. It also covers the rich musical tapestry of Bridge over Troubled Waters, which foreshadowed Simon's own diverse solo career by embracing everything from the Everlys and Jan & Dean to Andean folk and R&B.
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TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 You Can Tell The World
2 Last night I Had The Strongest Dream
3 Bleecker Street
4 Sparrow
5 Benedictus
6 The Sound Of Silence
7 He Was My Brother
8 Peggy-O
9 Go Tell It On The Mountain
10 The Sun Is Burning
11 The Times They Are A-Changin'
12 Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
13 Bleecker Street
14 He Was My Brother
15 The Sun Is Burning
Disc 2
1 The Sound Of Silence
2 Leaves That Are Green
3 Blessed
4 Kathy's Song
5 Somewhere They Can't Find Me
6 Anji
7 Richard Cory
8 A Most Peculiar Man
9 April Come She Will
10 We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'
11 I Am A Rock
12 Blues Run The Game
13 Barbriallen
14 Rose Of Aberdeen
15 Roving Gambler
Disc 3
1 Scarborough Fair/Canticle
2 Patterns
3 Cloudy
4 Homeward Bound
5 The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
6 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
7 The Dangling Conversation
8 Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
9 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into)
10 For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
11 A Poem On The Underground Wall
12 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
13 Patterns
14 A Poem On The Underground Wall
Disc 4
1 Bookends Theme
2 Save The Life Of My Child
3 America
4 Overs
5 Voices Of Old People
6 Old Friends
7 Bookends Theme
8 Fakin' It
9 Punky's Dilemma
10 Mrs. Robinson
11 A Hazy Shade Of Winter
12 At The Zoo
13 You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
14 Old Friends
Disc 5
1 Bridge Over Troubled Water
2 El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
3 Cecilia
4 Keep The Customer Satisfied
5 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
6 The Boxer
7 Baby Driver
8 The Only Living Boy In New York
9 Why Don't You Write Me
10 Bye Bye Love
11 Song For The Asking
12 Feuilles-O
13 Bridge Over Troubled Water
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