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Art Garfunkel...."Second Avenue" question

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blu...@comcast.net

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Dec 26, 2003, 8:45:24 PM12/26/03
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I just heard this great song after many years. I was surprised to find
out it *wasn't* a Jim Webb song. Sure sounds like one. Does anybody
know anything about the guy who wrote it???
Thanks, Jay

Rich Ardini

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Dec 26, 2003, 9:27:04 PM12/26/03
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<blu...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I just heard this great song after many years. I was surprised to find
> out it *wasn't* a Jim Webb song. Sure sounds like one. Does anybody
> know anything about the guy who wrote it???

Tim Moore was a fair-to-middling soft-rock singer/songwriter in the 70s.
He also wrote "Rock and Roll Love Letter" for the Bay City Rollers, so
you might sense a trend in his style.
Earlier, he was in a group with one of Hall and Oates, before they made
it big.


Bob Radil

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Dec 26, 2003, 11:34:01 PM12/26/03
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IIRC - Didn't Tim Moore also have a single of "Second Avenue" out about the
same time as Art Garfunkel, fall 1974?

Bob Radil
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PRowan9262

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Dec 26, 2003, 11:55:05 PM12/26/03
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>Didn't Tim Moore also have a single of "Second Avenue" out about the
>same time as Art Garfunkel, fall 1974?

Moore's version was played on radio around 1976.

His ennunciation betrayed him as a Britisher.

Garfunkel's version is much more lush and I thought it a wonderful song when
released and have always thought it was sadly given short shrift!!!

I thought "Breakaway" another under-appreciated gem by Garfunkel.


Dennis C from Tennessee

Dennis B

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Dec 27, 2003, 1:01:28 AM12/27/03
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blu...@comcast.net wrote in message news:<vropuvc6tm96ve928...@4ax.com>...

If the credit on the disc reads "Moore" it's a tune by Tim Moore that
charted in the mid-1970s. I know little else, but I have it
somewhere, and have enjoyed listening to it.

Rich Ardini

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Dec 27, 2003, 1:02:41 AM12/27/03
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"Bob Radil" <bobr...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> IIRC - Didn't Tim Moore also have a single of "Second Avenue" out about
the
> same time as Art Garfunkel, fall 1974?
>
It was Tim's that I remember hearing on the station I listened to in Boston.
The two
versions debuted on the Top 100 on the same week in Sept, 1974,with Art
rising
higher nationally.


dmtaurus

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Dec 27, 2003, 7:32:25 AM12/27/03
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I have Tim's album with that cut. I'll have to review it.

Sabrgeek

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Dec 29, 2003, 12:40:45 PM12/29/03
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2nd avenue is one of my favorite songs and Tim Moore did a wonderful job
writing it and singing it. In NY we heard this song quite a bit and I would not
getting a MP3 of it (Hint, hint)

And here is an story about what happenned to Tim since then

http://www.amyfradon.com/p_clouds/html/about.shtml

Regards
Rich

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