S&G FAQ 1.3 2/10
Colin Parada / Greg Nesteroff
TRUE TAYLOR
True Or False/Teen Age Fool 01/--/58 Big 614
TICO & THE TRIUMPHS (e)
Cards Of Love/Noise 1979 Jason Scott 14
Cards Of Love/Noise 01/--/63 Amy 876
Cards Of Love/Noise 1962 Amy 861
Cry Little Boy Cry/Get Up & Do The Wobble 08/--/62 Amy 860
Express Train/Wildflower 04/--/62 Amy 845
Motorcycle/I Don't Believe Them (f) 12/--/61 Amy 835
Motorcycle/I Don't Believe Them 10/--/61 Madison 169
(e) See question 3.4
(f) A counterfeit version was issued in the 1970s
JERRY LANDIS
Ask Me Why/ 1992 Chance 102
The Lone Teen Ranger/Lisa 1980 Jason Scott 22
Carlos Dominguez/He Was My Brother (g) 05/--/64 Oriole 1930
The Lone Teen Ranger/Lisa 12/--/62 Amy 875
I'm Lonely/Wish I Weren't In Love 10/--/61 Can-Am 130
Play Me A Sad Song/It Means A Lot To Them 04/--/61 Warwick 619
I'd Like To Be (The Lipstick On Your Lips)
/Just A Boy 11/--/60 Warwick 588
Just A Boy/Shy 05/--/60 Warwick 552
Anna Belle/Loneliness 07/--/59 MGM K-12822
(g) Released in U.S. as Paul Kane, Tribute 128, 08/63, then reissued by
E.B. Marks as "Paul Simon (Pseudonym: Paul Kane)" -- a counterfeit
version exists issued as "Paul Simon recording under the name Paul Kane"
ARTIE GARR
Private World/Forgive Me 08/--/61 Octavia 8002
Beat Love/Dream Alone 10/--/59 Warwick 515
ALBUMS RELEASE LABEL
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Simon & Garfunkel (h) 1969 Sears 435
(The Hit Sound Of) Simon & Garfunkel (h) 10/--/67 Pickwick 3059
The Tom & Jerry Sessions Offshore 725
(h) See question 4.3
TRACKS ON RELEASE LABEL
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Paul Simon Plus (i) 1979? LSM 3016
The Complete Mystics Ace CH-157
The Mystics Meet The Jarmels Ace CH-929
Explosive Doowops Vol. 2 (j)
Golden Greats Vol. 17 (k) 1959? Roulette
(i) (See question 3.4) AKA -Paul-Simon-&-Friends- Object Enterprises ONN
74,
-Paul-Simon-Neil-Sedaka-Johnny-Rivers-Tony-Orlando-Frankie-Vali- Blue
Vox 07, -Paul-Simon-Plus- MCP 8027
(j) Includes Tick Tock
(k) Includes Hey, Schoolgirl
"OFFICIAL" BOOTLEGS RELEASE LABEL
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Early Simon & Garfunkel (l) 09/27/93 DJ 55001
Tom & Jerry Their Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (m) 1993 DCD 1013
Tom & Jerry Their Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (n) 1993 DCD 1014
Tom & Jerry Meet Tico & The Triumphs (o) 1988? Big 600
Tom & Jerry (p) CBM
(l) Features Jerry Landis track Ask Me Why that was only released on
single in 1992
(m) Features unreleased Jerry Landis material from 1960, 1961 and 1964:
Lighthouse Point/Up & Down The Stairs/A Charmed Life/Sleepy, Sleepy
Baby/Forever & After/Aeroplane Of Silver Steel
(n) Features unreleased Jerry Landis material from 1959, 1961 and 1964:
Lighthouse Point/That Forever Kind Of Love/Back Seat Driver/Sleepy,
Sleepy Baby/Bingo/Dreams Can Come True
(o) Other sources say 1980, 1985, 1990
(p) Same material as -Hit-Sound-Of-Simon-&-Garfunkel- plus two tracks
from 1967 Smothers Brothers appearance
JERRY LANDIS PRODUCED/WRITTEN/VOCALS RELEASE LABEL
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Pied Piper/Winter Blues (q) 01/--/65 Diamond 177
I Wrote You A Letter/Play Me A Sad Song (r) 09/--/63 Amy 885
I Set A Trap For You/
Why Don't You Stay A Little Longer (s) 08/--/63 Amy 884
Georgiana/Better Lovin (t) 07/--/63 Amy 882
Do The Walk/In Laws (u) 06/--/63 Amy 881
Tick Tock/Please Don't Tell Her (v) 05/--/62 Rori 707
Bye Bye/Dori Anne (w) 02/--/62 Rori 703
Don't Tell The Stars (x) 1962
I Begin To Think Of You (x)
Let Me Steal Your Heart Away (x)
All Through The Night/
To Think Of You Again (y) 01/--/60 Laurie 3047
Twistin' Raindrops/I'm Alone (z) 1961 Cordella 047
The Fight (aa) 1960 Shell 717
The Shape I'm In/Ya Ya (bb) 06/--/59 RCA 47-7559
Promise Of Love (cc)
(q) [Cupcakes] Co-wrote A-side with Ritchie Cordell
(r) [Dottie Daniels] Arranged and produced both sides, co-wrote B-side
with Eddie Simon
(s) [Fashions] Co-produced both sides with Dee Ervin
(t) [Ritchie Cordell] Produced both sides
(u) [The Vels] Produced both sides
(v) [Ritchie Cordell] Wrote A-side and co-wrote B-side with Charles
Merenstein, also produced both sides
(w) [David Winters] Produced A-side, co-wrote B-side with Winters and
John Kay
(x) [Mystics] Lead vocal
(y) [Mystics] Second tenor vocal on A-side
(z) [Harrison Gregory] Second vocal, played guitar
(aa) [Gary Cane & His Friends] Second vocal
(bb) [Johnny Restivo] Played guitar on A-side, and probably B-side as
well
-- A-side charted at #80 in the U.S.
(cc) [The Montgomerys] Produced
According to Dave Laing "with the release during late '62 and early '63
by [Amy Records of such] names such as Jay Walker & The Pedestrians,
Jesters, Varios, Dougie & The Dudes, The Central High School Caf Band,
Caribbeans, Miss Prim, Mabel King, Richie & The Hallmarks and many as
yet undiscovered classics, it seems inevitable that Landis was involved
with some these releases."
SIMON/TICO/LANDIS WRITTEN (dd) WRITERS BMI DATE
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All My Life Jerry Landis, Johnny Brandon 03/18/74
Rough Tough Cream Puff Jerry Landis 04/30/59
Guy Next Door Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 05/31/65
I'll Be Home A Little Later Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 05/31/65
I Want Things To Be The Same Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 05/31/65
It Ain't What It Used To Be Terry Sue Pinter, Bob Susser 05/31/65
Keep Your Eyes On Me Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 03/31/66
Kiss Me Now Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 04/30/65
That Tangerine Marty Cooper, Bob Susser 05/31/65
Up To Now Terry Sue Pinter, Bob Susser 05/31/67
We're Not Old Enough Terry Sue Pinter, Bob Susser 04/30/65
When I Kiss You Goodnight Marty Cooper 04/30/59
(dd) Registered under BMI: No evidence they were ever recorded or that
Simon had any involvement whatsoever in the Tico songs -- furthermore
the BMI dates are only a rough guide to when the songs were copyrighted
(certainly All My Life would have been some 10-15 years earlier)
ARTIE GARR PRODUCED RELEASE LABEL
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I Adore You/Nine To Five (ee) 1965 World Artists 1049
(ee) Tommy Regan
Track listings for TOM & JERRY THEIR GREATEST HITS Vol. 1 and 2 and TOM
& JERRY MEET TICO & THE TRIUMPHS are available at
http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/simon/simon.html
A track listing and cover photo of EARLY SIMON & GARFUNKEL is available
at
http://www.connix.com/~rdrie/Frames/simon/early.html
An otherwise unavailable track listing for TOM & JERRY (the titles on
the album are incorrect):
Hey Schoolgirl/Our Song/That's My Story/Teenage Fool/Tia-juana
Blues/Dancin' Wild/ (Pretty Baby) Don't Say Goodbye/Two Teenagers/True
Or False/Simon Says/The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)/Cloudy
3.6 I've seen this CD called -Paul-Simon-Plus- at a record store. What
is it?
-Paul-Simon-Plus- (also called -Paul-Simon-&-Friends-, among other
titles) is an album frequently found in the bargain bin which features
three Jerry Landis recordings from the early 1960s: Play Me A Sad Song,
It Means A Lot To Them and Flame. The rest of the album features
rarities from Neil Sedaka, Tony Orlando, Johnny Rivers and Frankie Vali.
These recordings are the property of the Henry Hadaway Organization and
the featured artists have no control over their issue.
3.7 Where can I get copies of bootlegs?
Sorry, it's impossible to give a source. (And this goes for all S&G/
Simon/Garfunkel/T&J material.) Number one, of course, they're illegal.
Second, while there are stores on-line that sell them and don't much
care about being named, many have dubious track records. And even those
who don't often have problems filling stock. Some titles, however are
definitely easier to come by than others.
3.8 How did xxxx song do on the charts?
U.S. G.B.
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That's My Story 123 -
Motorcycle (a) 99 -
The Lone Teen Ranger 97 -
Hey, Schoolgirl (b) 54 -
(a) Hit number 1 in Puerto Rico and Baltimore
(b) Several sources say number 49, and one even says 36 -- Simon also
says the song was in the top 10 in New York
3.9 What shows did they do?
ACT CITY VENUE DATE
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Paul Kane & Artie Garr New York, NY Gerde's Folk City 09/--/63
Artie Garr New York, NY Gerde's Folk City --/--/63
Tom & Jerry Hartford, CT State Theater 11/--/57
3.10 What TV shows did they appear on?
ACT PROGRAM LOCATION AIR DATE
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Tico & The Triumphs Christmas show Camden, NJ 12/--/62
Tico & The Triumphs Buddy Dean Show MD --/--/62
Tico & The Triumphs RI --/--/62
Tico & The Triumphs Detroit, MI --/--/62
Tom & Jerry American Bandstand 11/24/57
3.11 I have a Tom & Jerry record but it's not listed in the discography.
Why not? Who is it by?
There was another T&J, an instrumental country and western duo on
Mercury, whose records have sometimes been mixed up with our T&J. One in
particular (Swanee/Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye) pops up because it was
recorded on the Warwick label in 1962, as were several Jerry Landis and
Artie Garr singles. Other records: Mercury 71753, South b/w Golden
Wildwood Flower, and from 1961, Mercury 71930, I'll Drown In My Tears
b/w The French Twist.
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4 SIMON & GARFUNKEL
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4.1 Who wrote the songs?
The music was mostly Paul with some input from Art. The lyrics were
almost entirely Paul. In the Tom & Jerry days, they co-wrote several
songs, specifically Hey Schoolgirl, Dancin' Wild, Don't Say Goodbye, Our
Song and That's My Story. Art also wrote Dream Alone, which he recorded
as Artie Garr in 1961. But afterward, Art only got writing credits for
Benedictus and Scarborough Fair/Canticle -- both of which coincidentally
were adapted from traditional songs.
Paul learned the guitar-part for the latter from Martin Carthy in
England. He told this to his friends at the time, but never credited
Carthy for it.
From the alt.music.folk newsgroup:
George Hames: "The S&G version was a compilation of words and a tune
arrangement by one Martin Carthy -- who eventually won the ensuing
copyright case. And then Art regards Scarborough Fair as the best thing
S&G ever did."
Carl Anderson: "Martin Carthy was interviewed on the -Acoustic-Routes-
programme on BBC2 some time back (the one about Bert Jansch), and he
told the story of how Paul Simon got Scarborough Fair. He turned up at
Carthy's house for dinner one evening with Tom Paxton, and expressed an
interest in learning Carthy's arrangement of the song. The next day,
Simon went out and copyrighted it. Martin Carthy stated that he was
pretty annoyed at the time and if pushed: 'I still am.' Cathy recently
won this lawsuit, actually. All future releases of the Simon recording
of the song will apparently have 'Arr. M. Carthy' or something like that
on them."
But Art's contribution to the group, as he told Paul Zollo, has been
understated:
A. I wrote some of the lines. Never took a writer's credit because in
spirit it was really a small two percent factor. But there's some of my
wanting in there. In Punky's Dilemma, I wrote a verse. [Sings] Wish I
was an English muffin, 'bout to make the most out of a toaster, I'd ease
myself down, coming up brown." I wrote [Sings] "I'm not talking about
your pig-tails, talking 'bout your sex appeal" [for] Baby Driver. I
wrote that.
Q. Didn't you have any desire to have credit?
A. It does work that way and you don't ask for credit when it's
happening because in truth, in spirit, Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote
a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and
in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm
being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion
of the things
Q. Simon said you wrote the flute solo on The Boxer.
A. I wrote a lot of those kinds of things. If you're talking not about
the song but the arrangement; now I wrote more than two percent. I wrote
a lot of the parts that musicians played, solo and stuff.
In the 1973 -Rolling-Stone- interview, he was less eager to take credit:
Q. Was there any time ... when you actually helped write a line or a
chorus?
A. Very little. I wrote an occasional line for some of Paul's songs.
Q. What was your contribution to Scarborough Fair-Canticle?
A. I wrote the counter-melody that wove in and out of the lines of that
song.
Q. Why wouldn't you do that with more songs?
A. I mean, it's really ASCAP or BMI that labels that as the one song I
did it on. When you do it for three lines worth, you're not a
songwriter. You do it 16 lines worth, you're a songwriter.
Q. So in your estimation, it was accurate when you were credited
specifically in many press accounts as arranger of the group?
A. Well, now, I think Paul objected to the idea of being left out.
Coming up with the line that a string player would play is something
that Paul did as well. I might be the one [in more cases] to pin down
the specific line and show the musicicans what to play, not for note.
Art -can- play guitar, although how well is not established. Patrick
Humphries writes in his Simon biography "Judith Piepe ... remembers an
American student called Caroline Culpepper staying at her flat and
teaching Art Garfunkel how to play guitar; one of the songs she
remembers Garfunkel learing was Scarborough Fair." In the
above-mentioned -Rolling-Stone- interview, he was asked what label he
recorded on as Arty Garr: "Jack Gold's company, Octavia ... He had a
small record company and I wandered in one day around 1960, as a
soloist. I played guitar and I sang the song that I wrote [Dream
Alone]."
The back cover of the European compilation -Silent-Voices- also has a
(seemingly rare) picture of Paul and Art in the studio -both- holding
guitars on their laps.
4.2 What records did they make?
SINGLES RELEASE LABEL
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Wake Up Little Suzie/ 1982 Warner
Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard
(What A) Wonderful World/Wooden Planes 1978 Columbia 10676
My Little Town/Rag Doll-You're Kind 10/--/75 Columbia 10230
Mrs. Robinson/Old Friends-Bookends 04/--/73 CBS 1159
America/For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 09/--/72 Columbia 45663
El Condor Pasa/Why Don't You Write Me 09/--/70 Columbia 45237
The Sound Of Silence/
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 08/--/70 CBS 5172
Cecilia/The Only Living Boy In New York 04/--/70 Columbia 45133
Bridge Over Troubled Water/
Keep The Customer Satisfied 02/--/70 Columbia 45079
The Boxer/Baby Driver 04/--/69 Columbia 44785
Mrs. Robinson/Old Friends-Bookends 05/--/68 Columbia 44511
Scarborough Fair-Canticle/
April Come She Will 03/--/68 Columbia 44465
Fakin' It/
You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies 07/--/67 Columbia 44232
At The Zoo/
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 03/--/67 Columbia 44046
A Hazy Shade Of Winter/
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 11/--/66 Columbia 43873
The Dangling Conversation/
The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine 07/--/66 Columbia 43728
I Am A Rock/
Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall 05/--/66 Columbia 43617
Homeward Bound/Leaves That Are Green 02/--/66 Columbia 43511
The Sound Of Silence/
We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin' 10/--/65 Columbia 43396
EPS RELEASE LABEL
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Mrs. Robinson 11/--/68 CBS 6400
Feelin' Groovy 06/--/67 CBS 6360
I Am A Rock 01/--/66 CBS 6074
Wednesday Morning 3 a.m. 11/--/65 CBS 6053
ALBUMS RELEASE LABEL
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Old Friends (a) 11/04/97 Sony Legacy 64780
The Definitive Collection 11/--/91 Sony 935122
The Concert In The Park 02/--/82 Warner 3654
Collected Works 12/--/81 Columbia 37587
Greatest Hits 06/14/72 Columbia 31350
Bridge Over Troubled Water (b) 01/28/70 Columbia 9914
Bookends (c) 04/03/68 Columbia 9529
The Graduate 02/21/68 Columbia 3180
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (d) 10/10/66 Columbia 9363
Sounds Of Silence (e-f-g) 01/17/66 Columbia 9269
Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. (h) 10/19/64 Columbia 9049
(a) Many sources originally listed the release date as 10/28/97
(b) Reissued on 10/04/94 as a 24k gold CD, Columbia 53444 and 64421
(c) Original LP came with a large poster of the cover
(d) The song order on the cassette copy is different than the original
album
(e) The song order on the cassette is different than the original album
(except the "Best Of Times" edition, which has it proper)
(f) The British version includes Homeward Bound as the first song on the
second side, while the American version does not
(g) There are two additional photos on the back cover of the LP not
included on the CD -- ostensibly because both show S&G with cigarettes
in their hands
(h) The cassette version in the "Best Of Times" series has a different
cover shot (S&G smiling)
PIRATES RELEASE LABEL
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More Great Songs 1990 Duchesse 352082
The Hits Collection Vol. 1 06/01/89 Duchesse 352039
INTERNATIONAL COMPILATIONS RELEASE LABEL
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Los Mejores Superexitos (Spain) 10/29/96 DMA M19930
Silent Voices (Holland) 03/--/95 Back Biter 61047
Volume 1 1991? Columbia 13502
All The Singles (Japan) CBS 80SP 601-15
Collection (England) 11/--/81 CBS 400527
TRACKS ON RELEASE LABEL
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Forrest Gump (i) 06/28/94 Epic 66329
Dreaming Of A White Christmas (j) 1992 Columbia A-15438
A Very Merry Christmas, Vol. 1 (j) 1968? Columbia CSS563
Music To Wear Tee-Kays By (k) Columbia SPR-144
Rock Machine I Love You (l) Columbia SPR-26
Rock Machine Turns You On (m) Columbia SPR-22
(i) Soundtrack, includes Mrs. Robinson
(j) Includes The Star Carol (See question 4.4)
(k) Includes The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), Homeward
Bound, The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
(l) Sampler including America
(m) Sampler including Scarborough Fair/Canticle
"OFFICIAL" BOOTLEGS RELEASE LABEL
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Far East Reunion (n) 1996 Hard Rain 006-007
Voices Of Intelligent Dissent (o) 1994 Vigotone 124
Que Viva Barba! (p) 1994 Teddy Bear 52
Monterey Pop (q) Grapefruit 042-C
Hey Schoolgirl (r) Music Nation 003
Old Friends (s) Fingerprint 001-002
Hearts & Bones (t) Moonlight 9516
Welcome In Holland (u) Yellow Dog 059-060
Live In Dortmund 1982 Vol. 1-3 (v) PC009-010-011
Sounds Of Silence - Live (w) 1988 Backtrax 488009
Come Home America (x) 1973 Wizardo
Recollections (y) 1972 Wizardo
(n) Two disc set featuring S&G in Osaka, Japan 05/07/82, live on BBC-TV
07/27/65, Paul solo at Queen's College in London 1964, and Paul/George
Harrison on -Saturday-Night- Live- 11/20/76
(o) Recorded live at the Hollywood Bowl 08/23/68 (AKA
-Mrs.-Robinson:-Los-Angeles- USA-1968- Grapefruit 042-A)
(p) Recorded live at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 11/10/69 (AKA
-Back-To-College- Yellow Dog 044, -Ohio-11-Nov-1969- Grapefruit 042-B)
(q) Recorded live at Monterey Pop Festival 06/16/67 and Tower Theater in
Philadelphia 10/08/80 (Paul Simon solo)
(r) Recorded live at Paramount Theater 10/17/93
(s) Two-disc set recorded live at Paramount Theater 10/23/93 (includes
Paul Simon solo portion) and 11/06/93 in Mountain View, California (two
tracks)
(t) Think Too Much sessions, featuring Art Garfunkel on two tracks --
but all are different mixes than the final album (See question 4.21)
(u) Double-disc set comprised of -Live-In-Amsterdam-, a 5/02/70 radio
broadcast that had been available years earlier in some form (evidenced
by a mention in Spencer Leigh's book -- see question 7.2), and
-Live-In-Haarlem-, a short performance from NCRV-TV in 1966 (AKA
-Greatest-Hits-Live-1970-,
-Amsterdam-1970- Bridge Song 001, -The-Harmony-Of-Spheres- Dynamite
Studios DS94J095 -- Amsterdam only)
(v) Recorded live in Dortmund, Germany, May 1982
(w) Recorded live at Tufts University in Medford, MA sometime between
July 1966 and July 1967 (AKA -Live-In-New-York- MTT-1077, -Live-In-USA-
BP-006, and -Feelin'-Groovy:-Live- In-Buffalo- Oil Well RSC 033)
(x) Recorded live at Madison Square Gardens 07/14/72 (George McGovern
benefit)
(y) Vinyl LP listed in a price guide as "live and in studio"
Track listings of all the officially released albums and some of the
bootlegs are available at: http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/simon/simon.html
Cover photos of all of the officially released catalogue at:
http://www.best.com/~rlai/Paul-Simon/SG-Albums.html
and http://www3.mistral.co.uk/rkent/albums.html
Track listings and cover photos of most of the bootlegs as well as some
sound files are available at:
http://www.itsystem.se/guitar/simon.bio.album.html and
http://www.connix.com/~rdrie/Frames/simon/sgroio.html
The following track listings are not available elsewhere:
MONTEREY POP
Homeward Bound/At The Zoo/The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin'
Groovy)/For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her/The Sound Of
Silence/Benedictus/Punky's Dilemma/Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard/Ace
In The Hole/Something So Right/One-Trick Pony/Jonah/50 Ways To Leave
Your Lover/Late In The Evening/ American Tune/Loves Me Like A Rock/The
Boxer
COME HOME AMERICA
Scarborough Fair/America/The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin'
Groovy)/Bridge Over Troubled Water/El Condor Pasa (If I Could)/Mrs.
Robinson/The Boxer/Cecilia-Mother & Child Reunion-Bye Bye Love
THE HITS COLLECTION, PART I
I Am A Rock/The Sound Of Silence/Homeward Bound/The 59th Street Bridge
Song (Feelin' Groovy)/Scarborough Fair-Canticle/Richard Cory/We've Got A
Groovy Thing Goin'/A Hazy Shade Of Winter/Kathy's Song/Somewhere They
Can't Find Me/America/At The Zoo/A Most Peculiar Man/April Come She
Will/Leaves That Are Green/Blessed
SILENT VOICES
Same as above, with Go Tell It On The Mountain and Peggy-O
MORE GREAT SONGS
Wednesday Morning 3 a.m./The Times They Are
A-Changin'/Cloudy/Patterns/Go Tell It On The Mountain/Last Night I Had
The Strangest Dream/Anji/Bleecker Street/Sparrow/Peggy-O/The Big Bright
Green Pleasure Machine/Benedictus/ Flowers Never Bend With The
Rainfall/For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her/A Poem On The Underground
Wall/A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamera'd Into
Submission)
WEDNESDAY MORNING 3 A.M. (EP)
Bleecker Street/Sparrow/Wednesday Morning 3 a.m./The Sound Of Silence
I AM A ROCK (EP)
I Am A Rock/Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall/The Sound Of Silence/
Blessed
FEELIN' GROOVY (EP)
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)/The Big Bright Green
Pleasure Machine/Homeward Bound/A Hazy Shade Of Winter
MRS. ROBINSON (EP)
Mrs. Robinson/April Come She Will/Scarborough Fair-Cantice/The Sound Of
Silence
4.3 What's up with that 1967 Pickwick album?
Pickwick 3059 (Allegro 836 in the UK) is called simply
-Simon-&-Garfunkel- on the sleeve, but the sticker on the actual vinyl
says -The-Hit-Sound-Of-Simon-&-Garfunkel-. It is comprised of ten Tom &
Jerry/True Taylor tracks. Judging by the 1966 cover photo of S&G
boarding a plane, and by the notes on the back (See below), Pickwick
wanted to fool S&G fans into buying was at first glance appeared to be a
new album. (At about the same time, ABC-Paramount re-issued That's My
Story/Tia-juana Blues as a single, which astonishingly climbed to number
123 on the Billboard charts.) S&G sued to have the album deleted, and
won. Thus, it is reasonably rare, and some price guides list it as worth
$50-75 in good condition. As far as the album's actual content, all of
it has been re-issued on bootleg LP and CD several times over.
Here are the back-cover notes:
"Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel started their singing and songwriting
career while in their final year in high school, in Long Island, New
York. They were discovered a few short years ago making a demonstration
recording of one of their songs in a New York recording studio. An
enterprising record company liked their sound and immediately released
their first national hit, Hey Schoolgirl. And as the well know cliché
goes ... the rest is history. We are very fortuante to have captured on
this recording the exciting sounds of these two brilliant young men.
Contained in this album is a generous sampling of two stars of tomorrow
who are the talk of the record world today."
Paul told -Record-Mirror- in 1970 "What annoyed me about the record is
that it implied that this was new Simon & Garfunkel material. They used
a recent photograph on the cover. If they'd released it saying 'This is
Simon & Garfunkel at 15' it might have been interesting and I would have
said 'Okay, that's me at 15 and I'm not ashamed of it.' I made a record
at 15, and everybody wanted to at that age.'"
In 1969, Sears apparently reissued -The-Hit-Sound-Of-Simon-&-Garfunkel-
as a promotional release under its own label.
4.4 Which S&G songs are rare?
Post-1964 there are at least four rare, but legitimately released songs.
Three, however, are soon to be rare no longer:
THE STAR CAROL is a studio single recorded in 1967 for the Grant's
Discount Store promotional LP -A-Very-Merry-Christmas-Vol.-1- The tune
was written by Alfred Burt, and S&G give it a short (1:43), simple
acoustic treatment with some additional background vocals by Art. Oddly,
none of the biography books so much as mention the song. It will be
included on the forthcoming box set -Old-Friends-. It was also on a 1980
Columbia compilation called -Dreaming-Of-A-White-Christmas-, which in
1992 was released on CD by Sony -- although it is difficult to find.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES is the only other
officially-released song that didn't turn up on an S&G album. It was
issued as the B-side of the Fakin' It single in 1967. (In fact, the mix
of "Fakin' It" was much more sparse and slower than the LP cut or any
subsequent single release -- all used the LP mix). Musically, it's a
fascinating track. Lyrically it's a bit shocking, with lines like: "You
don't know that you love me/You don't know but you know that I do" and
"You should know that I'm womanly wise." It's tempting to think that
Paul didn't much care it, and therefore didn't include the song on
album. (He has never commented on why he didn't, and seemingly no one
has asked.) However, he did include the sheet music in his 1973
-Songs-Of-Paul-Simon-, and it will be on the upcoming -Old-Friends- box
set. An early, live version can be found on the Tufts University
bootleg. The -Parsley-Sage-Rosemary-&-Thyme- outtakes reel also has a
different mix of the master take, the only thing special about which is
that it doesn't fade out -- Paul keeps singing until an engineer yells
for him to stop.
A CHURCH IS BURNING is the only song on the -Paul-Simon-Songbook- never
released on album by S&G (again, no reason has ever been offered). They
did, however perform it live c. 1965-66, and it appears on the Tufts
University and -Chez- bootlegs. There are also two versions, one by
S&G, one just with Paul on -Far-East-Reunion-. Still another version,
recorded in 1967 at Lincoln Center, is set to appear on the
-Old-Friends- box set.
THE SIDE OF A HILL also appears on the -Paul-Simon-Songbook-, and a solo
version by Art is on -Far-East-Reunion-, but parts of this song's lyrics
later became the Canticle section of Scarborough Fair/Canticle.
The following are rare and illigitimately relased:
GOING TO THE ZOO is a Tom Paxton song Paul played around 1963-65,
especially while touring England. Appears on -Far-East-Reunion- and
-Chez- bootlegs.
Tom Paxton's CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHERE I'M BOUND is another early
concert favorite. Two versions, one S&G, one Simon solo, are on
-Far-East-Reunion-.
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART was performed during S&G's induction into the Rock
N' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990 (See question 4.15) and appears on the TV
footage of the event.
TEEN ANGEL appears on the tape of S&G's last concert before they split,
in Forest Hills, NY, July 1970.
BLACK SLACKS, BE-BOP A LULA, and WE BELONG TOGETHER were performed
during the Paramount shows in 1993 (See question 4.11) and subsequent
mini-tour, and thus appear on the -Hey-Schoolgirl!- and -Old-Friends-
bootlegs. Black Slacks (in a medley with Hey Schoolgirl, from 1969) will
be on the -Old-Friends- box set.