Simon & Garfunkel - The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
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Free Music Review: Part of American culture
Hit: 5 Stars
My generation will always cherish these songs. It was a large part of our lives. A few years ago I went to their concert in St. Paul, MN and they were better than ever. Free Music Review: Almost everything you'll want...
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a big fan of S&G, and this CD has all my favorites. There are a few songs missing but if you were to try to include them all you would have to go for a double CD set. This has a lot of songs on it (20 cuts!!!) This is truely one of those "listen straight through" CDs. No track skipping required! Best bang for the buck you are going to find.Free Music Review: Simon & Garfunkel Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
This album brings together all of the best from Simon & Garfunkel. The insert gives a "history" of each song, when it was released and how popular it was. Listening to this album does make you remember lesser known songs on the original albums, but it is nice to have all the best on one CD.Free Music Review: The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
Hit: 4 Stars
The music is timeless but the CD has been enhanced or changed from the orginal recording. This was disappointing. Sometimes you cannot make music better, it was already. Free Music Review: This Duo Goes Back Farther Than You May Think
Hit: 5 Stars
In early 1958, amidst songs like At The Hop, Sugartime, Sail Along Silvery Moon, and Desire Me, a little rocker called Hey, Schoolgirl [with Dancin' Wild on the flipside] was making its way to # 49 Billboard Top 100, no mean feat for the tiny Big label, sung by a couple of 16-year-olds calling themselves Tom & Jerry.
These, of course, were Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and their big break was still eight years away. They recorded several other singles under that name, including the Jan & Dean hit Baby Talk in 1959, but that was their only charter. In 1961 Paul turned up with Howie Beck and Mickey Borack as Tico & The Triumphs and, for the Madison label, released Motorcycle b/w I Don't Believe Them. It was going nowhere until picked up by Amy in January 1962 and for them it made it to # 99 Billboard Pop Hot 100.
Exactly one year later, during which time more singles by the group also failed, Paul went back to a solo alter-ego, Jerry Landis [he had recorded Anna Belle in 1959 under that name with no success] and, still with Amy, this time saw The Lone Teen Ranger reach # 97 Hot 100 b/w Lisa.
Finally, Paul and Art reunited in the mid-1960s and, in 1965, struck paydirt with a Columbia recording contract and The Sounds Of Silence. From there to 1978 they would add 17 more hit singles for Columbia and, with one exception, they are ALL in this package. The lone missing hit is (What A) Wonderful World, billed to Art Garfunkel with James Taylor & Paul Simon which reached # 17 in March 1978 as the final Columbia hit.
In 1981 they reunited after a long split to record the old Everly Brothers hit, Wake Up Little Susie, live in New York's Central Park in September. Released by Warner early in 1982 it rose to # 27 b/w a re-make of Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard [also done live at the same session].
All here are original hit versions and, in addition, you get three B-sides - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) which was on the reverse of At The Zoo; Old Friends/Bookends which backed Mrs. Robinson; and The Only Living Boy In New York which was the flip of Cecilia - along with one album cut at track 16.
With the insert you get a complete discography of the contents, two pages of liner notes written by David Halberstam and several more photos of the duo, including what appears to be a coloured polaroid shot complete with "Jan 58" in the upper margin showing them performing in scarlet red sports jackets - likely in their Tom & Jerry guise. Little did they know then that, some 32 years later, they would be inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame.
Any of the entries from the Columbia Legacy series and their meticulous sound reproduction are recommended highly, and this one is no exception.