Soon enough, I suppose, I’ll be sitting on a park bench with dust gathering on my shoulders. But I’ve still got my creative juices, such as they are, flowing like an agitated mountain stream in spring, choked and rushing furiously with melted snow and I’m going to be spending the next month thanking the Almighty for blessing me with the health and energy to channel these energies into a project that keeps me off the streets and out of my wife’s hair. He was 24 when he wrote ‘he not busy being born is busy dying’. That other guy from back then sporting a jewfro, Bob Zimmerman, transcended the clichés of the time. But you know what? I have more of my jewfro left than you do. But I also realize that there’s much more out there that I haven’t learned than what I have. They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957 in Queens, New York, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit 'Hey Schoolgirl'.
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Not surprisingly they looked more fondly on the record when it went straight to Number One, only being supplanted at the top by their new studio album Bookends (which included the full version of Mrs Robinson). It would have given me solace and confidence to grapple with the challenges of those daunting years. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are American musicians, songwriters, and singers known collectively as Simon & Garfunkel. A Hazy Shade of Winter is a song written by Paul Simon, recorded and released by Simon & Garfunkel in 1966, and then included on their 1968 album, Bookends (. The solution, much to Simon and Garfunkel’s initial horror, was to pad it out with Dave Grusin’s schmaltzy incidental music. I’ve actually learned something over this threescore and ten-a failure isn’t the end of the world. A Hazy Shade of Winter lyrics by Simon & Garfunkel on Bookends (1968). The fact that Bookends wasn't overshadowed by S&G's crowning achievement Bridge Over Troubled Water, which came along a year later, gives an idea of.
See, that’s something I didn’t know at 18. As a practical joke, Simon & Garfunkel once secretly recorded a lecture given to them by Columbia Records chairman Clive Davis. Although at the time Simon & Garfunkel were already established pop stars, 1968's Bookends cemented their place as pop legends and went on to become one of the duo's alltime classic albums. It was us against them-the hippies vs the pigs, John Lennon vs Richard Nixon, “the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse” vs The Establishment.
You see, in 1968, “ there was music in the cafes at night, and revolution in the air”. Preserve your memories – they’re all that’s left you. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph. Bookends, from the album (500) Days of Summer (Music from. Old friends, memory brushes the same years, silently sharing the same fears.Ī time it was, and what a time it was, it was a time of innocence, a time of confidences. Bookends is an Unknown language song and is sung by Simon & Garfunkel. The sounds of the city sifting through trees settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends.Ĭan you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly? Old friends, winter companions, the old men lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun
Old friends, old friends, sat on their park bench like bookends.Ī newspaper blown through the grass falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends. How do I know that I’m old? Because of a 1968 Simon and Garfunkel song. Just ask they had helped to inspire generation with the Monterey Pop Festival, Simon &. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. So I’ve been thinking (in addition to finishing my tax return and watching the new season of Ozark) about stuff like The Meaning of Life. Redbeard: Old Friends with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel from Bookends. Simon & Garfunkel, 'Bookends' Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by stever, Jan 11, 2006. We thought that if we grew long kinky hair, maybe we’d be able to jump as high as Dr J or sing as raunchy as Wilson Pickett. Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel 15,501 views 209 Dislike Share Save FaceARTactiON 3.35K subscribers Subscribe Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of. Scariest album covers.Art and I, it turns out, were both early sporters of jewfros, a coiffure in style amongst some young members of our notoriously nerdy tribe.
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