American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel recorded songs for five studio albums. Consisting of guitarist/singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel, the duo first met as children in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1953, where they first learned to harmonize with one another and began writing original material.
By 1957, the teenagers had their first minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl", a song imitating their idols the Everly Brothers. In 1963, they regrouped and were signed to Columbia Records. Their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., sold poorly, and they once again disbanded.
A remix of their song "The Sound of Silence" gained airplay on U.S. radio in 1965, hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Simon & Garfunkel reunited, releasing their second studio album Sounds of Silence and touring colleges nationwide. Their third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), found the duo assuming more creative control.
Their music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate, propelling the duo to further exposure. Bookends (1968), their next album, benefited from this promotion, and increased their profile. Their often rocky relationship led to artistic disagreements, resulting in their 1970 breakup. Their final studio record, Bridge Over Troubled Water, was subsequently their most successful, becoming one of the world's best-selling albums.
This list comprises their core studio work, including their songs under the name Tom and Jerry. The duo's multiple live albums contain cover songs as well as music from their respective solo careers; only said cover songs are listed here. In all, Simon & Garfunkel recorded and released 75 songs, including nineteen songs as Tom and Jerry.
Songs
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| Title | Year | Album / Single | Length | Notes | Ref. |
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| "America" † | 1968 | Bookends | 2:11 | [1] | |
| "Anna Belle" | 1959 | "Anna Belle" | 1:58 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Anji" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:15 | [3] | |
| "April Come She Will" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 1:49 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [3] |
| "At the Zoo" † | 1968 | Bookends | 2:23 | [1] | |
| "Baby Driver" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 3:15 | [4] | |
| "Baby Talk" | 1960 | "Baby Talk / I'm Gonna Get Married" | 2:05 | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] |
| "Barbriallen" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 4:02 | Demo released on 2001 compact disc remaster | [3] |
| "Benedictus" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:38 | [6] | |
| "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:47 | [7] | |
| "Black Slacks" | 1997 | Old Friends | 1:32 | Previously unissued live recording | |
| "Bleecker Street" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:44 | [6] | |
| "Blessed" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 3:14 | [3] | |
| "Blues Run the Game" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:51 | [3] | |
| "Bookends" | 1968 | Bookends | 0:32 1:20 |
[1] | |
| "The Boxer" † | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 5:08 | [4] | |
| "Bridge over Troubled Water" † | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 4:52 | [4] | |
| "Bye Bye Love" (The Everly Brothers cover) |
1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 2:53 | [4] | |
| "Cecilia" † | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 2:55 | [4] | |
| "A Church Is Burning" | 2002 | Live from New York City, 1967 | 3:43 | Live version. First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | |
| "Citizen of the Planet" | 2004 | Old Friends: Live on Stage | 3:14 | ||
| "Cloudy" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:21 | [7] | |
| "Comfort and Joy" | 1997 | Old Friends | 1:49 | An a cappella arrangement of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", previously unissued | |
| "Cuba Si, Nixon No" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 3:19 | Unreleased | [4] |
| "Dancin' Wild" | 1957 | "Hey, Schoolgirl" | 2:17 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "The Dangling Conversation" † | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:37 | [7] | |
| "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 3:06 | [4] | |
| "Fakin' It" | 1968 | Bookends | 3:17 | [1] | |
| "Feuilles-O" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 1:42 | Demo released on 2001 compact disc remaster | [4] |
| "Fighting Mad" | 1962 | "Surrender, Please Surrender" | 2:06 | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] |
| "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 1:53 | [7] | |
| "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:10 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [7] |
| "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:05 | [7] | |
| "The French Twist" | 1962 | "I'll Drown in My Tears" | 2:05 | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] |
| "Go Tell It on the Mountain" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:05 | [6] | |
| "Groundhog" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:46 | Unreleased | [8] |
| "A Hazy Shade of Winter" † | 1966 | Bookends | 2:17 | [1] | |
| "He Was My Brother" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:49 | [6] | |
| "Hey, Schoolgirl" † | 1957 | "Hey, Schoolgirl" | 2:15 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Homeward Bound" † | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:29 | [7] | |
| "I Am a Rock" † | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:49 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [3] |
| "I'll Drown in My Tears" | 1961 | "I'll Drown in My Tears" | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] | |
| "Kathy's Song" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 3:17 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [3] |
| "Keep the Customer Satisfied" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 2:34 | [4] | |
| "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:04 | [6] | |
| "Leaves That Are Green" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:21 | [3] | |
| "Loneliness" | 1959 | "Anna Belle" | 2:14 | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] |
| "Maybelline" | 1982 | The Concert in Central Park | 5:51 | Part of a medley alongside Simon's "Kodachrome" | [9] |
| "A Most Peculiar Man" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:29 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [3] |
| "Mrs. Robinson" † | 1968 | Bookends | 4:03 | [1] | |
| "My Little Town" † | 1975 | Breakaway Still Crazy After All These Years † |
3:51 | [10] | |
| "Old Friends" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:36 | [1] | |
| "The Only Living Boy in New York" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 3:57 | [4] | |
| "Our Song" † | 1958 | "Our Song" | 1:56 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Overs" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:15 | [1] | |
| "Patterns" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:45 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | |
| "Peggy-O" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:25 | [6] | |
| "A Poem on the Underground Wall" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 1:52 | [7] | |
| "(Pretty Baby) Don't Say Goodbye" | 1958 | "That's My Story" | 2:01 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Punky's Dilemma" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:13 | [1] | |
| "Red Rubber Ball" | 1997 | Old Friends | 2:29 | Previously unissued live recording from 1967 | |
| "Richard Cory" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:55 | [3] | |
| "Rose of Aberdeen" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 1:59 | Demo released on 2001 compact disc remaster | [3] |
| "Roving Gambler" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 3:04 | Demo released on 2001 compact disc remaster | [3] |
| "Save the Life of My Child" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:49 | [1] | |
| "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" † | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 3:10 | [7] | |
| "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:02 | [7] | |
| "Simon Says" | 1959 | Tom & Jerry | 2:29 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" | 1966 | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 2:10 | First recorded for The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) | [7] |
| "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 3:41 | [4] | |
| "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 2:34 | [3] | |
| "Song for the Asking" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 1:50 | [4] | |
| "The Sound of Silence" † | 1964 1966 |
Wednesday Morning, 3AM Sounds of Silence |
3:05 | [6] | |
| "Sparrow" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:47 | [6] | |
| "Star Carol" | 1967 | A Very Merry Christmas | 1:46 | Christmas recording, appeared on Columbia Special Products compilations A Very Merry Christmas (1967) and Dreaming of a White Christmas (1981) | |
| "The Sun Is Burning" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:46 | [6] | |
| "Surrender, Please Surrender" † | 1962 | "Surrender, Please Surrender" | 2:11 | Tom and Jerry recording | [5] |
| "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" (Gene Autry and Jimmy Long cover) |
1997 | Old Friends | 3:26 | Previously unissued live recording | |
| "Teenage Fool" | 1959 | Tom & Jerry | 2:46 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "That's My Story" † | 1958 | "That's My Story" | 2:32 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (Bob Dylan cover) |
1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:51 | [6] | |
| "Tia-Juana Blues" | 1959 | Tom & Jerry | 2:29 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "True or False" | 1959 | Tom & Jerry | 2:11 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Two Teen-Agers" | 1958 | "Our Song" | 2:23 | Tom and Jerry recording | [2] |
| "Voices of Old People" | 1968 | Bookends | 2:12 | [1] | |
| "Wake Up Little Susie" (The Everly Brothers cover) |
1982 | The Concert in Central Park | 2:19 | [9] | |
| "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:14 | [6] | |
| "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" | 1966 | Sounds of Silence | 1:57 | ||
| "(What A) Wonderful World" (with James Taylor) (Sam Cooke cover) |
1977 | Watermark | 3:32 | ||
| "Why Don't You Write Me" | 1970 | Bridge over Troubled Water | 2:46 | [4] | |
| "You Can Tell the World" | 1964 | Wednesday Morning, 3AM | 2:45 | [6] | |
| "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" | 1967 | "Fakin' It" | 2:17 | B-side to "Fakin' It", later released as a bonus track on 2001 compact disc remaster of Bookends | [4] |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bookends (liner notes). Simon & Garfunkel. Columbia Records. 1968.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Eliot 2010, p. 253.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Eliot 2010, p. 257.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Eliot 2010, p. 259.
- ^ a b c d e f Eliot 2010, p. 254.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Eliot 2010, p. 255.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Eliot 2010, p. 258.
- ^ Browne 2012, pp. 201, 295–296.
- ^ a b Eliot 2010, p. 266.
- ^ Eliot 2010, p. 262.
Sources
edit- Browne, David (2012). Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story Of 1970. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-82072-4.
- Eliot, Marc (2010). Paul Simon: A Life. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-43363-8.