Happy 70th b'day Art Garfunkel! Post your favorite S and G song.

[pink-o]

My two:

http://youtu.be/AdKjEHfHINQ


http://youtu.be/ZO3gWIGzH3A


The first, because it's a true story about poor, forgotten people that's as true now as it was in the 60s.

The second, because of all the countless times I've been in transit (literally and metaphorically) I've run that gamut of emotions, from banal to profound when I've been in between spaces. Just such a perfect capture, as are so many of Simon's songs and their beautiful harmonies

[struggle4progress]

1. The Dangling Conversation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t6gUHLD4AQ

[pink-o]

3. Good one!

So many to choose from. Listen I happen to be a boomer that loves 21st century alt rock, but sometimes there's nothing like a poignant melody, dynamics and great harmonies to affect you on a visceral level.

[struggle4progress]

4. You might like this better, then

Baby Driver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqUUNHwAl8

[struggle4progress]

2. Bridge Over Troubled Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Garfunkel has always been way cooler than Simon, IMNSHMO.

Was much cuter on the cover of Bookends.
He has put out some good stuff in the last ten years, like "Everything Waits to be Noticed".

[applegrove]

6. Kodachrome. I love the harmonies in the chorus.

[Faygo Kid]

7. Mrs. Robinson. Subversive. A very close second: Sounds of Silence.

Here's the first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1dz6_u2JI

Here's the second, achingly beautiful to this day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGWQauQOAQ

[Arkansas Granny]

8. El Condor Pasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BCLb21Y7Z8&feature=related

[Mendocino]

15. Mine too.

I'd rather be a forest than a street.

[alphafemale]

24. wrong spot sorry nt

[abq e streeter]

9. One of em anyway-Hazy Shade of Winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZdlhUDEJo&feature=related

[fishwax]

10. Kathy's Song is probably my favorite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60YKfPKdjQ

Though "Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike" from America is one of my favorite moments from the S&G canon.

[nolabear]

11. All I Know. *sigh*

http://youtu.be/33aoxUeAw0E

I had the biggest crush.

[nolabear]

12. One more--Feuille Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls on Their Way to the Moon?

http://youtu.be/kQpo8h2TGco

Man. This takes me back.

[fishwax]

13. It's originally a Simon solo song, but here's S&G singing American Tune

which is about as beautiful a song as you're likely to find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaaa_Ll20co

[fishwax]

14. Here's another good way to celebrate Garfunkel's birthday -- sift through his reading list

Every book he's read in the last 40 years is on his website: http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html

[stuntcat]

22. oo neato!

This is so neat, thank you!

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. Wow..cool!

But, what I do not understand, is why a fellow Scorpio like Garfunkel could be 70
whilst I have not aged a day since I listened to their first album?????

[HopeHoops]

16. "The 59th St. Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" - favorite song when I was in kindergarten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc

Live version!!!

[Glorfindel]

17. "I Am a Rock"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVLFlkehGuU&feature=related

[Iggo]

20. That was my theme song when I was a pissed off kid.

Only later did I appreciate the words as much as the ideas.

Like the lightly alliterative "...freshly fallen silent shroud of snow..."

Nicely turned, that is.

[Swede]

18. My Little Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa62m5cl0LU

In my little town
I grew up believ--ing
God keeps his eye on us all
And he used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord I recall
My little town

Coming home after school
Flying my bike past the gates
Of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging our shirts
In the dirty breeze
And after it rains
There's a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It's not that the colors aren't there
It's just imagin-ation they lack
Everything's the same
Back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town

In my little town
I never meant nothin'
I was just my fathers son
Saving my money
Dreaming of glory
Twitching like a finger
On the trigger of a gun
Leaving nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town

[Iggo]

19. Sound Of Silence.

Follow along with the harmony. It stays put when you think it oughta move, and it moves when you finally think it's staying put.

It's a beautiful, beautiful thing:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsX03LOMhI

[abq e streeter]

21. Keep the Customer Satisfied

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNsZLtzF18

[LWolf]

23. Sound of Silence, by far.

Still relevant.

[alphafemale]

25. I've always loved "America"

It just speaks to my wanderlust a bit.

[Maccagirl]

26. Paul Simon just turned 70 on October 19th

I didn't realize they had been born so close together. Great stuff.

[pink-o]

27. He also covered Gallagher and Lyle's "Break Away"

http://youtu.be/sb4acvJpktc

I know it's a song about someone losing their lover, but I see it as a parent letting go of a child so s/he can leave the nest. Cuz I heard it about 3 years after I left home and saw my strong, pragmatic mother sob buckets for the first time in my life. I never understood her devastation until much later--and even though I didn't have children, I would probably NEVER let a kid leave home at 18 and move to Europe the way she did with me.

Now my mom has been gone for almost 5 years, and I miss her all the time. So it's a poignant song for me.

[hootinholler]

29. The zoo song from Bookends

[trof]

30. Damn. I'm older that Art Garfunkle. Mrs. Robinson.

And I can sing it from memory.