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Overs: Beyond Simon & Garfunkel The abrupt ending of Simon & Garfunkel as a duo in 1970 in no way meant that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had finished their individual musical careers. Instead, both artists followed their divergent strengths and creative preferences into solo singing careers which would span across several decades. As a song writer with a growing interest in world music and
rhythms, Simon's work developed into a succession of upbeat, African influenced songs with high commercial appeal. Garfunkel's strong, clear vocals and apparent interest in rich orchestration and arrangement caused him to gravitate towards traditional ballads and romantic standards. Today, Paul and Art continue to perform and produce new material to add to their long list of work.
Even given these individual successes, however, Simon & Garfunkel as a duo were not entirely finished
either . Paul and Art would come together many times after their initial
separation, most recently in a very
successful reunion tour. You can read more here.
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ART GARFUNKEL
With the ending of Simon and
Garfunkel, Art first turned to his acting career. Given his gifted vocal
ability, however, there was little doubt that he would return to music and he
produced several albums throughout the seventies, making a particularly
successful pairing with song writer Jimmy Webb. After that period, he
produced fewer and fewer full albums with the occasional project of special
interest to him: a Christmas cantata, a children's album, special appearances at
events and on albums of artists such as the Chieftans. His international
appeal has been even larger than in the US, however, and by the end of the
nineties he was touring all over the world and making treks across continents
while writing journals and poetry. Most recently, however, Art has fully
returned to music with the release of an album in trio with two other artists, a
great forum for new harmonies and musical styles, as well as the debut of his
song-writing based on his poems and diaries.
Click here for more details
on Art's albums and solo work (some of my favorite music)
For an excellent (and detailed) history of
Art's life and work visit www.artgarfunkel.com
Garfunkel (1981)
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This
early hits albums does not really reflect the full range (or best) of Art's
work throughout the seventies in my opinion, but it does offer an
introduction to several important songs such as "All I Know" and
"Break Away" that kind of defined his career from that era. I would much more suggest listening to his
individual albums,
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When
a Man Loves a Woman
Break Away
Bright Eyes
(What a) Wonderful World
All I Know
Scissors Cut
I Only Have Eyes for You
So Much in Love
99
Miles From L.A.
Second Avenue
A Heart in New York
I Have a Love
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This
later retrospective album is odd in that it really doesn't contain that much
of Art's album work as it does individual songs that he did for soundtracks
and such throughout the late eighties and nineties. It does give a more
accurate feel for his work around that period, however. There is also
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Crying in the Rain
(C. King, H. Greenfield)
All I Know
(J. Webb)
Just over the Brooklyn Bridge (M. Hamlisch, M.
and A. Bergman)
The Sound of Silence
(P. Simon)
The Breakup
Skywriter
(J. Webb)
The Decree
(J. Webb)
It's All in the Game
(Sigman, Dawes)
One Less Holiday
(S. Bishop)
Since I Don't Have You
(J. Beaumont, J. Rock, The Skyliners)
Two Sleepy People
(F. Loesser, H. Carmichael)
Why Worry
(J. Knopfuler)
All My Love's Laughter
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Non-compilation solo albums released by Art Garfunkel include:
(click here for more details)
- Angel Clare
- Breakaway
- Watermark
- Fate for Breakfast
- Scissors Cut
- The Animals' Christmas
- Lefty
- Songs from a Parent to a Child
- Everything Waits to Be Noticed (w/ Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock)
- Some Enchanted Evening
PAUL SIMON
Not too surprisingly, Paul Simon's post-S&G
career stayed focused around his music and song-writing. He maintained continued
success with a variety of albums in the seventies whose loose and sarcastic
style captured the feelings of the time. He garnered even wider accolades
for his African styled albums of the mid-eighties. More recently his work
has both followed his interest in Africa (including his try at writing for
Broadway called The Capeman) and
a return to his focus on upbeat acoustic guitar
tunes. While some of his more recent ventures
have not been as commercially well-known, he has maintained his interests and
love of writing.
Negotiations and Love Songs, 1971-1986
|  | This album offers the biggest hits of Paul Simon between the years of 1971 and 1986. (The majority of the songs come from the his work in the 1970's, however.) Because the album does contain basically all the well-known successes that Paul had during that period, the album is a very good buy if you enjoy songs like "Mother and Child Reunion", "Loves Me Like a Rock", and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" as well as the much later "You Can Call Me Al", but don't want to buy all the
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The list of Paul Simon (non-compilation) solo releases includes:
- Paul Simon (1972)
- There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
- Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)
- One-Trick Pony (1980)
- Heart and Bones (1983)
- Graceland (1986)
- Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
- Songs from the Capeman (1997)
- You're the One (2000)