Simon & Garfunkel - America (from The Concert in Central Park)
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- "America" by Simon & Garfunkel from The Concert in Central Park
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Lyrics:
"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together"
"I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America
"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
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"Kathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why." A concise
expression of melancholia.
That is my favorite lyric of all time.
Its a great lyric and it has come in my head at times in my life where i have really felt it in my soul.
I don't understand this lyric. Can someone please elaborate why it's a lot of people's favorite? I feel dumb 😶
@@staticpiece it's one of my favorite lyrics too but I can't explain it. It's like explaining why you like any song. You could say all kinds of good things about a song but ultimately the reason why you think a bunch of good things are true about a song is because you like it.
Gives me goosebumps. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
If Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize
for literature, Paul Simon should get one for poetry.
and melody!!!!!
yesss….
Agree! Him & James Taylor wrote lovely songs & are sweet men. They would better represent us.
Howard Steier agreed. funny thing is this song is completely prose
I still think it's a little weird dylan won the nobel prize
"So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field" To me this seems like one of the best lines ever used in a song.
Or sunrise in South Georgia USA
... I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises ... all lies and jests ... still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ...
... and he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut, till he cried out, in his anger and his shame ...
... there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there ...
I agree. You feel it. You experience it. You are riding along with them.
@@eddarby469 outstanding indeed
I was at this concert. It was in September, on my wedding anniversary. Art asked us if we were cold. Who cared, all our attention was on the music!
You can hear him ask if you were cold on one of the other songs from this concert; they're all on TH-cam. I think it's The Boxer.
Just played this over and over and an unexpected hospital stay for covid. Otherworldly, hugely moving.. I was born in '61. My brother, 5 years ahead and leagues ahead in music, played everything downstairs... 'All Along the Watchtower.." Later the impossibly good rocking, famous as ever.. Skynyrd's 'Free Bird'... now I digress.
Something in "America landed as deep as a diving bell. We must keep searching.... and drown out the players and the losers and the fake political games..
Wherever you on, literally or figuratively, hop on that bus. We'll never know unless we try....!!
Oh j aurais tellement aimé assister à l un de leurs concerts ceka devait être magique
"How you doin', are you cold? God, you look great from here."
Vous avez beaucoup de chance....
J'aurais aimé être présent ce soir là.
Garfunkel has the voice of an angel. Together they have a harmony that is other-worldly.
Nick cave
I agree and this song in one of the best.
@@alanrylands7004 This shear ''brilliance'' of this duo is something that will never be repeated. The very best there ever was, without any doubt.
@@howardjones8686 " "brilliance" "?
I kinda like the Garfunkel & Garfunkel album, "Break away" had some nice tunes on her. Plus, he did a fine job in the movie, "Catch 22" or was it Catch 22.746? Not sure.
As an Australian. One of my life goals is to go on a greyhound across America listening to this masterpiece. One day...
take me with you
I rode a Greyhound in 1997 from Washington, DC to Missoula, MT...and, as trite as it may seem...the journey was the most meaningful part of it all. I met interesting people all along the way. A young school teacher from Minnesota whose car had broken down. She was riding the Greyhound back home. A rancher from Ekalaka, MT who told me...look on the bus here...these are the real Americans...not the politicians in Washington. America is not Left or Right, Black or White. America is each one of us finding the best in ourselves and doing what we can, while we are alive, to make this place a better place. America is not The News, telling us what we feel...but ourselves, using our innate intelligence, to determine what WE feel. And acting according to the dictates of our individual consciences.
when you get to North Carolina, look me up and I'll buy you a beer
Had to take a Greydog from Chicago to Toledo once. Truly a horrible experience. If Hell exists it could be like the inside of that bus.
These days you will get robbed and assaulted. Try renting a car. Bus travel was once ok, now its how the very poor travel, and its not good.
There music is pure poetry from Paul and an angelic voice from Art.What a pair❤❤
I was there. Right below the camera tower at age 15. I became a real person at “Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike “. The crowd reaction was like an epiphany. I wasn’t alone.
The music collective. Read about how they changed frequencies to dissipate this feeling
@@day245 fucking hell, get outta your basement. It was a live concert. Changed frequencies to keep people from feeling communal? Get out of your head. JFC.
@@cogitoergosumo1793 No shit !
I was in Paris a few months later ☺
@@s.baumard8161 y
Every once in a while I"m glad I'm old.
I hear you, man.
Hilarious!!! And very true, all of us who are over 55 and beyond revel in the music of our generation just like our grandparents did, and we feel sorry for the younger generations and what they missed. We avoid the horrible so called "music" we hear against our will way too often. Eeeeesshhh...but we're grateful & happy for the "real" music we love. We're turning into our grandparents, and that's a good thing!!!
yes, darling we have our moments
.....exactly!
As a 16 year old person this band has really opened my eyes to real good music. People talk about the high point of music and i would argue without a doubt that this would have been the time to alive. My dad tells me stories of this concert because he was their and it is something of a dream for someone like me who is relatively new to this kind of music. (about three years)
One of THE BEST Simon & Garfunkel songs of all time.
Oh Yes!
I agree. The first time i heard this song i was in my early teens on an album from the group Yes
But it is far better with the origin3
i got to say Air supply is the best for me, paul and simon is up there for sure!
One of the best songs of all time
"I'm empty, and aching and I don't know why...."
Here i go again, Jan 2021 still watching the greatest duo in music history.
You're not alone.
Nope
Here i go again, July 2021 still watching one of the greatest duo in music history.
@@patg2445 - me too
It's almost September,2021 and I'm still listening and loving it all.
I still can't believe that this concert was 39 years ago- in 1981.
Somethings are timeless.
You don't need a music video to see this song play out before you.
I wish I had the financial means to make a video for this song in animated form, I love it deeply.
I was at this concert. It was the best concert I have ever been to and it was free.
😮😮😮
I will never stop loving New York. Never.
Sally Eckhoff Same.
How fortunate you are to have lived this event... This live concert i can remember my dad had playing on a cassette player in his 505 Peugeot when I was 6, on a rainy day driving in Cape Town, South Africa. I never understood this music back then, it felt so lonely. Now I can't help becoming nostalgic when listening to it.
@@technologyinschoolswestern7142 Wow, even in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a great time. Everyone brought blankets, some brought wine or other booze as well as having weed wafting through the air. It was such a mellow and enjoyable concert. Everyone was polite and no fights at all. I am one of six siblings and I'm the second to youngest so when I was probably 6 or 7 I was listening to my eldest sisters play their records on the stereo. I think that was even before cassettes. I also become nostalgic when listening to it.
*"I'm empty, and aching, and I don't know why..."*
2 voices that are made for each other.
I’m 69 years old now, and I don’t, for a minute, regret that I was alive to live in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s and be a witness to the birth of a new and more enlightened America. In fact, I truly feel sorry for today’s generation, which is seeing us, courtesy of Trumputz and his ignorant ilk, backslide into a new Dark Ages.
I felt that.
Touche - with you Mr Halpern
Try Grace Vanderwaal. She hits me as hard as any music ever!
Agree....
Hi Ron.
I hear ya man. Well we tried to bring in an age of enlightenment, but greed and hate are strong emotions. Now all I do is vote for peace and dust off the old Lp's. Kick back with my best girl and pop some wine & munch on some of her special Brownie's.
Thanks. ; )
*Remember when the world looked like this?*
My heart breaks for the young people today. They have no idea how lovely it could be.
C est tout à fait vrai.
@@annielaffond6073 D'accord. And your France, sweet France, still exists? ❤️ "Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance, je vous aime dans mon coeur ... " Pardon me, my horrible French lingua franca , but I'm sure you've got the feeling. Salute, au revoir.
"And the moon rose over an open field..."
Wow! Goosebumps.
Should be a Van Gogh painting.
How their voices rise and fade together it’s perfection
The line "Kathy i'm lost, i said though i knew she was sleeping" always makes me cry and to this day i still don't know quite why.
Perhaps becuz we have all felt that way and our hearts identify so well💓
Because she wasn’t listening x
Garfunkel in the Han Solo outfit...
Respect!
So here are two husbands of princess Leia
rumor has it he made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs
"And the moon rose over an open field". This line always gets me - guess it's just so evocative.
It's always affected me deeply. Such an evocation of emptiness. Gives me chills no matter how many times I hear it.
It really evoques the feeling of understanding your true promise of love and hope was really a promise of illusions which cannot be.
It Is incredibile how universal that line Is
Perhaps my favorite line in all of pop music
I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!
I’m from England and once travelled in a Jeep with work solo from Seattle, through Oregon down to the Californian coast to San Francisco. I was loving the coastal views along the way with sun kissed wild prehistoric looking beaches. Then this song came on the radio and it just made the trip so moving. When Guy Clarke came on the radio singing the Randall Knife I thought I was in some movie dream but it was reality. Such pure American road trip sounds. Magical. Timeless. A few years ago now, the world was a different optimistic place back then. Full of wonder.
My regards to the guys at the Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, if it still exists, fun bar and they thought I’d walked out of a spaceship when I started talking with my English accent. You can’t get any more American than that hang out.
So glad i was born before the glorious era of this duo who’s music continue to flourish during the years. Now in my mid60s, i’ll forever cherish them.
Agree 100%
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Me too
Their voices just blend together so well. I never get tired of listening to Simon and Garfunkel.
+Judy Kramer Garfunkel does an amazing job at harmonizing so sweetly
Me too and for some reason I can be doing the most ordinary thing like walking my dogs and this particular song will be (pleasantly) stuck in my head
classic mixes
It's just "sublime"!!! Their voices go very well together effectivly. Il am never tired listening them since 40 years!!!!!!!!
Bad english, no?
1:57 That D/F#(I think) chord gets me every time. That one chord immediately transforms the song from a hopeful, carefree tune to a melancholic, bittersweet one and sets up my favorite verse ever written by Paul Simon.
Holy shit, good catch. That is absolutely where the song 'turns'.
Paul Simon the Shakespeare of songwriting. Deserves the Nobel Prize for literature and songwriting.
Yes, he deserves that.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Brother Ricky and I made it to the concert in Central Park. A great memory of quality time spent with my late, great baby brother. Thank you Paul and Art.
Paul Simon = Genius. Art Garfunkel = Voice for a Genius. Simon and Garfunkel = Best Double Act of All Time.
David Mitchell I think the right and true way to say it is this ..." Art Garfunkel is a genius in harmonization and has a voice who can only give life and so much soul to the song written by Paul Simon!" The singer and his brilliant voice is the only reason why a song is being greatly appreciated and loved by the hearing audience. No matter how great a song was being written if it's not sang by a singer who can truly give justice to the song (angelic, soulful voice that's so brilliant combined with great harmonization- on duet) it's nothing and it's not being well recognized or appreciated- it would never become a hit! It will just be a well written lyrics.
Jr Dier . Perhaps a certain Mr Bob Dylan would disagree that it needs a great singer with a brilliant voice to make a song a hit. He has written some of the most memorable, great songs ever and even with his less than beautiful voice have made these songs into never to be forgotten standards for our lifetime.
Arguably Paul Simon's best song. The meaning is so much more than a trip across this country. It is a hunt for the true America--one that in these present days, is perhaps little more than a dream. But those of who understand what the true America really is will forever fight for a country that is a far cry from those who have little idea of what this country truly means.
Not sure of the political implication to your comment. I would say, though, that the rabid flag waivers as well as the vicious left wing cancel culture might both need some Mrs. Wagner pies.
I could not have said it better...it is so sad it hurts. So few understand what America was and I hope what it will be again.
America is hope and dreams, then you make it big and guess what?, America is lost again.
@@britturk123 Great Britain has the same problems, doesn't know what it is any more, it shone like a beacon for freedom and faith
Oh really? And there was me just thinking it was about a bus ride……..
1:55 Art really crosses his arms :D :D LOL
I was there, but the crowd was so huge I was over a hill and never "saw" them, but the sound was perfect...
+vootie99 I was too young - pre teen, but certainly remember wanting to hop on a bus to the City, just too be a part of history.
+vootie99 I was 4, bout 95 feet from the stage.. This is one of my earliest memories.
+vootie99 I couldn't get to NYC but had the good fortune of going to the first concert of the tour that followed in Akron OH. It was without a doubt the best concert I have ever attended!
+Sydney Baxter The first time I saw S&G was at a small concert at the University of Detroit back in the early 60's. The school had booked them before their first LP made it big. After that they were playing bigger venues. I saw them again a few times over the years. The last time was during their "Old Friends" tour in a huge stadium with big screens so you could see them
I saw them at Oakland Stadium in the summer of 1983. At the time Paul was married to Carrie Fisher and he brought her onstage for a minute. Return of the Jedi had just come out so Star Wars Mania was running wild and thw crowd went totally apesh*t seeing Princess Leia in person! Oh, and the concert was great too!
I keep coming back to this one. Feels so nostalgic.
Me Too, THIS and now at age 67, BookEnds does ot for me also ♥️
My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song out of so many. It makes me feel nostalgic like something I did in my past even though I didn't.
Their songs are so much of the fabric of America.
Not sure if it’s just me but this sounds more like a lament of America than a tribute
Likewise. My spine tingles.
@@petere6162 Can't you feel both? I can.
Hey I’m not even American , never traveled on a Greyhound but I feel a profound sense of sadness and nostalgia when I hear this beautiful song … I don’t know why
the song is the experience of every teenager that came of age in America in the 1960s
you got your license and your first car
and went off with a friend or lover on the Great American Road Trip
thinking you will find or discover something .... experience something.... you dont know what
not understanding the seeking and the journey is the thing
I love the '"Kathy", I said as we boarded a greyhound in Pittsburgh' as Art comes in so poignantly with the his high harmony. I have a lot of favorite lines in this song and this is definitely one of them. The start of that verse is so strong and powerful.
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there´s one in my raincoat" 😍
this might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life. honestly.
Daniel Cropp h
Kathy ," I am lost" is the most simply stated that my 67 years that humbled me . Thanks Paul .
So meaningful today. Aren’t we all “looking for America?”
I'm 18 years old, was born in 2001 and I absolutely love S&G.
My generation sadly doesn't have anything this amazing and barely anything good at all. Luckily we've got TH-cam and Spotify today so we can listen to masterpieces of older generations though!
Marian. Check out Tame Impala. I'm a Progger (Yes, ELP, Rush) and he's amazing.
Bon Iver
Oh shut up
It’s interesting but I got into them at the same age, I just started college and was like 18-19, I think there’s something about them that speaks to that restlessness when you’re just starting your adult life, when everyone is telling you your life is ahead of you but you are not so sure what exactly that means and what to do with it yet. That’s why “the graduate” used their music, it’s also about the same thing. But I gotta say I am 41 now and still sometimes don’t know what the hell I am doing with my life :)
I am 60 and just intorduced S&G to my only son, 24 yrs old. I told him to watch the concert to while away the lonely hours of the quarantine. He works and live in Manila and i live in the northern part of the Phil....
Man... Simon and Garfunkel came out with some exceptional songs. This song is in my top 5 favorite S & G songs. They were truly the voice of their generation and the generations from there onward
They certainly were! I listen to their music all the time.
up there with Dylan's genius American musical poetry !
So sad they parted ways. They where both at their very best as a duo. The blending of their amazing voices and songs was a major part of the history of music at that time.. Great as solo acts - but were beyond amazing together... Glad I had a chance as a baby boomer to share in real time the amazing duo of Simon and Garfunkel..
I'm a generation older than the baby boomers, but this song awakened me to the memes of your generation. I grew up then.
I agree. I always felt that popular music lost much of its mojo when the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel broke up at around the same time, and later the brilliant "My Little Town" showed what could have been.
I thoroughly agree with you their voices combined together contributed to their immense success
Paul Simon the star.
Writer, singer and songwriter.
They are back on tour. So your dream has come true.
This concert was performed when cable tv was a brand new thing in my area. I remember HBO played this concert over and over and I would watch it every chance I got as an 11 year old boy. As of 6 minutes ago, I just hit my 50th birthday and I am enjoying this concert yet again while the rest of my house sleeps. So beautiful! What a blessing! Long Live Simon and Garfunkel!
They were so good together! Sure wish I could sing like Art Garfunkel he was the best!
I'm fifty too, and i'm still listening from Italy
@@tommylevanto1226 Yep.....51 now for me. But I remember this night well. I had somewhat recently lost my mom and all the childhood memories were bitter-sweet at that moment. But mostly sweet!
make sure he hears this as he grows up
Happy birthday! Don’t worry, sixty is even better.
This is an America I want to live in. Please turn the clock back 55 years!!
“And the moon rose over an open field” brilliant
I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!
Paul Simon creates most poetic songs in the history of music... Genius
The planets aligned that night......been listening to this concert for 37 years now, I will never stop until my dying day.
The masters of a duo. Who else is listening to this wonderful song July 03, 2021 GOD Bless our GREAT AMERICA!
Paul Simon is a musical genius
When music had meaning.
I never new that two voices and a guitar could be so good!!!
Years ago I had recently divorced after 28 years, and found myself odds with what might be next. I gave myself the time to fill a long held dream and rode my bike across the country. This song was the soundtrack in my head the whole way. I can’t hear it without thinking of the America I saw. I finished the ride and knew exactly what to do next. The ride, and this song, were transformative.
Hope u are ok now>>divorce must be hard
I think Paul Simon looked his very best at this particular time of his life! He looked great, and they were both in fabulous voice this night! 😀
With you all the way on that one, Gorgeous😍♥️
The older I get the more I appreciate their music thank God my father still has his vinyl collection
東北の寒村の貧乏学生だった 私はラジオから聞こえる S&Gの素晴らしいコーラスに 遠いアメリカを憧れながら耳を傾けていました。
大学を卒業して証券会社へ入社した私に アメリカへの 転勤の話かありました。 喜んだ私は 勇んで アメリカへ 飛びましたが
残念ながら S&Gは解散していました。 しかし 突然 彼らの セントラルパークでの コンサートが決まったのです。 やっとのことでチケットを手に入れた私は そこで
初めて ポール・サイモンとアート・ガーファンクルが歌う姿をみたのでした。コンサートが終わるまで、感激で涙が止まらず 私は自分の幸運を神に感謝しました。
たった一度のLIVEでしたが 私には一生の思い出になりました。
They are so in sync it's almost like they never stopped singing together. Beautiful and amazing.
The greatest duo of all time!
Simon and Garfunkel's best effort. This one hits you hard. A fucking masterpiece of a song.
Jesse Burleson I didn't like it at first listening to this song. When I heard it entirely I notice that many people seek the beauty of the good ol USA...
It is indeed!
HOPELESS ENTERTAINMENT 11t1ttIItItII1IItftII1
My God seriously together they were magic! Being there was the icing on the cake 😉🤙😎
The backing musicians at this concert are sensational!
Spotted Pete Carr seated just behind Paul. Carr is a great studio musician from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and one half of the group Lablanc and Carr.
Jackson and Gadd are definitely not backing.. 😉
@@Karmakatt6 don't forget Pat Metheny. If you didn't see him almost impossible to tell by his playing. His versatility never ceases to amaze
@@dakine575756 Pat Metheny was playing here?
@@kalmia01. He was not,I my self always thought the same Even by playing but it was David Brown,he Played with Billy Joel 😊
"....and the moon rose over an open field..."
Just...............wow.
Paul Simon might actually be the greatest song writer
Marian N He has my vote.
Watching this today after seeing a documentary about it being Art’s 80th. Beautiful lyrics and sounds. One of the best partnerships in musical history.
Got to agree their brilliant.
Surely one of THE greatest concerts.
I will always play this song when I drive down New Jersey Turnpike. Never thought this song from 50 years ago would make me feel that way.
It is a timeless song that pulls atour heart strings. We see ourselves in the song ♥️
How can ANYONE give this a thumb's down?? It was wonderful!!! Beautifully performed. Great lyrics, singing.. Their's was a match made in Heaven!! Performing live & sounding superb!!
A troll's gotta troll
how can ANYONE have a different opinion from me??
Because their are democrats still around and hunting for votes.
I live in Japan and after the 2011 tsunami with all the death, destruction and radiation, I was obsessed with the news and wasn't in the mood to listen to music for about three weeks. When I finally got my iPod out and hit random mode, the first song that came on was this version of this song. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard.
Oh AMERICA USA...god i love you and all people..visited several times from Australia..and you are our best mates, even at the airport through immigration!! Im thinking of you all through this covid 19! I support the protests happening!! Let me tell ya, if the support system that we have in place in aussie land, wasnt happening, we wud c a few! I love and respect your patroitism and support for your people. No matter what happens with covid.. your patriotism needs to be acknowledged and i truely admire that of your country, we could do with a little of that here in Australia beleive it or not!! God bless you AMERICA!!!! Xxx. I STAND WITH YOU X
Jacqui Tyack Aussies are ❤️
A very beautiful song. "And the moon rose over an open field... counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike they've all come to look for America".
Just singing a great song Garfunkel with his arns crossed.Things were simple back then.
i've yet to find a live performance by any group that sounds as good as this historic set.
The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense are pretty darn good. Vocally no one in either of those groups is as good as these two but the music is certainly on par.
The seekers at the Sydney mayer music bowl is really good too
encapsulates the 60s "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why". Cinematic. You can imagine yourself on the bus in America's glory days of the 60s. Lots of 60s peeps in the crowd with their kids. Magical moment in time
Simon could write some great lyrics
Those guys had voices that were made to be joined in sound! Not many we ever hear like them. Miss them.
Just imagine, if those "in charge" of guiding the nation, not only in the Usa, but all over the world, had the spirit, art, capacity, generosity, sense and purpose, and even the pure heart and harmony, the perfect simplicity these two have here in making music together...., where would the human world ( society) be. It would be a much better, safer, and more beautiful place to live in
Ma veramente non si sopportavano più già quella sera. Per essere onesti. E se guardi bene, si nota benissimo. 🤔
Paul, Have you never see that you ARE the existence of Simon and Garfunkel. Ok he's a great voice. You ARE the lead of two. Without you, he can't sing!!!!!
I was there and this concert will never be forgotten!
September 1981 Central Park, NYC
No phones in the crowd, so great. People just listened to the music.
It was 1981 after all
Maybe his point is unlike today songs are just for temporary, not like this one that last until now.
What is the boomer obsession with cell
Phones lol. I swear you guys are more obsessed with them then the Gen Z’ers. Let the kids live how they want. Every generation thinks theirs was the last “right” generation. Damn.
I get it, Eli. Not sure the others here do.
Eli, so true. Cell phones are useful for sure but at a concert. Just ruins it in my opinion, ( I went to all my concerts pre-cellphone era) but then I am a million years old 😜😁
Wow from an 8 year old in Vancouver BC
Always yearned to jump on a bus and travel to unknown destinations. This is the perfect road song.
I found now !
the word America means ourselves.
I am not an American. But this song for world young people.
this performance makes me cry.
Sound of Silence is the greatest song ever written, this is a close second
Before I die I want to know New York especially Central Park. Sorry, my english is not the best. I met Simon and Garfunkel in the 80's. I love
They performed with their heart and soul and regarding themes that were pure and meaningful. My God, what has happened to our country and to the music that was once performed with meaning and by real artists?
corporations
I know, you go back and hear something like this and realize how far the quality of popular music has dropped
I was blessed to have been at this concert in Central Park! My older cousin who lived in Manhattan took me. I went on a train from Fairfield Connecticut to meet her. Such a wonderful memory. We lost her recently to covid 19.
So sorry to hear that.😧
Guitar solo is perfect for the song, timing is impeccable
I hitch-hiked across America in 1975. I learned to love Ohio, Flyover country, the western desert, and Pacific Coast Highway. Ended up in Haight-Ashbury. And turned myself in at a navy recruiter's office. I got a 30 days restriction, half a month's pay docked, and a transfer to a really good ship. Totally worth it!
This concert is so significant in American music history. Nobody writes or harmonizes like Simon and Garfunkel
Everly Brothers, Bee Gees, CSN& Y were all amazing at harmony
bookends is a really great album.
Love the explosion from crowd from, "NJ Turnpike"
"Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, Michigan seems like a dream to me now". Insanely great harmonizing by Garfunkel here. Even superior to the Beatles or the Beach Boys at their peak.
Late to the party as usual, but still had to post. Every now and then you encounter a song that is so beautiful, your breath gets caught in your throat and tears spring to your eyes. This song...THIS SONG ..does that to me. ..Simply Magnificent! I have no other words.
The America of my childhood is getting harder and harder to find!
Songwriting simply doesn't get any better than this
I was at this concert all the way in the back it was such a beautiful evening and beautiful concert
Me too...and I agree. Beautiful evening and beautiful concert.
You're a so lucky. I was born too late.
A beautiful little winding evening :)
I used to sing this song to my son when he was born. Four years later, he loves it. (He calls it "Captain America"!)
+Joseph Johnson Haha, that's great!
+Joseph Johnson, very nice Joseph
i said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
that is so beautiful and funny thanks for making me smile
Oh dear sweet Paul, I’ll be road tripping next week from Chicago to NYC to see your final farewell concert... ❤️
They had a way of articulating intangible moods and emotions. With this song in particular the melody fits the lyrics so perfectly that the emotions and visual images are felt and seen vividly, like watching a movie that you are a part of. You smell the cigarette smoke, you feel Kathy sleeping on your shoulder while you look out at the window at the passing scenery. Paul Simon even uses literary devices to enrich the lyrics, like his use of assonance in "The moon rose over the open hill." The combination of Paul's evocative lyrics, Art's angelic voice, and their beautiful harmony are what made them the dream team they were back in the '60s.
I was there, right in the middle of the crowd. Wonderful evening!
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together 😌