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
    #SimonAndGarfunkel #America #TheConcertInCentralPark
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  • @howardsteier7840
    @howardsteier7840 6 ปีที่แล้ว +497

    "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.

    • @manyworldsvideo
      @manyworldsvideo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      That is my favorite lyric of all time.

    • @alepryor
      @alepryor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      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.

    • @staticpiece
      @staticpiece 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't understand this lyric. Can someone please elaborate why it's a lot of people's favorite? I feel dumb 😶

    • @nathanlewis42
      @nathanlewis42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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.

    • @jurgostuff
      @jurgostuff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Gives me goosebumps. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

  • @howardsteier7840
    @howardsteier7840 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1458

    If Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize
    for literature, Paul Simon should get one for poetry.

    • @sebasdebordeaux8347
      @sebasdebordeaux8347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      and melody!!!!!

    • @leticiam8804
      @leticiam8804 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      yesss….

    • @barbarac102
      @barbarac102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Agree! Him & James Taylor wrote lovely songs & are sweet men. They would better represent us.

    • @lihewang1961
      @lihewang1961 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Howard Steier agreed. funny thing is this song is completely prose

    • @fobbitguy
      @fobbitguy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I still think it's a little weird dylan won the nobel prize

  • @Gioma771
    @Gioma771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    "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.

    • @elizabethharalson7903
      @elizabethharalson7903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or sunrise in South Georgia USA

    • @eddarby469
      @eddarby469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ... 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 ...

    • @nomiddlenamenmn427
      @nomiddlenamenmn427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree. You feel it. You experience it. You are riding along with them.

    • @Usuario-pl2hb
      @Usuario-pl2hb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@eddarby469 outstanding indeed

  • @JeanBakula
    @JeanBakula 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    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!

    • @timward276
      @timward276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

    • @leslietatum984
      @leslietatum984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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....!!

    • @annielaffond6073
      @annielaffond6073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh j aurais tellement aimé assister à l un de leurs concerts ceka devait être magique

    • @pato2200
      @pato2200 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "How you doin', are you cold? God, you look great from here."

    • @gabrielgabidu13
      @gabrielgabidu13 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vous avez beaucoup de chance....
      J'aurais aimé être présent ce soir là.

  • @waymill1
    @waymill1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +846

    Garfunkel has the voice of an angel. Together they have a harmony that is other-worldly.

    • @nadinegoossens2357
      @nadinegoossens2357 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nick cave

    • @alanrylands7004
      @alanrylands7004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I agree and this song in one of the best.

    • @howardjones8686
      @howardjones8686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@alanrylands7004 This shear ''brilliance'' of this duo is something that will never be repeated. The very best there ever was, without any doubt.

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@howardjones8686 " "brilliance" "?

    • @hatfez
      @hatfez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

  • @izzymclean6527
    @izzymclean6527 7 ปีที่แล้ว +921

    As an Australian. One of my life goals is to go on a greyhound across America listening to this masterpiece. One day...

    • @vickyleeman2021
      @vickyleeman2021 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      take me with you

    • @davelee8961
      @davelee8961 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      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.

    • @charlesheumader4556
      @charlesheumader4556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      when you get to North Carolina, look me up and I'll buy you a beer

    • @zacharycat
      @zacharycat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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.

    • @Chasstful
      @Chasstful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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.

  • @janefletcher9593
    @janefletcher9593 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    There music is pure poetry from Paul and an angelic voice from Art.What a pair❤❤

  • @cogitoergosumo1793
    @cogitoergosumo1793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    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.

    • @day245
      @day245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The music collective. Read about how they changed frequencies to dissipate this feeling

    • @cogitoergosumo1793
      @cogitoergosumo1793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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.

    • @slyspy9819
      @slyspy9819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cogitoergosumo1793 No shit !

    • @s.baumard8161
      @s.baumard8161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was in Paris a few months later ☺

    • @alanwinship2535
      @alanwinship2535 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@s.baumard8161 y

  • @johndoran1754
    @johndoran1754 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1275

    Every once in a while I"m glad I'm old.

    • @allidock11
      @allidock11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I hear you, man.

    • @heavnnnsent
      @heavnnnsent 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      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!!!

    • @diademglow3429
      @diademglow3429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      yes, darling we have our moments

    • @bobhenry711
      @bobhenry711 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      .....exactly!

    • @tullyjoneswilkins3378
      @tullyjoneswilkins3378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      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)

  • @youtubermfa938
    @youtubermfa938 7 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    One of THE BEST Simon & Garfunkel songs of all time.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh Yes!

    • @francislapre7802
      @francislapre7802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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

    • @kyogofurahashi
      @kyogofurahashi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i got to say Air supply is the best for me, paul and simon is up there for sure!

    • @winesap2
      @winesap2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      One of the best songs of all time

    • @frankieaddams3937
      @frankieaddams3937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "I'm empty, and aching and I don't know why...."

  • @carmenbanayat4555
    @carmenbanayat4555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Here i go again, Jan 2021 still watching the greatest duo in music history.

    • @richardhoner7842
      @richardhoner7842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're not alone.

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nope

    • @patg2445
      @patg2445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here i go again, July 2021 still watching one of the greatest duo in music history.

    • @okrafeet
      @okrafeet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@patg2445 - me too

    • @nancydemoss7904
      @nancydemoss7904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's almost September,2021 and I'm still listening and loving it all.

  • @dee_dee_place
    @dee_dee_place 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    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.

    • @SirPaul222
      @SirPaul222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish I had the financial means to make a video for this song in animated form, I love it deeply.

  • @oakpkdude
    @oakpkdude 4 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    I was at this concert. It was the best concert I have ever been to and it was free.

    • @ProfesoraNut
      @ProfesoraNut 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😮😮😮

    • @seckhoffable
      @seckhoffable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I will never stop loving New York. Never.

    • @susanmaggiora4800
      @susanmaggiora4800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sally Eckhoff Same.

    • @technologyinschoolswestern7142
      @technologyinschoolswestern7142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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.

    • @oakpkdude
      @oakpkdude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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.

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    *"I'm empty, and aching, and I don't know why..."*

  • @Redwoodtree34567
    @Redwoodtree34567 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    2 voices that are made for each other.

  • @ronhalpern5170
    @ronhalpern5170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    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.

    • @justindoud8842
      @justindoud8842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I felt that.

    • @dharmaofdog7676
      @dharmaofdog7676 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Touche - with you Mr Halpern

    • @schmidt9401
      @schmidt9401 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try Grace Vanderwaal. She hits me as hard as any music ever!

    • @johnmiddleton3003
      @johnmiddleton3003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree....

    • @TimeTheory2099
      @TimeTheory2099 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      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. ; )

  • @AFAskygoddess
    @AFAskygoddess 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    *Remember when the world looked like this?*
    My heart breaks for the young people today. They have no idea how lovely it could be.

    • @annielaffond6073
      @annielaffond6073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      C est tout à fait vrai.

    • @pavelmirov5328
      @pavelmirov5328 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @papnlilly
    @papnlilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "And the moon rose over an open field..."
    Wow! Goosebumps.

  • @thomassmart2790
    @thomassmart2790 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    How their voices rise and fade together it’s perfection

  • @ChasingTone666
    @ChasingTone666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    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.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Perhaps becuz we have all felt that way and our hearts identify so well💓

    • @joanneford356
      @joanneford356 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because she wasn’t listening x

  • @Alan-zk3ok
    @Alan-zk3ok 7 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Garfunkel in the Han Solo outfit...
    Respect!

    • @annalagemann6763
      @annalagemann6763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So here are two husbands of princess Leia

    • @threalismaradona9899
      @threalismaradona9899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      rumor has it he made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs

  • @tonybaker6844
    @tonybaker6844 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    "And the moon rose over an open field". This line always gets me - guess it's just so evocative.

    • @michaelcheverie7579
      @michaelcheverie7579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's always affected me deeply. Such an evocation of emptiness. Gives me chills no matter how many times I hear it.

    • @lorenzobianchi1896
      @lorenzobianchi1896 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @drewshirleysports
      @drewshirleysports 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps my favorite line in all of pop music

    • @carlosuehara9686
      @carlosuehara9686 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!

  • @bobbydazzler1780
    @bobbydazzler1780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

    • @bobbydazzler1780
      @bobbydazzler1780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

  • @carmenayson6821
    @carmenayson6821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    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.

  • @Judy111965
    @Judy111965 8 ปีที่แล้ว +578

    Their voices just blend together so well. I never get tired of listening to Simon and Garfunkel.

    • @TheJairjedi
      @TheJairjedi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Judy Kramer Garfunkel does an amazing job at harmonizing so sweetly

    • @chuckw8391
      @chuckw8391 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      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

    • @xavierdemegillo741
      @xavierdemegillo741 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      classic mixes

    • @axelleawah3799
      @axelleawah3799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's just "sublime"!!! Their voices go very well together effectivly. Il am never tired listening them since 40 years!!!!!!!!

    • @axelleawah3799
      @axelleawah3799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bad english, no?

  • @omgpuppet
    @omgpuppet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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.

    • @Astrosimi
      @Astrosimi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Holy shit, good catch. That is absolutely where the song 'turns'.

  • @johnramasamy5676
    @johnramasamy5676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Paul Simon the Shakespeare of songwriting. Deserves the Nobel Prize for literature and songwriting.

    • @Wuei108
      @Wuei108 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, he deserves that.

  • @paulself8698
    @paulself8698 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

  • @MaribethPriore
    @MaribethPriore 8 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    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.

  • @davidmitchell1959
    @davidmitchell1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Paul Simon = Genius. Art Garfunkel = Voice for a Genius. Simon and Garfunkel = Best Double Act of All Time.

    • @jrdier3015
      @jrdier3015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @davidmitchell1959
      @davidmitchell1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @playinthedark3054
    @playinthedark3054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    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.

    • @leobrussel9471
      @leobrussel9471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @leftcoastdreams
      @leftcoastdreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @britturk123
      @britturk123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      America is hope and dreams, then you make it big and guess what?, America is lost again.

    • @margarethall7837
      @margarethall7837 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@britturk123 Great Britain has the same problems, doesn't know what it is any more, it shone like a beacon for freedom and faith

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh really? And there was me just thinking it was about a bus ride……..

  • @jollyjokress3852
    @jollyjokress3852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:55 Art really crosses his arms :D :D LOL

  • @vootie99
    @vootie99 8 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    I was there, but the crowd was so huge I was over a hill and never "saw" them, but the sound was perfect...

    • @carolthomas1805
      @carolthomas1805 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +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.

    • @heorap
      @heorap 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      +vootie99 I was 4, bout 95 feet from the stage.. This is one of my earliest memories.

    • @sydneyb.267
      @sydneyb.267 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +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!

    • @nbenefiel
      @nbenefiel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +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

    • @PlumbPitiful
      @PlumbPitiful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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!

  • @radkid06
    @radkid06 8 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I keep coming back to this one. Feels so nostalgic.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me Too, THIS and now at age 67, BookEnds does ot for me also ♥️

  • @nancydemoss7904
    @nancydemoss7904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    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.

    • @petere6162
      @petere6162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not sure if it’s just me but this sounds more like a lament of America than a tribute

    • @robertwaite8754
      @robertwaite8754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Likewise. My spine tingles.

    • @nancydemoss7904
      @nancydemoss7904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@petere6162 Can't you feel both? I can.

    • @nityaraman556
      @nityaraman556 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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

    • @kenwittlief255
      @kenwittlief255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

  • @ProfesoraNut
    @ProfesoraNut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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.

  • @danielcropp8553
    @danielcropp8553 7 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    this might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life. honestly.

    • @kulikgj
      @kulikgj 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Cropp h

  • @stevehilliard2342
    @stevehilliard2342 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Kathy ," I am lost" is the most simply stated that my 67 years that humbled me . Thanks Paul .

  • @AndruLu
    @AndruLu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So meaningful today. Aren’t we all “looking for America?”

  • @mariannick9418
    @mariannick9418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    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!

    • @stevensprouse2449
      @stevensprouse2449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marian. Check out Tame Impala. I'm a Progger (Yes, ELP, Rush) and he's amazing.

    • @Coracora-he9pz
      @Coracora-he9pz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bon Iver

    • @requu3822
      @requu3822 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh shut up

    • @anyaroz173
      @anyaroz173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 :)

    • @coramarquez6400
      @coramarquez6400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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....

  • @Looking1231
    @Looking1231 8 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    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

    • @mop714
      @mop714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They certainly were! I listen to their music all the time.

    • @numbat0072
      @numbat0072 ปีที่แล้ว

      up there with Dylan's genius American musical poetry !

  • @jamiealick8821
    @jamiealick8821 6 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    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..

    • @abacoabbie
      @abacoabbie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'm a generation older than the baby boomers, but this song awakened me to the memes of your generation. I grew up then.

    • @TPOrchestra
      @TPOrchestra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @salahtounsaoui9172
      @salahtounsaoui9172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thoroughly agree with you their voices combined together contributed to their immense success

    • @bobcorkill7970
      @bobcorkill7970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Paul Simon the star.
      Writer, singer and songwriter.

    • @cynthiathompson2953
      @cynthiathompson2953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They are back on tour. So your dream has come true.

  • @avonlady30
    @avonlady30 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    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!

    • @jimmybarnett4451
      @jimmybarnett4451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were so good together! Sure wish I could sing like Art Garfunkel he was the best!

    • @tommylevanto1226
      @tommylevanto1226 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm fifty too, and i'm still listening from Italy

    • @avonlady30
      @avonlady30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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!

    • @timemachine2525
      @timemachine2525 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      make sure he hears this as he grows up

    • @darwinxke2827
      @darwinxke2827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Happy birthday! Don’t worry, sixty is even better.

  • @petrvondracek3724
    @petrvondracek3724 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is an America I want to live in. Please turn the clock back 55 years!!

  • @Linda-pw8gx
    @Linda-pw8gx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    “And the moon rose over an open field” brilliant

    • @carlosuehara9686
      @carlosuehara9686 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!

    • @goddycarino6747
      @goddycarino6747 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Paul Simon creates most poetic songs in the history of music... Genius

  • @Tolbiny
    @Tolbiny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The planets aligned that night......been listening to this concert for 37 years now, I will never stop until my dying day.

  • @quickdeuce
    @quickdeuce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The masters of a duo. Who else is listening to this wonderful song July 03, 2021 GOD Bless our GREAT AMERICA!

  • @carlosdavadi8276
    @carlosdavadi8276 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Paul Simon is a musical genius

  • @garybenko1682
    @garybenko1682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    When music had meaning.

  • @tokarak
    @tokarak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I never new that two voices and a guitar could be so good!!!

  • @dennisahern624
    @dennisahern624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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.

    • @susanwhite5839
      @susanwhite5839 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope u are ok now>>divorce must be hard

  • @pocopico7409
    @pocopico7409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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! 😀

    • @annoynmousk
      @annoynmousk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With you all the way on that one, Gorgeous😍♥️

  • @dchant427
    @dchant427 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The older I get the more I appreciate their music thank God my father still has his vinyl collection

  • @user-ck9os3fv4j
    @user-ck9os3fv4j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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。

  • @el7jake
    @el7jake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    They are so in sync it's almost like they never stopped singing together. Beautiful and amazing.

  • @revrotunda3206
    @revrotunda3206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The greatest duo of all time!

  • @jesseburleson432
    @jesseburleson432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Simon and Garfunkel's best effort. This one hits you hard. A fucking masterpiece of a song.

    • @hopelessent.1700
      @hopelessent.1700 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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...

    • @chuckw8391
      @chuckw8391 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is indeed!

    • @genevievemcgrath2899
      @genevievemcgrath2899 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HOPELESS ENTERTAINMENT 11t1ttIItItII1IItftII1

  • @amyfishervoiceovers
    @amyfishervoiceovers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    My God seriously together they were magic! Being there was the icing on the cake 😉🤙😎

  • @johnosullivancalsmso9462
    @johnosullivancalsmso9462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    The backing musicians at this concert are sensational!

    • @keithledbetter6356
      @keithledbetter6356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @Karmakatt6
      @Karmakatt6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jackson and Gadd are definitely not backing.. 😉

    • @dakine575756
      @dakine575756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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

    • @kalmia01
      @kalmia01 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dakine575756 Pat Metheny was playing here?

    • @quogir1
      @quogir1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kalmia01. He was not,I my self always thought the same Even by playing but it was David Brown,he Played with Billy Joel 😊

  • @Wooly564
    @Wooly564 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "....and the moon rose over an open field..."
    Just...............wow.

  • @mariannick9418
    @mariannick9418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Paul Simon might actually be the greatest song writer

    • @justinv3057
      @justinv3057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marian N He has my vote.

  • @rickphillips2900
    @rickphillips2900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    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.

  • @thorsvensson8172
    @thorsvensson8172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Surely one of THE greatest concerts.

  • @shargor
    @shargor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is a timeless song that pulls atour heart strings. We see ourselves in the song ♥️

  • @barbarac102
    @barbarac102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    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!!

    • @eddarby469
      @eddarby469 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A troll's gotta troll

    • @xx_pcgamer_xx6866
      @xx_pcgamer_xx6866 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      how can ANYONE have a different opinion from me??

    • @artmcpharlin6730
      @artmcpharlin6730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because their are democrats still around and hunting for votes.

  • @erestube
    @erestube ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @jacquityack2230
    @jacquityack2230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

    • @timtam7626
      @timtam7626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jacqui Tyack Aussies are ❤️

  • @zyltch1
    @zyltch1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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".

  • @prog1962
    @prog1962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Just singing a great song Garfunkel with his arns crossed.Things were simple back then.

  • @maxyetter5618
    @maxyetter5618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    i've yet to find a live performance by any group that sounds as good as this historic set.

    • @hamiltoncrete6741
      @hamiltoncrete6741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @chrisinnes2128
      @chrisinnes2128 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The seekers at the Sydney mayer music bowl is really good too

  • @murphysinfinland
    @murphysinfinland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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

  • @JimmyJoeization
    @JimmyJoeization 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon could write some great lyrics

  • @dsremingto
    @dsremingto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Those guys had voices that were made to be joined in sound! Not many we ever hear like them. Miss them.

  • @kalmia01
    @kalmia01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

    • @rudyamisano4626
      @rudyamisano4626 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ma veramente non si sopportavano più già quella sera. Per essere onesti. E se guardi bene, si nota benissimo. 🤔

  • @mfillieule
    @mfillieule 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!!!!!

  • @JAGBRG
    @JAGBRG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was there and this concert will never be forgotten!

    • @JAGBRG
      @JAGBRG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      September 1981 Central Park, NYC

  • @kalkalasch
    @kalkalasch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    No phones in the crowd, so great. People just listened to the music.

    • @KeatingJosh
      @KeatingJosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It was 1981 after all

    • @makventures8119
      @makventures8119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe his point is unlike today songs are just for temporary, not like this one that last until now.

    • @Neb6969
      @Neb6969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @el7jake
      @el7jake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I get it, Eli. Not sure the others here do.

    • @PopShoppekid
      @PopShoppekid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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 😜😁

  • @amurphy1959
    @amurphy1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow from an 8 year old in Vancouver BC

  • @pamelapriver3575
    @pamelapriver3575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Always yearned to jump on a bus and travel to unknown destinations. This is the perfect road song.

  • @tasikatakasi6185
    @tasikatakasi6185 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I found now !
    the word America means ourselves.
    I am not an American. But this song for world young people.

  • @bobfriedman409
    @bobfriedman409 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    this performance makes me cry.

  • @david-yc7bc
    @david-yc7bc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sound of Silence is the greatest song ever written, this is a close second

  • @Marques20122
    @Marques20122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @slatt33
    @slatt33 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    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?

    • @lynnturman8157
      @lynnturman8157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      corporations

    • @alepryor
      @alepryor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know, you go back and hear something like this and realize how far the quality of popular music has dropped

  • @badelson1103
    @badelson1103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

  • @markoneill1768
    @markoneill1768 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Guitar solo is perfect for the song, timing is impeccable

  • @speedysteve9121
    @speedysteve9121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @tangehudgins5511
    @tangehudgins5511 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This concert is so significant in American music history. Nobody writes or harmonizes like Simon and Garfunkel

    • @HamiltonRb
      @HamiltonRb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everly Brothers, Bee Gees, CSN& Y were all amazing at harmony

  • @petejamey1445
    @petejamey1445 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    bookends is a really great album.

  • @anthonygiordano8237
    @anthonygiordano8237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love the explosion from crowd from, "NJ Turnpike"

  • @chix4free
    @chix4free 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "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.

  • @heathercampbell4600
    @heathercampbell4600 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

  • @theaxis2000
    @theaxis2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The America of my childhood is getting harder and harder to find!

  • @stevecrane7759
    @stevecrane7759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Songwriting simply doesn't get any better than this

  • @lougeoffreyselders6493
    @lougeoffreyselders6493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I was at this concert all the way in the back it was such a beautiful evening and beautiful concert

    • @wl1075
      @wl1075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too...and I agree. Beautiful evening and beautiful concert.

    • @nutsbutdum
      @nutsbutdum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You're a so lucky. I was born too late.

    • @pavelmirov5328
      @pavelmirov5328 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A beautiful little winding evening :)

  • @josephjohnson2519
    @josephjohnson2519 8 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    I used to sing this song to my son when he was born. Four years later, he loves it. (He calls it "Captain America"!)

    • @roknfnrol
      @roknfnrol 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Joseph Johnson Haha, that's great!

    • @frankarnieri9431
      @frankarnieri9431 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Joseph Johnson, very nice Joseph

    • @JonGreen22
      @JonGreen22 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      i said be careful his bowtie is really a camera

    • @heavnnnsent
      @heavnnnsent 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      that is so beautiful and funny thanks for making me smile

    • @mojorising0071950
      @mojorising0071950 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

  • @117842
    @117842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh dear sweet Paul, I’ll be road tripping next week from Chicago to NYC to see your final farewell concert... ❤️

  • @reybarreto7979
    @reybarreto7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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.

  • @dswx
    @dswx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there, right in the middle of the crowd. Wonderful evening!

  • @israelmoreno5758
    @israelmoreno5758 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together 😌