Classical Composer Reacts to Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel) | The Daily Doug Ep. 503

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  • @rghilino6734
    @rghilino6734 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Way back in 7th grade, we begged our music teacher to let us sing this song. He refused because he knew we would screech on the high notes. He finally relented and we screeched like there was no tomorrow.

  • @michaelschey1084
    @michaelschey1084 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Quite possibly, the most beautiful song ever recorded.

    • @kathybwell
      @kathybwell ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Indeed, it's an incredible song.

    • @last1059
      @last1059 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too right. Whenever I hear this, my heart pounds and tears well.

  • @thepiratecats801
    @thepiratecats801 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    There are few things in this world of ours that are as pure as this song.

    • @Coneman3
      @Coneman3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s the perfect song of its type. As good as anything the Beatles wrote imo

    • @thomasmacdiarmid8251
      @thomasmacdiarmid8251 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Coneman3 I was just thinking earlier today that this feels like a signoff for the group in the same way that Let It Be played that part for The Beatles. Both have a feeling of acknowledging as ongoing but sometimes distant relationship, with the sense that the love is still there and it's okay to let go for now.

    • @marshastapleton1148
      @marshastapleton1148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Coneman3 It beat out the Beatles for Best Song of the Year that year

  • @NoxiousRob
    @NoxiousRob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Just amazing how some things fall together. Two childhood friends, one turns about to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time and his buddy has the voice of an angel.

  • @naomiledger1374
    @naomiledger1374 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Art Garfunkel's voice is an absolute treasure. Pure joy. I agree with you - his voice is divine. This is a truly beautiful song with an almost transcendental quality about it. The lines "If you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind" gives me goosebumps every time. And nobody does harmony like these two. Another favourite for me is The Boxer.

  • @perry3928
    @perry3928 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    To me, it's one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Amazing vocals and arrangements. Thanks for sharing.

  • @andreaspfau
    @andreaspfau ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of the most beautiful goose bump songs ever. It touches me. Always. This is so 60/70s.. 🙂the arrangement, the dramatic climax, the sound. Played in a studio live while recording. And no technology today can replace that. Try - you will fail. It needs to played like that. This is breathing music. And that is the magic that this "old" music still has to offer to us today.

  • @Chrisdrumz
    @Chrisdrumz ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Paul doesn't come in until the "Sail on silver girl........"

  • @michaelschey1084
    @michaelschey1084 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Here are the personnel
    Art Garfunkel - lead vocals
    Paul Simon - backing vocals
    Larry Knechtel - piano
    Joe Osborn - bass guitar
    Hal Blaine - drums and percussion
    Gary Coleman - vibraphone
    Jimmie Haskell, Ernie Freeman - string arrangements

    • @kokomojoe6552
      @kokomojoe6552 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank You

    • @freeperjim
      @freeperjim ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Another "Wrecking Crew" studio musicians masterpiece!

    • @gettingkilt
      @gettingkilt ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gary Coleman was only 2 years old when this was released! Watchoo talkin bout, Willis?

    • @thomastimlin1724
      @thomastimlin1724 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gary Coleman on vibraphone? "What you talkin' about Willis?"...okay, somebody had to say this....

    • @thomastimlin1724
      @thomastimlin1724 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gettingkilt You and me both on that hahahaha

  • @PK1971PK
    @PK1971PK ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Thank you for doing this song. I really needed to hear it just now when I did. I just suffered a very personal loss and this song brought forth tears I needed to cry. There is no more emotionally provocative song that i know of. Calling it a masterpiece is no hyperbole.

    • @Doug.Helvering
      @Doug.Helvering  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am so sorry for your loss, my friend. Wishing you peace and healing.

    • @AnOldGeezer69
      @AnOldGeezer69 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally agree with this. We had this for my dads funeral last month. Bridge over troubled LP is one of the few surviving LPs on vinyl he had. It’s a special song

    • @alabhaois
      @alabhaois ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🫂🫂🫂

  • @brad42948
    @brad42948 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    There's a wonderful pureness of thought in many of their arrangements, and such intelligent songwriting; but, it _is_ impossible to take your ears off that extraordinary vocal.

  • @KevinRCarr
    @KevinRCarr ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for loving this as much as I do.
    I have been saying for nearly two decades that, if Art Garfunkel and Karen Carpenter had had children together, at least one of them would have had the world's greatest ever pop/folk music singing voice.

  • @mjsmcd
    @mjsmcd ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Larry knechtel who played lead guitar for the group Bread and was a member of the session group "the wrecking crew" played the piano on this and with arts voice made this song all simon could envision

    • @alabhaois
      @alabhaois ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He plays with such delicacy

  • @kayedeedid
    @kayedeedid 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I don't know anything about music theory, I just know what overwhelms me. This one does it every single time.

  • @richardtodd6843
    @richardtodd6843 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    That's an example of a song that gets everything it needs and nothing that it doesn't. It feels like a 7-minute epic, but it's only 4.48.

  • @cheffrey82
    @cheffrey82 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great shout out for Art Garfunkel's vocals, I think you're spot on about his purity of voice. The only other male singer I think is close is Harry Nilsson.

  • @bethrappeport9381
    @bethrappeport9381 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I grew up on Simon & Garfunkel and did not realize until I was an adult that this has the elements of a gospel song. I love how there is always something to learn from music as you get more life experience.

  • @glennytrades3357
    @glennytrades3357 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    When you said here comes Paul...I believe that's still Art. Paul doesn't sing any verses on the song, he only sings background vocals. The studio musicians are the Wrecking Crew - Larry Knetchel on Piano, Hal Blaine drums, Joe Osborn bass. Paul is just credited as backing vocals (as well as composer). I know when they played it live years later, Paul would take the second verse. I've seen Art a couple times and I still get goose bumps when he sings it. The room is pin drop quiet. No one even moves a hair. It's magical.

    • @Chrisdrumz
      @Chrisdrumz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, that's Art.

    • @ebob4177
      @ebob4177 ปีที่แล้ว

      I never noticed how Simon-like Art sounded on that part, but it's true. He really did sound like Simon there.

  • @davidschecter5247
    @davidschecter5247 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Like "Moon River" and few others, this is one of the few "perfect songs." The great Larry Knechtel on piano. He later of Bread, which deserves to be heard as well.

  • @rg807
    @rg807 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's about as beautiful as a piece of music can get.

  • @peacefulpossum2438
    @peacefulpossum2438 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never fails to give me chills and teary eyes. Sublime.

  • @Roku177
    @Roku177 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    chills is the only way to describe this 🥶😊🎼🎵🎶🎶

  • @mftubeyou
    @mftubeyou ปีที่แล้ว +4

    An amazing song in so many ways. "Sail on silver girl .." gets me every time.

  • @richyasi7424
    @richyasi7424 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how in each successive verse, the vocals get louder and more reverb is added to them. By the end, they are positively triumphant. An amazing performance combined with sensitive production.

  • @nikolajkrarup8750
    @nikolajkrarup8750 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This awesome song is such a comfort to listen to when you are having a hard time.

  • @jeffrubinelectronics
    @jeffrubinelectronics ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Are you aware that the piano was played by Larry Knechtel? He also played bass for the Doors, Guitar (the solo in Guitar Man) as a member of Bread. He was a session player in "The Wrecking Crew". Many hits. My session hero of the era. (I toured with Oingo Boingo '93, guitar, amongst other sessions, tours, gigs).

  • @darkogregec7503
    @darkogregec7503 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a masterpiece. They are from another world.

  • @youcantleavethisempty
    @youcantleavethisempty ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We didn't have many albums in our house when I was young, but this was one of them.

  • @EddieReischl
    @EddieReischl ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Happy Holidays, Doug. A brilliant song from two brilliant guys. The piano introduction is SO good, it's basically announcing that we're all about to hear one of the most epic songs ever written.

  • @jpwjr1199
    @jpwjr1199 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Doug, just a head's up - Where you say "iv to I" is actually iv dim to I (Ab dim to Eb). It's why Knechtel can put the B in the bass part of the piano underneath the F and G in the melody Art's singing and it still works.

  • @edwardmeade
    @edwardmeade ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's interesting that Paul wrote two verses. After they recorded that, Roy Halee and Art realized that the song was very good but not complete, so they leaned on Paul to write that third verse.."Sail on Silver Girl." When it came time to release a single Paul and Art figured that "Cecilia" would be the song but the record company said no. "Bridge over Troubled Water" might not sound like a 'typical' top-40 song, but it was the best written, best arranged, best performed, best produced song they had ever done so it would be the single and the rest is history. The times were different back then as well. You could have "A Boy Named Sue", "L'Amour est Blue" (with an oboe riff!) Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Motown all played on the same radio station at the same time. I don't know that this song could have found a niche in today's fragmented music scene.

  • @stoppropaganda2573
    @stoppropaganda2573 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Fantastic song but I still think a live track from 1969 called "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" is the most pure and powerful vocal performance from Garfunkel, full stop! Thanks Doug!

    • @squaaaaak3178
      @squaaaaak3178 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      One of my favorite songs since childhood.

    • @Bellathor
      @Bellathor ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fuuuuck, such a beautiful song. Haven't heard it in ages.

    • @MilosDaddy
      @MilosDaddy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My niece was named for that song!

    • @jackburley4976
      @jackburley4976 ปีที่แล้ว

      Completely agree 💪

    • @fufufoofoo
      @fufufoofoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, That song is perfect too !

  • @GrafStorm
    @GrafStorm ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wonderful song, kills me every time I listen, slayed. Merry Christmas Doug and all!

  • @RalfJonasson
    @RalfJonasson ปีที่แล้ว

    The reunion live version of this marvellous.. When Paul just disappears in to the back, to let Art shine alone, smiling at his friend.. And then comes back and lays his arm around Art.. Tears...

  • @davidbentley145
    @davidbentley145 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Soul stirring are the words to descibe this heartfelt beauty...Ty brother

  • @dougreed2257
    @dougreed2257 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Doug, for another almost perfect vocal, please do Forever Autumn" Justin hayward of the moody blues, was the voice Jeff Wayne wanted for this beautiful song, in fact when he contacted Justin, he asked, 'are you the guy who sang "Nights in White Satin"?? erm, yes!!! 😂😊🎶🎶

  • @otakubancho6655
    @otakubancho6655 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely the most perfect song ever written!💖💖💖

  • @getexis8685
    @getexis8685 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Almost a musical sigh so well composed.

  • @minty_Joe
    @minty_Joe ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Another favorite of mine on this album is "The Only Living Boy in New York". The vocal harmonies on that track are stunning!

  • @nancycarpenter5093
    @nancycarpenter5093 ปีที่แล้ว

    I will always remember the first time I heard this song. I had just parked my car and was planning to spend my afternoon shopping. The very beginning with the piano and then Art's beautiful voice caught my attention and I had to stay put to listen. What a journey- I was in tears by the end and I knew if was going to be song of the year. All these years later I still get teary listening to this masterpiece. This version far exceeds any other version, including Elvis Presley's.

  • @LB-gz3ke
    @LB-gz3ke ปีที่แล้ว

    I cry every time I hear this. Every time. Not because of a personal story just because of the words.

  • @Frankincensedjb123
    @Frankincensedjb123 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    As a kid, my parents often had a couple over for dinner, and they all loved this album, especially, Cecilia. I'd be upstairs at midnight trying to get to sleep while they played that song over and over again. This may be Simon & Garfunkel's last album together, but to me it's their best, one that certainly demands a track-by-track analysis. 5:50 - 7:10 😪😥😢😭

    • @scottdavenport2654
      @scottdavenport2654 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I could have written the exact same thing. My parents loved this album. When Cecilia came on they cranked it up. I knew all the words to each song at 5 or 6 yrs old.

  • @joelliebler5690
    @joelliebler5690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Like an Angel from heaven delivering the perfect song emotionally touching all earthling souls!

  • @soggytom
    @soggytom ปีที่แล้ว +13

    And by the first chorus, Tom is in a puddle of tears. Every. Single. Time. If Peter Hammill taught me that I am not alone in my crushing depression and visions of suicide, this song keeps me from going through with it.

    • @Doug.Helvering
      @Doug.Helvering  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You are not alone, Tom. We are thankful that you are here and part of The Daily Doug community. Wishing you peace, my friend.

    • @soggytom
      @soggytom ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Doug.Helvering Thanks, Doug . Glad to be here.

    • @kathybwell
      @kathybwell ปีที่แล้ว

      Right there with you Tom.

  • @JoriDiculous
    @JoriDiculous ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have no idea what it is about Simon & Garfunkel, but their classic songs sounds just as fresh today as they where when they came out. Amazing really. This one, Sound of Silence(prob. my favorite), The Boxer etc. Newer get tired listen to them or good covers of them.

  • @georgedavis-stewart4225
    @georgedavis-stewart4225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An exquisite arrangement and performance.

  • @metalfiregametime652
    @metalfiregametime652 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for reminding me of this song. I haven't heard this one in years.

  • @cynthiashelton826
    @cynthiashelton826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was my favorite version of this song! This was Art's best voice. I've seen other performances where he holds back but this version he really shines.

  • @Stogdad1
    @Stogdad1 ปีที่แล้ว

    This beautiful song always makes me cry.

  • @andorius
    @andorius ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great song. Happy christmas Doug, thank you for the great videos. A fan from the Netherlands.

  • @sandyadair4118
    @sandyadair4118 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this song and I'm thankful for all you said about it. This song really touched my heart.

  • @grahamhowes6904
    @grahamhowes6904 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The silver girl was Paul’s wife who was prematurely grey ..😊 Happy New Year and please more BIG BIG TRAIN in 2023 …. EAST COAST RACER live for example or THE UNDERFALL YARD sitting there behind you!

  • @tommonk7651
    @tommonk7651 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a gorgeous song.... I can't imagine hearing anyone other than Art Garfunkel sing it.

    • @squaaaaak3178
      @squaaaaak3178 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Elvis did a passable job, in his own inimitable style.

    • @cindyinnew
      @cindyinnew ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I really agree, but for a really standout cover check out Roberta Flack with the Newark Boys Choir cover

    • @chrishynes9585
      @chrishynes9585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@squaaaaak3178 passable? Simon himself was in awe of Elvis's version. Elvis added so much body to the gospel phrasings. Art made it angelic, Elvis sang it like a man trying to atone for something, and it feels so real.

  • @toyfreaks
    @toyfreaks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm so glad to have grown up with this song. I was alive when it was recorded and am in no way surprised that it has endured for a half century.

  • @78r0ckarolla
    @78r0ckarolla ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What an amazing job by Larry Knechtel on the piano .

  • @Plantagenet1956
    @Plantagenet1956 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song is just one of those songs, you just sit back, listen and enjoy it’s sounds, the music itself, and how you react to it.

  • @NicolasSilvaVasault
    @NicolasSilvaVasault ปีที่แล้ว

    such a legendary song, one of the most divine songs ever created

  • @billmiller4972
    @billmiller4972 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks a lot for taking up this song. I love it since I was a small boy.

  • @rokker101
    @rokker101 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE greatest male voice in popular music bar none ... Art Garfunkel ..an angel on earth

  • @jacquelineanderson5011
    @jacquelineanderson5011 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When Paul wrote this for Art to sing he only wrote 2 versus. Someone told him he needed a 3rd verse and that's where Paul comes in. Beautiful song that still give me goose bumps.

  • @troywest
    @troywest ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Totally agree with your observations on Art' Garfunkel's voice, just stunningly beautiful

  • @underwoodvoice9077
    @underwoodvoice9077 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    An old friend of mine used to sing this as "Like a bridge over Ethel Waters". It rings a bit differently that way.

  • @michaelschey1084
    @michaelschey1084 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Not only is this one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded, it is one of the most perfect recordings ever.

    • @mrmusic248
      @mrmusic248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @michaelschey1084: Roy Hallee, engineer extraordinaire.

  • @fufufoofoo
    @fufufoofoo ปีที่แล้ว

    Doug, I love your skillful remarks, but above that , your human reaction, you could hear them before, the key is wise reaction, You got it , and a big heart ! Thanks . Mike

  • @fredfredburger5150
    @fredfredburger5150 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel is right up your alley Doug. That ending section!

  • @mandiferrer
    @mandiferrer ปีที่แล้ว

    big, big thanks to Larry Knechtel for creating that iconic piano part... Larry Knechtel was the bassist, organist of Bread, and was the one who did the wahwah lead guitar in "The Guitarman"... since "Bridge" made a big hit, Bread included it in their shows, and it was voiced by James Griffin.

  • @shemanic1
    @shemanic1 ปีที่แล้ว

    a beautiful reaction to such an epic tune & as you say, recording.

  • @stevenschoen1138
    @stevenschoen1138 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wherever I’m at whatever I’m doing…this song comes on ..I stop and listen

  • @donaldmccarthy7248
    @donaldmccarthy7248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Paul joins Art for a few lines beginning with "Sail on silver girl..."

  • @gemes64
    @gemes64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Merry Christmas, Doug. Loved listening to your commentaries this year.

    • @Doug.Helvering
      @Doug.Helvering  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you friend, wishing you peace and happiness in the new year.

  • @soulhealer20
    @soulhealer20 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up with this song and have had songbooks with this music taunting me ever since it was new. Finally, during the pandemic, I put together the best arrangement that I could with the music and my ear. It's thrilling.

    • @soulhealer20
      @soulhealer20 ปีที่แล้ว

      On guitar with dropped D tuning for some of those chilling bass notes.

  • @wendyt7958
    @wendyt7958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Art Garfunkels voice is the pure icing to an already "purfect" song

  • @r1p2m32
    @r1p2m32 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks! This piece is one of the rare, beautiful things of the last 50-60 years. Their singing is pure, correct, musical. Why is this so impossible today?

    • @r1p2m32
      @r1p2m32 ปีที่แล้ว

      And yes! This beauty is worth some good whiskey. We may never again hear anything like this.

    • @r1p2m32
      @r1p2m32 ปีที่แล้ว

      And of course, to close the wondering -- nothing like this is allowed -- now. We all know why, and by whom.

    • @JacoWium
      @JacoWium ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@r1p2m32 Why? And by whom?

  • @uncnorseman2670
    @uncnorseman2670 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still gives goosebumps after all these years!

  • @sledzeppelin
    @sledzeppelin ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful song from the best of their amazing albums.

  • @ebob4177
    @ebob4177 ปีที่แล้ว

    SIR, WHY ARE YOU NOT CRYING?????!! 😭 I'm in tears.

  • @charlieknowlton7003
    @charlieknowlton7003 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had read that at first, they didn't have the last verse. Garfunkle thought it should have a more dynamic ending with another verse. Finally Simon agreed and as he was not accustomed, he wrote the last verse as they were in the middle of sessions.

  • @MisterWondrous
    @MisterWondrous ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Sail on Silver Girl" makes me think of my dear sweet mother, now in a loftier clime, and whose dreams, through her children, are on their way, to fruition. She was always, always a bridge over troubled water, just like Pappy. Thanks for this. I heard it over on was it Papillon? No, Patreon, and was well worth revisiting. Now I look a mess. Peace and love. db

    • @soggytom
      @soggytom ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This. Absolutely this.

  • @garyjerreat8521
    @garyjerreat8521 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such an amazing song sung by amazing singers

  • @StanEngland
    @StanEngland 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The first S&G song that I didn't know all the lyrics (actually I knew them, but never got the verses in correct order). Still know several. "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" is still my favorite. " Good God, don;t jump!"

  • @Becausent7
    @Becausent7 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Larry Knechel played that beautiful piano part. Interestingly, Knechel also played the honky tonk piano on Rockin Pneumonia.

  • @kajlennartsson4234
    @kajlennartsson4234 ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy Holidays Doug and Megan. I wish you a happy new music year ✨✨🎶🎶❤❤

  • @pambennett3390
    @pambennett3390 ปีที่แล้ว

    Paul Simon is a genius.one of the best songwriters of my time.

  • @frankswarbrick7562
    @frankswarbrick7562 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first power ballad? :-) Such an amazing performance by Art Garfunkel.

  • @markhumphrey8894
    @markhumphrey8894 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I get the high part". too funny. so do I. much to my wife's chagrin.!

  • @NickBR57
    @NickBR57 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Doug. A masterpiece whatever your perspective.

  • @LuisGarcia-ee2tr
    @LuisGarcia-ee2tr ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic song. Timeless.

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan ปีที่แล้ว

    It's an eargasm!

  • @jerryjones2818
    @jerryjones2818 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is an excellent vid on here about the making of that song. Larry Knechtel played the piano and contributed to the "gospel: sound Simon was looking for. Besides Art's voice, the magic was in the mixing on this one.

  • @richardhargrave6082
    @richardhargrave6082 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its wonderful

  • @fenderchamp8241
    @fenderchamp8241 ปีที่แล้ว

    On the cover with Paul standing in front of Art. It looks like Art has a HUGE cossack moustache. Hah!

  • @tt-du6vc
    @tt-du6vc ปีที่แล้ว

    The song is divine.

  • @rokker101
    @rokker101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Art Garfunkel sings all the lead vocals on this song

  • @stefanbecker9526
    @stefanbecker9526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's an incredible album. I also love the bass playing on it.

    • @davecole2561
      @davecole2561 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh yes, it really is! Just bought it for 5 quid (pounds) at a record fair here in Exeter, UK. It's majestic and magnificent.

  • @ivyfalls1
    @ivyfalls1 ปีที่แล้ว

    As has been documented, Paul Simon wrote the first two parts on guitar then asked Larry Knechtel to write the piano part which he did in a couple of days. Garfunkel then pushed for a third verse which Simon initially did not support but in the end wrote it. Larry Knechtel had a background in gospel music. He went on to join the group Bread.

  • @mikeh8530
    @mikeh8530 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love watching you love music :-)

  • @markramsay6399
    @markramsay6399 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fabulous !

  • @ROLT
    @ROLT ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love Simon & Garfunkel and specially this song, but my favorite version of it is that from the album Live In Central Park from 81.

    • @squaaaaak3178
      @squaaaaak3178 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard a lot of people say that but I really just don't understand it. when I first heard it I thought wow what happened to Art Garfunkel? his voice didn't have that pure feeling anymore, I think it was from too much smoking and overuse of the voice. and the keyboards were just cheesy and atrocious. I just don't get it. besides there's a really great version from 1969 or 1970 that is live I saw it on TH-cam.

  • @blakeh6250
    @blakeh6250 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a 💎 gem of a song.

  • @victorsixtythree
    @victorsixtythree ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:17 - "Here comes Paul." Is that Paul Simon on the second verse? I thought it was Art Garkunkel on lead vocal all the way through. (Although, I have seen some live concert performances where Paul would take the second verse.)