Art Garfunkel has hand-picked 40 songs for a new career spanning retrospect called The Singer which is being release on April 10th. The two-CD collection will cover the years from the first Simon & Garfunkel album of 1964 (Wednesday Morning, 3AM) up through 2007's Great American Songbook album (Some Enchanted Evening.
In addition to curating The Singer, Garfunkel provides his own personal track-by-track annotations, which appear in the booklet in his handwritten form. The notes are as unique as Garfunkel himself. He writes of "Cecilia," the S&G hit single from 1970: "'Car!' we called in Queens. Then we stopped the game and stepped aside. I grew up where the brick houses were semi-attached with driveways in between. Punchball was king. Somehow the yelling we did as street kids found its way to 'Cecilia.' We shouted the song over a track we made from a tape loop of rhythmic hand clapping onto our blue jeans."
From the five original S&G studio albums (and all-time best-selling Greatest Hits, 14-times RIAA platinum, the largest selling album of all time by a duo):
(1964) – "The Sound Of Silence" Wednesday Morning, 3AM
Sounds Of Silence (1966) – "April Come She Will"
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme (1966) – "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"
Bookends (1968) – "Old Friends / Bookends," "A Hazy Shade Of Winter," "Mrs. Robinson"
Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) – "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "The Boxer," "Cecilia," "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright," "El Condor Pasa"
Greatest Hits (1972) – "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her"
From three live concert albums by Simon & Garfunkel:
(2002) - "Wednesday Morning 3AM"Simon & Garfunkel Live From NYC, 1967
Simon & Garfunkel Live 1969 (2008) – "Song For The Asking"
Old Friends: Live On Stage (2004) – "Kathy's Song"
From 10 of Art Garfunkel's solo albums:
(1973) – "Barbara Allen"Angel Clare
Breakaway (1975) – "Breakaway," "I Only Have Eyes For You," "99 Miles From L.A.," "My Little Town," "Disney Girls," "Waters Of March"
Watermark (1978) – "(What A) Wonderful World"
Fate For Breakfast (UK, 1979) – "Bright Eyes"
Scissors Cut (1981) – "Bright Eyes," "Scissors Cut," "A Heart In New York," "In Cars"
Lefty (1988) – "The Promise," "I Wonder Why," "When A Man Loves A Woman"
The Animals' Christmas (with Amy Grant, 1986) – "The Decree"
Up 'Til Now (1993) – "All I Know," "Cryin' In The Rain," "Two Sleepy People," "Skywriter"
Everything Waits To Be Noticed (2002) – "Perfect Moment," "The Thread"
Some Enchanted Evening (2007) – "Some Enchanted Evening," "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face"
