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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPaul Simon is a much better musician and songwriter, but goddamn, when Art was singing..
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Paul Simon is a much better musician and songwriter, but goddamn, when Art was singing.. (Original Post)
sir pball
Mar 2020
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. A truly angelic voice.
I play his version of Bridge over Troubled Waters when the Trump-stress gets too much for me.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)2. Art definitely had the voice...
Paul was like Dylan. Wrote a lot of good music, but so-so on the vocals.
msongs
(67,405 posts)3. it's the harmony of the two singing paul's songs nt
3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)4. Goosebumps, chills and thrills - both...
...then and now.
Their voices blended so perfectly it was hard to tell which emanated from whom.
Theirs was the music of my late teens and early adulthood. It spoke to me the and still does.
Why the candle?
sir pball
(4,742 posts)5. Just because they don't usually perform together anymore, nt
3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)8. I was afraid one if them had died.
Went to Google right away and was relieved to find both bios still in the present tense.
hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)6. Always the tragedy they could not get along. Both were better together than apart, IMO
Archae
(46,327 posts)7. This song by Art Garfunkel is really good.
"Bright Eyes"
lastlib
(23,233 posts)9. From his debut solo album, Angel Clare...
...(a MAGICAL listening experience, BTW!)
hearing this one (and knowing the soft spot it has in my heart, thanks to an amazingly beautiful lady (story for another time, maybe)), I get major chills down my spine!
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)10. I saw him solo in the early '70s when I was still in junior high.
The first three albums I bought were all Simon & Garfunkel so I was a big fan, and he did not disappoint.
Ahpook
(2,750 posts)11. Love that band