Old Friends (1997 Simon and Garfunkel album)
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Old Friends | ||||
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Released | November 4, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1964–1975 | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Label | Columbia/Legacy | |||
Producer | Various | |||
Simon and Garfunkel chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Uncut | [2] |
Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, as well as previously unreleased outtakes. Some of these outtakes later appeared on the reissues of Simon & Garfunkel's five studio albums, as well as the subsequent boxed set The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970).
Track listing
[edit]Disc 1
[edit]- "Bleecker Street" - 2:44
Recorded: March 10, 1964
Previously unissued demo version - "The Sound of Silence" - 3:07
Recorded: March 10, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) - "The Sun Is Burning" - 2:48
Recorded: March 17, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." - 2:15
Recorded: March 17, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "He Was My Brother" - 2:50
Recorded: March 17, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "Sparrow" - 2:48
Recorded: March 31, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "Peggy-O" - 2:26
Recorded: March 31, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "Benedictus" - 2:39
Recorded: March 31, 1964
From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" - 2:36
Recorded: April 5, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence (1966) - "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" - 1:59
Recorded: April 5, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "Leaves That Are Green" - 2:22
Recorded: December 13, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "Richard Cory" - 2:57
Recorded: December 14, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "I Am a Rock" - 2:51
Recorded: December 14, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "The Sound of Silence" - 3:07
Recorded: March 10, 1964 (Basic track); June 15, 1965 (overdubs)
From the album Sounds of Silence - "Homeward Bound" - 2:30
Recorded: December 14, 1965
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (U.S. version) (1966); Sounds of Silence (UK version) - "Blues Run the Game" - 2:53
Recorded: December 21, 1965
Previously unissued outtake from the Sounds of Silence sessions - "Kathy's Song" - 3:19
Recorded: December 21, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "April Come She Will" - 1:50
Recorded: December 21, 1965
From the album Sounds of Silence - "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" - 2:10
Recorded: March 28, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Disc 2
[edit]- "Patterns" - 2:47
Recorded: June 8, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "Cloudy" - 2:23
Recorded: June 10, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "The Dangling Conversation" - 2:38
Recorded: June 21, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - 3:12
Recorded: July 26, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" - 1:55
Recorded: August 16, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" - 2:06
Recorded: August 22, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" - 2:04
Recorded: August 22, 1966
From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - "A Hazy Shade of Winter" - 2:17
Recorded: September 7, 1966
From the album Bookends (1968) - "At the Zoo" - 2:24
Recorded: January 18, 1967
From the album Bookends - "A Poem on the Underground Wall" - 4:30
Recorded: January 22, 1967
Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York) - "Red Rubber Ball" - 2:28
Recorded: January 22, 1967
Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York) - "Blessed" - 3:39
Recorded: January 22, 1967
Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York) - "Anji" - 2:29
Recorded: January 22, 1967
Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York) - "A Church Is Burning" - 3:29
Recorded: January 22, 1967
Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York) - "Fakin' It" - 3:19
Recorded: June 6, 1967
From the album Bookends - "Save the Life of My Child" - 2:49
Recorded: December 14, 1967
From the album Bookends - "America" - 3:37
Recorded: February 1, 1968
From the album Bookends - "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" - 2:20
Recorded: June 14, 1967
B-side to the "Fakin' It" single - "Punky's Dilemma" - 2:14
Recorded: October 5, 1967
From the album Bookends - "Comfort and Joy" - 1:51
Recorded: April 19, 1967
Previously unissued Christmas recording - "Star Carol" - 1:46
Recorded: April 19, 1967
Christmas recording, previously appeared on Columbia Special Products compilations A Very Merry Christmas (1967) and Dreaming of a White Christmas (1981)
Disc 3
[edit]- "Mrs. Robinson" - 4:04
Recorded: February 2, 1968
From the album Bookends - "Old Friends/Bookends" - 3:57
Recorded: March 8, 1968
From the album Bookends - "Overs" - 3:05
Recorded: October 13, 1968
Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont) - "A Most Peculiar Man" - 2:35
Recorded: October 13, 1968
Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont) - "Bye Bye Love" - 2:45
Recorded: October 13, 1968
Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont) - "The Boxer" - 5:09
Recorded: November 16, 1968
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water (1970) - "Baby Driver" - 3:16
Recorded: November 19, 1968
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Why Don't You Write Me" - 2:46
Recorded: June 13, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Feuilles-O" - 1:42
Recorded: August 11, 1969
Previously unissued demo - "Keep the Customer Satisfied" - 2:36
Recorded: October 27, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" - 3:43
Recorded: October 28, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Song for the Asking" - 1:51
Recorded: November 1, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Cecilia" - 2:56
Recorded: November 2, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" - 3:08
Recorded: November 2, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Bridge over Troubled Water" - 4:54
Recorded: November 9, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "The Only Living Boy in New York" - 4:00
Recorded: November 15, 1969
From the album Bridge over Troubled Water - "Hey, Schoolgirl/Black Slacks" - 1:32
Recorded: November 28, 1969
Previously unissued live recording (Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York) - "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" - 3:28
Recorded: November 28, 1969
Previously unissued live recording (Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York) - "My Little Town" - 3:50
Recorded: May 1975
Previously appeared on Paul Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years and Art Garfunkel's album Breakaway (both from 1975)
Charts
[edit]Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] | 68 |
Certifications
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI)[4] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[5] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
[edit]- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Old Friends at AllMusic. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ^ Williamson, Nigel (December 1997). "Two's company". Uncut. No. 7. p. 93.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 252.
- ^ "British album certifications – Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
- ^ "American album certifications – Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
Categories:
- Simon & Garfunkel compilation albums
- 1997 compilation albums
- Albums produced by Roy Halee
- Albums produced by Bob Johnston
- Albums produced by Tom Wilson (record producer)
- Albums produced by Paul Simon
- Albums produced by Art Garfunkel
- Albums produced by John Simon (record producer)
- Albums produced by Phil Ramone
- Columbia Records compilation albums
- Legacy Recordings compilation albums