The Essential Simon and Garfunkel

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The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
Compilation album by Simon and Garfunkel
Released	October 14, 2003
Recorded	1964-1975
Genre	Folk rock
Label	Columbia Records
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Simon and Garfunkel chronology
Live from New York City, 1967 (2002)	The Essential Simon & Garfunkel (2003)	Old Friends: Live on Stage (2004)

The Essential Simon & Garfunkel is the first double-disc best of compilation by Simon & Garfunkel.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 on November 1, 2003, at number 27. It spent 11 weeks on the chart. It was certified and awarded gold and platinum records on February 5, 2005 by the RIAA.

[edit] Track listing

All songs composed by Paul Simon, except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

1. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." (live) 2:44
2. "Bleecker Street" 2:44
3. "The Sound of Silence" 3:06
4. "Leaves That Are Green" (live) 2:30
5. "A Most Peculiar Man" (live) 2:33
6. "I Am a Rock" 2:51
7. "Richard Cory" 2:56
8. "Kathy's Song" (live) 3:22
9. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Garfunkel/Simon) 3:10
10. "Homeward Bound" 2:29
11. "Sparrow" (live) 3:03
12. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" 1:55
13. "The Dangling Conversation" 2:38
14. "A Poem On The Underground Wall" (live) 2:06
15. "A Hazy Shade of Winter" 2:17
16. "At the Zoo" 2:23

[edit] Disc two

1. "Mrs. Robinson (From The Graduate)" 4:03
2. "Fakin' It" 3:18
3. "Old Friends" 2:35
4. "Bookends Theme" 1:21
5. "America" 3:37
6. "Overs" (live) 2:25
7. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" (Milchberg/Robles/Simon) 3:07
8. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" 4:53
9. "Cecilia" 2:54
10. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" 2:34
11. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" 3:42
12. "The Boxer" 5:09
13. "Baby Driver" 3:16
14. "The Only Living Boy in New York" 3:58
15. "Song for the Asking" 1:50
16. "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" (live) 2:26
17. "My Little Town" 3:51