The Paul Simon Song Book
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| Studio album by Paul Simon | ||
| Released | August, 1965 | |
| Recorded | May, 1965 | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Length | 37:48 | |
| Label | CBS | |
| Producer(s) | Reginald Warburton & Stanley West | |
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| Paul Simon chronology | ||
| Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) (as Simon and Garfunkel) |
The Paul Simon Song Book (1965) |
Sounds of Silence (1966) (as Simon and Garfunkel) |
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| 2004 Reissue cover | ||
The Paul Simon Song Book is an album by Paul Simon. It was recorded in London and released in the United Kingdom in 1965 and was supposedly deleted in 1979 at Simon's request. It was made available in the USA as part of the LP box set Paul Simon: Collected Works (1981). He only had one microphone for both his voice and his guitar, which is why he can be heard stamping his feet to the rhythm on "The Sound of Silence". The cover also features his girlfriend at the time, Kathy Chitty, for whom he wrote "Kathy's Song".
The Song Book was rereleased in 2004 by Columbia/Legacy on CD. The quality of the recordings indicate that a copy of the original recordings was used to master these songs since quite a lot of background noise can be heard in all of the songs. The CD features two bonus tracks, alternative versions of "I Am A Rock" and "A Church is Burning" which were not part of the 1965 LP release.
The lyrics for the anti-war song "The Side Of A Hill" were incorporated into the Simon and Garfunkel arrangement of "Scarborough Fair" on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Paul Simon, except where noted.
- "I Am A Rock" -2:52
- "Leaves That Are Green" -2:41
- "A Church Is Burning" -3:38
- "April Come She Will" -1:55
- "The Sound Of Silence" -3:19
- "A Most Peculiar Man" -2:26
- "He Was My Brother" (Paul Kane) -2:58
- "Kathy's Song" -3:42
- "The Side Of A Hill" (Paul Kane) -2:28
- "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Lyndon Johnsoned Into Submission)" -2:25
- "Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall" -2:27
- "Patterns" -3:13
- "I Am A Rock -2:44
- "A Church Is Burning -3:10
- Tracks 13-14 only in the 2004 CD release.
[edit] Trivia
- Paul Kane was a pseudonym used by Simon at this time, because of his fondness for the film Citizen Kane.
- For earlier recordings of tracks 5 and 7: Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M..
- For later recordings of tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8: The Sounds of Silence.
- For later recordings of tracks 10, 11, and 12: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
