MEDIUM HYBRID SACD
CONDITION sealed
MINI LP CARDBOARD COVER M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIALNUMBER Yes
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, playable on all CD Players !, Booklet
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Paul Simon - vocals, guitar
Art Garfunkel - vocals, piano (7 o'clock news, silent night)
Hal Blaine - drums
Joe South - guitar
Carol Kaye - bass (scarborough fair, canticle, homeward bound)
John Meszar - harpsichord (scarborough fair, canticle)
Eugene Wright - double bass (the 59th street bridge song)
Joe Morello - drums (the 59th street bridge song)
Charlie O'Donnell - vocals (7 o'clock news, silent night)
scarborough fair / canticle - 3:14
patterns - 2:46
cloudy - 2:15
homeward bound - 2:33
the big bright green pleasure machine - 2:47
the 59th street bridge song (feelin' groovy) - 1:47
the dangling conversation - 2:42
flowers never bend with the rainfall - 2:15
a simple desultory philippic (or how i was robert mcnamara'd into submission) - 2:17
for emily, whenever i may find her - 2:08
a poem on the underground wall - 1:58
7 o'clock news / silent night - 2:04
The liner notes pioneering writer Ralph J. Gleason penned for the back cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme ring as true now as they did upon the record's original release in 1966
He mused: "Today's popular music is in good shape indeed - at least the portion of it represented by this album
It has strength and it has beauty, it has lyricism, meaning and, above all, that quality of broad appeal which still retains form
And its music speaks for more than the moment
The songs in this album are songs for all time
" Indeed, they are, and they can now be experienced in the highest fidelity they've ever enjoyed
The first Simon and Garfunkel set captured on an eight-track recorder, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme here bursts with colors crucial to the scope of the songs
Separation between vocals and guitars, images of individual players, and the dimensions of the wide-spanning soundstages all flourish
Harmonies crest and seemingly float on bypassing clouds
Acoustic passages blossom with lifelike structure and tone
The intent of deliberate euphonic variations - like those between the pair's singing and Charlie O'Donnell's spoken news report on the closing "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night," which function as both poetic and social commentary - is made clearer by way of the SACD's reference-caliber transparency
RECORDING December 1965 - August 1966
ENGINEERING Roy Halee
LABEL Columbia
RE MASTERING Rob LoVerde
RE RELEASED 2018
AVERAGE RATING 4 ½ Stars out of 5
MADE IN USA
STYLE Pop / Folk Rock
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
