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Today I got a sudden urge to listen to Simon & Garfunkle's most excellent Hazy Shade of Winter. I grabbed my Bridge Over Troubled Water album and was aghast to see it wasn't on there. Then I searched my entire music collection and I only own a version by The Bangles .

So now I am doubly confused:

1. Which S&G album was Hazy Shade of Winter on? I am hunting through Amazon and it doesn't seem to be on any of them. It was a 1966 hit, but doesn't appear on either of their 1966 albums.

2. Given that it is apparently so hard to find and not on any of their most popular albums, and given that whilst I like a bit of the old Simon & Garfunkers I am not a hardcore fan, why do I know this song as well as I know every song on the BOTW album? I know every note, every word - it is as familiar to me as The Boxer. Why so?

mamas and papas did this iirc

Bookends

It's on Bookends (the album that got me through GCSE revision!)...

I know it very well from repeated listening to that, but not so sure why you do!! Maybe from a film soundtrack? They do get used on lots of films, but wouldn't be able to point you towards one in particular I'm afraid

aha, great minds...

Bookends! Thank you. I was hopeful when I saw the album cover as it is very familiar, but having now listened to the samples of the songs on Amazon there are a couple of songs on the album I don't remember ever hearing before.

So, still no idea why I know the song so well. Soundtrack is a good idea. Or maybe someone put it on a mix tape for me!

i'm wrong aren't i??

It's on 'The Best of Simon & Garfunkel' released in 1999. I have it, which is how I know it!!!

I don't remember a M&P version of it. They might have done though. It's def the S&G version I know every bar of.

I had it on a best of Simon and Garfunkel cassette I think. White with pictures of them on. And also possibly on a grey 2 disc CD that was also a Best of Type one.

This is the one I had the cassette of.

Think the other one was a best of Paul Simon rather than S and G.

It was this. I even had the piano book to go along with it. Can't find a track listing though so may not have had HSOW on it. I more remember it from my cassette anyway.

My Cassette would have been early 90s I think. In 5th or 6th form.

This one Emsy?

Of those track listings it seems that Simon & Garfunkle songs are split neatly into "songs I know every bar of by heart" and "songs I don't remember ever hearing before" but the ones I know so well don't all seem to be from any one or two albums.

This must be very boring for anyone who isn't me!

I had it from my parents' 'best of' vinyl

I am finding it interesting . When roughly do you remember listening to them? Or was it just me who had a massive S and G and then more PS phase as a teenager

here it is

The Only Living Boy In New York - there's another one I know like the back of my hand but it's not on an album I own.

Right. I've got BOTW and I've got a Greatest Hits of some sort. But there are songs I know so well that aren't on either of them. And I have yet to find an album on amazon that has the missing songs that doesn't also have songs I have never heard.

A mystery.

I'm not sure when. I'm sure I would have started off borrowing my parents BOTW tape cassette.

No no, sorry, that one you linked to is a US import - THIS one www.amazon.co.uk/Definitive-Simon-Garfunkel/dp/B000026PL5/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1312223714&sr=1-4

It's on this one

Only Living Boy in New York is on BOTW isn't it?

The only living boy in new york is my fave. I had a massive beatles/stones/s&G/kinks/weirdy music phase as a teenager (I am 32).

Only Living Boy in New York was explained by Johnnie Walker on R2 recently.

Art G had gone down to Mexico to film Catch 22 - Paul S was stuck back in NY on his own - in their early days they were called Tom & Jerry -hence "Tom get your plane right on time...fly down to Mexico..."

I have far too many favourites to start listing

Hazy Shade of Winter on wiki

There was a (fairly) recent BBC4 docu on S&G that explained a lot.
Beautiful songs featured also of course....only living boy/frank lloyd/america etc.
Don't forget the fabulous film The Graduate and it's soundtrack....