The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)

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The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)
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ReleasedAugust 21, 2001[1]
RecordedMarch 10, 1964–November 15, 1969[1]
GenreFolk rock
LabelColumbia
ProducerBob Irwin
Simon & Garfunkel chronology
Tales from New York
(2000)
The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)
(2001)
Live from New York City, 1967
(2002)
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The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970) is the third box set of Simon & Garfunkel recordings, released in 2001 by Columbia Records. This 5-CD set contains all of their studio albums from 1964 to 1970. The CDs are packaged in miniature recreations of the original LP jackets, and an annotated booklet is also included.[1]

The Columbia Studio Recordings succeeded the box sets Collected Works (1981) and Old Friends (1997). All five discs contain several bonus tracks of demos, alternate takes, single B-sides, unissued outtakes and non-album songs, some of which were previously issued on Old Friends.

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Paul Simon, except where noted.

Disc one[edit]

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)

  1. "You Can Tell the World" (Bob Gibson, Bob Camp) – 2:45
  2. "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" (Ed McCurdy) – 2:09
  3. "Bleecker Street" – 2:43
  4. "Sparrow" – 2:47
  5. "Benedictus" (Traditional, arranged and adapted by Simon and Art Garfunkel) – 2:38
  6. "The Sound of Silence" – 3:05
  7. "He Was My Brother" – 2:49
  8. "Peggy-O" (Traditional) – 2:25
  9. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional) – 2:05
  10. "The Sun Is Burning" (Ian Campbell) – 2:46
  11. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (Bob Dylan) – 2:51
  12. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." – 2:14

Bonus tracks

  1. "Bleecker Street" (Demo) – 2:42
  2. "He Was My Brother" (Alt. Take 1) – 2:48
  3. "The Sun Is Burning" (Alt. Take 12) – 2:47
  • Track 7 is credited to Paul Kane, a pseudonym for Paul Simon.[2]

Disc two[edit]

Sounds of Silence (1966)

  1. "The Sound of Silence" – 3:05
  2. "Leaves That Are Green" – 2:21
  3. "Blessed" – 3:14
  4. "Kathy's Song" – 3:17
  5. "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" – 2:34
  6. "Anji" (Davey Graham) – 2:15
  7. "Richard Cory" – 2:55
  8. "A Most Peculiar Man" – 2:29
  9. "April Come She Will" – 1:49
  10. "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" – 1:57
  11. "I Am a Rock" – 2:49

Bonus tracks

  1. "Blues Run the Game" (Jackson C. Frank) – 2:51
  2. "Barbriallen" (Demo) (Traditional) – 4:02
  3. "Rose of Aberdeen" (Demo) (Traditional) – 1:59
  4. "Roving Gambler" (Demo) (Traditional) – 3:04

Disc three[edit]

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)

  1. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Simon, Garfunkel) – 3:10
  2. "Patterns" – 2:45
  3. "Cloudy" – 2:21
  4. "Homeward Bound" – 2:29
  5. "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" – 2:47
  6. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" – 1:53
  7. "The Dangling Conversation" – 2:37
  8. "Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall" – 2:10
  9. "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" – 2:19
  10. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" – 2:05
  11. "A Poem on the Underground Wall" – 1:52
  12. "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" – 2:02

Bonus tracks

  1. "Patterns" (Demo) – 2:53
  2. "A Poem on the Underground Wall" (Demo) – 1:51

Disc four[edit]

Bookends (1968)

  1. "Bookends Theme" – 0:32
  2. "Save the Life of My Child" – 2:49
  3. "America" – 3:36
  4. "Overs" – 2:15
  5. "Voices of Old People" (Simon, Garfunkel) – 2:07
  6. "Old Friends" – 2:36
  7. "Bookends Theme (Reprise)" – 1:20
  8. "Fakin' It" – 3:17
  9. "Punky's Dilemma" – 2:13
  10. "Mrs. Robinson" (From the Motion Picture The Graduate) – 4:03
  11. "A Hazy Shade of Winter" – 2:17
  12. "At the Zoo" – 2:23

Bonus tracks

  1. "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" – 2:17
  2. "Old Friends" (Demo) – 2:11

Disc five[edit]

Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)

  1. "Bridge over Troubled Water" – 4:52
  2. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" (Simon, Jorge Milchberg, Daniel Alomía Robles) – 3:06
  3. "Cecilia" – 2:55
  4. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" – 2:34
  5. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" – 3:41
  6. "The Boxer" – 5:08
  7. "Baby Driver" – 3:15
  8. "The Only Living Boy in New York" – 3:57
  9. "Why Don't You Write Me" – 2:46
  10. "Bye Bye Love" (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:53
  11. "Song for the Asking" – 1:50

Bonus tracks

  1. "Feuilles-O" (Demo) – 1:42
  2. "Bridge over Troubled Water" (Demo Take 6) – 4:46

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Eder, Bruce. "Simon & Garfunkel - The Columbia Studio Recordings, 1964-1970 Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Greenwald, Matthew. "He Was My Brother by Simon & Garfunkel - Track Info". AllMusic. Retrieved February 7, 2023.