My partner and I recently watched "The Graduate" - the movie has not aged well, but the soundtrack, of which this is part, is still glorious.

Lovely.

incredible song...  from a truly great album...
 

 abbey_normal wrote: 
You'd have a great tradition to follow: Ambrosia Parsley, Rachel Sage, Rosemary Clooney, and Thyme—all backed up by Thyme's band, Thyme. Get all that? 

Such a lovely simple album.

 danuneken wrote: 
I wore that album out. Then I saw TM at the Albert Hall with It's a Beautiful Day. Good times for a kid.

Definition of a true classic.  Paul Simon = poet.

(Hanging in Perth on business, love that RP sounds just fine here!)

 mistabird wrote: 
Ich auch! 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this magnificent song...  people all over the hotel are shouting at me to turn up the volume...  I will acquiesce to their request...  volume is wayyyy up...


 

 Tana wrote: 
Half of it is a folk song. See Romeotuna's comment below. 

absolutely magnificent song...

 

What an utterly gorgeous song! And it holds up remarkably well over time, perhaps because it's like a folk song.

Volume just went wayyyy up...

wow...  I have the original vinyl album...  I did not know this—

Paul Simon learned it in 1965 in London from Martin Carthy, who had picked up the tune from the songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Then Art Garfunkel set it in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of Simon's 1963 song "The Side of a Hill" with new, anti-war lyrics. It was the lead track of the 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and was released as a single after being featured on the soundtrack to The Graduate in 1968. The copyright credited only Simon and Garfunkel as the authors, causing ill-feeling on the part of Carthy, who felt the "traditional" source should have been credited. This rift remained until Simon invited Carthy to duet the song with him at a London concert in 2000.

 

 jagdriver wrote: 
Hmm. I was ready to sorta leave this one alone, but the "sheer volume" argument—it could be 100,000 tracks of Britney Spears, Air Supply, and Barry Manilow—means zippo. Stick with taste. Desgustibus non disputandum est.

I am not a huge Simon and Garfunkel fan (though not a hater either) but I love this song in any incarnation. This is just a great song!

 Nerubo wrote: 
Not so. My listening crosses many genres, with my collection numbering over 100,000 tracks. I like certain songs that bring out my so-called feminine side, but I could never appreciate Artie's perceived talent. Ever. Paul I can take in limited doses.

 jagdriver wrote: 
Flat out brilliant.

For a long time, I let my opinion of whether something was "wimpy" or whatnot interfere with my enjoyment of music. If you let that be your main criteria, you end up listening to a narrow range of rock music.  I'm mostly over that, although there are some songs I'm more likely to blast out the car window than others.  If I was blasting this song, I'd be doing it ironically (and here I didn't think I was one of those damn hipsters).
 

Flat out wimpy.

Only one that tops this is...  Bridge Over Troubled Water.  

snore

 Booooo...........rrrrriiiiiiii..........

(Not to mention that I will also dream about what herbs i need for baking fish...)

Parsley, I just buy it at the store, too hard to grow. Sage, just planted my summer crop yesterday. Rosemary, I killed off my last bush this winter, need to go buy another. Thyme, it just keeps coming back every spring, hard winter or no. Now if I can just keep my French Tarragaon around another season.

Only one Simon & Garfunkel. Only one. Nothing else close.