Old Friends (1997 Simon and Garfunkel album) explained

Old Friends
Type:	box set
Artist:	Simon and Garfunkel
Cover:	Old Friends (1997 Simon and Garfunkel album) coverart.jpg
Released:	November 4, 1997
Recorded:	1964–1975
Genre:	Folk rock
Label:	Columbia/Legacy
Producer:	Various
Prev Title:	The Definitive Simon and Garfunkel
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
Next Year:	1999

Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, and also includes previously unreleased outtakes. Some of these outtakes subsequently appeared on both the reissues of Simon & Garfunkel's five studio albums as well as the later boxed set The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970).

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Bleecker Street" - 2:44
   ^{Recorded: March 10, 1964
   Previously unissued demo version}
2. "The Sound of Silence" - 3:07
   ^{Recorded: March 10, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)}
3. "The Sun Is Burning" - 2:48
   ^{Recorded: March 17, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
4. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." - 2:15
   ^{Recorded: March 17, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
5. "He Was My Brother" - 2:50
   ^{Recorded: March 17, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
6. "Sparrow" - 2:48
   ^{Recorded: March 31, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
7. "Peggy-O" - 2:26
   ^{Recorded: March 31, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
8. "Benedictus" - 2:39
   ^{Recorded: March 31, 1964
   From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}
9. "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" - 2:36
   ^{Recorded: April 5, 1965
   From the album Sounds of Silence (1966)}
10. "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" - 1:59
    ^{Recorded: April 5, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
11. "Leaves That Are Green" - 2:22
    ^{Recorded: December 13, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
12. "Richard Cory" - 2:57
    ^{Recorded: December 14, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
13. "I Am a Rock" - 2:51
    ^{Recorded: December 14, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
14. "The Sound of Silence" - 3:07
    ^{Recorded: March 10, 1964 (Basic track); June 15, 1965 (overdubs)
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
15. "Homeward Bound" - 2:30
    ^{Recorded: December 14, 1965
    From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (U.S. version) (1966); Sounds of Silence (UK version)}
16. "Blues Run the Game" - 2:53
    ^{Recorded: December 21, 1965
    Previously unissued outtake from the Sounds of Silence sessions}
17. "Kathy's Song" - 3:19
    ^{Recorded: December 21, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
18. "April Come She Will" - 1:50
    ^{Recorded: December 21, 1965
    From the album Sounds of Silence}
19. "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" - 2:10
    ^{Recorded: March 28, 1966
    From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

Disc 2

1. "Patterns" - 2:47
   ^{Recorded: June 8, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
2. "Cloudy" - 2:23
   ^{Recorded: June 10, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
3. "The Dangling Conversation" - 2:38
   ^{Recorded: June 21, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
4. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - 3:12
   ^{Recorded: July 26, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
5. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" - 1:55
   ^{Recorded: August 16, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
6. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" - 2:06
   ^{Recorded: August 22, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
7. "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" - 2:04
   ^{Recorded: August 22, 1966
   From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}
8. "A Hazy Shade of Winter" - 2:17
   ^{Recorded: September 7, 1966
   From the album Bookends (1968)}
9. "At the Zoo" - 2:24
   ^{Recorded: January 18, 1967
   From the album Bookends}
10. "A Poem on the Underground Wall" - 4:30
    ^{Recorded: January 22, 1967
    Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York)}
11. "Red Rubber Ball" - 2:28
    ^{Recorded: January 22, 1967
    Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York)}
12. "Blessed" - 3:39
    ^{Recorded: January 22, 1967
    Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York)}
13. "Anji" - 2:29
    ^{Recorded: January 22, 1967
    Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York)}
14. "A Church Is Burning" - 3:29
    ^{Recorded: January 22, 1967
    Previously unissued live recording (Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York)}
15. "Fakin' It" - 3:19
    ^{Recorded: June 6, 1967
    From the album Bookends}
16. "Save the Life of My Child" - 2:49
    ^{Recorded: December 14, 1967
    From the album Bookends}
17. "America" - 3:37
    ^{Recorded: February 1, 1968
    From the album Bookends}
18. "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" - 2:20
    ^{Recorded: June 14, 1967
    B-side to the "Fakin' It" single}
19. "Punky's Dilemma" - 2:14
    ^{Recorded: October 5, 1967
    From the album Bookends}
20. "Comfort and Joy" - 1:51
    ^{Recorded: April 19, 1967
    Previously unissued Christmas recording}
21. "Star Carol" - 1:46
    ^{Recorded: April 19, 1967
    Christmas recording, previously appeared on Columbia Special Products compilations A Very Merry Christmas (1967) and Dreaming of a White Christmas (1981)}

Disc 3

1. "Mrs. Robinson" - 4:04
   ^{Recorded: February 2, 1968
   From the album Bookends}
2. "Old Friends/Bookends" - 3:57
   ^{Recorded: March 8, 1968
   From the album Bookends}
3. "Overs" - 3:05
   ^{Recorded: October 13, 1968
   Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont)}
4. "A Most Peculiar Man" - 2:35
   ^{Recorded: October 13, 1968
   Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont)}
5. "Bye Bye Love" - 2:45
   ^{Recorded: October 13, 1968
   Previously unissued live recording (Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vermont)}
6. "The Boxer" - 5:09
   ^{Recorded: November 16, 1968
   From the album Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)}
7. "Baby Driver" - 3:16
   ^{Recorded: November 19, 1968
   From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
8. "Why Don't You Write Me" - 2:46
   ^{Recorded: June 13, 1969
   From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
9. "Feuilles-O" - 1:42
   ^{Recorded: August 11, 1969
   Previously unissued demo}
10. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" - 2:36
    ^{Recorded: October 27, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
11. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" - 3:43
    ^{Recorded: October 28, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
12. "Song for the Asking" - 1:51
    ^{Recorded: November 1, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
13. "Cecilia" - 2:56
    ^{Recorded: November 2, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
14. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" - 3:08
    ^{Recorded: November 2, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
15. "Bridge over Troubled Water" - 4:54
    ^{Recorded: November 9, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
16. "The Only Living Boy in New York" - 4:00
    ^{Recorded: November 15, 1969
    From the album Bridge over Troubled Water}
17. "Hey, Schoolgirl/Black Slacks" - 1:32
    ^{Recorded: November 28, 1969
    Previously unissued live recording (Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York)}
18. "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" - 3:28
    ^{Recorded: November 28, 1969
    Previously unissued live recording (Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York)}
19. "My Little Town" - 3:50
    ^{Recorded: May 1975
    Previously appeared on Paul Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years and Art Garfunkel's album Breakaway (both from 1975)}

Charts

Chart (1998)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[1]	68

Notes and References

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