Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Infobox Album | Name = Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Type = Album
Artist = Simon and Garfunkel


Released = October 10, 1966
Recorded = December 1965 -
August 1966
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 29:14
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Bob Johnston
Reviews =
*All Music Guide Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pneq97r7kr5t link]
Last album = "Sounds of Silence"
(1966)
This album = "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"
(1966)
Next album = "The Graduate (soundtrack)"
(1968)

"Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" is an album by
Simon and Garfunkel, released in the United States on October 10, 1966. Its name comes from the second line of the album's first track, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," an English folk song from the 16th century, paired with a counter-melody and text about a soldier. It peaked on the U.S. charts at #4. The album was produced by Bob Johnston as Columbia Records LP CL 2563 (mono); CS 9363 (stereo); CD CK 9363; Remastered CD CK 66001. "Homeward Bound" was excluded from the album in the UK.

The album can be seen as having a protest element in it: the closing song, "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night," contained clips of a news broadcast about the Vietnam War. Based on the fact that the broadcast carries the news of the death of comedian Lenny Bruce that day, it can be dated from 3 August1966.

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Track listing

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All songs by Paul Simon except where noted.

ide one

# "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Traditional, arranged by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel) – 3:10
# "Patterns" – 2:42
# "Cloudy" (Paul Simon, Bruce Woodley) – 2:10
# "Homeward Bound" – 2:30
# "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" – 2:44
# "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" – 1:43

ide two

# "The Dangling Conversation" – 2:37
# "Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall" – 2:10
# "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" – 2:12
# "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" – 2:04
# "A Poem on the Underground Wall" – 1:52
# "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" (Josef Mohr, Franz Gruber) – 2:01

Bonus tracks (2001 CD reissue)

#"Patterns" (Demo)
#"A Poem on the Underground Wall" (Demo)

Personnel

* Paul Simon – lead vocals, guitar
* Art Garfunkel – lead vocals, piano
* Joe South - guitarMost tracks were recorded in Nashville with resident musicians.

* Bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello of the Dave Brubeck Quartet played on "The 59th Street Bridge Song"

* The voice of the newscaster on "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" was that of Charlie O'Donnell, then a New York disc jockey.

ee also

*Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

References

*http://www.bmi.com