Old Friends (album)

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Name = Old Friends
Type = compilation
Artist = Simon and Garfunkel


Released = October 27, 1997
Recorded = 1964-1970
Genre = Folk rock
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Label = Columbia Legacy
Producer = various
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"Old Friends" is a boxed set of Simon and Garfunkel songs, released in 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-loved works, adding several then-rarities for good measure.

The cover features a photo of the artists in their heyday. Paul Simon appears in a curious pose, with his hand appearing to pinch the air in front of his face. The reason for this is that Simon was actually smoking a cigarette at the time, neither he nor the record label were in favor of promoting this habit in 1997.

It should be noted that most (but not all, curiously) of the rare tracks included on "Old Friends" subsequently appeared on both the reissues of Simon and Garfunkel's five studio albums as well as the later boxed set "The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970)" (a collection whose title only implies completeness).

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Bleecker Street"
#"The Sound of Silence"
#"The Sun Is Burning"
#"Wednesday Morning, 3 AM"
#"He Was My Brother"
#"Sparrow"
#"Peggy-O"
#"Benedictus"
#"Somewhere They Can't Find Me"
#"We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'"
#"Leaves That Are Green"
#"Richard Cory"
#"I Am a Rock"
#"The Sound of Silence" (Single Version)
#"Homeward Bound"
#"Blues Runs the Game"
#"Kathy's Song"
#"April Come She Will"
#"Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall"

Disc 2

#"Patterns"
#"Cloudy"
#"The Dangling Conversation"
#"Scarborough Fair/Canticle"
#"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)"
#"For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her"
#"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night"
#"A Hazy Shade of Winter"
#"At the Zoo"
#"A Poem on the Underground Wall"
#"Red Rubber Ball" (Live in New York City, 1967) - appears only on this collection
#"Blessed"
#"Anji"
#"A Church Is Burning"
#"Fakin' It"
#"Save the Life of My Child"
#"America"
#"You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies"
#"Punky's Dilemma"
#"Comfort and Joy" - appears only on this collection
#"Star Carol" - appears only on this collection

Disc 3

#"Mrs. Robinson"
#"Old Friends/Bookends"
#"Overs"
#"A Most Peculiar Man"
#"Bye, Bye Love"
#"The Boxer"
#"Baby Driver"
#"Why Don't You Write Me"
#"Feuilles-O"
#"Keep the Customer Satisfied"
#"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"
#"Song for the Asking"
#"Cecilia"
#"El Condor Pasa (If I Could)"
#"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
#"The Only Living Boy In New York"
#"Hey, Schoolgirl/Black Slacks"
#"That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine"
#"My Little Town"