Song of the Day: 'A Most Peculiar Man' by Simon and Garfunkel

 

This one's for you, JOHN. xo

Song of the Day: 'Old Friends' by Everything but the Girl

 

Forgive me if I sound a little giddy. But after decades of searching for an old roommate of mine -- and at first not hearing back when I thought I'd tracked him down -- I just got a lengthy email from him. I haven't had time to process it all, much less respond. But it's an overwhelming feeling to know that he's doing so exceptionally well, didn't deliberately ignore my attempt to reach out -- his work spam filter is strong and he only went through the messages because today's his last day on the job -- and that he ended up becoming friends with a bunch of people I know over the past three decades! Might be time for a long-overdue trip to Los Angeles. :-)

He writes in part:

Okay, wait, you wrote a memoir?? I can only imagine the things you shared. Derek must have gotten at least an entire chapter. And Tweet had to have gotten at least one paragraph out of every chapter! PLEASE don’t tell me that you wrote about your granola-gay roommate who hung fishnets and shells from his ceiling. How embarrassing! Do you remember the hundreds of times (or so it seemed) that we went to the Factory in West Hollywood? (building now demolished to build apartments) Or Newport Station around the corner from us? Hard to believe we survived just the lack of sleep alone. 

Yeah, I'm smiling ear-to-ear this Monday! 

Song of the Day: 'Scarborough Fair/Canticle' by Simon and Garfunkel

 

Wasn't this the working title of the duo's iconic 1966 album?

Song of the Day: 'April Come She Will' by Simon and Garfunkel

 

"April Come She Will" was the first song Art Garfunkel performed when my brothers and I saw the folk legend at Carnegie Hall, the year before everything went so horribly wrong. And now April, come she did. The year is already a quarter over and the Covid cases are looking very bad. (Washington state is investigating so-called breakthrough cases, where 100 fully vaccinated people contracted the virus.) What, if anything, do you think will be different for you socially this year versus last?

P.S. Paul Simon -- like many other music legends including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks and Harry/Stein -- just sold his entire songwriting catalog to Sony for an undisclosed sum. Read HERE.

Song of the Day: 'The Boxer' by Simon & Garfunkel

It's the best I could do for Boxing Day -- and about the best S&G ever did, which is really saying something. Oddly, this No. 7 hit was the underachiever in a string of singles that saw "Mrs. Robinson" (before) and "Bridge Over Trouble Water" both hit No. 1.

Song of the Day: 'The Only Living Boy in New York' by Simon and Garfunkel

  A busker on the F train platform at 23rd Street looked silly with his full-size keyboard yesterday, then blew me away with his absolutely beautiful cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York," which I always loved way more than its hit A-side.