Songs for all time: Simon & Garfunkel’s kaleidoscopic Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Includes “Scarborough Fair/Canticle,” “Homeward Bound,” and “The 59th Street Bridge Song”
The liner notes pioneering writer Ralph J. Gleason penned for the back cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme ring as true now as they did upon the record’s original release in 1966. He mused: “Today’s popular music is in good shape indeed – at least the portion of it represented by this album. It has strength and it has beauty, it has lyricism, meaning and, above all, that quality of broad appeal which still retains form. And its music speaks for more than the moment. The songs in this album are songs for all time.” Indeed, they are, and they can now be experienced in the highest fidelity they’ve ever enjoyed.
| Lado 1 | |
| 1 | Scarborough Fair/Canticle |
| 2 | Patterns |
| 3 | Cloudy |
| 4 | Homeward Bound |
| 5 | The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine |
| 6 | The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) |
| Lado 2 | |
| 1 | The Dangling Conversation |
| 2 | Flowers Never Bend in the Rainfall |
| 3 | A Simple Desultory Philippic |
| 4 | For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her |
| 5 | A Poem on the Underground Wall |
| 6 | 7 O’Clock News/Silent Night |