In my humble opinion Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel is one of America’s greatest poets and songwriters of the 20th century.
I must confess, I have always been a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel and this goes all the way back to the late 1960s. Dear God am I old. Not unlike many in my age group, I am sure a lot of you too remember where you were and what you were doing when these dynamic duos came out with another hit song.
Art Garfunkel, a tenor, was born in 1941 and so was Paul Simon. Paul, a baritone, was from Newark, New Jersey and Art from Queens, New York. They were both childhood friends and classmates and boy could they sing. Their first major hit was, “Sounds of Silence.” “Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again, because a vision softly creeping, left its seed while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains, with the sound of silence.”
When Mrs. Robinson was released, I was hooked. Especially after seeing the movie, “The Graduate.” “And here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know. My biggest and fondest hit was, “Call me Al.” There was an African beat and the lyrics drove me into a frenzy of excitement and elation. “A man walks down the street and says why am I soft in the middle now, why am I soft in the middle. the rest of my life is so hard, I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot qt redemption, don’t want to end up in a cartoon, a cartoon graveyard.”
I can go on and on, but Paul Simon is a poet who, at 69 continues to amaze his followers with his expertise in the way he strings words and thoughts together in the form of song.
Funny as it may seem..got a DVD collection of them..i’m not that old yet:)
But I dig there music as well.
Thanks for such a refreshing share..now I have to watch their concerts again from my dvd. 
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