One of the most criminally overlooked songs in pop music history. It is so heartfelt, so real. I can't dismiss Art Garfunkel's version with his iconic, beautiful voice, but Tim Moore's sincerity is palpable. Just an exquisite piece of work. "I am you" may have melted on the window but it remains a true promise of commitment, however fleeting, to behold for the ages.
Yes! I so agree. It is no less a heartbreaker now than in the Seventies. I would listen to it endlessly (along with 'Round 'Midnight') with a dear friend who has now passed.. I agree about Garfunkel's; it's beautiful, but Tim Moore's haunts me.. And --- in all these years -- would you believe I JUST NOW heard the words 'I am you' ?? It only makes it sweeter yet.. It is a song, indeed, "for the ages"..
I was 10-years old when this song came out in 1974. I always waited patiently for it to play on the radio. If I was in the car with my parents when it played, I wouldn't let them turn off the car until the song ended. In 2023, it's still one of my all-time favorite songs. It's still so good! ❤❤❤❤❤
Best song ever. I met Tim Moore around 1978 (give or take a couple of years) when he took a break from playing at some club on Long Island, he was a real good guy, very friendly. He was with a real pretty blonde, I wonder if he married her.
This song brings back memories of my dad driving me to work at the hospital through downtown Toronto streets on a cold winter Sunday morning back in 1974, while this song was playing on the car's AM radio station. I always liked Tim's version better. I feel he sings it with emotion. RIP my beautiful blue-eyed dad.
I first listened to this song whilst I was in my secondary school in 1975, then I went to Toronto in 1979 and keep listening to this song for quite sometime, a timely classic
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 same to you and your family, I left Toronto in 1983 and since I’d returned just once in 1988 on a business trip, still remember vividly those happier days when I was in college, spent lots of time listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn and Marc Jordan, and of course my favourite JB
Tim sang it with heartfelt emotion, being that he wrote it. Garfunkel's little more than a cover artist who never wrote a S&G song yet rode Paul Simon's coat tails.
I was a Sophomore at Northwestern. Tough time for me and this song was such a soothing influence. The whole album was, actually. But the chord progression and Tim's simple voice got me through. Thanks for a remastered version. My old vinyl LP is long gone, sadly.
I was 15 in 74.. It was one of my early finds..Tod Rundgren Something Anything was first in 72 .I bought the album.. Second Avenue was the kind of song that moved me..I never forgot it, the lyric or the import..Kenny Rankin had Silver Morning about that time.. Guess I was always going to recognize incredible artists like TIM MOORE..HE won a new songwriter Grand Prize $ for this song that year, before it was recorded..I remember seeing the competition on TV
Nice to have some background on this beautiful, oh-so-evocative masterpiece. Opportunities come and gone, just as in the song. Thank you for posting this remastered version.
It took me years to find this song. It rattled around in my memory without most of the words or the internet to find it on. Sometimes I'd hear it in my head as I biked my way through Holland over 2 years time. Now, when I hear it, it reminds me of my breakup with my wife in '85, in Alkmaar, Holland. It sounds quite wonderful here, remastered. Thank you for posting this beautiful piece for us. Glad I found it just the same.
"Since we can no longer see the light, the way we did when we kissed that night..." I take that arrow to my heart every time I hear it. This was the breakup song for a LTR that lasted from 1976-79, and now for my marriage from 1981-1997. I'll never fall in love again. BTW, I now live on Third Avenue. Really.
"The past can haunt a man. That’s what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time. The past doesn’t haunt us. Wouldn’t even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found… it’s us who haunt the past. We haunt it… so we can look again. See the people we miss… and the things we missed about them. I see you fully now. Your darkness and your light. Shimmering… like the city at dusk when it’s most beautiful." Nick Bannister REMINISCENCE Tell me a story. A story? What kind of story? One with a happy ending. No such thing as a happy ending. All endings are sad. Especially if the story was happy. REMINISCENCE
Ours was 7th Avenue, in Long Beach. Same year, 1974... back from the war, loaded with shame and denial and VERY unhappy, depressed. She couldn't take it. Her father came over and cleaned out here stuff, he and I stayed up half the night. He came back the next morning, and then that evening. But it didn't help. I broke her. I was too long away, too long in danger, too long without communications. Then I came back shaken and frightened of the dark. No one was considerate - not even her - not even ME.
1974: released on the appropriately-named A Small Record Company and picked up by Elektra/Asylum for national release. Columbia, seeing Moore's record climbing the charts, hustled Art Garfunkel into the studio to cut his version, which shot past Moore's when released. This, nearly 50 years on, remains the definitive version, and the one I played on radio. It still makes me remember Jennifer, and how much it still hurts, all these years later.
“Now that you're there, where everything is known, tell me: What else lived in that house besides us?” ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I agree with all that's said here. It's magnificent. However, it behooves me to mention that you do the song nor the audience no favors by suddenly inserting that bio crawl near the end it completely destroys the focus.
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One of the most criminally overlooked songs in pop music history. It is so heartfelt, so real. I can't dismiss Art Garfunkel's version with his iconic, beautiful voice, but Tim Moore's sincerity is palpable. Just an exquisite piece of work. "I am you" may have melted on the window but it remains a true promise of commitment, however fleeting, to behold for the ages.
Yes absolutely agree.
Yup.
Yes! I so agree. It is no less a heartbreaker now than in the Seventies. I would listen to it endlessly (along with 'Round 'Midnight') with a dear friend who has now passed.. I agree about Garfunkel's; it's beautiful, but Tim Moore's haunts me.. And --- in all these years -- would you believe I JUST NOW heard the words 'I am you' ?? It only makes it sweeter yet.. It is a song, indeed, "for the ages"..
Well said. Damn song makes me nostalgic and brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.❤
Most definitely!
I was 10-years old when this song came out in 1974. I always waited patiently for it to play on the radio. If I was in the car with my parents when it played, I wouldn't let them turn off the car until the song ended. In 2023, it's still one of my all-time favorite songs. It's still so good! ❤❤❤❤❤
A recent discovery for me, a beautiful but sad song, I can listen to it over and over. ❤
‘He made me cry’🎵🎶🎵🔱🎭🇺🇸🌾🤣🟠
Best song ever. I met Tim Moore around 1978 (give or take a couple of years) when he took a break from playing at some club on Long Island, he was a real good guy, very friendly. He was with a real pretty blonde, I wonder if he married her.
1 of the best songs of the 70s. Sadly, no1 plays it. I hear it a lot. I have it on my phone.
This song brings back memories of my dad driving me to work at the hospital through downtown Toronto streets on a cold winter Sunday morning back in 1974, while this song was playing on the car's AM radio station. I always liked Tim's version better. I feel he sings it with emotion. RIP my beautiful blue-eyed dad.
I first listened to this song whilst I was in my secondary school in 1975, then I went to Toronto in 1979 and keep listening to this song for quite sometime, a timely classic
@@soha7271 Yes it certainly is Michael. Merry Christmas!
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 same to you and your family, I left Toronto in 1983 and since I’d returned just once in 1988 on a business trip, still remember vividly those happier days when I was in college, spent lots of time listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn and Marc Jordan, and of course my favourite JB
Tim sang it with heartfelt emotion, being that he wrote it. Garfunkel's little more than a cover artist who never wrote a S&G song yet rode Paul Simon's coat tails.
Stunningly beautiful. Too many memories; all bittersweet.
I love this song; one of my all time favorites! Thanks for posting!
A wonderful tune and deserving to be heard again.
Oh yes favorite of mine as well. Still brings me to my knees
I was a Sophomore at Northwestern. Tough time for me and this song was such a soothing influence. The whole album was, actually. But the chord progression and Tim's simple voice got me through. Thanks for a remastered version. My old vinyl LP is long gone, sadly.
One of the best pop songs of all time.
What a beautiful voice
Just discovered Tim Moore......what a singer/songwriter.....simply beautiful....
BEAUTIFUL.
Great song. Great singer.
Wow, what a wonderful song! a songwriter who can sing too
Bought the LP when it first came out - I was newly moved to L.A. where I met Janey Winchester. This song, reminds me of her every time I hear it.
I was 15 in 74.. It was one of my early finds..Tod Rundgren Something Anything was first in 72 .I bought the album.. Second Avenue was the kind of song that moved me..I never forgot it, the lyric or the import..Kenny Rankin had Silver Morning about that time..
Guess I was always going to recognize incredible artists like TIM MOORE..HE won a new songwriter Grand Prize $ for this song that year, before it was recorded..I remember seeing the competition on TV
one of my all time favorite songs , from one of my favorite years... thanks for posting.
Classic Love Song about unrequited Love.....ain’t love a bitch?
This takes me back to HS days and young love. Oh how sweet the sound.
Yes, High School Senior year..
One of the most poignantly beautiful songs ever written or performed. Has stayed with me for many, many years...
What a great classic song brilliant song
Always liked the Moore original over the Art Garfunkel re-make... This remaster really sounds good..
A classic, i had the album back then, timeless
Nice to have some background on this beautiful, oh-so-evocative masterpiece. Opportunities come and gone, just as in the song. Thank you for posting this remastered version.
Great song
Wonderful songwriter. I have known this song since it came out and it moves me to tears every time.
It took me years to find this song. It rattled around in my memory without most of the words or the internet to find it on. Sometimes I'd hear it in my head as I biked my way through Holland over 2 years time. Now, when I hear it, it reminds me of my breakup with my wife in '85, in Alkmaar, Holland. It sounds quite wonderful here, remastered. Thank you for posting this beautiful piece for us. Glad I found it just the same.
Amazing song.
"Since we can no longer see the light, the way we did when we kissed that night..." I take that arrow to my heart every time I hear it. This was the breakup song for a LTR that lasted from 1976-79, and now for my marriage from 1981-1997. I'll never fall in love again. BTW, I now live on Third Avenue. Really.
i loved this on the radio at the time, wound up finding the vinyl one day
I was in New York City in the summer of 1975 when the song first came out and a love affair didn't work out. The song seemed to be speaking to me.
Arts release was in late summer 1974
I don't know the other version, and don't need to. Being from the Philly area, this was our version on the radio. An classic that does not get old.
"The past can haunt a man.
That’s what they say.
That the past is just a series of moments.
Each one perfect.
Complete.
A bead on the necklace of time.
The past doesn’t haunt us.
Wouldn’t even recognize us.
If there are ghosts to be found… it’s us who haunt the past.
We haunt it… so we can look again.
See the people we miss… and the things we missed about them.
I see you fully now.
Your darkness and your light.
Shimmering… like the city at dusk when it’s most beautiful."
Nick Bannister REMINISCENCE
Tell me a story.
A story? What kind of story?
One with a happy ending.
No such thing as a happy ending.
All endings are sad.
Especially if the story was happy.
REMINISCENCE
Ours was 7th Avenue, in Long Beach. Same year, 1974... back from the war, loaded with shame and denial and VERY unhappy, depressed. She couldn't take it. Her father came over and cleaned out here stuff, he and I stayed up half the night. He came back the next morning, and then that evening. But it didn't help. I broke her. I was too long away, too long in danger, too long without communications. Then I came back shaken and frightened of the dark. No one was considerate - not even her - not even ME.
1974: released on the appropriately-named A Small Record Company and picked up by Elektra/Asylum for national release. Columbia, seeing Moore's record climbing the charts, hustled Art Garfunkel into the studio to cut his version, which shot past Moore's when released. This, nearly 50 years on, remains the definitive version, and the one I played on radio. It still makes me remember Jennifer, and how much it still hurts, all these years later.
Wow You´re so right
To be fair, Garfunkel’s cover may be his best solo track. It’s an incredible vocal.
“Now that you're there, where everything is known, tell me:
What else lived in that house besides us?” ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Beautiful. Should have been another "Mandy."
This is better. But it’s maybe too sad to have been a huge hit. That melody is amazing.
I like his intonations on this song better than Arts. He should have released this himself.
Where to find this remastered CD? It’s like a long lost friend whom I’ve been listening when I grew up, especially when I broke up with my first ❤️
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I agree with all that's said here. It's magnificent. However, it behooves me to mention that you do the song nor the audience no favors by suddenly inserting that bio crawl near the end it completely destroys the focus.
Lovely song