Simon & Garfunkel - America (from The Concert in Central Park)

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  • "America" by Simon & Garfunkel from The Concert in Central Park
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    Lyrics:
    "Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together"
    "I've got some real estate here in my bag"
    So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
    And walked off to look for America
    "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
    "Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
    It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
    I've gone to look for America
    Laughing on the bus
    Playing games with the faces
    She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
    I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"
    "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
    "We smoked the last one an hour ago"
    So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
    And the moon rose over an open field
    "Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
    I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
    Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
    They've all come to look for America
    All come to look for America
    All come to look for America
    #SimonAndGarfunkel #America #TheConcertInCentralPark

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  • @鈴風清風
    @鈴風清風 2 роки тому +77

    東北の寒村の貧乏学生だった 私はラジオから聞こえる S&Gの素晴らしいコーラスに 遠いアメリカを憧れながら耳を傾けていました。
    大学を卒業して証券会社へ入社した私に アメリカへの 転勤の話かありました。 喜んだ私は 勇んで アメリカへ 飛びましたが
    残念ながら S&Gは解散していました。 しかし 突然 彼らの セントラルパークでの コンサートが決まったのです。 やっとのことでチケットを手に入れた私は そこで
    初めて ポール・サイモンとアート・ガーファンクルが歌う姿をみたのでした。コンサートが終わるまで、感激で涙が止まらず 私は自分の幸運を神に感謝しました。
    たった一度のLIVEでしたが 私には一生の思い出になりました。

    • @renatoandreoli7183
      @renatoandreoli7183 4 місяці тому +6

      Gostaria de ter a mesma sorte que você...como eu queria ter estado naquele show..perfeito..sem violência, lindas musicas..tudo perfeito

    • @HPB1776
      @HPB1776 4 місяці тому +7

      I'm with you ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @papnlilly
      @papnlilly Місяць тому +1

      Blessed ❤

    • @roselibarbosa5486
      @roselibarbosa5486 27 днів тому

      Você é abençoado, assistir um show desse que nunca mais se repetiu,e também eles não fizeram turnê pelo mundo, sonhava com eles aqui no Brasil, agora só saudades, parabéns por ter realizado sei sonho ❤

  • @howardsteier7840
    @howardsteier7840 6 років тому +548

    "Kathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why." A concise
    expression of melancholia.

    • @manyworldsvideo
      @manyworldsvideo 4 роки тому +31

      That is my favorite lyric of all time.

    • @alepryor
      @alepryor 4 роки тому +23

      Its a great lyric and it has come in my head at times in my life where i have really felt it in my soul.

    • @staticpiece
      @staticpiece 4 роки тому +1

      I don't understand this lyric. Can someone please elaborate why it's a lot of people's favorite? I feel dumb 😶

    • @nathanlewis42
      @nathanlewis42 4 роки тому +9

      @@staticpiece it's one of my favorite lyrics too but I can't explain it. It's like explaining why you like any song. You could say all kinds of good things about a song but ultimately the reason why you think a bunch of good things are true about a song is because you like it.

    • @jurgostuff
      @jurgostuff 4 роки тому +14

      Gives me goosebumps. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

  • @Gioma771
    @Gioma771 4 роки тому +166

    "So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
    And the moon rose over an open field" To me this seems like one of the best lines ever used in a song.

    • @elizabethharalson7903
      @elizabethharalson7903 3 роки тому +3

      Or sunrise in South Georgia USA

    • @eddarby469
      @eddarby469 2 роки тому +7

      ... I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises ... all lies and jests ... still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ...
      ... and he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut, till he cried out, in his anger and his shame ...
      ... there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there ...

    • @nomiddlenamenmn427
      @nomiddlenamenmn427 2 роки тому +3

      I agree. You feel it. You experience it. You are riding along with them.

    • @Usuario-pl2hb
      @Usuario-pl2hb 2 роки тому +2

      @@eddarby469 outstanding indeed

    • @danielhkhk7283
      @danielhkhk7283 4 місяці тому

      Absolutely agree.

  • @dee_dee_place
    @dee_dee_place 4 роки тому +141

    I still can't believe that this concert was 39 years ago- in 1981.
    Somethings are timeless.
    You don't need a music video to see this song play out before you.

    • @SirPaul222
      @SirPaul222 11 місяців тому +1

      I wish I had the financial means to make a video for this song in animated form, I love it deeply.

  • @meredithpope333
    @meredithpope333 6 місяців тому +96

    It’s 2024 , I’m 71 and I am blessed to have lived in the eras of the best music ever 💕

    • @hanskoeleman4226
      @hanskoeleman4226 5 місяців тому +1

      Amen!

    • @martineperrin8960
      @martineperrin8960 5 місяців тому +7

      Je vais avoir 70 ans juillet 2024 et j écoute toujours ces groupes merveilleux qui nous enchantent ❤❤❤❤

    • @sirpancho
      @sirpancho 5 місяців тому +2

      I am from the following generation and I couldn't agree more :)

    • @HPB1776
      @HPB1776 4 місяці тому +2

      Absolutely 💯 ❤

    • @1618163
      @1618163 3 місяці тому +1

      j'ai eu la chance de voir Art Garfunkel a un de ces concert

  • @obesetuna3164
    @obesetuna3164 2 місяці тому +14

    I am British, yet this poetry has always reduced me to tears. Keep fighting the good fight my American friends. Art Garfunkel has such an excellent voice.

    • @pteeng1
      @pteeng1 Місяць тому

      Dream on.

    • @obesetuna3164
      @obesetuna3164 Місяць тому

      @@pteeng1 Pardon?

    • @pteeng1
      @pteeng1 Місяць тому

      @@obesetuna3164 I meant the end part of the song's studio version. That version has an end part (called coda in musical terms) played on the organ. This live version doesn't have it even though it's the best part of the entire song.

    • @obesetuna3164
      @obesetuna3164 Місяць тому

      @@pteeng1 I see what you mean. I had the recorded version years back. Many thanks.

  • @thomassmart2790
    @thomassmart2790 Рік тому +36

    How their voices rise and fade together it’s perfection

  • @papnlilly
    @papnlilly 4 роки тому +50

    "And the moon rose over an open field..."
    Wow! Goosebumps.

  • @ChasingTone666
    @ChasingTone666 4 роки тому +63

    The line "Kathy i'm lost, i said though i knew she was sleeping" always makes me cry and to this day i still don't know quite why.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 роки тому +7

      Perhaps becuz we have all felt that way and our hearts identify so well💓

    • @joanneford356
      @joanneford356 8 місяців тому +1

      Because she wasn’t listening x

    • @eleonoradini2371
      @eleonoradini2371 2 місяці тому

      I think these lines are the best ones ever written in an American song

    • @eleonoradini2371
      @eleonoradini2371 2 місяці тому

      ​@@joanneford356yes, she wasn't listening and he knew it, that's why he said these words

  • @scopex2749
    @scopex2749 6 місяців тому +14

    I praise the Lord that I was alive in the era of these 2 INCREDIBLE people. Im a Brit - I married a gal from Iowa and we went to look for America, we sadly lost her in a car wreck but this song keeps her alive in my heart.

    • @HPB1776
      @HPB1776 4 місяці тому

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @petenosh
      @petenosh 3 місяці тому

      Sorry to hear that my friend

  • @paulself8698
    @paulself8698 Рік тому +25

    One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

  • @JeanBakula
    @JeanBakula 5 років тому +243

    I was at this concert. It was in September, on my wedding anniversary. Art asked us if we were cold. Who cared, all our attention was on the music!

    • @timward276
      @timward276 3 роки тому +7

      You can hear him ask if you were cold on one of the other songs from this concert; they're all on UA-cam. I think it's The Boxer.

    • @leslietatum984
      @leslietatum984 3 роки тому +5

      Just played this over and over and an unexpected hospital stay for covid. Otherworldly, hugely moving.. I was born in '61. My brother, 5 years ahead and leagues ahead in music, played everything downstairs... 'All Along the Watchtower.." Later the impossibly good rocking, famous as ever.. Skynyrd's 'Free Bird'... now I digress.
      Something in "America landed as deep as a diving bell. We must keep searching.... and drown out the players and the losers and the fake political games..
      Wherever you on, literally or figuratively, hop on that bus. We'll never know unless we try....!!

    • @annielaffond6073
      @annielaffond6073 3 роки тому +2

      Oh j aurais tellement aimé assister à l un de leurs concerts ceka devait être magique

    • @pato2200
      @pato2200 10 місяців тому +4

      "How you doin', are you cold? God, you look great from here."

    • @gabrielgabidu13
      @gabrielgabidu13 8 місяців тому

      Vous avez beaucoup de chance....
      J'aurais aimé être présent ce soir là.

  • @bobbydazzler1780
    @bobbydazzler1780 3 роки тому +14

    I’m from England and once travelled in a Jeep with work solo from Seattle, through Oregon down to the Californian coast to San Francisco. I was loving the coastal views along the way with sun kissed wild prehistoric looking beaches. Then this song came on the radio and it just made the trip so moving. When Guy Clarke came on the radio singing the Randall Knife I thought I was in some movie dream but it was reality. Such pure American road trip sounds. Magical. Timeless. A few years ago now, the world was a different optimistic place back then. Full of wonder.

    • @bobbydazzler1780
      @bobbydazzler1780 3 роки тому +5

      My regards to the guys at the Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, if it still exists, fun bar and they thought I’d walked out of a spaceship when I started talking with my English accent. You can’t get any more American than that hang out.

  • @carmenbanayat4555
    @carmenbanayat4555 3 роки тому +130

    Here i go again, Jan 2021 still watching the greatest duo in music history.

    • @richardhoner7842
      @richardhoner7842 3 роки тому +3

      You're not alone.

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 3 роки тому +1

      Nope

    • @patg2445
      @patg2445 3 роки тому +2

      Here i go again, July 2021 still watching one of the greatest duo in music history.

    • @okrafeet
      @okrafeet 3 роки тому +4

      @@patg2445 - me too

    • @nancydemoss7904
      @nancydemoss7904 3 роки тому +4

      It's almost September,2021 and I'm still listening and loving it all.

  • @FolkCountryHeartTunes278
    @FolkCountryHeartTunes278 3 місяці тому +8

    The simplicity and depth of this music is something we rarely find in modern songs. A true classic

  • @youtubermfa938
    @youtubermfa938 7 років тому +392

    One of THE BEST Simon & Garfunkel songs of all time.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 роки тому +4

      Oh Yes!

    • @francislapre7802
      @francislapre7802 3 роки тому +5

      I agree. The first time i heard this song i was in my early teens on an album from the group Yes
      But it is far better with the origin3

    • @kyogofurahashi
      @kyogofurahashi 3 роки тому +4

      i got to say Air supply is the best for me, paul and simon is up there for sure!

    • @winesap2
      @winesap2 3 роки тому +11

      One of the best songs of all time

    • @frankieaddams3937
      @frankieaddams3937 2 роки тому +3

      "I'm empty, and aching and I don't know why...."

  • @PaulBoulter-e5r
    @PaulBoulter-e5r 9 місяців тому +7

    Does it get any better. My god how blessed were our generation.

  • @waymill1
    @waymill1 7 років тому +860

    Garfunkel has the voice of an angel. Together they have a harmony that is other-worldly.

    • @nadinegoossens2357
      @nadinegoossens2357 6 років тому +9

      Nick cave

    • @alanrylands7004
      @alanrylands7004 5 років тому +11

      I agree and this song in one of the best.

    • @howardjones8686
      @howardjones8686 4 роки тому +21

      @@alanrylands7004 This shear ''brilliance'' of this duo is something that will never be repeated. The very best there ever was, without any doubt.

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 4 роки тому +3

      @@howardjones8686 " "brilliance" "?

    • @hatfez
      @hatfez 4 роки тому +3

      I kinda like the Garfunkel & Garfunkel album, "Break away" had some nice tunes on her. Plus, he did a fine job in the movie, "Catch 22" or was it Catch 22.746? Not sure.

  • @quickdeuce
    @quickdeuce 3 роки тому +13

    The masters of a duo. Who else is listening to this wonderful song July 03, 2021 GOD Bless our GREAT AMERICA!

  • @oakpkdude
    @oakpkdude 4 роки тому +310

    I was at this concert. It was the best concert I have ever been to and it was free.

    • @ProfesoraNut
      @ProfesoraNut 4 роки тому

      😮😮😮

    • @seckhoffable
      @seckhoffable 4 роки тому +6

      I will never stop loving New York. Never.

    • @susanmaggiora4800
      @susanmaggiora4800 3 роки тому +2

      Sally Eckhoff Same.

    • @technnschools
      @technnschools 3 роки тому +12

      How fortunate you are to have lived this event... This live concert i can remember my dad had playing on a cassette player in his 505 Peugeot when I was 6, on a rainy day driving in Cape Town, South Africa. I never understood this music back then, it felt so lonely. Now I can't help becoming nostalgic when listening to it.

    • @oakpkdude
      @oakpkdude 3 роки тому +8

      @@technnschools Wow, even in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a great time. Everyone brought blankets, some brought wine or other booze as well as having weed wafting through the air. It was such a mellow and enjoyable concert. Everyone was polite and no fights at all. I am one of six siblings and I'm the second to youngest so when I was probably 6 or 7 I was listening to my eldest sisters play their records on the stereo. I think that was even before cassettes. I also become nostalgic when listening to it.

  • @janefletcher9593
    @janefletcher9593 7 місяців тому +27

    There music is pure poetry from Paul and an angelic voice from Art.What a pair❤❤

  • @Judy111965
    @Judy111965 9 років тому +583

    Their voices just blend together so well. I never get tired of listening to Simon and Garfunkel.

    • @TheJairjedi
      @TheJairjedi 9 років тому +16

      +Judy Kramer Garfunkel does an amazing job at harmonizing so sweetly

    • @chuckw8391
      @chuckw8391 7 років тому +15

      Me too and for some reason I can be doing the most ordinary thing like walking my dogs and this particular song will be (pleasantly) stuck in my head

    • @xavierdemegillo741
      @xavierdemegillo741 7 років тому +1

      classic mixes

    • @axelleawah3799
      @axelleawah3799 7 років тому +6

      It's just "sublime"!!! Their voices go very well together effectivly. Il am never tired listening them since 40 years!!!!!!!!

    • @axelleawah3799
      @axelleawah3799 7 років тому +1

      Bad english, no?

  • @carmenayson6821
    @carmenayson6821 3 роки тому +96

    So glad i was born before the glorious era of this duo who’s music continue to flourish during the years. Now in my mid60s, i’ll forever cherish them.

  • @Tolbiny
    @Tolbiny 5 років тому +28

    The planets aligned that night......been listening to this concert for 37 years now, I will never stop until my dying day.

  • @chix4free
    @chix4free 10 місяців тому +3

    "Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, Michigan seems like a dream to me now". Insanely great harmonizing by Garfunkel here. Even superior to the Beatles or the Beach Boys at their peak.

  • @MaribethPriore
    @MaribethPriore 8 років тому +73

    Brother Ricky and I made it to the concert in Central Park. A great memory of quality time spent with my late, great baby brother. Thank you Paul and Art.

  • @stevehilliard2342
    @stevehilliard2342 6 років тому +53

    Kathy ," I am lost" is the most simply stated that my 67 years that humbled me . Thanks Paul .

  • @omgpuppet
    @omgpuppet 6 років тому +37

    1:57 That D/F#(I think) chord gets me every time. That one chord immediately transforms the song from a hopeful, carefree tune to a melancholic, bittersweet one and sets up my favorite verse ever written by Paul Simon.

    • @Astrosimi
      @Astrosimi 2 роки тому +4

      Holy shit, good catch. That is absolutely where the song 'turns'.

  • @ProfesoraNut
    @ProfesoraNut 4 роки тому +34

    I love the '"Kathy", I said as we boarded a greyhound in Pittsburgh' as Art comes in so poignantly with the his high harmony. I have a lot of favorite lines in this song and this is definitely one of them. The start of that verse is so strong and powerful.

  • @murphysinfinland
    @murphysinfinland 5 років тому +19

    encapsulates the 60s "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why". Cinematic. You can imagine yourself on the bus in America's glory days of the 60s. Lots of 60s peeps in the crowd with their kids. Magical moment in time

  • @Looking1231
    @Looking1231 8 років тому +138

    Man... Simon and Garfunkel came out with some exceptional songs. This song is in my top 5 favorite S & G songs. They were truly the voice of their generation and the generations from there onward

    • @mop714
      @mop714 5 років тому +1

      They certainly were! I listen to their music all the time.

    • @numbat0072
      @numbat0072 Рік тому

      up there with Dylan's genius American musical poetry !

  • @david-yc7bc
    @david-yc7bc 3 роки тому +6

    Sound of Silence is the greatest song ever written, this is a close second

  • @vootie99
    @vootie99 9 років тому +380

    I was there, but the crowd was so huge I was over a hill and never "saw" them, but the sound was perfect...

    • @carolthomas1805
      @carolthomas1805 9 років тому +11

      +vootie99 I was too young - pre teen, but certainly remember wanting to hop on a bus to the City, just too be a part of history.

    • @heorap
      @heorap 9 років тому +33

      +vootie99 I was 4, bout 95 feet from the stage.. This is one of my earliest memories.

    • @sydneyb.267
      @sydneyb.267 9 років тому +11

      +vootie99 I couldn't get to NYC but had the good fortune of going to the first concert of the tour that followed in Akron OH. It was without a doubt the best concert I have ever attended!

    • @nbenefiel
      @nbenefiel 9 років тому +15

      +Sydney Baxter The first time I saw S&G was at a small concert at the University of Detroit back in the early 60's. The school had booked them before their first LP made it big. After that they were playing bigger venues. I saw them again a few times over the years. The last time was during their "Old Friends" tour in a huge stadium with big screens so you could see them

    • @PlumbPitiful
      @PlumbPitiful 7 років тому +14

      I saw them at Oakland Stadium in the summer of 1983. At the time Paul was married to Carrie Fisher and he brought her onstage for a minute. Return of the Jedi had just come out so Star Wars Mania was running wild and thw crowd went totally apesh*t seeing Princess Leia in person! Oh, and the concert was great too!

  • @avonlady30
    @avonlady30 4 роки тому +121

    This concert was performed when cable tv was a brand new thing in my area. I remember HBO played this concert over and over and I would watch it every chance I got as an 11 year old boy. As of 6 minutes ago, I just hit my 50th birthday and I am enjoying this concert yet again while the rest of my house sleeps. So beautiful! What a blessing! Long Live Simon and Garfunkel!

    • @jimmybarnett4451
      @jimmybarnett4451 2 роки тому +4

      They were so good together! Sure wish I could sing like Art Garfunkel he was the best!

    • @tommylevanto1226
      @tommylevanto1226 2 роки тому +5

      I'm fifty too, and i'm still listening from Italy

    • @avonlady30
      @avonlady30 2 роки тому +1

      @@tommylevanto1226 Yep.....51 now for me. But I remember this night well. I had somewhat recently lost my mom and all the childhood memories were bitter-sweet at that moment. But mostly sweet!

    • @timemachine2525
      @timemachine2525 2 роки тому

      make sure he hears this as he grows up

    • @darwinxke2827
      @darwinxke2827 2 роки тому +2

      Happy birthday! Don’t worry, sixty is even better.

  • @davidmitchell1959
    @davidmitchell1959 4 роки тому +31

    Paul Simon = Genius. Art Garfunkel = Voice for a Genius. Simon and Garfunkel = Best Double Act of All Time.

    • @jrdier3015
      @jrdier3015 4 роки тому +2

      David Mitchell I think the right and true way to say it is this ..." Art Garfunkel is a genius in harmonization and has a voice who can only give life and so much soul to the song written by Paul Simon!" The singer and his brilliant voice is the only reason why a song is being greatly appreciated and loved by the hearing audience. No matter how great a song was being written if it's not sang by a singer who can truly give justice to the song (angelic, soulful voice that's so brilliant combined with great harmonization- on duet) it's nothing and it's not being well recognized or appreciated- it would never become a hit! It will just be a well written lyrics.

    • @davidmitchell1959
      @davidmitchell1959 4 роки тому +2

      Jr Dier . Perhaps a certain Mr Bob Dylan would disagree that it needs a great singer with a brilliant voice to make a song a hit. He has written some of the most memorable, great songs ever and even with his less than beautiful voice have made these songs into never to be forgotten standards for our lifetime.

  • @tonybaker6844
    @tonybaker6844 6 років тому +116

    "And the moon rose over an open field". This line always gets me - guess it's just so evocative.

    • @michaelcheverie7579
      @michaelcheverie7579 2 роки тому +1

      It's always affected me deeply. Such an evocation of emptiness. Gives me chills no matter how many times I hear it.

    • @lorenzobianchi1896
      @lorenzobianchi1896 2 роки тому

      It really evoques the feeling of understanding your true promise of love and hope was really a promise of illusions which cannot be.
      It Is incredibile how universal that line Is

    • @drewshirleysports
      @drewshirleysports 2 роки тому

      Perhaps my favorite line in all of pop music

    • @carlosuehara9686
      @carlosuehara9686 10 місяців тому

      I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!

  • @el7jake
    @el7jake 3 роки тому +24

    They are so in sync it's almost like they never stopped singing together. Beautiful and amazing.

  • @Redwoodtree34567
    @Redwoodtree34567 Рік тому +53

    2 voices that are made for each other.

  • @reybarreto7979
    @reybarreto7979 4 роки тому +13

    They had a way of articulating intangible moods and emotions. With this song in particular the melody fits the lyrics so perfectly that the emotions and visual images are felt and seen vividly, like watching a movie that you are a part of. You smell the cigarette smoke, you feel Kathy sleeping on your shoulder while you look out at the window at the passing scenery. Paul Simon even uses literary devices to enrich the lyrics, like his use of assonance in "The moon rose over the open hill." The combination of Paul's evocative lyrics, Art's angelic voice, and their beautiful harmony are what made them the dream team they were back in the '60s.

  • @tommylockhart7712
    @tommylockhart7712 3 роки тому +8

    Poetry in music and truth. Love

  • @izzymclean6527
    @izzymclean6527 7 років тому +926

    As an Australian. One of my life goals is to go on a greyhound across America listening to this masterpiece. One day...

    • @vickyleeman2021
      @vickyleeman2021 6 років тому +42

      take me with you

    • @davelee8961
      @davelee8961 6 років тому +104

      I rode a Greyhound in 1997 from Washington, DC to Missoula, MT...and, as trite as it may seem...the journey was the most meaningful part of it all. I met interesting people all along the way. A young school teacher from Minnesota whose car had broken down. She was riding the Greyhound back home. A rancher from Ekalaka, MT who told me...look on the bus here...these are the real Americans...not the politicians in Washington. America is not Left or Right, Black or White. America is each one of us finding the best in ourselves and doing what we can, while we are alive, to make this place a better place. America is not The News, telling us what we feel...but ourselves, using our innate intelligence, to determine what WE feel. And acting according to the dictates of our individual consciences.

    • @charlesheumader4556
      @charlesheumader4556 6 років тому +30

      when you get to North Carolina, look me up and I'll buy you a beer

    • @zacharycat
      @zacharycat 6 років тому +27

      Had to take a Greydog from Chicago to Toledo once. Truly a horrible experience. If Hell exists it could be like the inside of that bus.

    • @Chasstful
      @Chasstful 6 років тому +25

      These days you will get robbed and assaulted. Try renting a car. Bus travel was once ok, now its how the very poor travel, and its not good.

  • @tokarak
    @tokarak 7 років тому +36

    I never new that two voices and a guitar could be so good!!!

  • @johnramasamy5676
    @johnramasamy5676 3 роки тому +20

    Paul Simon the Shakespeare of songwriting. Deserves the Nobel Prize for literature and songwriting.

    • @Wuei108
      @Wuei108 6 місяців тому

      Yes, he deserves that.

  • @maxyetter5618
    @maxyetter5618 5 років тому +41

    i've yet to find a live performance by any group that sounds as good as this historic set.

    • @hamiltoncrete6741
      @hamiltoncrete6741 4 роки тому +3

      The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense are pretty darn good. Vocally no one in either of those groups is as good as these two but the music is certainly on par.

    • @chrisinnes2128
      @chrisinnes2128 Рік тому

      The seekers at the Sydney mayer music bowl is really good too

  • @badelson1103
    @badelson1103 4 роки тому +8

    I was blessed to have been at this concert in Central Park! My older cousin who lived in Manhattan took me. I went on a train from Fairfield Connecticut to meet her. Such a wonderful memory. We lost her recently to covid 19.

  • @danielcropp8553
    @danielcropp8553 8 років тому +99

    this might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life. honestly.

    • @kulikgj
      @kulikgj 6 років тому

      Daniel Cropp h

  • @Linda-pw8gx
    @Linda-pw8gx 2 роки тому +17

    “And the moon rose over an open field” brilliant

    • @carlosuehara9686
      @carlosuehara9686 10 місяців тому +1

      I also think these words are wonderful and poetic. Yes!!!

    • @goddycarino6747
      @goddycarino6747 10 місяців тому +1

      Paul Simon creates most poetic songs in the history of music... Genius

  • @johnosullivancalsmso9462
    @johnosullivancalsmso9462 3 роки тому +111

    The backing musicians at this concert are sensational!

    • @keithledbetter6356
      @keithledbetter6356 2 роки тому +1

      Spotted Pete Carr seated just behind Paul. Carr is a great studio musician from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and one half of the group Lablanc and Carr.

    • @Karmakatt6
      @Karmakatt6 2 роки тому +2

      Jackson and Gadd are definitely not backing.. 😉

    • @dakine575756
      @dakine575756 2 роки тому +3

      @@Karmakatt6 don't forget Pat Metheny. If you didn't see him almost impossible to tell by his playing. His versatility never ceases to amaze

    • @kalmia01
      @kalmia01 Рік тому

      @@dakine575756 Pat Metheny was playing here?

    • @quogir1
      @quogir1 Рік тому +1

      @@kalmia01. He was not,I my self always thought the same Even by playing but it was David Brown,he Played with Billy Joel 😊

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge 5 років тому +50

    *"I'm empty, and aching, and I don't know why..."*

  • @juanpsolf
    @juanpsolf 4 місяці тому +3

    Beautiful song and this live version in Central Park is especially beautiful.
    I will never tire of listening to it.
    I saw the entire concert on television when it was first broadcast in 1983 in Spain, and since then I have collected all the media on which it has been recorded.
    Beautiful lyrics, too.

  • @Alan-zk3ok
    @Alan-zk3ok 8 років тому +113

    Garfunkel in the Han Solo outfit...
    Respect!

  • @JoseAntonio-bq2bo
    @JoseAntonio-bq2bo 2 роки тому +9

    According to the 1982 album booklet, this concert brought 500,000 people to Central Park in a single performance and has not been forgotten until today.

  • @playinthedark3054
    @playinthedark3054 3 роки тому +71

    Arguably Paul Simon's best song. The meaning is so much more than a trip across this country. It is a hunt for the true America--one that in these present days, is perhaps little more than a dream. But those of who understand what the true America really is will forever fight for a country that is a far cry from those who have little idea of what this country truly means.

    • @leobrussel9471
      @leobrussel9471 2 роки тому +7

      Not sure of the political implication to your comment. I would say, though, that the rabid flag waivers as well as the vicious left wing cancel culture might both need some Mrs. Wagner pies.

    • @leftcoastdreams
      @leftcoastdreams 2 роки тому +2

      I could not have said it better...it is so sad it hurts. So few understand what America was and I hope what it will be again.

    • @britturk123
      @britturk123 2 роки тому +2

      America is hope and dreams, then you make it big and guess what?, America is lost again.

    • @margarethall7837
      @margarethall7837 2 роки тому +1

      @@britturk123 Great Britain has the same problems, doesn't know what it is any more, it shone like a beacon for freedom and faith

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Рік тому

      Oh really? And there was me just thinking it was about a bus ride……..

  • @carmach59
    @carmach59 4 роки тому +26

    This performance perfectly captures the musical dynamic of Simon and Garfunkel as greater than just Paul Simon's songbook. Art's parts and presence turn a beautiful composition into an epic hymn with its place deep into America's songbook, with a grandiose but simple brilliance that set them apart from all other folk duos in history.

    • @kalmia01
      @kalmia01 Рік тому +2

      You couldn't have said it better, that's their magic

  • @pocopico7409
    @pocopico7409 3 роки тому +14

    I think Paul Simon looked his very best at this particular time of his life! He looked great, and they were both in fabulous voice this night! 😀

    • @annoynmousk
      @annoynmousk Рік тому

      With you all the way on that one, Gorgeous😍♥️

  • @dchant427
    @dchant427 9 років тому +28

    The older I get the more I appreciate their music thank God my father still has his vinyl collection

  • @carolewerda5412
    @carolewerda5412 7 років тому +36

    One of my favorite songs in high school! Had each album the minute they were released. Wish there were so many more. What a gem this song is. 50 years of loving these two...their voices blending together. Never get tired of hearing them sing. Wish it could go on forever.

    • @nityaraman556
      @nityaraman556 2 роки тому +3

      I feel the same way Carole.. can’t believe so many years have passed since I first heard this masterpiece..
      It can instantly take me back to a different place and time

  • @carolewerda5412
    @carolewerda5412 7 років тому +13

    Here it is June 2017, and I am watching a very touching Volkswagen commercial with Simon and Garfunkel singing in the background.......this very beautiful song.....America. A song just about fifty years old and still relevant in 2017. What a treasure...and what a treat it is... to hear this amazing song in this commercial. Well done Volkswagen!

  • @nancydemoss7904
    @nancydemoss7904 3 роки тому +147

    My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song out of so many. It makes me feel nostalgic like something I did in my past even though I didn't.
    Their songs are so much of the fabric of America.

    • @petere6162
      @petere6162 3 роки тому +4

      Not sure if it’s just me but this sounds more like a lament of America than a tribute

    • @robertwaite8754
      @robertwaite8754 3 роки тому +1

      Likewise. My spine tingles.

    • @nancydemoss7904
      @nancydemoss7904 3 роки тому +2

      @@petere6162 Can't you feel both? I can.

    • @nityaraman556
      @nityaraman556 2 роки тому +5

      Hey I’m not even American , never traveled on a Greyhound but I feel a profound sense of sadness and nostalgia when I hear this beautiful song … I don’t know why

    • @kenwittlief255
      @kenwittlief255 2 роки тому +1

      the song is the experience of every teenager that came of age in America in the 1960s
      you got your license and your first car
      and went off with a friend or lover on the Great American Road Trip
      thinking you will find or discover something .... experience something.... you dont know what
      not understanding the seeking and the journey is the thing

  • @heathercampbell4600
    @heathercampbell4600 Рік тому +7

    Late to the party as usual, but still had to post. Every now and then you encounter a song that is so beautiful, your breath gets caught in your throat and tears spring to your eyes. This song...THIS SONG ..does that to me. ..Simply Magnificent! I have no other words.

  • @radkid06
    @radkid06 9 років тому +75

    I keep coming back to this one. Feels so nostalgic.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 роки тому +1

      Me Too, THIS and now at age 67, BookEnds does ot for me also ♥️

  • @thorsvensson8172
    @thorsvensson8172 5 років тому +18

    Surely one of THE greatest concerts.

  • @tangehudgins5511
    @tangehudgins5511 7 років тому +11

    This concert is so significant in American music history. Nobody writes or harmonizes like Simon and Garfunkel

    • @HamiltonRb
      @HamiltonRb 4 роки тому

      Everly Brothers, Bee Gees, CSN& Y were all amazing at harmony

  • @jarrodrainbow4435
    @jarrodrainbow4435 18 днів тому

    Can't emphasize enough how important this recording, Central Park, is. It is precious. Love it, Australia.

  • @revrotunda3206
    @revrotunda3206 4 роки тому +22

    The greatest duo of all time!

  • @philiphamer5959
    @philiphamer5959 Рік тому +7

    Genius pure and simple. A great song about a remarkable country. Sends shivers down my spine.

  • @Jeddi-kk8qq
    @Jeddi-kk8qq 6 років тому +10

    S&G words and music truly understood the pulse of a generation and nation. This particular song will apply and stand the test of time, as most from my generation are, still looking for, America.

  • @cogitoergosumo1793
    @cogitoergosumo1793 3 роки тому +209

    I was there. Right below the camera tower at age 15. I became a real person at “Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike “. The crowd reaction was like an epiphany. I wasn’t alone.

    • @day245
      @day245 3 роки тому +2

      The music collective. Read about how they changed frequencies to dissipate this feeling

    • @cogitoergosumo1793
      @cogitoergosumo1793 3 роки тому +6

      @@day245 fucking hell, get outta your basement. It was a live concert. Changed frequencies to keep people from feeling communal? Get out of your head. JFC.

    • @slyspy9819
      @slyspy9819 3 роки тому +2

      @@cogitoergosumo1793 No shit !

    • @s.baumard8161
      @s.baumard8161 3 роки тому

      I was in Paris a few months later ☺

    • @alanwinship2535
      @alanwinship2535 3 роки тому

      @@s.baumard8161 y

  • @Eric14492
    @Eric14492 3 роки тому +15

    I was at that concert with a whole bunch of my friends. We took the bus up from the Village. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @dennisahern624
    @dennisahern624 2 роки тому +9

    Years ago I had recently divorced after 28 years, and found myself odds with what might be next. I gave myself the time to fill a long held dream and rode my bike across the country. This song was the soundtrack in my head the whole way. I can’t hear it without thinking of the America I saw. I finished the ride and knew exactly what to do next. The ride, and this song, were transformative.

    • @susanwhite5839
      @susanwhite5839 2 роки тому

      Hope u are ok now>>divorce must be hard

  • @jodiegilbert9554
    @jodiegilbert9554 4 роки тому +4

    They never should have broken up... They are so beautiful together and thier music..... Wow!!!!! Such harmony...

  • @christianl.7221
    @christianl.7221 6 років тому +44

    What a masterpiece!!! Everything is exquisite in every detail:tune, lyrics, everything! Incredible performance too!

  • @carlosdavadi8276
    @carlosdavadi8276 Рік тому +5

    Paul Simon is a musical genius

  • @ichiyochannel4277
    @ichiyochannel4277 2 роки тому +2

    I'm an old Japanese man. Even now, every time I listen to this song it makes me think back of my life. It's short but a beautiful song with an incredibly beautiful poem! Thank you S&G. You are my eternal heroes.

  • @BackyardSwingset
    @BackyardSwingset 4 роки тому +36

    My God seriously together they were magic! Being there was the icing on the cake 😉🤙😎

  • @dsremingto
    @dsremingto 5 років тому +43

    Those guys had voices that were made to be joined in sound! Not many we ever hear like them. Miss them.

  • @jamiealick8821
    @jamiealick8821 6 років тому +285

    So sad they parted ways. They where both at their very best as a duo. The blending of their amazing voices and songs was a major part of the history of music at that time.. Great as solo acts - but were beyond amazing together... Glad I had a chance as a baby boomer to share in real time the amazing duo of Simon and Garfunkel..

    • @abacoabbie
      @abacoabbie 4 роки тому +15

      I'm a generation older than the baby boomers, but this song awakened me to the memes of your generation. I grew up then.

    • @TPOrchestra
      @TPOrchestra 4 роки тому +9

      I agree. I always felt that popular music lost much of its mojo when the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel broke up at around the same time, and later the brilliant "My Little Town" showed what could have been.

    • @salahtounsaoui9172
      @salahtounsaoui9172 3 роки тому +6

      I thoroughly agree with you their voices combined together contributed to their immense success

    • @bobcorkill7970
      @bobcorkill7970 3 роки тому +9

      Paul Simon the star.
      Writer, singer and songwriter.

    • @cynthiathompson2953
      @cynthiathompson2953 3 роки тому +9

      They are back on tour. So your dream has come true.

  • @shargor
    @shargor 6 років тому +34

    I will always play this song when I drive down New Jersey Turnpike. Never thought this song from 50 years ago would make me feel that way.

    • @TheAslterp
      @TheAslterp 4 роки тому +2

      It is a timeless song that pulls atour heart strings. We see ourselves in the song ♥️

  • @Rose-wv6nu
    @Rose-wv6nu 2 роки тому +2

    Love you so much Paul and Art 🎭

  • @googleuser5040
    @googleuser5040 5 років тому +15

    This song always gets me - reminds me of my trip back home on greyhound in summer of 78 - through Montana looking at the moonrise. This after a summer hitching out west (not alone - it was 78 after all). I was way into this song and Paul Simon's early solo stuff as well. It went well with my journal taking during this time...very inspiring.

  • @JAGBRG
    @JAGBRG 6 років тому +19

    I was there and this concert will never be forgotten!

    • @JAGBRG
      @JAGBRG 3 роки тому +1

      September 1981 Central Park, NYC

  • @howardsteier7840
    @howardsteier7840 7 років тому +1464

    If Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize
    for literature, Paul Simon should get one for poetry.

    • @sebasdebordeaux8347
      @sebasdebordeaux8347 6 років тому +54

      and melody!!!!!

    • @leticiam8804
      @leticiam8804 6 років тому +16

      yesss….

    • @barbarac102
      @barbarac102 6 років тому +27

      Agree! Him & James Taylor wrote lovely songs & are sweet men. They would better represent us.

    • @lihewang1961
      @lihewang1961 6 років тому +18

      Howard Steier agreed. funny thing is this song is completely prose

    • @fobbitguy
      @fobbitguy 5 років тому +22

      I still think it's a little weird dylan won the nobel prize

  • @Wooly564
    @Wooly564 6 років тому +36

    "....and the moon rose over an open field..."
    Just...............wow.

  • @AFAskygoddess
    @AFAskygoddess 3 роки тому +57

    *Remember when the world looked like this?*
    My heart breaks for the young people today. They have no idea how lovely it could be.

    • @annielaffond6073
      @annielaffond6073 3 роки тому +1

      C est tout à fait vrai.

    • @pavelmirov5328
      @pavelmirov5328 2 роки тому

      @@annielaffond6073 D'accord. And your France, sweet France, still exists? ❤️ "Douce France, cher pays de mon enfance, je vous aime dans mon coeur ... " Pardon me, my horrible French lingua franca , but I'm sure you've got the feeling. Salute, au revoir.

  • @j.k.1963
    @j.k.1963 5 років тому +6

    And singing with your arms crossed... how unconciously talented 😀

  • @bruneauhe9587
    @bruneauhe9587 6 років тому +15

    Quel duo magnifique qui est devenu une légende de la chanson internationale. Dommage que cette collaboration se soit arrêté trop tôt. Je suis fan depuis mes 13 ans et je le suis encore. Lorsque j'entends chanter à 78 ans Art, j'en ai la chair de poule et mes yeux pleins de larmes. Je vous écoute chaque jour.

  • @rickphillips2900
    @rickphillips2900 3 роки тому +48

    Watching this today after seeing a documentary about it being Art’s 80th. Beautiful lyrics and sounds. One of the best partnerships in musical history.

  • @PaleTrailRider
    @PaleTrailRider 9 років тому +23

    This song is perfect. Vocals. Lyrics. Guitar riffs. Perfect!

  • @joebrownell3738
    @joebrownell3738 3 роки тому +8

    WHAT A FANTSTIC PERFORMANCE BY A GREAT DUO OF A CLASSIC TUNE. LISTEN!!!!

  • @CorvusSynths
    @CorvusSynths 4 роки тому +25

    Their voices are so gentle it's like they're cradling you with their words. Top notch sound!

  • @thomaskent887
    @thomaskent887 8 років тому +13

    I've actually seen America. Been in 47 states traveling around, missed Alaska Florida and South Carolina, there is no doubt about its beauty.

  • @barbarac102
    @barbarac102 6 років тому +91

    How can ANYONE give this a thumb's down?? It was wonderful!!! Beautifully performed. Great lyrics, singing.. Their's was a match made in Heaven!! Performing live & sounding superb!!

    • @eddarby469
      @eddarby469 2 роки тому

      A troll's gotta troll

    • @xx_pcgamer_xx6866
      @xx_pcgamer_xx6866 2 роки тому

      how can ANYONE have a different opinion from me??

    • @artmcpharlin6730
      @artmcpharlin6730 2 роки тому +1

      Because their are democrats still around and hunting for votes.

  • @sto620
    @sto620 5 років тому +9

    I love how this song paints a mental picture with words and music. Absolutely brilliant.

  • @jakebarnes1950
    @jakebarnes1950 4 місяці тому +2

    Happy to remember this concert and the amazing night of magic!

  • @karengoldman3343
    @karengoldman3343 2 роки тому +1

    the night that began my "life"....the night i was "born",..in many ways. xoxoxo. love you so much paul...you are a prophet and a poet and an angel. xoxoxo

  • @StanTheMan74
    @StanTheMan74 5 років тому +6

    My Dad brought me and my brother up with this music and he is suffering with dementia now, it's equally comforting and painful to listen to. 💔

  • @CarnorJast1138
    @CarnorJast1138 9 років тому +24

    I have this concert on DVD (Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park) and play it quite often. I love it! This song in particular is one of the best of the show!

    • @kkkmaniak
      @kkkmaniak 6 років тому

      CarnorJast1138 I have it on VHS taped from the TV in 1981, also on vinyl and DVD.

  • @youkyouk7471
    @youkyouk7471 3 роки тому +5

    Paul Simon is Perfect 🙏❤️🙏

  • @lougeoffreyselders6493
    @lougeoffreyselders6493 5 років тому +57

    I was at this concert all the way in the back it was such a beautiful evening and beautiful concert

    • @wl1075
      @wl1075 4 роки тому +3

      Me too...and I agree. Beautiful evening and beautiful concert.

    • @nutsbutdum
      @nutsbutdum 4 роки тому +4

      You're a so lucky. I was born too late.

    • @pavelmirov5328
      @pavelmirov5328 2 роки тому

      A beautiful little winding evening :)

  • @AndruLu
    @AndruLu 4 роки тому +16

    So meaningful today. Aren’t we all “looking for America?”

    • @SuperNevile
      @SuperNevile 5 місяців тому

      Yes, but we are are all looking for our own countries too, in a world that seems to be splintering asunder.