Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Studio album by Simon & Garfunkel
Publication (s)	1966
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Folk rock
Title (number)	12
running time	29m14s
occupation	Paul Simon : guitar , vocals Art Garfunkel : Singing Joe South : guitar
production	Bob Johnston
Studio (s)	CBS Studios in Nashville
chronology Sounds of Silence (1966) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme The Graduate (album) (1968)

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is a music album by the American duo Simon & Garfunkel . It was released in the United States on October 10, 1966. From Rolling Stone magazine it was "in 2003 at number 201 of the all time top 500 albums selected". The album went into the US Billboard charts on November 12, 1966, where it stayed for a total of 145 weeks; the best placement during this time was 4th place.

The title Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (German: ' Petersilie , Sage , Rosmarin und Thymian ') is derived from the second verse of the opening piece Scarborough Fair / Canticle, which is repeated in every stanza .

history

After the success of the album Sounds of Silence , released in early 1966 , which marked the breakthrough for Simon & Garfunkel, the duo went into the studio to record the next album. In doing so, they were able to fall back on the already quite extensive pool of titles written by Paul Simon. Simon had already recorded some tracks in 1965 on his solo album The Paul Simon Songbook , which was initially only released in Great Britain . As a producer here - as with Sounds of Silence - Bob Johnston appeared again.

This album was also mostly made in Nashville.

Track list

As usual, almost all of the titles are by Paul Simon. The only exceptions are the text of the old English folk song Scarborough Fair and 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night , which contains a news sequence and the English-language version of the well-known Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr .

Parsley (parsley), sage (sage), rosemary (rosemary) and thyme (thyme).

page 1

1. Scarborough Fair / Canticle - 3:10
2. Patterns - 2:42
3. Cloudy - 2:10
4. Homeward Bound - 2:30
5. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine - 2:44
6. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin 'Groovy) - 1:43

Page 2

1. The Dangling Conversation - 2:37
2. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall - 2:10
3. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) - 2:12
4. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her - 2:04
5. A Poem on the Underground Wall - 1:52
6. 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night - 2:01

New edition

On the new edition of the album in the box The Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-1970 there are also two demo recordings of the pieces Patterns and A Poem on the Underground Wall .

Others

• Homeward Bound was already featured on the UK edition of Sounds of Silence .
• The piece Scarborough Fair was underlaid with a counter melody. The piece is called Canticle (German: 'Lobgesang') and is based in large parts on The Side of a Hill, which Paul Simon released on his first solo album in 1965 .
• The news sequence in 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night is undated. However, since u. a. If reference is made to the death of Lenny Bruce , it probably dates from the day of his death, August 3, 1966.
• The piece with the awkward title A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara 'd into Submission) was also published by Simon in 1965 under the title A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Lyndon Johnson ' d into Submission) . (This subtitle was spoken at the beginning of the piece, but not taken over in the title.) Lenny Bruce is mentioned again in this piece.

Cover versions

The following well-known new recordings ( cover versions ) have been released over the years:

• Homeward Bound
  • The Quiet Five (1966)
• The 59th Street Bridge Song
  • Harper's Bizarre (1967)
• Scarborough Fair
  • Gregorian (1999)
  • Luka Megurine (JPz Records) (2009)
  • Biff Byford (2020)

Since Scarborough Fair is an old folk song, it has also been interpreted by many other artists, including Marianne Faithfull , Roger Whittaker and Carly Simon .

Web link

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ( Memento April 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Page 3
2. ↑ Simon & Garfunkel: The Columbia Studio Recordings, 1964–1970 , p. 47 (credits to 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night  )
3. ↑ Homepage of JPz Records ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
4. ^ School of Hard Knocks - Biff Byford | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2020 (American English).