Original subtitles

There are certain performers who were important

only because they made one important record.

Afterwards and before they were an oblivion for the most part

But I don't predict that kind of future for the next two people I'm going to introduce

They have a number of popular records, very very good ones

But they're good singers and fine fellows

Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Mr. Garfunkel

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

Here are Simon & Garfunkel

*Crescendo audience applause*

There are times when I'm singing one of Paul's songs that I

feel the song is really very personal and

probably shouldn't be sung by

anyone other than the writer

but there are other songs that go beyond one person

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♫ Hello darkness, my old friend ♫

♫ I've come to talk with you again ♫

♫ Because of visions softly creeping ♫

♫ Left its seeds while I was sleeping ♫

♫ And the vision that was planted in my brain ♫

♫ Still remains ♫

♫ Within the sound of silence ♫

(Int) I gotta say this: is Garfunkel sore, or what is it?

Is he sore at me?

(Int) Yeah

No as a matter of fact he's

spending his time these days on a farm in Scotland

(Int) But you're still in touch

I mean there's no problem I assume

Well

(AG) Yes

Although maybe you're feeling that contradicts what I was saying before:

"Do you see the possibility of you working together?"

And here I was saying

Um no the problems that keep us apart seem firmly in place

♫ And touch the sound of silence ♫

♫ Who-bop-a-loo-chi-bop ♫

♫ You're mine, I said ♫

♫ Who-bop-a-loo-chi-bop ♫

♫ You're mine ♫

♫ Hey schoolgirl in the second row ♫

♫The teacher's lookin over so I gotta whisper way down low♫

*Audience laughter*

(Int) Now, who was Tom and who was Jerry?

(AG) I was Tom (Int) Uh-huh, and uh

So I was Jerry

(Int) Yeah *Audience Laughter*

(AG) The name was the- (PS) -they gave it to us

(PS) the record company gave it to us

(Int) the record company gave it to you?

(Int) And what was the song?

(PS) Hey Schoolgirl (AG) Hey Schoolgirl

(Int) Hey Schoolgirl.

(Int) A big hit?

Well it was for us we were in high school

(AG) oh yeah (PS) oh yeah

(Int) When did you first perform with Paul Simon?

(Int) Not that you were paid for

But the first time the two of you ever harmonized

Might've been in a basement or a street corner

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Let's see, Paul was the neighbor three blocks away

whom I met in the sixth grade so we were eleven

(AG) And I think we were singing right in the beginning

(PS) He's a very unusual guy

(PS) He always was, even when he was ten

First time I really met him he was in this candy store

which we used to go to after we would get out of school

The owner of the store kicked him out

Said he had to get out

And I said to the guy, "Why did you kick him out?"

And he said "He comes in here all the time"

"And he shakes these boxes"

"to see which has the most good and plenty"

"And that's the one he buys"

*Interviewer Laughs*

(AG) I watched that show and I thought the point he

was making was that I was cheap

*Audience laughter*

(Int) Now uh

(AG) It must have been like 1954

that we were starting to harmonize together

Yeah, we would sing in my house

and we'd put stuff down on the tape machine

We would sing in talent shows in school

Cause when we were fifteen years old we ah

What we did is show up in the Hartford Stage theater

When we were fifteen

(Int) Now was this as (PS) And ah

(PS) No, no that was in (Int) Tom and-

(Int) Tom and Jerry? (PS) Oh that's right this is

(PS) Tom and Jerry

(PS) and ah

*Audience laughter*

(AG) Well for us it was definitely the absence of a name

And I can remember Tom Wilson,

our producer at Columbia records, saying "Oh hell, it's '65"

meaning it's such a modern era let's go with their real names

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(AG) That first album of 1964 to 5

Wednesday Morning, 3AM

Which had the Sound of Silence in it

Was not happening

And Paul went off to England and was a folk singer

And I went back to college where I was an architecture student

uptown at Columbia

Until about a year later

When the record company was saying

"We're getting a whole cult of call-ins"

"in the Florida area around one of the titles on this folk album"

(PS) And we were

(PS) Just parked in like uh

my car or his car, can't remember

Just parked in a car on the corner

Of like near our houses

Y'know in Queens

Just one night, late at night just sittin in a car smokin

And then the Sound of Silence came on

And we sat and we listened to the whole record

Just sittin there

Nothing happening, might be 1 in the morning

And then it was over and we just sat there for a minute

And then Artie looked at me and he said

"Those guys must be havin so much fun"

*Laughter*

*intro to Leaves that Are Green*

♫ I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song ♫

(AG) Wanna know how I look at that whole career?

From my point of view, we were not so much singers or writers

We were record makers

My real contribution beyond singing in those years

Was as record producer

I was the man behind the glass in the control room

sending the vocals of Paul and Artie out on mic

and, along with Paul and Roy Halee, we produced our records

(PS) If Paul writes the songs then what do you do

and it's difficult to explain that he does many things

*intro to Scarborough Fair/ Canticle*

♫ Are you going to Scarborough Fair? ♫

*Audience applause*

♫ parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme ♫

♫

♫ Remember me ♫

Scarborough Fair and I have been together now about 50 years

I never knew what the words were really about

I thought it was gorgeous wallpaper

But I think it's about loss, we all lose somebody

♫

♫ Tell her to make me a cambric shirt ♫

(PS) Mike Nichols called

and asked

said he had a book and he was gonna make a film

and it's called the Graduate and he

sent us the book

and uh he was in the midst of the film then

he was almost finished

he convinced us to do the music

and the music was supposed to be

(PS) mostly original music

But uh

What would happen is that

In order to fill up a scene

We would take some piece of music and put it there

just to hear what music would sound like

and uh

a few of the times that we did that

it was so effective

particularly Scarborough Fair which I thought that

worked very well in the movie

the Scarborough Fair scene

Mrs. Robinson was made up on the spot

♫ And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson ♫

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me

*Mrs. Robinson laughs*

Just a second I'll ask him

Are you armed?

♫ Stand up tall, Mrs. Robinson ♫

No, I don't believe he is

♫ God in Heaven smiles on those who pray ♫

(Aw) Winner of the record of the year is...

Simon & Garfunkel for Mrs. Robinson

*Audience Applause*

(AG) I do really want to thank *inaudible* membership for this award

(AG) and uh

♫

I want to accept it on behalf of

Roy Halee, our recording engineer

♫

And to my best friend, Paul Simon

Who wouldn't wear a tuxedo tonight

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(Int) Does this bother you that he's becoming an actor and

(PS) No

(Int) You're merely one of the world's most successful

(Int) Composers and songwriters?

(PS) No, I think in many ways it's very good that

(PS) that he does that

(AG) When I went to do Catch 22 it was

my intention to be in Mexico for a couple of months

while Paul was working on the next batch of

Bridge Over Troubled Waters songs

Uh

The problem was

Paul was ready with the next batch before

Mike Nichols was ready to release me from Guaymas, Mexico

So that's what made Paul for the first time feel

"I have to wait for Artie?"

Which, of course, is an unheard of thing

♫ Tom, get your plane right on time ♫

♫ I know your part'll go fine ♫

♫ Fly down to Mexico ♫

(PS) It's very pleasurable to write

in a stream of consciousness style

Very often

You find that what's in your mind is relevant

Although at the moment it doesn't seem so

♫

♫ I get the news I need on the weather report ♫

(AG) Paul was very busy suffering

Maybe it was a pose he played but

Simon & Garfunkel and the fun of making it

Did not give him great fun

♫ Hey ♫

♫ I've got nothin to do today but smile ♫

(Int) And anyway he seems to be going on with it and

(PS) Well he'll appear with uh

Jack Nicholson

(Int) Yeah

(PS) In a Jules Feiffer play, Carnal Knowledge

♫

(Int) Right

Sometime in May, sometime

♫ Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where ♫

♫ And we don't know where ♫

♫ Ah Ah Ah ♫

(AG) -start on the lower notes

(PS) Don't don't just let me get the chords first

before I get the notes

You just sing it and get both parts in your head

(AG) I think we had been traveling so much together

and we were so forced to be together

through the power of business

it began to tell on our friendship

which was always true

It always was what it is

we would never let ourselves be forced

into a friendship because it works or anything

So, because it was always either true or nothing,

it began to be abrasive to be so forced together and tour

♫ Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where ♫

♫ And we don't know where ♫

♫ Tom, get your plane right on time ♫

♫

♫ I know that you've been eager to fly now ♫

♫ Hey ♫

(PS) There's uh

(PS) Certain amount of competitiveness that's

y'know delved into the equation

by comparisons

And that's unhealthy for friendship

♫ The only living boy in New York ♫

♫ The only living boy in New York ♫

(PS) It's not like it's fun

(PS) If it was fun, I'd say "Okay"

"Sometimes we'll go out and sing old songs"

♫ If you'll be my bodyguard ♫

♫ I can be your long-lost pal ♫

(SM) I have had a very strong relationship with Paul

for over 25 years

You wanna be Mr. Alienation, you can be Mr. Alienation

♫ Call me Al ♫

Congratulations and welcome aboard

Oh thank you, Mr. Simon, thank you

Please call me Paul

Okay

Paul

(AG) In my opinion, I've been under the radar

All my professional life

it's time to say "Who is Art Garfunkel?"

♫ And that's all I know ♫

- Elena!

*Elena Screams*

- Now I want you to - (AG) I can't remember the time

with any precision

But I'm not asking you for the precise time

(Int) Some critics said

On his own,

Art Garfunkel is too syrupy, is too sweet

(AG) I had a hit outside America that was huge in

England, and in Europe, and in Japan called Bright Eyes

It's a very touching lyric

(AG) I get a lot of feedback when I'm not in this country

on that people fell in love to it

(AG) Or use it as their wedding song

(Int) Could you see the day

When circumstances were right

And you got back together with him?

Well I remember after we were not working together

I really enjoyed making records

the way my own ears heard them

(Int) uh we're very excited to have uh

my first guests on their show

On our show

It's our show, they're guests on our show

These gentlemen are about to begin their first tour

of the United States in 13 years

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

*Audience applause*

(Int) Here in North America,

Your Concert in the Park for 500,000 people

Was unbelievable, really terrific

(AG) Thanks

*Audience applause*

(PS) It was one of the most extraordinary evenings of our lives

But when we walked offstage

As we finished the last song of the encore

We walked off and on the steps of the set

I turn to Artie and I said

"What do you think? How did we do?" And he said

"Disaster"

*Audience laughter*

(PS) An overview was never our strong suit

*Audience laughter*

No I just didn't think we hit our musical strong standards

that's all

*Audience laughter*

They weren't our standards

(PS) Well, you were absolutely right, of course

(PS) There's no question about it

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(PS) So um

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(PS) How could I be happier than to be inducted into the

Hall of Fame with my oldest

pal

And we can join those other uh

Happy couples

Ike and Tina Turner

*Audience laughter*

The Everly Brothers

Mick and Keith

Paul and all of the other Beatles

and ah

Maybe they'll have a separate wing for all of us, y'know?

(Int) Here it goes they're coming down the stairs I believe

Simon & Garfunkel

- As we've been saying - Super excited

Set to begin their first tour in 20 years

And we are giving them the Morning launch here

Yes we can hear their feet

I think they're about to approach

(Int) We know they're in the building

And there they are!

(Int) Woah! *Audience applause*

Art Garfunkel

Paul Simon

Woo!

*Audience applause*

They're in the building, they're entering the studio!

*Audience applause*

You give me one word for what happened

That sent you on different paths

(AG) One word? (Int) One Word.

Tiredness

(Int) One Word

Oh uh one word

ego

*Interviewer laughs*

Ego, in fact, you said to us at one point,

I think, Paul when you were here

that at some point in your life with your friends,

particularly your old friends

It's time to let ego, go

There has to be a point, in fact, you say in Old Friends,

There's a line, "How terribly strange to be 70"

At some point you have to- to

live in the present and not the past

Is that what got you back together again?

Or is there one word for that too?

♫ troubled water ♫

♫ I will ease your mind ♫

Event occurred in 2007 Digitally released in 2009

♫ Like a bridge over troubled water ♫

♫ I will ease your mind ♫

(PS) No, I understand why,

I think I understand why

Why it happened

uh but I think it's best

to stay away

stay away

just for just for safety's sake

*Audience applause*

Thank you so much

Thank you to Doctor *inaudible*

Thank you to PBS

It's been a wonderful, wonderful night for me

*Audience applause*

Paul Simon played at the Newport Folk Festival

While they might not play together anymore, they're still Old Friends

♫