Once, my brother & I were at a night game at Yankee Stadium & Paul Simon was seated close by within earshot. Although we didn't talk to him, he could hear us harmonizing to the National anthem, & gave us a smile of approval. I've been a Yankees & a Simon & Garfunkel fan since the 60's !
Paul Simon has taken me on a wonderful journey through his creativity in many genres of music. Since 1968 I have followed his journey and sung most of his songs. I love the way he is continually learning and improving on his craft and artistry. I saw him in Melbourne in 1983 with Art Garfunkel for their reunion tour, and again in 1997 for the Graceland tour. I have so many memories of his music and the concerts. He introduced me to many kinds of global music including, gospel, rhythm and blues, Andean (South American) music, and lastly South African music. I am really enjoying watching the youtube videos of his interviews and concerts. I loved him so much I used to follow a boy that looked just like him at school........a stalker.
My favorite ing about that song is that he sings about picking up a guitar, turning his amp uo loud and blowing the room away, but then they go into some mariachi style horn section
Paul is Paul not only a songwriter but a regular guy I think his best friend is art I grew up with there music to me I like is home ward bound and el condors pasa and old friends /book ends and the 59th street bridge song feeling groovy
Being an alum of FHHS myself, got a kick of him referring to Coach Sirota--also Dean of Boys. Fortunate enough to be around when he and Artie visited the Coach in the fall of 1968.
@@jakeornot6306 He knows that Artie helped him become who he is! By himself it would have been different. Arts voice and looks were very appealing to girls who are now women and still love Art. Art made Simon and Garfunkel!!!
Jeffrey Prokopowicz , 'Ironic cause "American Tune" was the one I thought of after he'd mentioned all of those other gems!!!! ;-) Gr8 original solo Simon song as well as later "live" S&G version(s)!!!!
Many thanks for posting this! Oddly, the very first lyrics shown here ("New York, like a scene from all those movies" and "I write my song to that city heartbeat") are NOT Paul Simon lyrics. They're from a 1981 Art Garfunkel song, "A Heart In New York" written by Benny Gallagher, and Graham Lyle, released nearly a decade after S&G split. He also calls "Hey Schoolgirl" (S&G's first hit as teens) "MY Schoolgirl."
+LanceAnderson77 They also titled a segment "I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound", which is actually a song by Tom Paxton not Paul Simon. They must have confused it with "Homeward Bound". Great video but some lazy errors.
I shook Mickey Mantle's hand before a Washington Capitals preseason game in 1984. They handed out cards with numbers on them. If your number matched one on the screen you won a Washington Capitals season ticket. They took us down to center ice before the game where Mantle and a couple other baseball players/execs. I was star struck and I froze! I didn't know how to act. But I wanted that Capitals ticket! The catch was they tried to get you to buy a second seat to go with it. I regularly went and go to sporting events alone, so one seat was fine. I did renew it for a season or two and later got a better season ticket.
So was i when i was a kid Football cards from Panini....in Italy.....italian Serie A of course..some of all those players are now football managers....Good memories
Love watching Paul Simon interviews. Usually somewhere near the middle he will reveal the secrets behind a song. So why didn't you write one about me ? Because you had the wrong number of syllables I guess.
I can understand it, though. Take someone with a face like Mick Jagger. It's perfect. It has aged as though it knew it had to maintain the image. He had the right bone structure. Try that face on any woman. (Not at all fair). And, maybe he didn't know how the lift would play out on him. (I do wonder about the color of the eyebrows, but, who really cares - it's Paul Simon).
He made me a baseball fan, and specifically a Yankees fan.... Paul Simon is a master songwriter, guitar player, performer.... I have to say though, I'd take the Elvis version of BOTW rather than Aretha Franklin's version..., but who the hell am I compared to Paul Simon?? Frank Sinatra's version of Mrs Robinson was horrid. I am so grateful I got to see him during his Farewell tour.... If I was rich, I'd go to his final show in NYC during this Farewell Tour, but I'm not so I will be grateful that in this lifetime I was able to see him perform....
Paul, what a putz! Should have gone and met Elvis! Elvis was probably just trying to be true to the melody line. Especially if somebody told him Paul was in the audience. I recall him singing that and thought he put alot of himself into it, a passionate performance. But I know what Paul is getting at, wanting Elvis to do an entirely different take on it.
I really enjoyed this interview. lovely hearing Paul speak about two passions in his life. But I am now curious about something. At what point was Paul disrespectful towards Artie? What?! The fact he and Artie support different baseball teams and Paul comments that it's typical of Artie? What?! Where?! All I heard was how much Paul loved, and still does, Artie's singing voice. How beautiful it was when he was a boy AMD still is!! I suspect die hard Artie fans are reading way too much into a comment that was not in anyway nasty.. it was an observation on how and why Artie chose to support his team.
There have been somewhat nasty things going on between the two, both from Paul and Artie. Artie once said Paul probably had a napoleon complex (agreeing to the interviewer), though he said he regret it a few months later. Paul deleted all Artie's vocals from the Hearts and Bones album, only telling Art after he did it. That's just some examples. The hard thing is figuring out which comments are friendly inside jokes, and which one really are subtle insults.
According to another interview with Simon, Art Garfunkel decided to do another film, "Carnal Knowledge" and didn't tell Paul Simon; Simon learned about this from another source. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the pinnacle of their success, and Garfunkel decided to venture into acting. He told Simon he was going to spend 6 months out of the year acting and told Simon to write more ballads in the meantime so they could perform the other 6 months. Simon was upset and thought Garfunkel was being ostentatious about his stardom and consequently Simon went on to produce his first solo album "Paul Simon" including "Mother and Child Reunion, and "Me and Julio Down By The School Yard" which was supposed to be the next Simon and Garfunkel album. Simon was fed up with Garfunkel's attitude and decided to record it as a solo album. Garfunkel also wanted ballads and Simon wanted to explore more rhythmical songs.
You grow up in a city with the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants, but decide to be a Phillies fan? yeah that is kind of a dick move. That's just a personality that wants to be in conflict.
@@subg8858 I'd read in an interview with Art that said he never wanted to go with the crowd so he purposely chose a non NY team to follow even though the Phillies record was worse than the NY teams.
Sure your right about the plastic surgery.Something doesn’t look right..But I find it odd he would have multiples surgeries and not do much about his hair anymore
Paul’s baseball coach told him he had to get serious about Ball or music?.Good choice music..Even on the college and high school level I don’t remember anyone in the 5’4 range raking on the baseball diamond.But maybe Paul was amazing..
I had to go pull up Elvis' version. Awesome vocal here live. When he sings "I will ease your mind" at the end, got the chills. If a singer can give you a chill, they are on to something! Frank wishes he could sing it like this. lol. Never was into Frank, so over rated. Heard they had to pay a bunch of teenagers to go to his first performance and scream like crazy after he finished the song. Promise you, no one had to pay Elvis's fans to scream after a performance. ELVIS - Bridge Over Troubled Water (NEW mix! Great sound!) - RUclips
As much as i love S&G music and love them both dearly because i think they are good people but i never thought paul will disrespect artie the way he did on this interview.
@@RA82828 Phooey on calling someone "overly-sensitive." Simon did, in fact, zing a bit, and why wouldn't he? You know someone that well.. go through all that.. truth.
I took it that he didn't want to met Elvis enough to be put into a situation where he would have to comment positively about Elvis's version of Paul's song when in fact he didn't like it.
As a Brit I can't say I know most of the celebrities on the wall and have no interest in baseball of which there is too much in this interview. Not the best Simon interview I've seen.
If Paul Simon wants to talk about baseball, that's who he is and what he wants to talk about. This isn't your fantasy interview, this is the interview you get. What if every time you spoke with a stranger all they wanted to talk to you about was your job instead of other things that interest you? I find it amusing that some think famous people are so one-dimensional. Like they couldn't possibly have interests or aptitudes towards other things aside from what they're famous for. Baseball likely makes up a lot of who Paul Simon actually is so if you like his music, I suppose you should care about baseball a little no?
@@wizardmix I keep seeing you around answering people's questions and you're always so bitchy. Lighten up please. Maybe lay off the caffeine or get more sleep or something.
@@fineneighborhood Where else have you seen me? I'd say the initial comment was bitchy and somewhat ethnocentric. Mine was defending Paul's right to talk about whatever he wants to talk about :)
Let's talk about your job for the next two hours and nothing else. Now imagine that's been going on for 50 years and everyone is still asking the same five questions? Let the man tell you who he really is and what he really likes. If you can't handle that, maybe you just don't like Paul Simon as much as you thought?
For one he states that all he was thinking about (musically) was rock and roll. Frank Sinatra plainly didn't interest him. That didn't stop him from actually seeing him in concert and admitting that he had no idea what a genius he was. He has always been a songwriter that will experiment and grow.
Wow, you are so deep! Seriously?! This is all you can come up with in a Paul Simon interview?? Sad...I'll bet you are just captivating at a cocktail party. You probably sit in a corner pointing out all the flaws in a persons face. Uuugh
@@lindahoyt5690 I've heard a million Simon interviews so the only thing I'm left with is a bad plastic surgery. Is it shallow, yes. Am I a bad person , yes. Do I answer my own questions, obviously.
Poor Paul... a vegetarian? Man thrives on meat and can't digest plant matter. No wonder he went downhill so fast since the early 2000's. He didn't look that bad then. He's in rough shape now. Hey Paul...if you read this...go carnivore! It'll bring you back and charge you up for the last inning.
@@marthapackard8649 some weird people commenting here! lol Paul’s in his 70’s - people age .. happens to everyone sadly! The difference is Paul has bought joy to peoples lives with his beautiful songs, that’s the most important thing surely?
Back in the 70's, someone asked me my religion. I said, "I'm an atheist, but if there is a god, it's Paul Simon." Guess my opinion hasn't changed much.
Philosopher, poet, and musician for sure. Also prophet and singer and songwriter.!!!
Once, my brother & I were at a night game at Yankee Stadium & Paul Simon was seated close by within earshot. Although we didn't talk to him, he could hear us harmonizing to the National anthem, & gave us a smile of approval. I've been a Yankees & a Simon & Garfunkel fan since the 60's !
jb Yesterday that’s a great story - thanks for sharing. You must have some good pipes!
@@mackenmd Thanks amigo .
Just read that Garfunkel is a lifelong Phillies fan. What a schmuck! Just kidding, sort of
Paul Simon has taken me on a wonderful journey through his creativity in many genres of music. Since 1968 I have followed his journey and sung most of his songs. I love the way he is continually learning and improving on his craft and artistry. I saw him in Melbourne in 1983 with Art Garfunkel for their reunion tour, and again in 1997 for the Graceland tour. I have so many memories of his music and the concerts. He introduced me to many kinds of global music including, gospel, rhythm and blues, Andean (South American) music,
and lastly South African music. I am really enjoying watching the youtube videos of his interviews and concerts. I loved him so much I used to follow a boy that looked just like him at school........a stalker.
Wow. You're so blessed to have seen those 2 tours.
Paul Simon does magic with that acoustic guitar. Damn!!!
Good to listen to Paul talk about baseball and not have to dwell on Artie. Learned a few new things too. Thanks for posting.
You can say that again, The Great Paul Simon.
Late in the evening, I love that song. I just had to play it yesterday.
My favorite ing about that song is that he sings about picking up a guitar, turning his amp uo loud and blowing the room away, but then they go into some mariachi style horn section
My Fav.
Another lifelong Yankees fan here ! And Simon and Garfunkel fan too
my hero paul simon....~~thank you for music...
Yeah the boxer, sound of silence, Graceland, bridge over troubled waters are great songs.
Paul is Paul not only a songwriter but a regular guy I think his best friend is art I grew up with there music to me I like is home ward bound and el condors pasa and old friends /book ends and the 59th street bridge song feeling groovy
A great guitarist, very underrated
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I think he made Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists list. Not very high like on the songwriter list...but still.
@@marthapackard8649 he was number 8 on the list …
Paul Simon, one of the best of the best. For me, he will always be alive!
A piece about Paul Simon, filled with royalty-free temp music.
Being an alum of FHHS myself, got a kick of him referring to Coach Sirota--also Dean of Boys. Fortunate enough to be around when he and Artie visited the Coach in the fall of 1968.
Legend.
Great interview and interviewer. Rhythm of the saints one of my favorite Paul Simon albums.
Such a smart and nice person - his songs aren’t my cup of tea, but he’s great.
love this, thanks! i don't know how he puts up with questions about garfunkel, still!
I guess because he's an adult, and they "made it" together.
@@jakeornot6306 He knows that Artie helped him become who he is! By himself it would have been different. Arts voice and looks were very appealing to girls who are now women and still love Art. Art made Simon and Garfunkel!!!
So many more great songs like American Tune that Paul didn’t even mention.
Jeffrey Prokopowicz , 'Ironic cause "American Tune" was the one I thought of after he'd mentioned all of those other gems!!!! ;-) Gr8 original solo Simon song as well as later "live" S&G version(s)!!!!
The question was what are his favorite songs, not yours.
Many thanks for posting this! Oddly, the very first lyrics shown here ("New York, like a scene from all those movies" and "I write my song to that city heartbeat") are NOT Paul Simon lyrics. They're from a 1981 Art Garfunkel song, "A Heart In New York" written by Benny Gallagher, and Graham Lyle, released nearly a decade after S&G split. He also calls "Hey Schoolgirl" (S&G's first hit as teens) "MY Schoolgirl."
+LanceAnderson77 They also titled a segment "I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound", which is actually a song by Tom Paxton not Paul Simon. They must have confused it with "Homeward Bound". Great video but some lazy errors.
I thought "A Heart In New York was Jimmy Web. It's okay if I am wrong just want to be sure.
@@DriftwoodScarecrow And the blur-to-in focus, is idiotic. Someone thought it was "cool?"
@@johncook7281 And Artie sings it beautifully!
Our Nation has never been more lonely than now.
How about now?
Great watch that...thanks for posting!
My he looks good for his age no wrinkles lovely skin still handsome
He comes across well in this.
This is a Great Interview!
I shook Mickey Mantle's hand before a Washington Capitals preseason game in 1984. They handed out cards with numbers on them. If your number matched one on the screen you won a Washington Capitals season ticket. They took us down to center ice before the game where Mantle and a couple other baseball players/execs. I was star struck and I froze! I didn't know how to act. But I wanted that Capitals ticket! The catch was they tried to get you to buy a second seat to go with it. I regularly went and go to sporting events alone, so one seat was fine. I did renew it for a season or two and later got a better season ticket.
man I was hoping fo Kodachrome as a favorite song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yea Paul love that song bridge over troubled water was another hit record I have a CD of Simon and garfunkel greasy hits
"closest to the wall"...we used to play that in the UK with football cards. I didn't realize it was played over the pond😊
So was i when i was a kid Football cards from Panini....in Italy.....italian Serie A of course..some of all those players are now football managers....Good memories
Love watching Paul Simon interviews. Usually somewhere near the middle he will reveal the secrets behind a song. So why didn't you write one about me ? Because you had the wrong number of syllables I guess.
Paul looks like he's had one of those bad "Liberace" face lifts.
I can understand it, though. Take someone with a face like Mick Jagger. It's perfect. It has aged as though it knew it had to maintain the image. He had the right bone structure. Try that face on any woman. (Not at all fair). And, maybe he didn't know how the lift would play out on him. (I do wonder about the color of the eyebrows, but, who really cares - it's Paul Simon).
"You're a vegetarian??? Holy cow!!!" :-D
Inspiring guy
He made me a baseball fan, and specifically a Yankees fan.... Paul Simon is a master songwriter, guitar player, performer.... I have to say though, I'd take the Elvis version of BOTW rather than Aretha Franklin's version..., but who the hell am I compared to Paul Simon?? Frank Sinatra's version of Mrs Robinson was horrid. I am so grateful I got to see him during his Farewell tour.... If I was rich, I'd go to his final show in NYC during this Farewell Tour, but I'm not so I will be grateful that in this lifetime I was able to see him perform....
Paul, what a putz! Should have gone and met Elvis! Elvis was probably just trying to be true to the melody line. Especially if somebody told him Paul was in the audience. I recall him singing that and thought he put alot of himself into it, a passionate performance. But I know what Paul is getting at, wanting Elvis to do an entirely different take on it.
New York yanks fan know wonder LOVE You
I really enjoyed this interview. lovely hearing Paul speak about two passions in his life.
But I am now curious about something. At what point was Paul disrespectful towards Artie? What?! The fact he and Artie support different baseball teams and Paul comments that it's typical of Artie? What?! Where?!
All I heard was how much Paul loved, and still does, Artie's singing voice. How beautiful it was when he was a boy AMD still is!!
I suspect die hard Artie fans are reading way too much into a comment that was not in anyway nasty.. it was an observation on how and why Artie chose to support his team.
There have been somewhat nasty things going on between the two, both from Paul and Artie. Artie once said Paul probably had a napoleon complex (agreeing to the interviewer), though he said he regret it a few months later. Paul deleted all Artie's vocals from the Hearts and Bones album, only telling Art after he did it. That's just some examples. The hard thing is figuring out which comments are friendly inside jokes, and which one really are subtle insults.
According to another interview with Simon, Art Garfunkel decided to do another film, "Carnal Knowledge" and didn't tell Paul Simon; Simon learned about this from another source. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the pinnacle of their success, and Garfunkel decided to venture into acting. He told Simon he was going to spend 6 months out of the year acting and told Simon to write more ballads in the meantime so they could perform the other 6 months. Simon was upset and thought Garfunkel was being ostentatious about his stardom and consequently Simon went on to produce his first solo album "Paul Simon" including "Mother and Child Reunion, and "Me and Julio Down By The School Yard" which was supposed to be the next Simon and Garfunkel album. Simon was fed up with Garfunkel's attitude and decided to record it as a solo album. Garfunkel also wanted ballads and Simon wanted to explore more rhythmical songs.
You grow up in a city with the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants, but decide to be a Phillies fan? yeah that is kind of a dick move. That's just a personality that wants to be in conflict.
@@subg8858 I'd read in an interview with Art that said he never wanted to go with the crowd so he purposely chose a non NY team to follow even though the Phillies record was worse than the NY teams.
je suisfrançaise et je ne sais pas si Paul fait encore des concerts ? Merci à vous !
and the American tune, solo acoustic version.
Great interview, but the ads are as annoying as hell.
We used to flip soccer cards from Panini and try to win the one missing from your collection....
I think the song was “Hey school girl” not “My school girl”
Annoying music while Paul is talking. They can't even afford to use Paul Simon music. Don't play anything.
Kinda sad about all the plastic surgery but his music will always be beautiful
Sure your right about the plastic surgery.Something doesn’t look right..But I find it odd he would have multiples surgeries and not do much about his hair anymore
Is the plastic surgery a fact or suspicion because he has always looked way younger than his age.
I'm not Paul but I would have put Mother and Child Reunion in one of those 5.
Hid daughter is beautiful she looks like him
Paul’s baseball coach told him he had to get serious about Ball or music?.Good choice music..Even on the college and high school level I don’t remember anyone in the 5’4 range raking on the baseball diamond.But maybe Paul was amazing..
Hack Wilson wasn't much taller than that. Wee Willie keeler is actually listed as 5'4"
Its all in the wrists anyway.
😍🎵🎶🎸💟💝💖👍
Who won the card throwing game?
Cool finger nails
Free picks
Where have all the heroes gone?
Needs more bumpers
Wonder they did not mention Night game ..
22:07 the words from the guy that wrote Duncan and My Little Town ???!!!!!
I had to go pull up Elvis' version. Awesome vocal here live. When he sings "I will ease your mind" at the end, got the chills. If a singer can give you a chill, they are on to something! Frank wishes he could sing it like this. lol. Never was into Frank, so over rated. Heard they had to pay a bunch of teenagers to go to his first performance and scream like crazy after he finished the song. Promise you, no one had to pay Elvis's fans to scream after a performance. ELVIS - Bridge Over Troubled Water (NEW mix! Great sound!) - RUclips
Paul has always been a cute guy, wtf with the plastic?
Plastic? It called aging
how does fran healy have a job?
...and not a note of Paul Simon guitar playing in this thing? Some joe-blow strumming and picking a guitar...cheaper, anyway.
As much as i love S&G music and love them both dearly because i think they are good people but i never thought paul will disrespect artie the way he did on this interview.
@@RA82828 Phooey on calling someone "overly-sensitive." Simon did, in fact, zing a bit, and why wouldn't he? You know someone that well.. go through all that.. truth.
He's starting to look a little like Jiminy Cricket.
Your shows interlude/transition music; is, both goofy and gratuitous.
so is your punctuation!
I don't understand why Paul wouldn't want to meet Elvis??
As I heard it, it seems Simon knew he was being an arrogant jerk at that moment.
I took it that he didn't want to met Elvis enough to be put into a situation where he would have to comment positively about Elvis's version of Paul's song when in fact he didn't like it.
As a Brit I can't say I know most of the celebrities on the wall and have no interest in baseball of which there is too much in this interview. Not the best Simon interview I've seen.
If Paul Simon wants to talk about baseball, that's who he is and what he wants to talk about. This isn't your fantasy interview, this is the interview you get. What if every time you spoke with a stranger all they wanted to talk to you about was your job instead of other things that interest you?
I find it amusing that some think famous people are so one-dimensional. Like they couldn't possibly have interests or aptitudes towards other things aside from what they're famous for.
Baseball likely makes up a lot of who Paul Simon actually is so if you like his music, I suppose you should care about baseball a little no?
@@wizardmix I keep seeing you around answering people's questions and you're always so bitchy. Lighten up please. Maybe lay off the caffeine or get more sleep or something.
@@fineneighborhood Where else have you seen me? I'd say the initial comment was bitchy and somewhat ethnocentric. Mine was defending Paul's right to talk about whatever he wants to talk about :)
It's a SPORTS show interview.
Great artist, just wish he would cut his nails shorter, find it a bit creepy, maybe its to strum the guitar?
6 minutes in and they're still talking about baseball? See ya.....
+Paul Ladendorf , just to open him up. Which worked, as I gather.
Let's talk about your job for the next two hours and nothing else. Now imagine that's been going on for 50 years and everyone is still asking the same five questions? Let the man tell you who he really is and what he really likes. If you can't handle that, maybe you just don't like Paul Simon as much as you thought?
I'm glad they did because it speaks volumes about Paul Simon....
Maybe not take an interviewer with a sore throat.
cool botox bro
A 'popular' Songwriter that is not a Sinatra fan, that doesn't really make sense ? Frank the 'phrasing' master ! Hmmm ?
Frank was a masterful singer but not much of a songwriter, he made his fortune singing someone else's tunes
For one he states that all he was thinking about (musically) was rock and roll. Frank Sinatra plainly didn't interest him. That didn't stop him from actually seeing him in concert and admitting that he had no idea what a genius he was. He has always been a songwriter that will experiment and grow.
Plastic surgery ... helllllooooo!
I know. I wish that these guys would stop with this. It looks bizarre.
Wow, you are so deep! Seriously?! This is all you can come up with in a Paul Simon interview?? Sad...I'll bet you are just captivating at a cocktail party. You probably sit in a corner pointing out all the flaws in a persons face. Uuugh
Oh cmon he can do whatever the hell has wants.
@@gerrydooley951 he has a wheat allergy that effect him
@@lindahoyt5690 I've heard a million Simon interviews so the only thing I'm left with is a bad plastic surgery. Is it shallow, yes. Am I a bad person , yes. Do I answer my own questions, obviously.
Poor Paul... a vegetarian? Man thrives on meat and can't digest plant matter. No wonder he went downhill so fast since the early 2000's. He didn't look that bad then. He's in rough shape now. Hey Paul...if you read this...go carnivore! It'll bring you back and charge you up for the last inning.
Paul Simon is 79 and still going strong. Jeeze! Chill out.
@@marthapackard8649 some weird people commenting here! lol Paul’s in his 70’s - people age .. happens to everyone sadly! The difference is Paul has bought joy to peoples lives with his beautiful songs, that’s the most important thing surely?
STFU He’s completely with it at freaking 80. 😄
Back in the 70's, someone asked me my religion. I said, "I'm an atheist, but if there is a god, it's Paul Simon." Guess my opinion hasn't changed much.