Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Occupation

• Art Garfunkel: Voice
• Paul Simon: guitar, vocals
• Joe South: Guitar

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is the title of an album of American duo Simon and Garfunkel. The album was released in the U.S. on 10 October 1966. From Rolling Stone magazine it was " (according to Rolling Stone ) The 500 best albums of all time " elected in 2003 to the space 201. The album debuted on November 12, 1966 in the U.S. Billboard charts, where it stayed a total of 145 weeks; the best placement at this time was ranked 4th

The title " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " ( German: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme) is derived from the repetitive verse 2 in each line of the opening track Scarborough Fair / Canticle.

History

After the success of the published early 1966 album " Sounds of Silence ", which marked the breakthrough of Simon & Garfunkel, the duo went into the studio to record the next album. They were able to draw on the already fairly extensive body of written by Paul Simon songs. Some titles had been recorded in 1963 on his first published in the UK only solo album "The Paul Simon Songbook" Simon. As a producer came here - as with Sounds of Silence - again Bob Johnston on.

Also this album was recorded primarily in Nashville.

Track list

As usual, come almost all the tracks of 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 sequence of messages and the English-language version of the popular Christmas carol "Silent Night, Holy Night " by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr.

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

Trivia

• Homeward Bound was already included on the UK edition of Sounds of Silence.
• The play Scarborough Fair was underlaid with a counter - melody. The piece is called Canticle ( German: praise ) and is largely based on the 1965 Paul Simon released on his first solo album play The Side of a Hill
• The message sequence in 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night is undated. However, since contributors pointing to the death of Lenny Bruce, it probably comes from his death, August 3, 1966.
• The piece with the unwieldy title A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission ) was published by Simon also in 1965 under the title A Simple Desultory Philippic ( Or How I Was Lyndon Johnsoned Into Submission ). Also in this piece Lenny Bruce is not even mentioned.

Cover versions

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

• Homeward Bound The Quiet Five ( 1966)

• Harpers Bizarre (1967 )

• Gregorian (1999)
• Luka Megurine ( JPZ Records ) (2009 )

Since " Scarborough Fair " an old folk song, it ( Carly Simon, among others, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Whittaker, ) was also used by many other artists interpreted. There was, however, apart from the abovementioned no new edition, which is based on the arrangement of Simon & Garfunkel.