1967: January 22nd concert in the New York Times

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“Wow Carnegie Hall” says Art Garfunkel before start singing ‘Leave that are green”.

Next week it will be 48 years ago that Simon & Garfunkel played New York City’s Philharmonic Hall. Still at the beginning of their career with two albums (“Sounds of Silence”, “Parseley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme”) released on Columbia Records, this was a wonderful concert at the start of 1967.

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On the left is the announcement of the concert that night (Janaury 22) and on the right the review of the concert which was published on the 23rd.

The concert was eventually released – not completely – in 2002 as “Simon & Garfunkel – Live from New York City, 1967” (Columbia/Legacy 5080679) after parts of it had appeared on the triple cd-set “Old Friends”.

And Carnegie Hall? Well that woul have to wait untill 1968

2 thoughts on “1967: January 22nd concert in the New York Times

  1. The (famous) great iconic poster is by Milton Glaser, who appears to have autographed that one. I was at that show (now Avery Fisher Hall), and it was great, but at the time I expected there would be some electric component to the show (like the “Back to College” boot), so I might have been slightly disappointed….

    1. In retrospect you will be happy to have witnessed this show, I guess. In 1967 S&G seemed to have toured with The Cyrkle (famous by Paul Simon’s “Red rubber ball”) as backing band. 1969 they toured with the Wrecking Crew-members. But when and where exactly we cannot find anyfurther info. Thanks for sharing your memories with us.

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