According to this advertisement in CashBox:
Paul and Art were playing a week long at the Riverboat Coffee House in Canada’s Toronto,
A bit confusing is the fact that they also played a show on March 30th at Ithaca College Gynasium, which is in the New York State in the USA.
I knew from the information given to me by Cobi Scheijer in the late ’90s that Paul Simon performed in Holland at the end of 1965, but was it in November or December?
Now it is confirmed by an editorial in CashBox Magazine:
December 1st 1965: on the day he arrived in Holland he performed in Haarlem (near Amsterdam) in De Waag.
And on the 6th he would appear on Dutch TV as well.
His management has informed that, on February 11th, the frontman and singer of Ladysmith Black Mombaza, Joseph Shabala, died.
Well known for his cooperation on Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland, he won five Grammy Awards with his group.
Mr. Shabalala stopped his active career in 2014.
50 years ago, on January 26th in 1970, Simon & Garfunkel’s epic album ‘Bridge over troubled water‘ was released by Columbia Records.
There’s no news from Columbia Records if there will be a special release of this album, besides the one that was released some 10 years ago.
Here on this blog many postings will be published with information about this album, the single-45rpm’s that were taken from it, etc etc.
And ofcourse the many album-versions that followed.
Anyway, another good reason to play this wonderful album again.
Live from Here with Chris Thile as a special guest for the November 23rd broadcast, live from New York City’s Town Hall.
Paul Simon was scheduled earlier, October 26th to be precise, but fell ill due to a severe cold.
Paul Simon performed with Chris Thile and his band:
American Tune
Questions for the angels
St Judy’s Comet
Kodachrome
See his “American Tune’ here and see YouTube for 3 more songs
On October 18, 1965, BBC 1 showed Stramash. Besides Paul Simon, also performing were: Elkie Brooks (“Pearl’s a singer”) and Peter & Gordon.
Found another entry to the 1965 concerts:
With the help of Joe we were able to add the following concerts to the 1967 in Concert page.
Auburn State Teachers College USA NY
University of Massachusetts USA
Pennsylvania State University USA
Hamilton College USA
Rutgers University USA
Florida University USA
Cortland State University USA NY
Milwaukee Marquette University USA MI
Ithaca College USA
Memphis State USA
Arkansas State USA
Worcester Tech USA
Stony Brook State University USA
American University USA
Columbia University USA
Akron Akron University USA OH
University of West Virginia USA
Vanderbilt University USA
Southern Georgia University USA
Brockport State College USA NY
University of Fairfield USA
University of North Ontario CAN
University of Maine USA
Dallas Southern Methodist University USA TX
Troy R.P.I USA NY
Carnegie Tech USA
Brunswick Bowdoin College USA ME
Johns Hopkins USA
Rider College USA
Fairleigh Dickenson University USA
Hiram College USA
Suffolk College USA NY
Adelphi College USA
Mundelein College USA
East Illinois University USA
Grove City College USA
Alfred University USA
Emmitsburg St Joseph’s USA MD
St Anselm USA
University of Pittsburg USA
Univeristy of Connecticut USA
Allenghy College USA
Oberlin College USA OH
Brandeis University USA
University of New Brunswick USA
Ottawa Carleton University USA
Lehigh University USA
Boston MIT USA
Plattsburg State University USA NY
These 48 concerts to our database. Unfortunately there are no dates known for these, so if anyone has attended one of these please feel free to send a comment!
PAUL SIMON LIVE RECORDING 1965. A cassette tape containing approx 39 minutes of a recording made of Paul Simon performing live at Brentwood Folk Club in the summer of 1965. Local radio broadcaster Dennis Rookard made the recording with the permission of Paul Simon, and later in his life made a copy to present to the current vendor on their 40th birthday.
The tracklist runs as follows:
Old Blue,
What Did You Learn at School Today,
George Crumpet,
Daddy’s Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow,
Leaves That Are Green,
You Can Tell The World,
Bingo,
Children,
Go Where I Send Thee,
Man of Constant Sorrow,
Autumn to May,
The Sound of Silence.
The recording captures well the atmosphere of the busy club, and is of decent quality considering the technical limitations. The cassette is sold with a hand signed letter sent circa 1996 from Dennis Rookard to the current vendor detailing his gift of the cassette.
It is on auction at a starting price of 700 GBP.
It would have been easy to write “end of an era”, but no. With his show at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, Paul Simon ended his international touring career.
And now the “Homeward Bound – Farewell Tour” is finished.
I think, I am sure, that those who attended a show these last months have seen a great artist. Paul Simon the driving force with great musicians around him.
When his recent cd was released earlier this month, a Dutch magazine wrote that Paul Simon not just stopped with performing, but was also finished writing. Well I can’t and will not believe that. Paul will surely surprise with many beautiful songs in the near future.
My first show was in Brussels, during the One-trick Pony tour, which was a tremendous show and now on July 7th this year in Amsterdam. Some 38 years of joy! Thank you Paul (and all those who came with you to The Netherlands) for great music.
Paul Simon - 'Time it was...it was' 