and here’s some 45rpm material:

 

   

CBS 5083 [Holland]:

   

CBS 6061 [Holland]

   

CBS 6061 [Italy]

CBS SONY 06SP 204 [Japan]

With many thanks to Michele Neri from Italy I can now show some covers from European releases:

Holland, with ‘Fingerpaint’:

   

Italy, with ‘(what a) Wonderful world’:

   

Yugoslavia, on the SUZY label, with ‘Fingerpaint’ CBS 86032 :

   

United Kingdom:

   

In 1977 Art Garfunkel had finished his wonderful album with Jimmy Webb songs, ‘Watermark’. It was released in Europe in the summer, but suddenly a non-lp track made it to the charts. Sam Cooke’s  ‘(What a)Wonderful World’ sung by Art, together with James Taylor and Paul Simon was an international hit. But for the record company a ‘dissaster’, because now people who want to buy the album whith that that song on it. Nobody would by a single too. Or, even worse, they’d buy the single and the album was left in the shops. So they decide the re-press the album and delete one track from it and include ‘(what a) Wonderful World’ instead.

In Holland the album was already in the shops, with ‘Fingerpaint’ on it, as it was intended. That album-version was called back to CBS Holland and withdrawn. Luckily I had bought an original copy….

  

Below are pictures of the American promotional issue of the album, Columbia Recors JC 39475. Whereas the Dutch release has ‘just’ one production year, 1977, mentioned at the bottom of the label, this one has also 1978 added. And also remarkable is the fact that the two sides have different cataloguenumbers:
 

AL 34975 and BL 34975. Anyway it is the first time I have encountered this numbering. The Dutch pressing refers to JC 34975.

The album was nnounced in Billboard Magazine of October 15, 1977:

The track ‘Fingerpaint’ also did not make it again to the CD release. We can now only wait for a new release which might include demo’s and outtakes!

   

Above are the release on CBS Sony (Japan) and a re-release (?) on Columbia Records now with PC 34975 as catalogue number

When his major movie One-trick Pony made it to the cinemas and there ofcourse was a ‘soundtrack’-album released Paul Simon went on tour to promote it all. It was his first album for a new record company – Warner Brothes – with another hit too: ‘Late in the evening’.

Here are the dates for the tour in Europe:

1980-10-18 Vienna – Austria Sophiensaal
1980-10-21 Munich – Germany Olympiahalle
1980-10-24 Hamburg – Germany Congress Centrum Hamburg
1980-10-25 New York – USA / New York Palladium
1980-10-27 Drammen, Norway, Drammenshallen
1980-10-28, Gothenburg, Sweden, Scandinavium,
1980-10-30 Paris – France Theatre du Champs Elysees (with Art Garfunkel)
1980-11-01 Frankfurt – Germany Jahrhunderthalle
1980-11-02 Brusseles – Belgium Forest National
1980-11-03 Amsterdam – Netherlands Carre
1980-11-04 London – United Kingdom Apollo Hammersmith
1980-11-06 London – United Kingdom Apollo Hammersmith
1980-11-07 London – United Kingdom Apollo Hammersmith

Between Hamburg and Paris, it seems that he returned to New York for a concert in The Palladium, but I still need to find confirmation for that one.

In Paris his old friend and ex-partner Art Garfunkel joined him on stage for 2 songs: The boxer – Scarborough Fair) (a tape exists).

I visited the show in Brussels (Belgium) and it still lingers on in my memory as one of the best ever I ahve seen. Paul was in very good mood (he jumped on the piano to wave to the audience) and the band was fantastic. The horn-section…wonderful! And ofcourse Steve Gadd on drums.

Update (Feb 6th 2012):

The NYC Paladium show took place on September 3oth ;  it was reviewed in the New York Times of October 2nd:

In the last posting I mentioned the concert of Frank Zappa wit The Mothers of Invention in Buffalo. There is page-large review of the concert available, but here are the interesting Simon & Garfunkel bits:

and:

What an evening this must have been, May 2nd 1969!

Recently I posted an article about a Simon & Garfunkel performance during a Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention concert in Buffalo (NY). There has always been a lot of discussion in which year this had taken place and if it did indeed. Even Mr. Zappa himself places it in what now seems a wrong year (1967).

Well that ‘mystery’ is now solved,with many thanks to the library of the University of Buffalo. The perfomance was not intended, S&G were just around and Frank must have agreed to add them in the show.

The show took place on May 2nd in 1969. In the Univeristy newspaper it was reviewed.

As soon as I receive that review I will ofcourse post it

2 new dates to 1965:

1965-01-18 London The Roundhouse
1965-01-25 London The Roundhouse

This handbill was being offered on eBay!

and the comment in Melody Maker 2 weeks later:

Jim Abbott posted this comment, or better a request, recently on this blog:

I am looking for similar info and reviews of Jackson C Frank, from the same era–1965 and 1968. If you have any at all, or can locate them , please contact me at jimbob12404@yahoo.com I was Jack’s freidn and guardian and am trying to fnish a book about him.   I cannot afford to go to the UK so I have the internet to work with. Thank you.

Maybe readers of this blog have more info that might be usefull to Jim. You can reach Jim at the above mentioned email-address.
If you any infomation about the cooperation between Jackson C. Frank and Paul Simon (& Art Garfunkel) in the UK in 1964/1965 you are also invited to share that info here, on this blog!

I have been through the Melody Makers that I have, but only one time Jackson’s name is mention: his farewell concert at Les Cousins on December 17th (Melody Maker December 18 1965)