Now 50 years ago, on the 3rd of April in 1968 Columbia released the album:

Bookends / Simon & Garfunkel

  

Some facts:

Side A:

01 Bookends theme -> recorded in 1968 (no specific date known at this time)
02 Save the life of my child -> recorded / finsjed on December 14, 1967
03 America -> recorded/finished on February 1, 1968
04 Overs -> recorded/finished October 16, 1968
05 Voices of old people -> recorded/finished February 6, 1968
06 Old friends -> recorded 1968 )no specific date known at this time)
07 Bookends theme -> recorded in 1968 (no specific date known at this time)

Side B:

01 Fakin’ it-> recorded/finished June 1967
02 Punky’s dilemma -> recorded/finished October 5, 1967
03 Mrs. Robinson -> recorded/finshed February 2, 1968
04 A hazy shade of winter -> recorded/finished September 7, 1966
05 At the zoo -> recorded/finished January 8, 1967

Recorded in the same period but not on the album:

• You don’t know where your interest lies

 

Side A is musical story of persons: from young, through growing up and ending the “old folks home”. Wonderful songs like Overs and America. Still after 50 years very intruiging. In 1968 one could only wonder….where will they take us next?

While side A is the conceptual part of the album, Side B is for the a compilation of (hit)singles they had released in the past year. With B-sides from “Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme”.

As far as I can tell there’s no new release coming to this anniversay , just like Legacy Recordings did with “Bridge over trobled water”. Which is shame, because there will be still some nice recordings in the archives of Columbia that did not make it to the album or even to vinyl at all. Songs like:

• Groundhog

For now, enjoy one of the best albums of 1968!