If You Ask Me, The Harmony Game Is THE Documentary About Them. I Know It Only Covers Bridge, But It's

If you ask me, The Harmony Game is THE documentary about them. I know it only covers Bridge, but it's so interesting, with lots of people sharing their memories, and most of all respectful of everyone involved.

You do get the sense of a group of friends who loved music and enjoyed each others' company while creating it.

This is how I think about them, this is how I'd love the world to remember them in years to come.

For me, most of all, it has the vibe between Simon and Garfunkel, and when I look at it nowadays I go, “Gee, we were so bonded.” Our sense of humor is inside, we knew each other, what we’re talking about. It comes off nice on-screen, it’s like a scrapbook photo for me. It warms my heart to see this early Paul and Artie. - Art on the Songs of America television special.

@duchess-of-chaos' post on Feuilles-O reminded me of something.

Bridge Over Troubled Water was published on January 26, 1970.

I remember hearing Feullies-O for the first time on some compilation like 20 years ago or something, and there were other demos they cut later, on July 8, 1970. I know those demos were later included on Sounds of Silence releases in 2000s, but I checked on the compilation booklet and that's the date they were recorded, not 1966 but 1970.

The demos I'm talking about are Barbriallen, Roving Gambler and Rose of Aberdeen. The latter was also performed live at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on July 18, 1970 (link has the wrong title, but it's the right song). As we know, they also used to sing That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine and Lightning Express in concerts between 1969 and 1970, not to mention Bye Bye Love, which they covered since 1968 at least.

I've been wondering all these years... were they just having fun, recording those tracks in Summer 1970? Or maybe, just maybe... they were thinking about a potential next album?

Stay with me on this for a while. How to follow the huge success of BOTW? A compilation of cover songs would have taken lots of pressure off of them. And what's better that a homage to the Everly Brothers, and/or to traditional music in general?

This is just a thought of course, but I've been wondering for quite some time... it would've been a marvelous album, imho. They sound great singing these songs, their voices are a perfect match to this kind of music.

What you think about it? Am I being silly, or is it at least a bit fascinating?

Do you ever think about the demo version with "half of my life is gone and I don't know where" just to add salt to the wound?

do you ever listen to this song and just go so profoundly insane its as if you will never ever recover? do you ever think about Paul simon "half of the time we're gone but we don't know where, we don't know where, the only living boy in new york" and art garfunkel replying with "here i am" in the most haunting harmonies that could fill a canyon? i mean do you ever think about that.

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