The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)

The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970) is the third box set of Simon & Garfunkel recordings. This 5 CD Set contains all of their studio albums from 1964 to 1970. The CDs are packaged in miniature recreations of the original LP jackets, and an annotated booklet is also included.[1]

The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)
Box set by
Simon & Garfunkel
Released2001
Recorded1964–1970
GenreFolk rock
LabelColumbia
Simon & Garfunkel chronology
Tales from New York
(2000)		 The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970)
(2001)		 Live from New York City, 1967
(2002)
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The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970) is the third Simon & Garfunkel anthology issued by Columbia Records, succeeding Collected Works (1981), and Old Friends (1997).

All five discs contain several bonus tracks of demos, alternate takes, single flip-sides, unissued outtakes and non-album songs per disc, many of which were previously issued on the 1997 retrospective, Old Friends.

Track listing

All songs by Paul Simon, except as indicated. * - Bonus track

Disc one: Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964; Stereo)

  1. "You Can Tell the World" – 2:47 (Bob Gibson/Bob Camp)
  2. "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" – 2:11 (Ed McCurdy)
  3. "Bleecker Street" – 2:44
  4. "Sparrow" – 2:49
  5. "Benedictus" – 2:38 (Traditional, arranged and adapted by Simon and Art Garfunkel)
  6. "The Sound of Silence" – 3:08
  7. "He Was My Brother" – 2:48 (Paul Kane (see note))
  8. "Peggy-O" – 2:26 (Traditional)
  9. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" – 2:06 (Traditional)
  10. "The Sun Is Burning" – 2:49 (Ian Campbell)
  11. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 2:52 (Bob Dylan)
  12. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." – 2:13
  13. "Bleecker Street" (Demo version)* - 2:42
  14. "He Was My Brother" (Take 1)* - 2:46
  15. "The Sun Is Burning" (Take 12) * - 2:46

Note: Paul Kane is one of the aliases used by Paul Simon.

Disc two: Sounds of Silence (1966; Stereo)

  1. "The Sound of Silence" – 3:08
  2. "Leaves That Are Green" – 2:23
  3. "Blessed" – 3:16
  4. "Kathy's Song" – 3:21
  5. "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" – 2:37
  6. "Anji" – 2:17 (Davey Graham)
  7. "Richard Cory" – 2:57
  8. "A Most Peculiar Man" – 2:34
  9. "April Come She Will" – 1:51
  10. "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" – 2:00
  11. "I Am a Rock" – 2:50
  12. "Blues Run the Game"* – 2:55 (Jackson C. Frank)
  13. "Barbriallen"* – 4:06 (Traditional)
  14. "Rose of Aberdeen"* – 2:02 (Traditional)
  15. "Roving Gambler"* – 3:03 (Traditional)

Disc three: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966; Stereo)

  1. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" – 3:10 (Simon, Garfunkel)
  2. "Patterns" – 2:42
  3. "Cloudy" – 2:10
  4. "Homeward Bound" – 2:30
  5. "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" – 2:44
  6. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" – 1:43
  7. "The Dangling Conversation" – 2:37
  8. "Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall" – 2:10
  9. "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" – 2:12
  10. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" – 2:04
  11. "A Poem on the Underground Wall" – 1:52
  12. "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" – 2:01
  13. "Patterns" (Demo version)*
  14. "A Poem on the Underground Wall" (Demo version)*

Disc four: Bookends (1968; Stereo)

  1. "Bookends Theme" – 0:32
  2. "Save the Life of My Child" – 2:49
  3. "America" – 3:08
  4. "Overs" – 2:14
  5. "Voices of Old People" - 2:09 (Simon, Garfunkel)
  6. "Old Friends" – 2:36
  7. "Bookends Theme (Reprise)" – 1:16
  8. "Fakin' It" – 3:14
  9. "Punky's Dilemma" – 2:10
  10. "Mrs. Robinson" – 4:02
  11. "A Hazy Shade of Winter" – 2:17
  12. "At the Zoo" – 2:11
  13. "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies"* – 2:19
  14. "Old Friends" (Demo version)*

Disc five: Bridge over Troubled Water (1970; Stereo)

  1. "Bridge over Troubled Water" – 4:52
  2. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" – 3:06 (Simon, Jorge Milchberg, and Daniel A. Robles)
  3. "Cecilia" – 2:54
  4. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" – 2:33
  5. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" – 3:47
  6. "The Boxer" – 5:08
  7. "Baby Driver" – 3:14
  8. "The Only Living Boy in New York" – 3:58
  9. "Why Don't You Write Me" – 2:45
  10. "Bye Bye Love" (Live from Ames, Iowa) – 2:55 (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant)
  11. "Song for the Asking" – 1:49
  12. "Feuilles-O"*
  13. "Bridge over Troubled Water" (Demo version) (Take 6) *

References
  1. AllMusic review
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