rosamund
Mar-30-2005, 19:55 GMT
IP:
Ireland
 | Scaaty - agree - American Tune is one of the most inspiring Paul Simon songs. I loved the melody before I heard the song...sung it in church in 4-part choir. What he has done to it is genius and that bridge between the third verses...the line actually elevates and really does give the idea of flying..the perfect climax to the song and the mood and then back to the melody again. The line about the ship called the mayflower and the ship that sailed the moon is wonderful...
The song is just perfectly balanced, lyric melody, arrangement (not too much strings)...wonderful |
Klausi
Mar-31-2005, 06:39 GMT
IP:
Germany
 | Bee-lee, let`s say we both are right (= always good). All 4 songs would not have made the top ten (American Tune was a single and made the Top fourty, as first instead of third single of "There goes...", as Simon suggested, Clive Davis, chief of CBS, convinced him to take Kodachrome, maybe it had, because Nobody has the album when the first single comes).
Simon told in his 1984-concerts, that he was always heavily urged to sing Kathy`s song in his concerts by the crowds all over the world, but he refused up to then.
Many of my friends like Kathy`s song and The Only Living Boy In New York and of course American Tune.
Of the other 3 S&G songs you mentioned, I especially like Bleecker Street, one of the very few S&G-songs I regularly hear. |