SUPER COOL!| FIRST TIME HEARING Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair REACTION

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SUPER COOL!| FIRST TIME HEARING Simon And Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair REACTION
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@michlkwitz Год назад

You nailed it. "Scarborough Fair" is a medieval English folk song. The counter-melody, "Canticle" is a reworking of lyrics Simon wrote for a 1963 anti-war protest song. Believe it or not, there are only 3 instruments on this recording - acoustic guitar, bass, and harpsichord, which is a keyboard instrument that was popular in the 18th century.

@dggydddy59 Год назад

There was definitely a bell like sounding instrument, whether a xylophone or a celeste or chimes also, it can be heard playing the same four note figure again and again. In the middle before the whole thing repeated itself there was either a flute or recorder.

@narabdela Год назад

What about the flute/recorder that comes in about 4:30 then? I think you've got your facts wrong.

@Sprenklefish Год назад

@@narabdela this is the first time I’ve ever heard those instruments in this song.

@jamescallaghan1183 Год назад

@@narabdela I believe those were added in the soundtrack for the movie..."The Graduate"... The flute is not on the the album that had the song on it.

@johncampbell756 Год назад

@wyomarine The anti-war song doesn't have to have been about Vietnam. It's definitely about war though.

@taun856 Год назад

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but the words "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" refer to four herbs that - to the medieval mind had deeper meanings, and lovers, etc would often leave various herbs out to leave messages. These four meant the following: Parsley was comfort, sage was strength, rosemary was love, and thyme was courage. This is such a beautiful song, performed flawlessly.

@NavvyMom Год назад

Good, I was looking for someone to comment on herbs and their symbolism. I do keep seeing them as representing slightly different things over time and to different peoples, but glad you said it.

@jennifergriswold6240 Год назад

They are also additives that make a meal (or relationship) more palatable.

@alloallie Год назад

I was thinking it was more that these were often the herbs used for embalming the dead in medieval times. So, juxtaposed with the war lyrics, it's more of a "I have to go to this pointless war. If I die, please take care of me".

@user-bg7dp5fu7v Год назад

Thanks Taun I never knew that!

@CabinFever52 Год назад

I know it makes a perfect pork sausage seasoning combination.

@Paladin70 Год назад

After watching you guys for the past six months, and not knowing your precise ages, I am convinced nonetheless that Amber may have been born 35 to 40 years too late. She definitely has that hippie chick vibe and I can easily picture her back in “our day” with her sun dress and sandals, flowers in her hair and love beads around her neck running through fields of daisies and swaying gently to the music of our lives being played. Sorry you weren’t there to live it but it’s fun watching you live it vicariously now.

@randysandford4033 Год назад

I think she should dress up "hippie" for us one day and play some of our 60s psychedelic music. Maybe 5th Dimension.

@Paladin70 Год назад

@@randysandford4033 I’m thinking maybe I Love The Flower Girl by the Cowsills.

@KimMoonbmwmoonie Год назад

@@randysandford4033 on a recent Halloween show she did just that!

@John_Locke_108 Год назад

I assume she's early 40's so born about 20 years too late.

@AaronLitz Год назад

Definitely.

@andyanderson3628 Год назад

I'm so darned proud of you two! The growth of this channel is incredible and it's because you give the people what they want! Here since the early days!

@carltonbakerii8274 Год назад

Hear, hear!

@fido46 Год назад

@@carltonbakerii8274 my favourite reactors for sure.

@giuliogrifi7739 Год назад

You may be right, but, actually, to give the people what they want is not always good or...wise !

@BlackHatCinephile Год назад

@@giuliogrifi7739 Serf.

@andyanderson3628 Год назад

@@giuliogrifi7739 It's just a motto on their shows. Nothing more.

@mikemax9076 Год назад

From wikiepdia "Scarborough Fair" (Child 2, Roud 12) is a traditional English ballad.[1] The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using Dorian mode, with refrains resembling "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" and "Then she'll be a true love of mine."[2] It appears in Traditional Tunes by Frank Kidson published in 1891, who claims to have collected it from Whitby.

@oreally8605 Год назад

It was an actual fair that started in 1253. In England. Corona stopped it in 2020, and it hasn't resumed since.

@angelbulldog4934 Год назад

Thank you

@daviddragavon7555 Год назад

Woof, that's news and no mistake!

@Roddy1965 Год назад

@@oreally8605 Damn. So many plagues, and only one stopped it.

@kevinunderwood4104 Год назад

@@oreally8605 From what I've read, it's resuming this year.

@slimpickins9124 Год назад

Yes, this is a hauntingly beautiful tune. If it comes on I ain't turning it off but I won't seek it either.

@batmanforpresident9655 Год назад

Fun fact: This song was featured on the soundtrack to the classic movie, "The Graduate".

@marymays8846 Год назад

Oh man The Graduate was the best movie. Love it then and now.

@robynsmith3040 Год назад

Great film.

@OneEyedJack1970 Год назад

"Oh no, it's completely baked."

@marymays8846 Год назад

@@OneEyedJack1970 aahhhh man*****

@OneEyedJack1970 Год назад

@@marymays8846 That's my favorite line from the movie.

@colibri1 Год назад

As unusual as this sounded to y'all, this 1966 cover of a centuries-old traditional English tune, combined with their own "Canticle," was one of their signature songs, maybe their best known one after "Bridge Over Troubled Water." It was very popular even into the seventies and everyone seemed to love it. It still gives me chills and sometimes brings a tear to my eye even today. It was cool to see Amber responding to the harpsichord and recorder.

@BarbaraPryor-Smith Год назад

Love love LOVE these harmonies! Their voices blend so beautifully! They are so wonderful. Still praying they reunite. 😌💜

@tomhayston9888 Год назад

I hate to say but I hope they don't reunite. Their voices at plus 80 years old will not be the same as in their prime. I look at Paul McCartney singing Yesterday recently and, even though hard to say, it was hard to listen to. I've seen The Moody Blues several times from the early 70's to the late 90's, Justin Hayward and John Lodge have always had very powerful voices but had to bring them some female vocalists to deal with the highs they used to be able to handle. The worst I heard was Crosby, Stills and Nash performing 'Silent Night' in I believe Washington I few years back. I honestly don't think that the musical talent that came out between the early 60's to the mid 70's will ever be duplicated. Just my opinion!

@BarbaraPryor-Smith Год назад

@@tomhayston9888 you may be right. The one exception to this that I have heard in a recent live appearance was the Tokens singing The Lion Sleeps tonight. The lead singer Jay Seigal I believe, his voice has not changed!! Amazing. But my thoughts here were about an emotional healing between Paul and Art. So much bitterness. Regrettable, so I still hope. 😌💜

@user-ii4zf5iq3t Год назад

@@BarbaraPryor-Smith They need to do that "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". I git a kick out of watching their earliest black & white video of it. Happened across. The Bird. ....is a word. lol

@BarbaraPryor-Smith Год назад

@@user-ii4zf5iq3t the Tokens HAVE done it recently, and they sound the same!!! Seriously! And numerous people have reacted to it. Robb Squad did too I think, but not sure if it was the older version or the more recent one. So fun!! 😊

@AmericanShia786 Год назад

I love the way Paul Simon weaved an old traditional English Folk Song into his own composition. Thanks for reacting.

@blackprix Год назад

This is a huge hit for them and it was played constantly on the radio I still know all the words! Beautiful lyrics very mellow big hit for Simon and Garfunkel❤

@Doc552 Год назад

If you get a chance, listen to Dangling Conversation. Same lp as this beautiful song but the lyrics are perfect. Commentary on couples who are not in love

@istari0 Год назад

The full name of the song is Scarborough Fair / Canticle. As others have mentioned, the song originated as an old English ballad and that is covered by the lyrics that mentioned Scarborough Fair, the list of spices, and the various tasks the singer is asking his love to do. The Canticle parts are the other lyrics, which are actually from a completely different Paul Simon song called "The Side of the Hill" and are sung in what's called counterpoint to the 1st set of lyrics. I'm no musician so my understanding of these terms is vague. But I do know I love the way it sounds. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the song. "In London in 1965, Paul Simon learned the song from Martin Carthy,[28][29] who had picked up the song from the songbook by MacColl and Seeger[30] and included it on his eponymous 1965 album. Simon & Garfunkel set it in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song "The Side of a Hill",[31] set to a new melody composed mainly by Art Garfunkel.[30][32] "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" appeared as the lead track on the 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and was released as a single after it had been featured on the soundtrack to The Graduate in 1968.[30] The copyright credited only Simon and Garfunkel as the authors, which upset Carthy, who felt that the "traditional" source should have been credited.[30] The rift persisted until Simon invited Carthy to perform the song with him as a duet at a London concert in 2000.[30] Simon performed the song with the Muppets when he guest-starred on The Muppet Show. Before Simon learned the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines from Carthy's arrangement to create his song "Girl from the North Country",[33] which is featured on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Nashville Skyline (1969) (with Johnny Cash), Real Live (1984) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993)."

@tedcole9936 Год назад

Thanks, awesome info.

@laurin4405 Год назад

Dunno how I've never heard of it before(maybe I've just not dived deep enough into the Repertoire), but Looked up & listened to "The Side of a Hill" just now Thanks:}

@andrewpetik2034 Год назад

That 'counterpoint' makes this song absolutely perfect....amazing....

@davidverry9214 Год назад

It is an ancient English folk song. You guys got it!

@lylekincaid6091 Год назад

My high school prom song 1971

@oreally8605 Год назад

Since 1253. In England. The fair stopped in 2020 because of corona. It hasn't resumed it's 770 year old history since.

@sparky6086 Год назад

@@oreally8605 All part of the destroying established culture at every opportunity, by the Globalists.

@TheDivayenta Год назад

Plus a war protest song alongside it by Paul.

@rollomaughfling380 Год назад

*_Ancient_* England was still in the Iron Age during the Roman Conquest, and this song certainly didn't come from back then. There wasn't even an _England,_ much less an English language back then. People spoke various forms of Gaelic and Germanic languages. The lyrics for this song were first collected in the 18th century, the references to _Scarborough Fair_ and the herbs in the 19th century, and the melody you hear on that part of it was first recorded in 1947 by Mark Anderson.

@katherinevanleuven2192 Год назад

This is a medieval song. In medieval times, the herbs mentioned in the song represented virtues that were important to the lyrics. Parsley was comfort, sage was strength, rosemary was love, and thyme was courage.

@Gloren50 Год назад

Folk music was still really influential in popular music in the mid to late 1960s, and S & G embodied the best of it with this song. I always heard a basic Irish folk ballad in this and the obvious medieval influences.

@joiedevivre2005 Год назад

This is my absolute favorite Simon & Garfunkel song - I'm so glad you chose it. Their voices blend so beautifully in it. You identified it correctly - it is an Old English folk ballad from the Middle Ages. There are 2 theories about its subject. Some believe the singer is giving a former lover a list of tasks to perform in order to "be a true love of mine". The herbs - parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme - were ingredients associated with love potions & love charms during the Medieval period. Others feel the singer is dying and the requests he is making are instructions for his embalming & funeral - as the deceased's loved ones would be the ones preparing the body for burial. In this case, the herbs - parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme- were used in embalming at the time. Simon & Garfunkel were introduced to the song by English folk singer, Marty Cathy. They overlaid the traditional lyrics with the lyrics of another song they had written, "Canticle" - about the destructiveness of war. Both theories fit with S & G's version as several young men of their generation were going to war, leaving behind sweethearts, with too many of these young soldiers only returning home in flag-draped caskets. The addition of these lyrics made it a popular anti-war anthem in the early days of the Vietnam War. It is truly a haunting and ethereal song.

@chivalryalive Год назад

Those herbs were also used in embalming!? 😲 I looked it up years ago and, the spices were said to have other 'mystical' effects upon people, as I read. --I cannot recall what those properties were said to be at this time though.. 😞 You say "love charms and love potions"? --Sounds good to me! 🙂

@joiedevivre2005 Год назад

@@chivalryalive Mostly to block the smell of decomposition. Rosemary has astringent properties that may have slightly slowed the process.

@kennbrown4638 Год назад

Mine too.

@lindaarranga4536 Год назад

Amazing information

@andrewmorton9327 Год назад

Martin Carthy.

@andymageen5308 Год назад

This is actually two songs melded together in a perfect harmony. The title is actually Scarborough Fair / Canticle, the first being based on medieval hit from the Middle Ages and the second and original Paul Simon piece about world peace. ✌️

@johnnybmean74 Год назад

This is not from the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were from late 5th to the late 15th centuries. Many of the lyrics in this song can be traced back to the Scottish Ballad "The Elfin Knight" from 1670. That's "Clearly" After the Middle Ages. Know the topic before you comment on it, Dummy.

@JohnDavis-ed5sg Год назад

The point about the 'Scarborough Fair' part is that the tasks set are impossible, meaning that this girl he once knew can never do anything to win his love. The way it's mysteriously intertwined with the war (or anti-war) song is so great.

@suzannejane1035 Год назад

Yet she did them.

@medted 11 месяцев назад

Impossible because he knew he would not return, hence the acre of land to rest his bones. As a veteran this song always brings me to tears for my friends who did not come home.

@dr.phibes7359 Год назад

It's the Harpsichord that makes it sound medieval... Beautiful song.

@Mi5terMarc Год назад

Ironically, more commonly thought of as a baroque instrument, though it was featured in renaissance music and (possibly?) very late medieval.

@lexdunn4160 5 месяцев назад

It sounds medieval because that's when it was written, using a scale called the Dorian mode, also a common musical convention. The artistry of this song is magnificent. A little disappointed in the young man's lack of appreciation.

@RicoBurghFan Год назад

I am shocked that Amber didn't pick up on the second set of lyrics even after two listens. But it's so easy to be entranced by Art's angelic vocals and the gentle folk lyrics that you miss Paul's darker lyrics about impending war that will shatter the peace and beauty of the main part. Such a brilliant composition made even better by the almost subliminal echoes of war. Great song, great artists, great composition, great reactors, what more do want?

@goldilox369 Год назад

Honestly? I'm 42, and I've heard this song hundreds of times. But, I didn't catch the darkness of the second set of lyrics until last year when I really read the lyrics in full.

@terri2494 Год назад

@@goldilox369 I’m 61 and I’ve just recently learned about them with some other reaction videos. We didn’t have the album, which I assume had the lyrics. We just listened when it came on the radio and did our best to follow along. No pause, no rewind. It was pretty common to not really understand the lyrics, because of my limited vocabulary or limited understanding of life and the world at large. I’m learning the real lyrics to a number of songs I grew up with. In some cases I like my inaccurate version better - but not this time. Sad but hauntingly beautiful song.

@Chrisrob90406 Год назад

I grew up with the dual but did not have the album. I had NO IDEA until you pointed it out that there were anti-war lines in the background. I wonder how many of my peers knew.

@richardsteiner8992 Год назад

Kind of reminds of me of their 7 O'clock News / Silent Night, although that one is a little more in your face.

@Samhalta Год назад

Now that you mention it, it makes me think a bit of Rimbaud's poem "Le dormeur du val" (The Sleeper in the Valley). It describes a beautiful, sunny valley wit a river and flowers, and there's a soldier sleeping there but something progressively starts sounding a bit wrong. The last sentence is "He has two red holes in his right side" (something like that, I'm a native French speaker and don't know the literary English translation). It goes from very contemplative to shocking when you read that last sentence, and the feeling I get from this song is a bit similar.

@Anautistictherapist Год назад

This song was released at a time when the news every night listed the number of casualties in the Vietnam War for the day, usually accompanied by footage of the latest offensive taking place there. It truly was a time of contrasts, where men and women half a world away fought for something “they’d long ago forgotten.” This made this song such a deeply moving song for our times.

@markdettra1794 Год назад

Yes , the Vietnam war for breakfast , lunch , & dinner on tv. I was there .

@WilliamCooper-l6f Год назад

What a classic. The overlapping harmony is exquisite.

@thomasmcintosh390 Год назад

Well, for one, I'm a bawling mess. I was always so floored by this song. Still am. Thanking God for beauty in the world.

@cletus1n3 Месяц назад

A harpsichord was an instrument between the harp and the piano; it was basically a harp operated with a keyboard, but there was no way to moderate the volume, so all the notes are the same volume. The piano (pianoforte) was a development with the ability to moderate the volume, piano means 'soft' in Italian, and forte 'loud'; the piano (shortened in modern times) not only can vary the volume by how hard you strike the keys, but also using the pedals. This made it a more versatile instrument, and now it is dominant in the world, but personally I also love the sound of a harpsichord and wish it was used more often.

@dalejestes8166 Год назад

There's another duel Named seals and croft..the song " hummingbird" was there big hit back in the 70s....they had a lot of great songs

@marymays8846 Год назад

Yes, Yes, Yes, on Seals and Crofts. Anything of theirs.

@dalejestes8166 Год назад

I already know j&a reacted to summer breeze a while back

@debibailey2968 Год назад

Such a pretty song, and their harmonies are perfect. Love that medieval feeling to this. It is so relaxing.

@michaelstach5744 Год назад

Go back and listen to this again. You kind of need to listen to both parts separately and then listen a third time to see how they work together. We aren’t going as far back as medieval times, think maybe the time of the Seven Years War or American Revolution. This is the pre-industrial Revolution world. So in the dominant part, a guy asks his to make him a shirt or tunic. Simple woven fabric, no fancy seams, just a labor of love. And they dream about that little farm where they can live together in peace. There is only one little problem. The second voice is that of a soldier who sleeps on cold ground away from his love. We know he is British because of the red coats (scarlet battalions). He doesn’t know why he is fighting and his future will probably be a graveyard on a hillside. This song was released when the Vietnam War was raging. On one hand it is a love song but when you put the pieces together it is a powerful anti-war song.

@dogstar7 Год назад

Great take on this song and the times it was recorded in. Simon & Garfunkel represented the American English-traditional folk music revival (sometime called Scots-Irish plainsong) that shoe-horned-in between Beatlemania and John Sebastian/Buffalo Springfield folk-rock. They themselves were the younger generation of acts like Peter, Paul & Mary and Brothers Four and before them The Weavers featuring Pete Seeger

@sourisvoleur4854 Год назад

The problem is, all the things he asks his former love to do are impossible. You can't make a shirt without seams. You can't reap grain with a sickle of leather or gather it in heather. You can't find land between the sea and the shore. He's basically saying, no, I will *NEVER* get back together with you.

@Skotavus Год назад

@@sourisvoleur4854 I had always heard the line as "sickle of lead", as in it would be too soft/poison the land... but apparently I've misheard that as the official lyrics to this version do say "sickle of leather".

@steveaitch729 Год назад

I am 69, still rocking, and remember getting lost in the lyrics to this trippy masterpiece. I enjoy your channel. let's all keep open minds. great music is waiting to be discovered.

@Shrykespeare Год назад

What a classic. My parents owned this album. I grew up listening to it. This is actually the first S&F song you've reacted to from that album. I recommend "Homeward Bound", "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", and "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her".

@juliewhite7469 Год назад

Great suggestions! "Homeward Bound" especially 💙

@jeffallard3221 Год назад

In my first year of college back in the late '80s, my dorm mate always played Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits to fall asleep to. To this day, anything from that album carries such a heavy nostalgia for me. Thanks for the reaction, guys. Appreciated J's honest take as always!

@keithjones7390 Год назад

The first album l ever bought about 50 years ago was Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. Still got it.

@surlechapeau Год назад

Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Sounds Of Silence", "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" and "I Am A Rock" !!! Also Paul Simon solo- "Loves Me Like A Rock", "Kodachrome" and "Late In The Evening" and many more!!!

@williamberry9013 4 месяца назад

Some things I've heard; parsley, sage, romemary, and thyme are ingredients for a love potion. The speaker uses past tense "She was a true love, but I'm dying now and it is too late" The tasks are impossible -an acre of land between the sea and the shore... Green for camouflage. The war (Garfunkel was doing vietnam) was the 100 years war. If you died in year 99 you may well have forgotten the cause.

@Fairygrl_TW Год назад

Such a beautiful song. Amazing folk song from North Yorkshire about unrequited love. The celtic women do an amazing take of this song. Thanx so much, Be well, Blessings

@kkampy4052 8 месяцев назад

I would like to hear that. They have amazing voices.

@mrappe51 2 месяца назад

One thing that made the movie “The Graduate “ so popular was the many Simon & Garfunkel songs in it and this was one of them

@robertszekely8686 Год назад

Always love Simon and Garfunkel music. This is one of at least three songs that was featured in the movie " The Graduate", along with "The Sound of Silence" and "Mrs. Robinson." These are all great songs, and they have many more songs that are up there. Thanks for your reaction on this.

@seanholdom9739 Год назад

also april come she will and big bright green pleasure machine so 5 songs.

@keymack2477 Год назад

If you have not reacted to their song called "America" you should put it in your list for sure! And Amber's inner flower child will love "The 59th Street Bridge Song"!!

@DorkThink Год назад

Sung it, played it. A staple in my life. ❤️

@MojaveEast Год назад

You have to watch "The Graduate" on your movie channel. Many of Simon and Garfunkel's songs were used in it, and to perfection. It was one of the first movies to use "found" music. And the song "Mrs. Robinson" will certainly make more sense after seeing it.

@larryhudgins3647 Год назад

Amber is in her element.....two stories at one time and beautiful vocals and instrumentation.

@v-town1980 11 месяцев назад

Great song! She's adorable and smart...could learn that kid a few points❤

@riverboatsam Год назад

The interesting thing about this song is the point/counterpoint of the first voice (the top lyric) with its story of unrequited love and the 2nd voice (bottom lyric) which is telling the story of a soldier who was killed and is now buried on the hill. Now recall that this was released in 1964 - the height of the Vietnam war, and put the two things together. It's beautiful, yet sad and a little bit spooky.

@dr.burtgummerfan439 Год назад

"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" is another good one. Gives me chills.

@ShannonR1969 Год назад

Active US involvement in fighting the Vietnam War didn't begin until late 1964, and the album this was on was released in 1966. It was released as a single in 1968.

@sarahjane8146 Год назад

The line “she was once a true love of mine” takes on a very different meaning after the lines on war. I see them initially as wistful, but late in the song as looking back through a dark veil, of trauma, maybe death.

@user-ii4zf5iq3t Год назад

It is one of the most recognizable soundtrack songs from *"The Graduate" 1968.*

@Paladin70 Год назад

First US troops were sent into battle in Viet Nam on March 8, 1965, so 1964 was certainly not the height of the war. Those of us who were more than children back then remember well that the turmoil in America started on October 21, 1967 when the very first anti-war demonstration took place in Washington D.C. The Pentagon was breached in a full scale riot with about 50,000 protestors taking part.

@russworks2882 Год назад

The harpsichord was also used by the Rolling Stones in the similarly medieval sounding "Lady Jane." There's some nice olden sounds with baroque piano on the Stones' "She's a Rainbow."

@jeraldkimball494 Год назад

This song showcases the vocal skills of the pair. Their ability to harmonize and to layer the lyrics is amazing.

@Kellen_Quigley Год назад

Yessss my favorite Simon & Garfunkel cut! So happy you did this one.

@StarGeezerTim Год назад

One of my all-time favorite S&G tunes! They start out with 2-part harmony, then break into counterpoint/antiphony in a verse/response style (which, as J pointed out, is still a favorite presentation style in the Catholic Church.) The acoustic guitar using alternate picking finger-style has a very medieval "Renaissance" feel to it, akin to an older stringed instrument called a lute, and is doing the lion's share of the work here. There is a thin bassline, almost buried in the mix but still quite noticeable. The peculiar keyboard sound is I believe produced by a clavichord, an ancestor to both the harpsichord and piano. While similar, the clavichord produces a gentler tone than the much sharper harpsichord. Also heard is a recorder, a woodwind instrument in the family of flutes, and a small set of finger cymbals which produces that tinkling bell tone. This is a gorgeous mix, and engineers were really starting to getting a feel for fully using the whole stereo spectrum to give depth to the recordings, with pans, wipes, fades, etc. all being added to their collective bag of tricks. What results is a luscious treat for the ears that is both modern and harkens back to a far distant place and time. Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for reacting to it!

@donnaralph4413 Год назад

Use to sing this in choir in school. One of my favorites we sang❤️❤️❤️

@rubyswaim1441 Год назад

You would like "America" from their "Bookends " album...matter of fact, you'd like the whole album.

@wendywoodruff2871 Год назад

Simon was on SNL 14 times over the years but I smile remembering him in a turkey suit singing Still Crazy After All These Years.

@1COMIXMAN Год назад

They are 2 of the best harmonized in music history. Their music harmony is top notch.

@LaPinturaBella Год назад

I fell in love with this entire album when it was released. I was 8 years old at the time and my Aunt had bought it. My brother, cousins (they were all younger) and I played it over and over that summer. I still love this album and this song in particular. Funny, at 8 years of age this song just spoke to me and capyured my heart and my imagination. I'm still fascinated with the English Midieval era of history.

@cjpatz 7 месяцев назад

This song is of a girl in Scarborough who broke his heart, and the only way he’ll accept her back is if she completes these impossible tasks. And this actual song was written in like the 12th century “medieval times” and had like 13 verses.

@tammyjohnson8924 7 месяцев назад

Wow. I never knew these things

@arizonaskye3917 6 месяцев назад

Yes and if I'm not mistaken, the "Fair" is not like most people today would think. It was more of a day of trade where ships would come in from many different places with a lot of buying and selling, trading etc.

@flightpath22 10 дней назад

Just incredible how music changes over time. There’s some really catchy newer music that I hear occasionally, but ‘catchy’ and ‘timeless’ are two hugely different things. This is so quiet, so legendary, so powerful. Where will today’s music stand in 50 years?

@lorilei1313 Год назад

We sang this in our middle school chorus class, and it was glorious. I’m now 55 and thinking “That was kinda dark for pre-teens”.

@helindove2237 Год назад

Thank you for playing Simon & Garfunkel. A special song from a special duo. It stops the world around you for a moment. It reminds me a bit of a (too) short Beatles song “Because”. I think Amber will love that one.

@diannerichardpratt3144 Год назад

THE GRADUATE is a very popular film amoung the zillions of college students from the late 1960s. We were in class of 1968 & 1969. A young Dustin Hoffman plays a recent graduate who is seduced by Anne Bankroft, who plays a Cougar. Several S & G hits on the soundtrack including Scarborough Fair.

@lorierush6561 День назад

So beautiful. I love many of their songs. "I am a Rock" spoke to the teenage me. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" unconditional Love and Gospel. This song to me equals "welcome to Middle Earth or Narnia."

@patriciadefibaugh973 Год назад

The beauty of coming of age in the sixties and early seventies was the wde array of music we were exposed to. We didn't have play lists and we couldn't carry our records and record player around. What we did have was AM radio, and the DJs were our friends. We listened to (and danced to) all kinds of music...country, rock, instrumental...something for everyone.

@odiebryer2144 Год назад

This is the best way to explain our time as any. A couple of days ago I heard a younger (even younger than Jay & Amber, BTW ♥) reactor ask -- if there was no internet, how did new artists get heard. It was the DJ's. They would have been their best friends. "Word of mouth" was also used, I guess, but probably not as effective, though. I'd never heard of something called "playlists" but we all had our own favorites, of course. We all had some singles (45's) and 33 lp albums to create our Playlist of music to listen to at home or at a friend's place. And we did -- I remember taking some 45's or an album or two to a friend's place for a party or two or the years when I was a teenager in the 60's. And they would return the favor. Of course, I only had a little turntable to play my stuff on. It was my parents who had a "stereo" so if I wanted to play my music, it had to be when my parents weren't using theirs. And they played very different music than I did. Naturally. Anyway, if we wanted to listen to music much, there was the radio and there was only AM, FM was not a thing (as we say nowadays)! 😂

@LeilaBelleWarner 3 месяца назад

It's two songs blended together, and they are opposites: one is an old folk song about love, and the other is about war: "War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions Generals order their soldiers to kill And to fight for a cause they have long ago forgotten" Paul Simon wanted to accentuate the insanity of war by juxtaposing it with a sweet, gentle, carefree love song.

@keithcarper8809 Год назад

Simon and Garfunkel were childhood friends. They wrote their first song at 13. ☮🧡🎶

@michaelmelling9333 Год назад

Paul Simon is a genius ... and Art Garfunkel isn't far behind. Thanks for reviewing this fantastic Masterpiece!💙💚💛💖 February 6, 2023

@joanbecenti8938 Год назад

The layering of the vocal harmonies is amazing. Dreamy and atmospheric.

@chivalryalive Год назад

I feel like I'm floating upon a cloud each time I listen to it! 😲

@jeanine6328 Год назад

Always made me think of monks chanting…. Glad you caught the same kind of feeling. Great minds! 😘

@keithjones7390 Год назад

Just one of many beautiful songs that Simon and Garfunkel recorded.They were wonderful in every respect, fantastic melodies, clever lyrics and beautiful harmonies.Their albums were phenomenal and contributed so much to the wonderful era of the 60's and 70's.

@andrewpetik2034 Год назад

This song brings back so many memories! It's simple beauty brings tears to my eyes.

@marybaillie8907 Год назад

One of Simon and Garfunkel's most beautiful songs. It puts forth the concept of unrequited love, where the woman must perform impossible tasks to prove her love. It was featured in the movie "The Graduate" and gained popularity quickly after that. It has a medieval feel to the melody and their blended harmonies are so rich with a unequivocally masterful blend, you feel yourself being taken away. Great reaction. Buckets of Maple Syrup love from Canada ❤️

@NavvyMom Год назад

It has a medieval feel because it's a medieval tune.

@marybaillie8907 Год назад

@NavvyMom Yes, I believe it originated from the 1600's. 👍✌️🎶🇨🇦

@Goobie77 Год назад

Love your comments Mary!

@marybaillie8907 Год назад

@Tim Gooden Thanks so much Tim.✌️👍🎶🇨🇦😊

@aaronbredon2948 Год назад

The original had her giving him equally impossible tasks. It is ex-lovers who can't completely leave each other behind.

@kestrelle5345 Год назад

Did you notice the overlayed song about war? "Generals order their soldiers to kill."

@mrappe51 Год назад

My generation was introduced to this song in the movie The Graduate and it is tremendous

@denisemeredith2436 Год назад

Scarborough Fair is a song from the Middle Ages (14th Century) about unrequited love with the lovers giving each other impossible tasks before they could be together. Scarborough is a town in Yorkshire and a fair was held there from the 14th Century until the 18th Century. 46 years' ago I was a member of two choirs when I was at school. One choir sang nothing but songs from the Middle Ages and we sang Scarborough Fair a lot because it was a favourite. Simon & Garfunkel released this song in 1967 and it formed part of the soundtrack for the film The Graduate. The Vietnam War was going on at around that time too.

@carmelitakraft1382 Год назад

Simon and Garfunkel was my absolute favorite concert of all time. A few favorites are America, The Boxer, He Was My Brother, Hazy Shade of Winter... So many!

@keithralston1133 Год назад

Maybe add The Graduate to your movie list, Dustin Hoffman plays the drifting college grad in love with a family friends daughter. Several Simon and Garfunkel songs in it including this one. Did win one Academy award. But I digress, love Simon and Garfunkel.

@andrewrose2337 Год назад

Movie recommendation: The Graduate. From the late sixties - one of the most iconic films of the period. Heck, one of the most iconic films of all time. Made a star of Dustin Hoffman. Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack. (Including Scarborough Fair.)

@bilahn1198 Год назад

This song, along with Mrs. Robinson, were used in the nineteen sixty eight movie The Graduate, one of the most memorable and iconic movies of the sixties. You will see a very young Dustin Hoffman in what I think was his first movie role. For those of us of a certain age, it is unforgettable.

@johnmavroudis2054 Год назад

A truly incredible song. Other ones from Simon & Garfunkel you have to hit: "THE DANGLING CONVERSATION," "POEM ON THE UNDERGROUND WALL," "The Sound Of Silence," "I Am A Rock," "America," "Kathy's Song," and "Homeward Bound"

@josepharnold1345 Год назад

Second I Am A Rock

@badplay156 Год назад

The song Patterns is one of the best angry/hopeless songs I have ever heard

@elizabethfranco1284 Год назад

Oh yes definitely America

@user-ii4zf5iq3t Год назад

I love the sound of Homeward Bound.

@NavvyMom Год назад

I thought they did Sound of Silence a while back. No?

@anthonysteinberg4853 Год назад

Love your honesty. Does expand your musical horizons.

@jeffmorse645 Год назад

This song is so cool. That beautiful old English folk song paired with the lyrics of Paul Simon in the Canticle part. It just kind of transport you to a different place and time. It's freaking gorgeous. Its almost like somehting you'd hear in a Game of Thrones or The Witcher type show.

@catherinehammer8637 Год назад

Art Garfunkel has the voice of an angel.

@murraytown4 Год назад

I love, love your channel guys. And look forward to it daily. I’m a 58 year old Canadian guy so clearly am a huge fan of ‘60s and ‘70s tracks. I wish you could have lived through that era as I did, warts and all. Your musical tastes are very much aligned to mine as far as that time period goes. And it fills me immensely that this music seems to give you as much pleasure as it still does for me some five plus decades later. I wish I were as open minded about today’s music as you appear to be about mine, but I’m afraid it does little for me. As little as my parents’ music did for me. Thank you. And please don’t stop doing what you do. It probably means more to most like me than you realize. You seem a lovely and fun couple. Go Raptors go.

@Lane2268 Год назад

It is a British middle ages folk balancing, absolutely brutiful as there is an intertwining quality vocals and musical instrumentation.

@woodysthoughts4032 Год назад

This is a traditional English folk song from the Middle Ages. It's a matter of unrequited love, whereby the young man gives the girl a list of impossible tasks to become his true love. She, in turn, gives HIM a list of impossible tasks (the second thread in the song).

@geebrewer8186 9 месяцев назад

the genius of Simon and Garfunkel

@stephenhowell5611 4 месяца назад

Not genius when you steal from others

@RobynHurley-zp9sh 3 месяца назад

@@stephenhowell5611how?

@JustTanya. Год назад

This is my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs. I like a lot of their music but this is my favorite. It's the ethereal quality with the harpsicord and flute giving that medieval feel to it. The harmonies these two have are incredible. This is a song to just chill with. When you want to relax and unwind. Like I do with Enya, just relax with it until you fall to sleep. 😴

@steverusso177 Год назад

This was in the movie "The Graduate" You guys need to see it.

@marleybob3157 Год назад

One of the few commercial songs by S&G NOT written by Paul Simon. It is an old English traditional song. Before Simon learned the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody to create his song "Girl from the North Country", which is featured on 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' (1963). The lyrics of Scarborough Fair puts forward the concept of unrequited love. The yearning is felt throughout the song, creating a perfect medieval love story in the process. A young man delegates certain impossible tasks to his lover with the condition that she would have to finish those to be able to come back to him.

@davidjames3080 Год назад

The Scarborough Fair part he's borrowed, but Canticle was written by Paul Simon.

@altaclipper Год назад

Paul Simon was happy to take credit for it, though. He eventually paid back some of the royalties to the guy who taught him the song in the first place.

@lordhoot1 Год назад

@@altaclipper AKA the great Martin Carthy, the elder statesman of modern English folk music

@davidjames3080 Год назад

@@altaclipper not entirely correct. It was only part of the guitar arrangement that Paul Simon had used that he had heard from Martin Carthey. It wasn't Carthey's song so he was not entitled to royalties, although Paul Simon agreed on a one off settlement payment for use of the guitar arrangement when Carthey used a music publisher to sue him. It did cause a rift between the two though, not resolved until 30 odd years later when Paul Simon invited Carthey to sing the song with him on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo. In fact Paul Simon also made very little from this song. The sad fact is a common one - the music publisher that Carthey used to try and sue Paul Simon actually secretly acquired the rights to the song unbeknownst to Simon and Carthey. And Carthey only received half the 20k dollars settlement (the publisher keeping half). The consequence being that said music publisher made an absolute fortune from the song while Paul Simon and Andrew Carthey made very little. A fact that Carthey acknowledges, and now, apparently he and Paul Simon get along well.

@TD402dd 8 месяцев назад

The sub verse tells the ancient story of a soldier who goes to war, dies, and is buried on a hillside. There is real place in England called Scarborough Fair on the coast. It is very popular even today.

@teej0813 Год назад

I believe I hear a harpsichord (15th century) in this. Unlike a piano (which strikes strings with felt-covered hammers), the harpsichord has mechanical 'fingers' which pluck the strings. This gives it a very different sound. Great song. Great reaction.

@Lightmane Год назад

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written

@christopherpollak7448 Год назад

It's a Canticle. That's why you get the "vibes." "And to fight for a cause so long ago forgotten." The song was one of several of Simon and Garfunkel's songs used in "The Graduate." Plastics Ben. Plastics. Bottom line...a song from a different time. So, so much better than now.

@connieb4372 Год назад

I turned my twin girls (now age 37) onto Simon and Garfunkel when they were super little, watching The Concert in Central Park and, of course, when they got a bit older, The Graduate. They then went on to get their complete body of work and now know far more songs and facts about the group than I ever knew. That line from the movie... "Plastics Ben... Plastics" is one of our favorite quotes! Made me smile when I read your comment!

@richstrobel Год назад

Art Garfunkel has one of my favorite voices in Rock/Folk music. Just beautiful.

@davidhocking561 Год назад

Love you guys keep the videos coming. Please do Gold dust woman by Fleetwood Mac. It is Stevie Nicks at her best.

@scottallen6160 Год назад

I play this song when I am cleaning the house for Christmas dinner and family arriving for presents. The chorus of voices and bells remind me of the Christmas season.

@procopiusaugustus6231 Год назад

There was a popular trend around late 60s and early 70s of traditional music adapted to modern forms and instruments. Bands like Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. All have some great music and are worth a listen.

@cog4life Год назад

You’ve outdone yourselves tonight! One of THE finest songs/memories ever made. ❤❤❤🎶

@jackempson3044 Год назад

This was playing in my car and my ten year old grandaughter heard them for the first time and said they sound like angels singing.

@ericfestvog2873 Год назад

The band should be called Simon with guest singer Garfunkel. Paul Simon wrote every one of their songs. That's why when they went solo, you never heard Garfunkel's name again. But Paul Simon is everywhere.

@richb313 Год назад

Scarborough Fair," popularized in the United States by the 1960s singer-songwriting duo Simon & Garfunkel, is an English folk song about a market fair that took place in the town of Scarborough in Yorkshire during medieval times.

@lexdunn4160 5 месяцев назад

That's really not what the song is about. It is about the young man's death.

@22tango79 Год назад

This song was played at King Arthurs wedding by Simon & Garfunkel.

@johnnielson4341 Год назад

Listen to the background lyrics. "A soldier cleans and polishes a gun" and "fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten". The meaning of the song is that while the population is going to fairs and dancing they are ignoring the killing going on in Vietnam.

@ugadawgs1990 Год назад

It’s said two people were in their Central Park concert and were inspired to become writers and singers: one was Bob Dylan and the other was Bono.

@bobmessier5215 Год назад

"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional Medieval British folk tune about forbidden love. Simon & Garfunkle layered it with the poem/song "Canticle" which was about the Vietnam War, to fit modern times.

@beverlybrown2673 Год назад

Love this piece, and pretty much everything else Simon and Gar ever recorded. This is actually 2 different songs sung in counterpoint, one a Simon composition (the Canticle - Side of a Hill), and the other an old English folk song (Scarborough Fair), that complement each other beautifully.