There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more prod… Read Full Bio ↴Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, There Goes Rhymin' Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and venturing into soulful and R&B-oriented music. Simon returned to the kind of vocal pyrotechnics heard on the Simon & Garfunkel records by using gospel singers. On "Love Me Like a Rock" and "Tenderness" (which sounded as though it could have been written to Art Garfunkel), the Dixie Hummingbirds sang prominent backup vocals, and on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras," Reverend Claude Jeter contributed a falsetto part that Garfunkel could have handled, though not as warmly. For several tracks, Simon traveled to the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios to play with its house band, getting a variety of styles, from the gospel of "Love Me Like a Rock" to the Dixieland of "Mardi Gras." Simon was so confident that he even included a major ballad statement of the kind he used to give Garfunkel to sing: "American Tune" was his musical State of the Union, circa 1973, but this time Simon was up to making his big statements in his own voice. Though that song spoke of "the age's most uncertain hour," otherwise Rhymin' Simon was a collection of largely positive, optimistic songs of faith, romance, and commitment, concluding, appropriately, with a lullaby ("St. Judy's Comet") and a declaration of maternal love ("Loves Me Like a Rock") -- in other words, another mother-and-child reunion that made Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon bookend masterpieces Simon would not improve upon (despite some valiant attempts) until Graceland in 1986. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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There Goes Rhymin' Simon
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American Tune Many's the time I've been mistaken And many times confused Y…
Kodachrome When I think back on all the crap I learned…
Learn How to Fall You got to learn how to fall Before you learn to…
Loves Me Like a Rock Words & music by Paul Simon When I was a little…
One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor There's been some hard feelings here About some words that w…
Something So Right You've got the cool water When the fever runs high You've go…
St. Judy's Comet Words & music by Paul Simon Oo, little sleepy boy D…
Take Me to the Mardi Gras C'mon take me to the Mardi Gras Where the people sing…
Tenderness What can I do What can I do Much of what you…
Was A Sunny Day Was a sunny day Not a cloud was in the sky Not…


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