Vintage Simon & Garfunkel concert on CD

Out now is the previously unreleased CD Simon & Garfunkel Live 1969. The set, which is only available at Starbucks coffee shops, features 17 songs from the duo's 1969 tour, which were recorded for a live collection which was to serve as their followup to their final album, 1970's multiplatinum Bridge Over Troubled Water.

The album consists of songs recorded at stops in Long Beach, California; New York City; Carbondale, Illinois; Toledo, Ohio; Detroit; and St. Louis.

During these shows, Simon & Garfunkel premiered some songs from Bridge Over Troubled Water, which at that time had not yet been released.

The tracklisting for Simon & Garfunkel's Live 1969: "Homeward Bound," "At The Zoo," "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)," "Song For The Asking," "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her," "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," "Mrs. Robinson," "The Boxer," "Why Don't You Write Me," "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright," "That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "The Sound Of Silence," "I Am A Rock," "Old Friends/Bookends Theme," "Leaves That Are Green," and "Kathy's Song."

Legendary New York DJ Pete Fornatale recently published his latest book, Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends, which chronicles the duo's classic 1968 album. Fornatale says that by the end of that year Simon & Garfunkel's fame had crossed generational boundaries in much the same way the Beatles' music had: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "This was the point where the perfect storm had happened, and Simon & Garfunkel were taken from a very formidable level of success into the stratosphere. The soundtrack from The Graduate, (the) Bookends (album) -- all these new fans, older fans, moms and dads discovering them by going to the movies to see one of the great motion pictures of the '60s. That brought a whole new audience into the tent, and they were ready to consume anything by Simon & Garfunkel that was out there."

Live 1969 is Simon & Garfunkel's fourth live collection, following 1982's The Concert In Central Park, 2002's archival release Live From New York City, 1967, and 2004's Old Friends: Live On Stage.
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