Artist: Art Garfunkel
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock
Other
Rock: Folk-Rock
Discography:
Some Enchanted Evening
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Everything Waits To Be Noticed
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Across America
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
Up 'til Now
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Fate for Breakfast
Year: 1979
Tracks: 11
Watermark
Year: 1977
Tracks: 12
Breakaway
Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Angel Clare
Year: 1973
Tracks: 10
After Simon & Garfunkel, 1 of the about successful duos in come out history, split up in 1970, Art Garfunkel became a solo artist, as well as pursuing an acting life history. Garfunkel's pure, high tenor had been unitary of the most distinctive elements of the duo's music, even he wasn't responsible for for the songwriting -- Simon wrote all of the group's hits. Not amazingly, Garfunkel relied on other songwriters, from Jimmy Webb and Randy Newman, in addition to rock & roll standards like "I Only Have Eyes for You," throughout his solo vocation. As a solo performer, he was never quite as successful as he was with Simon & Garfunkel, in time he did have a number of Top 40 hits in the mid-'70s.
Garfunkel didn't begin a solo vocation until 1973. Between 1970 and 1973, he acted, appearance in two Mike Nichols films, Catch 22 and Animal Knowledge. Holy man Clare, his first solo book, was co-produced with Simon & Garfunkel producer Roy Halee and released in the fall of 1973. It established the style -- a light, carefully arranged and constructed melodic soft careen -- he would fall out end-to-end his solo life history. The album became a Top Ten hit on the strength of the individual "All I Know," which under the weather at number nine-spot. Two age later on, he returned with the Richard Perry-produced Breakaway, the to the highest degree successful album of his solo career. The record book poorly at issue seven-spot, with a adaptation of the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You" reaching number 18 on the U.S. charts; in Britain, the individual topped the charts. That same fall, he reunited with Paul Simon for the first time, playacting on Sabbatum Night Live. In December, Simon's "My Little Town," featuring Garfunkel on backing vocals, became a Top Ten hit.
In the fall of 1977, Garfunkel released his third gear record album, Watermark, which primarily consisted of Jimmy Webb covers. However, when the first single from the album failed to graph, the album was reissued in early 1978 with a cut across of Sam Cooke's "Terrific World" that featured supporting vocals from Simon and James Taylor. Released as a individual, "Grand World" under the weather at number 17. The following year, Portion for Breakfast appeared. Although it performed well in Britain, reaching number deuce, the album signalled that his American audience was beginning to funk: none of the singles made the Top 40 and the album only reached issue 67. In the fall of 1979, he filmed deuce movies, Spoiled Timing and Illusions. Scissors hold Cut, a reunion with producer Roy Halee released in 1981, did nothing to opposite his sliding commercial potency -- it didn't tied wear out into the Top 100 albums.
Later on the release of Scissors Cut, Simon & Garfunkel reunited for a concert in New York's Central Park. The concert was so successful, the duette distinct to venture on a yearlong creation hitch. During the tour, tensions mounted between the partner off and they split again afterwards it was completed. After a extended quiet period of time, Garfunkel re-emerged in 1988 with Lefty, which spent a mere eight-spot weeks in the American charts and failed to make the British charts. He did not release another album until 1993's rarities compilation Up 'til Now. Following its sack, Garfunkel took another prolonged break, returning in 1997 with the hot album Across America and the children's record book Songs from a Parent to a Child. The (mostly) self-penned Everything Waits to Be Noticed arrived in 2002, followed by Some Enchanted Evening, a accumulation of renditions of classics from the American Popular Songbook, in 2007.
