Homeward Bound (61 page)

“Landis! Git in here!”: Author interview with Al Contrera, June 11, 2014.

“I wasn't aware of Jerry Landis”: Author interview with Ron Pollack.

“The niggas let me”: Author interview with Richard Milner, June 8, 2014.

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  THE FREEDOM CRIERS

Paul looked for glimmers: Author interviews with Marty Cooper and Mickey Borack, 2013–2015.

The seed of “Wild Flower”: David Coplan,
In Township Tonight!
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Cooper didn't really need: Author interviews with Marty Cooper, 2013–2015.

Paul moved on: Ibid.

“You've gotta start singing”: Ibid.

“I was reaching out”: Author interview with Mark Levy, February 7, 2015.

“we speak Middle English”: Author interview with Brian Schwartz.

Like many others on campus: Robert Christgau, “The Supreme Achievement of the Second Industrial Revolution,”
Cheetah
, 1968.

“Don't listen to the
singing
”: Author interview with Al Kooper, March 10, 2014.

“It's the most alive”: Author interview with June Tauber Goldman, February 2, 2015.

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  WHAT ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR, CARLOS DOMINGUEZ

It was late spring: Paul Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel,”
Songtalk
, 1993; Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
31, February 1984.

tricks of the busker's trade: Michael Kay interview with Paul Simon,
Center Stage
, July 14, 2009.

the Pont Neuf: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

had any grass on him: E-mail to author from John Renbourn, March 11, 2014.

“Didn't I just see you in Amsterdam”: Paul Simon interview with Pete Fornatale, n.d., 1986.

Those were the names they used: Tom Wilson interviews,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio Series, prod. Frank Wilson, London, UK, 1991
;
Patrick Humphries,
Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years
(New York, NY: Doubleday, January 23, 1989).

drove some colleagues to despise: Interview with Hale Smith and Bill Banfield,
Musical Landscapes in Color
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, January 29, 2003), p. 63.

“Focus on your music”: Author interview with Brian Schwartz.

Usually he'd switch off: Paul Simon interview with Betty Rollin,
Look,
November 29, 1966.

“So I told David”: Author interview with Martin Carthy, January 31, 2014.

“It's good to be here”: Paul Simon live at Brentwood Folk Club, 1963/64, Brentwood, Essex, recording in possession of Essex County Records Office, Chelmsford, England.

The fucking guy knows
: Author interview with Martin Carthy.

It was hard to resist: Banfield,
Musical Landscapes in Color
, p. 63.

Paul offered something else: Paul Simon interview, iTunes Originals, 2006.

“this is completely backwards”: Michael Kay interview with Paul Simon,
CenterStage
, July 14, 2009.

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  THE VOICE OF THE NOW

They'd had a few drinks: Robert Shelton,
No Direction Home
(New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986), p. 177.

Dylan and Paul had met: Author interviews with Barry Kornfeld, 2013–2016.

“an encounter typical”: ‘Shelton,
No Direction Home
, pp. 177–78.

Simon and Garfield it was: Tom Wilson interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.

There were hardly any anti-Semites: Ibid.

“Gentlemen, it's 1964”: Ibid.

“This terribly well-written song”: Author interview with Bill Leader, February 11, 2014.

“I also record for Columbia” Paul Simon letter to “Ted,” June 12, 1964.

Born as James Henry Miller: Michael Brocken,
The British Folk Revival 1944–2002
(London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 31–35.

“were becoming quasi-Americans”: Ibid., p. 34.

“I'd never heard anything”: Author interview with Harvey Andrews, February 2014.

So off he went: Ibid.; Harvey Andrews interviews,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio; J. P. Bean,
Singing from the Floor
(London: Faber and Faber, 2014).

In London, the hipper musicians: Author e-mail interview with John Renbourn, March 2014.

Artie spent much of the summer: Art Garfunkel letters to Jack and Rose Garfunkel, September 1964.

“This was the bloke”: Judith Piepe interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.

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  HE WAS MY BROTHER

“The people in this city”: Andy Goodman, postcard to parents, June 21, 1964, viewed by author courtesy of David Goodman.

The same couldn't be said: Jacob Tanzer, “1964: My Story of Life and Death in Mississippi,”
The U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society Newsletter
(Spring 2010); Seth Cagin,
We Are Not Afraid
(New York: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 1–2; Jesse Kornbluth, “The '64 Civil Rights Murders: The Struggle Continues,”
New York Times
, July 23, 1989.

“We close our eyes”: Andrew Goodman, “Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman,”
Andrew Goodman: 1943–1964
(Long Island, NY: Peter F. Mallon Inc., 1964).

“One of them is the song”: Paul Simon, “Chez/For Kathy,” record, autumn 1964.

“I've already done the whole introduction”: Ibid.

“So that was a bomb”: Tom Wilson interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

between
Housewives' Choice
: Judith Piepe interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

Paul got a British publishing deal: Author interviews with Michael Tannen, 2013–2016; Victoria Kingston,
Simon and Garfunkel: The Biography
(New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 29.

“He was the favored child”: Author interview with Ariel Piepe Bruce, February 26, 2014.

Along the way, she had traded: Ibid.

“He was creating a package”: Author interview with Harvey Andrews, March 10, 2014.

“He was very friendly”: Author interview with David Rugg, February 2014.

“If I'm not a millionaire”: Geoff Speed quoted in J. P. Bean,
Singing from the Floor
(London: Faber & Faber, 2014), p. 176.

Paul responded to the producer's: Author e-mail interview with Melanie Ezekiel, winter 2014; Humphries,
Paul Simon: Still Crazy
.

“Very American! He used to”: Paul Simmons, “Interview with Bert Jansch,”
The Ptolemaic Terrascope Magazine
, 1996.

“He had a reputation”: Ralph McTell interview,
Evening Standard
(UK), July 14, 2004.

He spent a third: Author interview with Stephen Bromfield, February 2014; Humphries,
Paul Simon: Still Crazy
; Kingston,
Simon and Garfunkel
.

“I start with the knowledge”: Paul Simon liner notes,
Paul Simon Songbook
, CBS, 1965.

“Who wrote this junk?”: Ibid.

“Sorry, this guy is trying”:
Melody Maker,
July 24, 1965.

“A small, dark, intense man”: “Two Views on Baez,”
New Musical Express
, July 30, 1965.

“rehashed Ginsberg”: “The Great Dylan Row,”
Melody Maker
, October 5, 1965.

“Typical brash Americans”: Author interview with Hans Fried, February 2014.

“So you have the Byrds”: Simon and Garfunkel club show in London, September 1965, included in
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

when Stan Kavan: “Col Relay System Puts ‘Silence' Over,”
Billboard
, February 19, 1966; Jim Melanson, “Col/Epic ‘Q' Product Gains Momentum,”
Billboard
, November 10, 1973.

a very simple calculus: “Col Relay System Puts ‘Silence' Over”; interviews with Tom Wilson and Mark Weiner,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.

“I was mildly amused”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

“No, more than sort of successful”: Paul Simon interview, iTunes Originals, September 6, 2006.

What the fuck is
that?: Author interview with Al Stewart, February 11, 2014.

“So that's when”: Ibid.

“I don't feel it”: Paul Simon interview from 1965,
New Musical Express,
August 10, 1968.

I wasn't violently against”: Jim Delehant, “Inside the Mind of Paul Simon,”
Hit Parader
, August 1967.

In 2006, Paul described: Paul Simon interview, iTunes Originals.

Paul spent the time: Ibid.

“I said, ‘
Shiiit
'”: Ibid.

“I remember this”: Ibid.

“I'd rather not have a hit”: Author e-mails with Harry Knipschild, February 2014.

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  IT MEANS NOTHING TO US

reigned at No.1: Paul Simon interview with Pete Fornatale, 1986.

“You've really got a hit record”: Author interview with Ron Merenstein.

“What's the name of”: Author interview with Mort Lewis, 2013.

“To Morty, I hope”: Ibid.

“It's that easy?”: Ibid.

“To show people”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

“Dylan or somebody would”: Author interview with Bob Johnston, June 2014.

“rather intense, though hardly”: Columbia Records publicity handout, January 1966, in the possession of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's library.

“How could this happen”: Ralph J. Gleason, “Then There Was ‘Silence' with a Red Bullet,”
This World
, February 20, 1966.

“to, and perhaps for”: Robert Shelton, “Folk-and-Pop Duo in Recital Debut,”
New York Times
, May 2, 1966.

“Pop music is catching up”: Robert Shelton, “A Law Firm They're Not,”
New York Times
, August 28, 1966.

“Pop music is the most vibrant”: “Rock 'n' Roll: The New Troubadours,”
Time
, October 28, 1966.

“Their intellectual prowess”: Tracy Thomas,
New Musical Express
, April 8, 1966.

“No matter how successful”: Ibid.

“Do you know how much”: Keith Altham, “Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!,”
New Musical Express
, April 22, 1966.

“Sing!”: Bruce Woodley and Judith Durham, quoted, minus attribution, “Seeks on the Simon Sound Trail,”
Melody Maker
, April 23, 1966.

“Paul Simon is getting”: Interview with Bruce Woodley,
Melody Maker
, January 29, 1966.

“I haven't had any real need”: Paul Simon interview,
New Musical Express
, August 10, 1968; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

“who used to be”: Simon and Garfunkel, live at Tufts University, March 11, 1967, recording in author's collection.

For all that British critics: Paul Simon interview with Timothy White,
Goldmine,
2001.

“What kind of image are”: Interview with Norman Jopling,
Record Mirror
, April 22, 1967.

“I think it strange”: Altham, “Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!”

“Unfortunately, I'm always being”: Ibid.

“A linebacker-size fellow”: Blair Jackson interview with Roy Halee,
Mix Magazine
, October 1, 2001.

“People say I'm a dollar”: Penny Valentine, “Simon & Garfunkel: It's a Lonely Life at the Top,”
Disc
, March 23, 1967.

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  SOME DREAM OF WHAT I MIGHT BE

“I said, ‘Yeah'”: Stephen J. Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist on a Crowded Stage,”
New York Times Magazine
, November 9, 1997.

“That's the
only
important”: Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist.”

“They're not yelling at me”: Tracy Thomas, “Enter the Intellectual Simon & Garfunkel!”
New Musical Express
, April 18, 1966.

“I don't know how”: Jim Delahunt, “Inside the Mind of Paul Simon,”
Hit Parader
, August 1967.

“The people who call you a poet”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

“Simon and Garfunkel are fictitious”: Ibid.

“He
should
have been”: Paul Hendrickson, “Paul Simon: Two for the Road; In Town on Tour with Garfunkel,”
Washington Post
, August 13, 1983.

“Can you imagine girls”: Ibid.

“It's like the greatest put-on”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

“Okay, you made all this money”: Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist.”

“My father,” he said: Ibid.

“my many neuroses”: Simon and Garfunkel, live at Tufts University.

“a cul de sac”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

“Rock 'n' roll for people”: Christgau, “Supreme Achievement.”

“is neither a poet”: Jann Wenner, “Doin' the Thing,”
Daily Californian
, Fall 1966.

fifty thousand dollars seed money: Michael Lydon, “Where's the Money from Monterey?,”
Rolling Stone
, November 9, 1967.

The trip was a success: Joe Morella and Patricia Barey,
Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends
, p. 65.

Columbia president Goddard Lieberson: Author interview with John Simon, September 16, 2014.

Hendrix … with whom he played a little: Paul Simon interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.