Art Garfunkel wants to have FATE FOR BREAKFAST!

What's wrong with Orange Juice?

found the one that polled number 1 in a thrift store yesterday!!!11!! excellent. it's a smooth FUNKAY (well...) record, what was Art thinking :P

What's wrong with Orange Juice?

Timing!

(That took a while)

Artie Fufkin wants to have this thread for breakfast!

you guys heard this??
it's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJca07HLqw0

seriously contemplated a beautiful copy of the 'orange juice' version for a while on saturday. just love that 70s apartment look. but it was like $7 and i couldn't really justify it just for the nice photograph.

what was garfunkel's critical rep at this point? or his pop-culture presence? his records are EVERYWHERE in used bins, so does that mean he had fans? were they just old 60s S&G holdovers, or did his smoothed-out AM gold sound actually capture a whole new audience?

he was the guy from S&G, and as such his occasional albums were met with moderate interest and success - however:
in the UK he had one-off number one singles on two separate occasions: “I Only Have Eyes For You” in 1975 (only #18 in the US) and most notably “Bright Eyes” (from the soundtrack of the Watership Down movie) in 1979. “Bright Eyes” was not only massive in the UK (biggest seller of the year), but also in the rest of Europe (biggest hit of ‘79 here in NL as well) and in places like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - wouldn’t surprise me if it was big in lots of Asian markets as well. In America it did absolutely nothing (well, it did reach #29 in the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart)

And he's still mad about Bright Eyes' underperformance in the U.S. I saw him in concert a few years ago, which was really quite delightful even though he had obviously lost a good chunk of his range. Before he did Bright Eyes he vented a bit about how it was a worldwide hit but the record company didn't back it in the U.S. or something, I don't remember the specifics. But he was still pissed.

fascinating, thank you both!

i really like his cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)." not sure i need whole albums of it though. listened to Fate For Breakfast today and don't remember anything except the lush-as-hell, Christopher Cross-esque production, and i think the last track found a cool hook somewhere near the end.

Fate for Breakfast? Check it out!

I did!

"Sleeping in the sand.
Our love was an endless dream,
No one could understand.
Just like pennies from heaven,

I know I cannot fail,
And I'm gonna Sail On A Rainbow.
I'm gonna dance all night in the rain.
I'll keep on sailin' on a rainbow"

Art Garfunkel sings Dio