If I could have Alice In Chains cover this song, I believe it would be amazing

In centuries, when historian write of the decline of Western civilization, they might point to this piece and compare it to virtually any of the popular music of today.

Not really an Andy Williams fan butvthis is great; their voices blend really well

@@franktaconelli9095haven’t heard of Andy Williams songs but his rendition of Love Story is to perfection n one of the most romantic songs. Should have a listen.

almost scary it's so good...

CSN is close. Guinevere with Crosby an Nash. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gramgreHu8ixm6M.html And America Ventura Highway.

@suzanne molina STARBABY yeah Andy's contribution here was so pure & the 3 of them together exquisite 👌

@suzanne molina STARBABY I don't think it's better, but it is very good for an acoustic version.

@@howie9751 IT has always been ACOUSTIC!!!

Cripes, I thought I was the only one who recognized the talent of these three guys together. THANK YOU!

Me too

10 times 😮

Absolutely

If butter (🧈) could sing, it would sound like this. Having listened to Simon & Garfunkel, my entire life, they are & will remain my very favorite, owning prime real estate in a portion of my heart. There are a couple of great videos of Art singing with his son, Art Jr.💕

He absolutely did. Perfect trio.

Beautiful ❤

Absolutely my thoughts too

Interesting blend, well done.

And, Paul Simon’s voice and guitar! Wonder if they all worked in the arrangement?! The timing is so intensely nuanced and razor sharp!!!

Perfect Harmony! Gifted!

I love Artie voice. Just beautiful.

Andy's voice Blended beautifully with Arts.

The Everly Bros...Bee Gees....

@@Coowallsky the Everly Brothers and Bee Gees were very good granted but they were no Simon and garfunkel.

They learned from Everly brothers and the Beatles, or so they said. But nevertheless another example of great voice harmony...which is rare...even with opera singers..

@yankeejohn58 speaking of collabs, as soon as I heard this song with these three singing with nothing more than a microphone, an acoustic, and well... their passion. After listening to a few repeats, an idea for a fanfic starring them popped into my brain; set in the medieval period. I imagine casting Simon & Garfunkel as common serfs drafted into the chivalry to amuse the noblemen with their music. And as for Andy Williams, he'll be portraying the lead knight of the pack, on the verge of being demoted from his position when he was caught flirting with the queen, with this war being his only chance for redemption. And along the way, through thick and thin, a friendship brews.

Less is more.

It was interesting that Art Garfunkle faced Andy Williams so they could harmonize easier. He sang with Paul so much they probably could have harmonized in their sleep. I might like this version even better than the original

With talent, skill and good songs you dont need anything fancy.

Two world class singers and one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.

Speachless

That’s what you get when people know how to sing “well”. 🤣

@@lloydmoss217 Mhm, there is the still today used "hall-effect". But thats just minor thing in this perfomance. ;) My favorite is the canon singing. :)

My music teacher told me years ago there are singers and there are performers that sing. They are not often the same. Here is a perfect example of what he meant.

Sublime is the word

Yep, once upon a time live performances were done by people who had talent.

Doesn’t get credit for being one of the great male voices of the 20th Century

Also for Christmas.......he is awesome!

He was incredible!

He was Michael Buble before Michael Buble

I honestly think people are getting less talented..

@@anderander5662 i dont think so, i think the taste becomes more commercial instead of focusing on quality. Good singers get autotuned, even when they don `t need it and the result would even be better without. But everything sounds a bit nowadays like our household utensils: from plastic

暗香826 we are in England, not been out of the house for 18 days due to Corona / Covid19. Thankfully, there is music, novels and KZfaq 😊 xx

@@traceybanting3952 I can see the time, ehen someone will pull out net plug, pretty soon... I know how it sounds... People would go to fight for that on their towns' streets... 8 weeks at home? Like in prison? For exactly what reason? WTF? Stay sane, everyone, pls... And safe, of course! :-)

I am listening this great song

❤

暗香826 i do

Hahaha yeah.

Stunningly beautiful vouces

Sandra Pereira Andy’s voice sublime.

Lovely

This spell can be cast on me any day, anywhere, any time...

I listen to S&G a lot and as a young man I must say whenever this song comes on on shuffle i can feel the hope it may have exported, but I also hear the hopelessness of our modern day society in it and I know I sound like the joker and I know I haven’t struggled hardly financially, but everyday it’s as if it gets grimmer and grimmer as the door slowly shuts on this world.

❤☮️✌️

So true.

Simpler maybe but the hope is still there. You just have to look harder for it in our complex world.

Not to be a downer, but this was the Viet Nam era and this was a protest song. Gorgeous and impactful as it was, these were extremely troubled times in America.

Paul’s guitar skill is very underrated.

They do. You just won't often hear it in the mainstream. Perhaps look through the NPR Tiny Desk series of gigs, for a start: some very fine performances on there from a diverse range of people. Nickel Creek have a great little gig on there, using a single omnidirectional mic, and really good use of harmonies. Anyway, dig in to that collection.

This is what happens when a superb entertainer like Williams finds himself in the midst of artists. They can hang, even add something meaningful to the mix, but they're mostly appreciative to be thrown in a depth where they rarely swim. This is good.

@@Azabaxe80 I wouldn't go that far

@@Azabaxe80 I love your comment! " They can hang....." Whew

I agree with you all. Possibly the best version I’ve ever heard. Andy definitely ‘hangs’ with them. His voice has possibly a touch more classical richness, but when you listen to all their voices in all their parts, wow! It just fits together so well

@@pauljolly9320 well said. MY thoughts exactly.

grateful

Yes Andy did a great job but I don't think he would have been able to Out Show art Garfunkel's voice. Both have beautiful voices but Arts is so unique and smooth and mesmerizing.

An accompaniment he, er, borrowed - listen to Martin Carthy's version...

Thanks, I will.

Me too. Absolute magic

Paul Simon is a great guitar player. No doubt.

Amazing... And nothing like it today!

2 years before I was born so amazing

me too - absolutely stunning

Me too and it's amazing..... Wow is the right word

Me too!

I would say this is one of the best songs I have listened too in my whole life. Andy Williams effortless vocals make this song a masterpiece and so much better than the Simon and Art Garfunkel original.

Yes. Agreed.

Because they can do 3 part harmonies and they are all genius musically

Andy Williams is bold and smokin'!!!!!

I wish they had recorded this version in the studio at the time.

Mr Simon almost lost it 'bout 1/2 way thru. I thought he was going to laugh-sing the line

Stupid people - this is true music!!

You are so right. Andy Williams has an amazing voice and Art......no one sings more beautiful than Art Garfunkel. No one ever. Together they are amazing. I could listen to this forever.

jasphy Badilla I often feel I am the reincarnation of someone with very good taste.. Harrison is my favorite Beatle, nobody could play like Stevie Ray, and fuck I miss Chris Cornell... l owe my current existence to music, good music, music that not only makes you feel alive, but at times keep you that way. \m/

Because they are GREAT SONGS.... Makes me feel young , again

jasphy Badilla Another answer is: All songs get old.

I know right? Art looks like he's not even trying whenever he sings - no straining or facial expressions of effort - just this unreal clarity that's like pouring water whenever he sings. What a gift to be given and personally I'm so glad he shared it with the world. Him and Simon together are just à match made in heaven .

Sometimes you hear something that is timeless magnificence

I am 50 yrs. old from Thailand. I have been in love with this song since I was 13. This song inspired me to learn guitar and won university guitar and singing contest 9 years later. Nice memory... 😊

@@nitiparamatapon9690 Wish people like us three from across the world could come together and harmonise and play this song :)

I'm 62, South Korean, and feels the same like you, which means we enters into the same purity when we are filled with beautiful sounds, regardless of our physical age.

@@SI-py4yi I'm 66 . It's thé same feeling since 50 years. In France : pureté, beauté, limpide. Inaltérable .

Me too! I just came across this now and I'm speechless! Such beauty is breath taking and ethereal and also seems as it can't be real its that perfect. Divine.

@@gottawonder9091 Its profound grace and beauty is overwhelming. I have watched this ten times or more and each time I weep.

Richard you are so right!

Amo esta melodia desde que conheci o LP gravado no Central Park em Nova York, em 1970, quando ouvi a primeira vez. Nunca tinha ouvido tamanha harmonia e beleza em apenas duas vozes masculinas. Em 1970. Desde aquela data, continuo gostando da mesma forma. Acho difícil surgir outra dupla com o mesmo nível de Simon e Garfunkel.

It's musical poetry , Quintessentially English .

Very old traditional English song ❤

It was written in the time of the Tudors.

They didn't write it though. But I agree

🌲🌷Kai: THANK YOU SO MUCH, FOR THE LYRICS ! How kind of you to share them with us.

I think it’s candlewick shirt.

You've got some lines missing... Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water and the sea strand (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And to gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten) Then she'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine

@@Pluggit1953 No, it's cambric, which is a finely-woven cloth - originally linen, later cotton. Now known as 'Chambray'.

Thanks

Paul Simon might not have the in your face soloing virtuosity, but he makes in beautiful arpeggios and fingerstyle phrases.

@@ezzong , hey man, you mean he don't shred on a 24 fret PRS?

Followers of shredding will not understand the complexity of fingerpicking where EACH finger of both hands has to follow its own rhythm independently yet have to create a composite rhythm pattern. It takes more practice time to learn Anji by S&G than Stairway by Zeppelin.

It would have been perfect

Simon, Garfunkel, And Williams?

They did sound phenomenal together!

Me too, man.

So I'm not the only one...

Agreed.

Even for my french ears, it's sound incredibly. I love it.

I find it very odd that you thought he would disrespect their song.

Tom Price - and Simons range isn't bad, but his guitar playing is so good

being a duet or a band is more of a chemistry... so, eventually both play a crucial role in the outcome ;)

When I was a kid.. I loved Paul Simon.. but always loved the harmonies. As I am now a Grandma.. I see Art Garfunkel as a angel spirit on earth, cloaked in a human body. And Paul Simon.. POET.

Theirs was the 1st lp I ever bought as a young girl. Have loved them.. and Andy forever ❤

How unique. But what a beautiful, soothing song to choose at such a fitting time.

I agree. 😇

Renegade Wa Andy Williams knew his limitation's as a singer. He world work with other singers in his range. Tony Bennet ...YES Beverly Sills ...NO Pavarotti ...NOSinatra...YES Maria Callas...NO Bing Crosby...NO WHAT IS THE CORECT ANSERS FOR THESE

cookingprof Then he was a smart man.

+Renegade Wa 100 % correct! And what a monster of a song...

Andies voice is incredible I didn't even know who he was and that really bothers me. I feel like someone that has a voice like that should have been recognized much more.

+william Brown - Andy Williams also sang "Moon River" which I loved...one of my favorites!