tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15172263731445978512024-02-02T00:09:57.554-05:00Connecticut WitThe Connecticut (or Hartford or Wicked) Wits were a group of late-18th-century poets who first attempted to write a distinctly American literature. THEY FAILED.gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1351125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-35045886885785392002023-11-13T12:00:00.011-05:002023-11-13T12:00:00.146-05:00No, this isn't the FGF 30th Anniversary logo either...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCC0e3b7MEYHgREflZOUmfks4M0CGvu42fDx5xJeDtr9TBJxt-PJmLZhyphenhyphendvnGpvil5wdrSpFMxhmryxEhcSYG1j0BRzlJVN705Ra6xfTugQC1wuRdrzHTk9UXVnJ0l50_JqTir2X0KxuZHRlH9v0bjE5xiX-UD89Ck_8nkV6Vbj67OeBomcbA_A1jUlfQu/s500/FGF%2030th%20Ann%20Attempt%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCC0e3b7MEYHgREflZOUmfks4M0CGvu42fDx5xJeDtr9TBJxt-PJmLZhyphenhyphendvnGpvil5wdrSpFMxhmryxEhcSYG1j0BRzlJVN705Ra6xfTugQC1wuRdrzHTk9UXVnJ0l50_JqTir2X0KxuZHRlH9v0bjE5xiX-UD89Ck_8nkV6Vbj67OeBomcbA_A1jUlfQu/s320/FGF%2030th%20Ann%20Attempt%202.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...but we will be broadcasting Anniversary Throwback Show #2 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by re-airing our "Black History Month" program</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">from 02/15/2005!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tune in at 8 on 11/14/23</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">FGF <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(est 1993)</span>: Quite frankly why you have ears</h4><br /> <p></p>gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-74491280367136246082023-11-06T20:05:00.001-05:002023-11-06T20:05:14.842-05:00No, this ISN'T the new 30th Anniversary Logo...<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuZueSr30LhKdTiaun8IYM53CmjEih0UJytu2M8Fi3g_E7TH3RjVli-RNrd9KN-uurnO0jxB9WivUPHHX1pogjyIYqczENXPlWGhXasM_vxVPjd1POr6fW8Z30Bel0SxJfrMkif480qq-qHIGeJM6j95mL2Wxz5JQjg4_HqywuWT8pr03WAfkfSyN1b2Qq/s500/5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuZueSr30LhKdTiaun8IYM53CmjEih0UJytu2M8Fi3g_E7TH3RjVli-RNrd9KN-uurnO0jxB9WivUPHHX1pogjyIYqczENXPlWGhXasM_vxVPjd1POr6fW8Z30Bel0SxJfrMkif480qq-qHIGeJM6j95mL2Wxz5JQjg4_HqywuWT8pr03WAfkfSyN1b2Qq/s320/5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...but we will be airing our show from May 4, 2002 on Tuesday, November 7, 2024!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tune in at 8 AM.</p><p style="text-align: center;">FGF: Quite frankly why you have ears. </p>gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-72579984321872267762023-11-03T12:23:00.005-04:002023-11-03T12:23:50.064-04:00Plans for the 30th Anniversary of "Frank, Gil, and Friends"<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinp6crUzRwXsWUl6li1m1yC2u0S2M5PWT6z47kh2FfSCN02RqNpAoC0CusX28OjltcBRNPX6SIqbVqokOc8EQsJNwkjkCOGqq0cAqjriJFPvDFf-zMLg76KgsRXq4OyULHp9qHTnbcaiZyJJ-ng4eVhN21zveSQHveGDI7Nmm6XGykmNanxq6mpHZFaTci" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="115" data-original-width="150" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinp6crUzRwXsWUl6li1m1yC2u0S2M5PWT6z47kh2FfSCN02RqNpAoC0CusX28OjltcBRNPX6SIqbVqokOc8EQsJNwkjkCOGqq0cAqjriJFPvDFf-zMLg76KgsRXq4OyULHp9qHTnbcaiZyJJ-ng4eVhN21zveSQHveGDI7Nmm6XGykmNanxq6mpHZFaTci=w211-h162" width="211" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WFCS-FM’s <i>Frank, Gil,
& Friends</i> Celebrates 30 Years On the Air</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sinatra-themed radio
show continues to serve central Connecticut after three decades</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://frankgilandfriends.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frank, Gil, & Friends</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the weekly Frank Sinatra-themed radio show on Central
Connecticut State University’s </span><a href="http://mixlr.com/wfcs/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WFCS 107.7 The Edge</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, will commemorate 30 years on the air on
Tuesday, December 12. During the show’s 8-10 a.m. slot, show founder and host
Professor Gil Gigliotti (the titular “Gil”) of the English and World Languages
Departments will give away custom anniversary buttons and celebrate with a cake
in the Student Center.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The show debuted on December 17, 1993, and has
been a station fixture in its current time slot since September 1999. Billing
it as “not your father’s Sinatra radio program,” Gigliotti conceived </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Frank,
Gil, & Friends</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> during his second year at Central. With “The Edge” being
an alternative radio station, he envisioned an alternative Sinatra show that
eschewed oversaturated hits like “My Way” and “New York, New York” in favor of
the less-played bits of the singer’s vast catalog. And he has gone to great
lengths to play the many tribute albums, as well as songs of any genre that
reference Sinatra</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">from country to heavy metal to hip-hop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aside from a six-month shutdown in 2020 due to
campus closures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">whose
tagline is “Quite frankly why you have ears”</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">has aired consistently. The
December 12 episode will be its 1,333rd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Guests to call in to or appear on the show over
the years have included Frank Sinatra, Jr.; Michele Monro, daughter of
Sinatra’s British counterpart Matt Monro; Will Friedwald, eminent Sinatra
scholar; New York-based cabaret singers Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock; and
Connecticut-based singer Rob Zappulla. Listeners tune in from 17 states as well
as countries including India, Germany, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and the UK.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The cake-and-buttons celebration on the 12th is
only one in a series of events honoring the milestone. From Tuesday, November
21, through December, Central’s Elihu Burritt Library will exhibit highlights
from Gigliotti’s collection of Sinatra memorabilia. On December 7, Gigliotti
will give a tour of the exhibit before dinner and a Sinatra lecture as part of
the university’s Scholars for Life series. The official 30th-anniversary </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Frank,
Gil, & Friends</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> logo (featured on the buttons) will be revealed on
December 5.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I frequently say that Frank is everywhere,”
says Gigliotti, a scholar and collector who has published three books on
Sinatra-related subjects, regularly gives lectures on Sinatra, and has hosted
film series featuring Sinatra and his contemporaries. “The goal of the show has
always been to demonstrate why he still matters. WFCS is a great home for it,
as it has been for all sorts of shows. Let’s do another 30.”</span></p>gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-67887665485613713572023-08-27T19:38:00.007-04:002023-08-27T19:38:36.587-04:00A Eulogy for Mom<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Breaking Bread: A Eulogy for Mom” </span></span></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Guardian Angels Church, Cincinnati, OH, 8/26/23)</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Our mother, Angela Rose Marie Antoinette Virginia Carella Gigliotti, broke bread with a lot of people over the course of her 90 years. Happily for us, most of the bread she broke she had baked herself. Bread -- and cavatelli and cannoli and braciole and meatballs and cheese triangles and Easter crowns and struffoli at Christmas and “watermelon ice cream,” among other delicious treats – <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>was the way she liked best to give of herself to her family, her friends, her parish, and her community.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A day on her feet in her kitchen was routine – to make dinner for her beloved husband Gilbert, her children, and her grandchildren; her friends in the Gourmet Group; the Genesis folk; her two granddaughter-roommates; the parish priests; or simply to ensure that her freezers were filled and ready for that all-too-frequent case when one just may need a spare lasagna.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> She had learned to cook at the elbow of her mother and her aunts – bringing the recipes of Acquaviva delle Fonti, just outside of Bari, Italy, to what, I’m sure to a Brooklyn girl, seemed a wilderness in Ohio. But she was a very successful gastronomic missionary: Her eldest son, Michael (God rest his soul), cooked like her. Her daughter, Frances, cooks like her. Her youngest, Anthony, cooks like her. I alone failed her (with sincere apologies to my family). And she broke bread at all our homes – coming for those occasions she loved best: Baptisms, First Communions, Confirmations, and graduations. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Breaking bread, of course, implies community, a group of people who gather to share their love -- and their faith -- for breaking bread has been a fundamental, indeed sacramental, practice in the Church at least since Jesus fed the five thousand. And the practice of breaking bread (or, in New Testament Greek, η κλάσισ του άρτου) continued. In Acts 2:42, for example, it is written “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” So, our mother’s long-time service here at Guardian Angels as a devout and devoted Eucharistic minister, not to mention as the manager of the school cafeteria, was, as they say nowadays, very “on-brand.” </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> But, as fate would have it, Rose Marie would be called to be even more than a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend, and chef who could cook up a storm. Her role as the primary caregiver to our father, after his MS diagnosis, would drive her to recognize the need for a “respite companion ministry,” the formation of which was a major logistical undertaking. A daunting task, yes, but it brought relief both to those who needed care and those who required at least a brief pause from such an unrelenting burden. And, as Mom intended, the caregivers brought community to those most in need of it – and thus figuratively, and often literally, they broke bread together. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Six years ago, our mother suffered a stroke that would deny her the joy of cooking for us all. She still enjoyed breaking bread with each of us and did so; her hands simply could no longer knead, fold, bake, and break it. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Now, I may not be a cook, but I ask your indulgence to allow me to do very briefly what I, a literature professor, do best: an apt literary reference.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> In his 1965 book Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino offers a series of short stories explaining a variety of scientific theories. In my favorite, entitled “All at One Point,” he writes of the Big Bang, that “moment when all the universe’s matter was concentrated in a single point, before it began to expand in space” (43). Calvino wonderfully imagines the Big Bang occurring when the maternal Mrs. Ph(i)Nk° says to all the others who were packed together “like sardines” (43) with her:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> “…how I’d like to make some noodles for you boys!” (46)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At that moment, the concentrated energy necessary to imagine the space it would take for Mrs. Ph(i)Nk°’s “arms…white and shiny with oil up to the elbows” (46) to roll out the dough with a rolling pin – not to mention the space required for the sun, the sky, the water, and the fields to grow the wheat for the flour – all this explodes the spot they have shared and sends them hurtling “to the four corners of the universe” (47). Calvino makes clear, however, the explosive force was not simply Mrs. Ph(i)Nk°’s imagination, but also, and far more importantly, her “generous impulse” and her “true outburst of…love.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> We all are gathered here today because of the “generous impulse” and “true outburst of love” that Rose Marie Gigliotti shared with each of us. And, I’m sure, her only wish would be that, when we leave here and scatter to our various corners of the universe, we demonstrate that same love, generosity, and faith each time we break bread with another.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Mom, we miss you. We love you. Please make some struffoli for Dad and Mike!</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Works Cited</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Calvino, Italo. <i>Cosmicomics</i>. Trans. by William Weaver. San Diego: Harvest/HBJ, 1968.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May, Herbert and Bruce Metzger, eds. <i>The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha</i>. Revised Standard Edition. New York: Oxford UP, 1977.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thayer, Joseph H. <i>Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament</i>. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977.</span></div></div>gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-56191037955610410532020-02-06T10:00:00.002-05:002020-02-06T10:00:55.081-05:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1 So-so Film + 2 Albums (One Very Good and One
Excellent)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> You’d probably quickly recognize the title track from Paul Simon’s Grammy-Award-winning Album-of-the-Year </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Still Crazy After All These Years</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> from 1975. And you’d probably also recognize the opening track from Simon’s Grammy-Award-winning Album-of-the-Year </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Graceland</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> from 1986, “Boy in the Bubble.”</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Now, if you know anything about the much-ballyhooed <i>Graceland</i>
album, you’ll know that it was inspired by a cassette tape of South African “township”
music, entitled <i>Gumboots: Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II</i>, that producer
Heidi Berg gave to Paul Simon (Morella 235). The tape intrigued Simon, and his
interest led him to South Africa, despite Apartheid, to learn more about the
music and to meet musicians, which, in turn, resulted in his collaborations
with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabala, Youssou N'Dour, </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">among others</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But what, you may ask, could have caused a famous and
successful singer-songwriter and celebrity<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> to go half-way around the
world to a segregationist country under economic and cultural boycotts (and,
because of the trip, to suffer not-insubstantial criticism subsequently)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The answer? The failures of both <i>One-Trick Pony</i>,
the 1980 film that he wrote, scored, and starred in, and his 1983 release, <i>Hearts
and Bones</i>, his worst-selling studio album since Simon and Garfunkel’s 1964
debut, <i>Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M</i>..<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Musical
success was something that Simon had, for the most part, always known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his childhood friend Art Garfunkel,
performing as “Tom and Jerry” even co-wrote a hit record as teenagers, “Hey
Schoolgirl,” which reached #49 on the <i>Billboard</i> singles chart, and
earned them a spot on “American Bandstand” with Dick Clark on November 22,
1957, an episode that also featured Jerry Lee Lewis (Morella 16; Jackson
25-25). <b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
the break-up of Tom and Jerry in 1959,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> when Artie went to
Columbia to study math education (and, by the way, roomed with my former CCSU
colleague Barry Leeds) and Paul headed off to Queens College as an English
major), Simon continued to write and record his own and others’ rock ‘n’ roll
songs, along Tin Pan Alley and in the Brill Building<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> – as Jerry Landis, True
Taylor, and even Tico and the Triumphs (Luftig 3)<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. While a few of these
forgettable songs broke onto the very bottom of the charts very occasionally,
and despite entering law school upon graduating from Queens College, Paul never
abandoned his desire to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor did Artie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
1964, however, in the wake of Bob Dylan, Columbia signed a reunited, and now
folk duo, Simon and Garfunkel to a contract; they then recorded <i>Wednesday
Morning, 3 A.M.</i>, which included “The Sounds of Silence.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> The album flopped, and,
as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a result, Paul headed off to England
solo – only to return to the states and reunite with Garfunkel after an
electrified version, “The Sound of Silence,” (overdubbed by CBS engineer Tom
Wilson without the knowledge of either singer) entered the charts and climbed
to #1 (Jackson 89).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
rest is oft-told musical history: five consecutive hit albums for the duo - <i>Sounds
of Silence</i> and <i>Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme</i> (both from 1966);
and then three consecutive #1 albums <i>Bookends</i> and <i>The Graduate</i>
(both from 1968) and 1970’s Album-of-the-Year <i>Bridge Over Troubled Water</i>
(with three Top 10 singles of its own – the title track, “The Boxer,” and
“Cecilia”).<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What
followed – namely, the breakup of “Simon and Garfunkel” – surprised everyone
but Paul, who, as the pair’s sole songwriter, was feeling constrained by the
need to write for a duo – which meant supplying Artie and his undeniably
beautiful voice with enough appropriately soaring ballads to please him and
Simon and Garfunkel fans. Paul, the rock ‘n’ roller, remember, had always been
interested in what he termed “rhythm songs,” not to mention writing in, and
for, his own voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the 1970s, Simon would go on to write, record, and release three solo studio
albums for Columbia: <i>Paul Simon</i> (1972), <i>There Goes Rhymin’ Simon</i>
(1973), and <i>Still Crazy After All These Years</i> (1975)<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>, which it should be noted
included a reunion with Garfunkel on the “My Little Town” (reaching #9 on the
charts) and a #1 single, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three albums would break into the top
five on the <i>Billboard</i> Album Chart (Whitburn 280), and, as stated at the
beginning, <i>Still Crazy…</i>would win the “Album of the Year” Grammy in
February 1976.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his acceptance speech,
Paul thanked Stevie Wonder for “not releasing an album this year” (O’Neil 236).
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
short, both as a half of “Simon and Garfunkel” and as a solo act, Simon had
been on a phenomenal roll for close to 15 years in a business that is decidedly
fickle and quick to forget, and always looking for the next big thing.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Between 1964 and 1980,
remember, pop-music tastes had gone from folk to the British Invasion to Motown
to country-rock to Disco to New Wave (with all the variations and permutations
therein). Simon had survived them all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simon’s
desire to make a movie in the late 1970s can hardly be considered surprising
given:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">a)
<b>his previous musical involvement in films</b>: from Mike Nichols’s <i>The
Graduate</i> and D. A. Pennebaker’s <i>Monterey Pop</i> in 1968 (Jackson 106)
to Warren Beatty’s <i>Shampoo</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><i> </i>in 1975, and his
own role as record producer Tony Lacey in Woody Allen’s <i>Annie Hall</i> in
1977 (Kingston 188); <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">b)
<b>Art Garfunkel’s film career</b>, with roles in <i>Catch-22</i>; <i>Carnal
Knowledge</i>; and <i>Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession</i>, a movie released
contemporaneously with Simon’s <i>One Trick Pony</i> in 1980;<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">c)
<b>Paul’s close affiliation with the <i>Saturday Night Live</i> team</b>,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> including his co-writing,
with Lorne Michaels, the hour-long <i>Paul Simon Special</i>, which aired on
NBC on 8 December 1977 (Kingston 191); but, perhaps most importantly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">d)
<b>the cinematic nature of his songwriting</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Think of Simon and
Garfunkel’s “The Boxer,” for example: <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I left my home and my family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was no more than a boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the company of strangers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the quiet of the railway station <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Running scared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Laying low, seeking out the poorer
quarters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where the ragged people go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking for the places only they would
know<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">or
“Gone at Last” from <i>Still Crazy After All These Years</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The night was black, roads were icy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Snow was fallin’, drifts were high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I was weary from my driving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I stopped to rest for a while<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sat down at a truck stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was thinking about my past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve had a long streak of that bad luck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I’m praying it’s gone at last… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or
the bridge of “How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns” on <i>One-Trick Pony</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After the rain on the interstate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The headlights slide past the moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A bone-weary traveler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Waits by the side of the road <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where’s he going?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The question isn’t “Why
would Simon want to write a movie with music?” or even “Why would he want to
star in it?” (Think of every singer from Crosby and Sinatra to Presley, the
Beatles, and, later, Prince.) The question is: “Could he succeed at it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">***
<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1980’s <i>One-Trick Pony</i> depicts the current life of
singer-songwriter Jonah Levin, played by Simon, who had an anti-war hit back in
the 1960s, but who is still trying to make a living in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>music by touring the country, playing small
clubs, with his band (real-life musicians Steve Gadd, Richard Tee, Eric Gale,
and Tony Levin). The band spends its time mostly in rented vans and third-rate
hotels reading the rare newspaper review or gambling on “Rock and Roll Deaths”
(45). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jonah
is separated, and, later in the film, divorced from his wife Marion (played by
Blair Brown), and they have a young son, Matty. Marion’s primary reasons for
wanting to end their marriage are not that she and Jonah no longer love each
other or <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Matty</span>, but rather a)
Jonah is never home, and, even when he is, he’s too preoccupied with thinking
about the road, and b) rock ‘n’ roll is a kid’s game, and Jonah needs to grow
up. Indeed, according to Marion, “when you get to a certain age…[rock ‘n’ roll
is] “pathetic” (30). He’s wanted to be Elvis Presley since he was “thirteen”
(29), and, with his one-and-only hit more than a decade old, at this point it
would seem it isn’t going to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And, according to the film, Marion isn’t far off on
either point. The touring in which Jonah is constantly engaged includes audiences
that are there to see other acts (with cameos by the B-52s, The Lovin’
Spoonful, Sam and Dave, and Tiny Tim, by the way!), or dates that are cancelled
due to low ticket sales and even because the venue has shut its doors, without
notice (or recompense). As Clarence, the keyboardist, says, “…I can’t live off
$400 a week. That doesn’t cover my alimony or my dope bills.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as we saw, when the band gets reviewed
by the local newspaper, it’s decidedly lukewarm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Marion
is also correct that Jonah can be as childish as his young son, with Jonah even
admitting to her, “I <i>am</i> Matty, just older” (92).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not coincidentally, Simon, as Jerry Landis,
had written and recorded a song “Just a Boy” in 1960 (Jackson 33).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
childishness is underscored, perhaps unintentionally, by Simon’s being at its
most animated as an actor – excluding his musical performances with the band –
when Jonah is with his son Matty playing baseball or foosball or pinball or
going to see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Empire Strikes Back<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Simon’s lack of animation even includes
the bedroom scenes – when Jonah sleeps with Marion <i>after</i> the divorce; or
after a gig with a club waitress (played by Mare Winningham); or with his
record company’s president’s wife (played by Joan Hackett). Jonah’s just
happier being a kid in a man’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, yes, he, in fact, wears an Elvis t-shirt at one point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jonah’s
naivete (to put a more positive spin on it) is most pronounced, however, in his
dealings with record and radio executives. Jonah has no interest in playing
their game. He doesn’t perform his one-and-only hit in concert, and he clearly
doesn’t want to listen to any ideas to make his music more radio-friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this can be noble, as when he wants to
include his band, and not drum machines and other such production techniques
that a hit producer (played by Lou Reed) wants to use<b>,</b> Jonah doesn’t
hide his contempt for such commercial concessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, in a meeting with his record company to
discuss the possibility of a new album, he first subtly insults the
intelligence of Cal Van Damp, Mr. “AM Ears” (played by Alan Goorwitz), and
then, at a party after a televised solo performance of “Soft Parachutes” which
he had only very reluctantly agreed to do,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> he drunkenly calls Cal a
“fat ass” several times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
depiction of record executives as soulless hacks (and the antipathy between
artists and “bean-counters”) is stereotypical, of course, but in this case also
a bit autobiographical, as Simon had just gone through a very messy “divorce”
from Columbia Records, resulting in Simon’s buying out his remaining contract
for $1.5 million and signing with Warner Brothers Records, who had agreed to
finance the film (Morella 194). This negative depiction of radio-friendly
production is also not a little ironic, however, given, remember, the
commercial success of “The Sound of Silence” -- only after being fiddled with
by a radio-friendly producer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No “spoiler alerts” are necessary since I’m not going to
tell you what happens to Jonah and Marion and the band, and, besides, to be
truthful, you’re better off just listening to the soundtrack album because it
does everything the film does, only better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, the core tensions of this movie can best be summarized in
three short excerpts from Simon’s lyrics on the soundtrack: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">From “God Bless the
Absentee:”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lord, I am a working man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And music is my trade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m traveling with this five-piece
band<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I play the Ace of Spades<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have a wife and family, but they
don’t see much of me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God bless the absentee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">From “Long, Long Day:”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve sure been on this road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Done nearly fourteen years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can’t say my name’s well known<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You don’t see my face on <i>Rolling
Stone</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I’ve sure been on this road <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And,
finally, from “Jonah:”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They say Jonah was swallowed by a whale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I say there’s no truth to that tale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I know Jonah was swallowed by a song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here’s to all the boys who came along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carrying soft guitars in cardboard cases<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All night long<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And do you wonder where those boys have
gone?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
addition, some of Simon’s short verses are better than entire scenes in the
film. For example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a phone booth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In some local bar and grill <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rehearsing what I’ll say, my coin returns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">How the heart approaches what it yearns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">is far more evocative of
the distance (both physical and emotional) between Jonah and Marion than the
early morning scene in the movie in which he calls her clearly feeling guilty
for his infidelity with the waitress (19-23).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, in “That’s Why God Made the Movies,” the songwriter offers us an
etiological myth, an origin myth, for Jonah’s boyish wanderlust (which only
makes manifest how difficult it’d be for the musician actually to change): <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I was born my mother died<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She said bye-bye, baby, bye-bye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And since that day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve made my way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The notorious boy in the wild <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Adopted by the wolves when he was a child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In short, in his
interactions with his wife, his mistress, and his record bosses, Jonah’s not
simply being contrarian or stubborn or even immature; in many ways the artist
as depicted in the lyrics is simply alien to the world the rest of us
inhabit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only Simon the screenwriter
had been as nuanced as Simon the songwriter! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Both
the screenwriter and the songwriter envisioned different kinds of songs working
in different ways in the film and divided them into those that were meant to be
performed live in concert to capture the skill and camaraderie of the band
(“Ace in the Hole” and “One-Trick Pony”) and those meant to convey Jonah’s
mental and emotional states. And that’s why, even when the only thing we see on
screen is a van traveling on the highway, with “God Bless the Absentee”
playing, or we follow an outing with Jonah and Matty, with “That’s Why God Made
the Movies” replacing any dialogue, it’s more satisfyingly subtle than the
non-musical scenes because we learn about the character through the medium at
which Simon is best at conveying such subtleties – a song. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simon’s
meticulous musical sense can be seen even in Jonah’s sole hit record, the
anti-war “Soft Parachutes.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> In it, Simon nicely
channels the innocence and simplicity of his own early protest music,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> and thus avoiding Jonah’s
early work sounding like a mature songwriter:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soft parachutes, Fourth of July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And villages burning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Returning the bodies, all laid in a line<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like soft parachutes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last year I was a senior<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In Emerson High School<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had me a girlfriend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We used to get high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And now I am flying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Down some Vietnam highway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don’t ask me the reason<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God only knows why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soft parachutes…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Compare that
to “On the Side of a Hill” that Simon released on his English solo album <i>S</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ongbook</i> in 1965:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the side of a hill in a land called
'Somewhere'<br />
A little boy lies asleep in the earth<br />
While down in the valley a cruel war rages<br />
And people forget what a child's life is worth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the side of a hill, a little cloud
weeps<br />
And waters the grave with its silent tears<br />
While a soldier cleans and polishes a gun<br />
That ended a life at the age of seven years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the war rages on in the land called 'Somewhere'<br />
And generals order their men to kill<br />
And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten<br />
While the little cloud weeps on the side of a hill <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Despite
the beautiful and carefully-constructed music, and much to Simon’s
disappointment – one biographer refers to him as “inconsolable” (Morella 205) –
the film received mixed reviews.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Chevy Chase, Simon’s
friend and himself the maker of a not few bad films, perhaps summarized it
best:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wasn’t crazy about it. It didn’t stand
out for me. I think some people stand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">out in film and others stand out in their
own form. Paul just didn’t hit me that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">well in that role. Anymore than if I went
out the road with an orchestra I would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">do well. (Jackson 164)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Even more affecting on
Simon than the mediocre reviews was the poor performance of the film at the box
office. People stayed away – in droves. Indeed, given his investment in
emotional, professional, and financial capital,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Simon had never come
close to “experienc[ing] rejection of this magnitude before” (Morella 205).<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But,
despite the so-so quality of the film, as a film, in this man’s opinion, it’s
sad that the music didn’t receive any notice from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. “Late in the Evening,” after all, reached #6 on the <i>Billboard</i>
singles chart (Eliot 168), and it’s hardly a secret that the Oscars <i>love</i>
popular works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What, you ask, won Best
Song at the 1981 Academy Awards?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael
Gore’s “Fame” (beating out “9 to 5,” “On the Road Again,” “Out Here on My Own”
also from <i>Fame</i>, and something called “People Alone”). “Late in the
Evening” easily beats every one of those in its musical production, its
lyricism, and, yes, even its significance to the movie by clearly, and
succinctly, introducing Jonah’s musical history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The movie did spark in Paul the notion that, for as long as he’d
been in rock ‘n’ roll,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he had “never
really been part of a band” before – only a duo or playing with studio
musicians (Morella 203), so he immediately went on tour with the band from the
film as its core. At the time, he was quoted as saying: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d like to go out there. I’d
like to take this band and have a record of it –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">you know, these guys, at this
particular moment, ‘cause I don’t know if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">we’ll all be together again.
(Morella 205) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And the
critical reception of the tour, especially of the European leg, was everything
the film’s reception had not been: decidedly positive (including when Garfunkel
joined him on stage in Paris for a few songs) (Morella 206).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, at tour’s end, in 1981, Paul was faced
with a failed movie, the soundtrack’s lackluster sales, the problems of a
long-distance relationship with Carrie Fisher, and a bad case of writer’s block.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The main reason Garfunkel was in Paris during Paul’s tour was to
escape New York to grieve the loss of Laurie Bird, his girlfriend since 1975.
Bird had died by suicide in 1979<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> in
Art’s New York apartment while he was off making the Nicholas Roeg film <i>Bad
Timing…A Sensual Obsession</i> (Livingston 213). Paul’s wishing to help his
mourning friend was also the primary reason he contacted Artie about joining
him on-stage once again when City officials asked Simon about the possibility
of performing a concert to raise funds for Central Park, badly in need of
repairs and updating due to years of underfunding. Paul thought he and
Garfunkel’s singing a few of their hits together would be good for both Artie
and the fundraiser. (And it certainly couldn’t hurt what he deemed to be his
own current professional slump.) Artie was excited by the invitation, and,
after discussions, a few songs became a whole set, which became an entire
concert, which, after the remarkable success of the concert and HBO broadcast,
then morphed into a worldwide Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> And the
very existence of the tour, coupled with the success of the <i>Concert in
Central Park</i> video and album,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> raised
the specter of a brand new Simon and Garfunkel album! News even leaked that
that Artie had already laid down some vocal tracks for some of the new songs
that Paul was now writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The tensions that split up Simon and Garfunkel a decade before,
however, had re-surfaced over the course of the rehearsals for the tour and the
tour itself. More significantly, however, Paul had broken through his writer’s
block, due in great part to an L.A. therapist named Dr. Rod Gorney (Eliot
169-170), and, as a result, his songwriting had taken a decidedly more personal
turn. <i>Think Too Much</i>, the anticipated Simon and Garfunkel album, thus
became <i>Hearts and Bones</i>, the new Paul Simon solo record.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What was Paul writing about now that was so personal that made
having Artie on board problematic? His relationship with Carrie Fisher, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hollywood
scion (the elder child of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- not to mention
Princess Leia!), whom he had been dating off-and-on since 1978.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s hear from Ms. Fisher herself, from her
remarkable memoir and one-woman show, <i>Wishful Drinking</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Years ago there were tribes that roamed
the earth, and every tribe had a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">magic person. Well, now, as you know, all
the tribes have been dispersed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">but, every so often, you meet the magic
person, and, every so often, you meet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">someone from your tribe. Which is how I
felt when I met Paul Simon. Paul and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had the secret handshake of shared
sensibility We understood each other perfectly. Obviously, we didn’t always
agree, but we understood the terms of our disagreements. My mother used to say
“You know, dear, Paul can be very charming when he wants to be.” And my father
just wanted Paul to write an album for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Despite their natural
affinity for one another, the relationship had been plagued by careers that
took them in different directions for long stretches of time, not to mention,
on Carrie’s part, heavy drug use and a revived romantic relationship with Dan
Aykroyd. After the death of John Belushi,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> however, Carrie:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">broke up with
Aykroyd, tried to wean herself off her addictions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to LSD, Ecstasy,
MDA, and Percodan, and moved back east to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">star in the Broadway
production of <i>Agnes of God.</i> (Eliot 178-179)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
happened next, once again, I’ll leave to Carrie:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, Eddie and Debbie had me and my brother
Todd. I grow up (sort of)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and I marry Paul Simon. Now Paul is a
short Jewish singer, and Eddie Fisher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is a short Jewish singer. Any questions?
My mother makes a blueprint, and I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">follow it to the letter. So, Paul and I
have a passionate relationship, filled with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">lots of words, big words, clever words,
uh-oh the words get mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It is primarily out of this relationship that <i>Hearts and Bones</i>
springs (although the apparent preference of the public for Simon and Garfunkel
over Simon solo was certainly gnawing at Paul). Indeed, in perhaps the biggest
slap to Artie, Simon would sing all of the background vocals<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> on the
record himself (Simon, <i>Hearts and Bones</i>). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At its core, the album explores the inner tension between logic
and emotion, between the head and the heart, between the left and right sides
of the brain.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Simon succinctly summarizes this tension in “Train in the Distance” thus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Negotiations and love songs / are often mistaken for one and the
same<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As such, the
album’s songs are replete with contrasting images of, on the one hand, medicine
(both physical<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and psychological) and business and, on the other, love, loss, hope, music, and
memory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">While
that may sound ponderous, at first blush, the album is filled with catchy
riffs, layers of textured sound, cleverly insightful lyrics, and great musicianship
(not to mention great musicians, like guitarists Al Di Meola and Nile Rodgers,
and composer Phillip Glass). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">There
is also, despite the intensely personal nature of the songs, not a little humor
and even self-deprecation on Simon’s part.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> In “Think Too Much (a),”
for instance, he looks back at the beginnings of his over-thinking:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had a childhood
that was mercifully brief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I grew up in the
state of disbelief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I started to think
too much when I was twelve going on thirteen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Me and the girls
from St. Augustine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Up in the
mezzanine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thinking about God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Indeed, the appearance on
the album of not one but two songs entitled “Think Too Much” (one fast, one
slow), according to Simon, is a joke in itself:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">just another
example of never letting go and thinking too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s why I did
two songs…ha, ha, ha, it’s a joke. Look at that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe I think too
much…Or maybe it isn’t a joke. (Zollo 98)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Likewise, the
second verse of the opening track, “Allergies,” offers us a send-up his own
recent therapy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I go to a famous
physician<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sleep in a local
motel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From what I can
see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s the people
like me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We get better<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But we never get
well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I ask myself
this question<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s a question I
often repeat <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where do allergies
go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When it’s after a
show <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and they want to
get something to eat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And, once again, even the
central conceit of <span style="color: black;">“Allergies,”<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> slyly
transforms the Irving Berlin classic into “A Pretty Girl is Like a Malady:”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Maladies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Melodies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Allergies
to dust and grain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maladies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Remedies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
these allergies remain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
hand can’t touch a guitar string<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
fingers just burn and ache<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
head intercedes with my bodily needs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And my
body won’t give it a break<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
heart can stand a disaster <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
heart can take a disgrace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But my
heart is allergic to the women I love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
it’s changing the shape of my face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Of course,
for Fisher, the final image here was hardly considered flattering to a woman he
loved:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He wrote another song, called
“Allergies” and the lyric from that was “My heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is allergic to the woman I
love, and it’s changing the shape of my face.” Do you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">think that’s flattering? I
don’t think it really is. But Paul wrote another album, a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">beautiful album (well, they’re
all beautiful), but this particular one was called<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hearts and Bones </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
the title song was about us, and it went like this: “One and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">one-half wandering Jews return
to the natural coasts to resume old acquaintances,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">step out occasionally, and
speculate who had been damaged the most.” But that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">couldn’t be it because I
didn’t get permission to reprint those lyrics, so that would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">be really bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, it isn’t really bad, because I didn’t
take any alimony from Paul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">so try and think about it this
way, you’re listening to my alimony, and lovely alimony it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One and one-half wandering Jews…speculate who
had been damaged the most.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">GUESS WHO WON THAT CONTEST?!? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The real strength of the album, however, is Simon’s careful
weaving throughout the album of the heart-versus-head issue in his
relationships, even in those songs that would seem to have little to do with
his marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of what Simon likes to
refer to as ‘rhythm songs”<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> on the
album, for example, “When Numbers Get Serious” and “Cars are Cars,” while
stressing the rational/objective nature of their putative subjects,
nevertheless conclude on decidedly emotional details. In “When Numbers Get
Serious,” Simon sings about the reassuring nature of math: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk31354492"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Urgent Urgent<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A telephone ringing in the hallway<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When times are mysterious <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Serious numbers will speak to us always <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That is why a man with numbers <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can put your mind at ease <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We’ve got numbers by the trillions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here and overseas <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354492;"></span>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But, at song’s end: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk31354558"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After all is said and done<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354558;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the numbers all come home <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354558;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Four rolls into three <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354558;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Three turns into two <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354558;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the two becomes as one <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk31354558;"></span>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This, of
course, alludes to traditional Western wedding vows, but it also recalls the
married couple, the “one and one-half wandering Jews” of the title track, who
at the end:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">twirl
into one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">their
hearts and their bones <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
they won’t come undone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This same movement from the “objective/rational” to the
“emotional” occurs in “Cars are Cars,” a celebration of the universal nature of
the automobile:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cars
are cars <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
over the world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Similarly
made <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Similarly
sold <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a
motorcade <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abandoned
when they’re old <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Engine
in the front <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jack
in the back <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wheels
take the brunt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pinion
and a rack <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But the
songwriter concludes with the intensely personal relationship people can have in
and with their cars: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I once
had a car <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That
was more like a home <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
lived in it, loved in it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Polished
its chrome <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If some
of my homes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Had
been more like my car <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
probably wouldn’t have <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Traveled
this far. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">There is, in
short, very little, if anything, that cannot touch, or be touched by, the
heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">For example, “Train in the Distance,” a song that recounts Simon’s
first marriage to Peggy Harper and their close post-divorce relationship
(Jackson 220), uses the distant train metaphorically to acknowledge how people
leave one another – often driven by the very same hope that had brought them
together:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
is the point of this story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
information pertains?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
thought that life could be better<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is
woven indelibly into our hearts <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
our brains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This recalls
both Jonah and Marion’s post-divorce tryst in <i>One-Trick Pony</i>, and also,
as Fisher points out here, the warm memories that affected her relationship
with Paul:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway, Paul and I dated for
six years, married for two, divorced for one,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and then we had good memories
of each other. So what do you think we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">did? No, we didn’t remarry, we
dated again, which is <i>exactly</i> what you want to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">do when after you been married
and divorced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel Johnson once said
that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">remarrying (and he’s not
talking about remarrying the same person just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">remarrying) is the triumph of
hope over experience. So for me remarrying the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">same person would be the
triumph of nostalgia over judgement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">While all of
this is clearly (and intensely) personal, Simon, in an interview with writer
Bill Flanagan in <i>Written in My Soul</i>, argued a song’s factualness matters
not: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
‘Train in the Distance” is literally true and maybe it isn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s
the difference? The story isn’t really what’s important: the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">point
of it is.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(282)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While I could elucidate several
other of the album’s motifs – like numbers<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn36;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> and
gunshots,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[37]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and early rock ‘n’ roll,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[38]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> let me
simply touch very briefly on the photographs that tie the various threads
together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">First (in the order that they
appear on the album) are the photographs in “Think too Much<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(b):” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
smartest people in the world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Had
gathered in Los Angeles <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
analyze out love affair <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
finally<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[39]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
unscramble us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
they<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn40;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[40]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> sat
among our photographs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Examined
every one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And in
the end we compromised<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
met the morning sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Here, Paul
and Carrie’s relationship is the stuff of comprehensive and intensive analysis,
examining the past and looking at “every one” of the images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a compromise (remember “negotiations and
love songs?”) is only reached when the couple themselves (the compromising “we”
as opposed to the analyzing “they”) go and meet the “morning sun,” the very
archetype of hope, of possibility, of a new beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A photograph also plays a role in “Song about the Moon,” the track
about Simon’s art: songwriting. In it, Paul offers suggestions on how to write
about “the moon,” “the heart,” and “a face,” but, given the violent images that
accompany each (“gravity leaping like a knife off the pavement” and the heart
“explod[ing] like a pistol on a June night”), perhaps the song is more about
his overcoming the writer’s block that had plagued him before starting this
album and had led him to Dr. Gorney. No matter the original inspiration, it’s a
photograph that is key to writing about a face, but, instead of its being a way
to ensure accuracy in the portrayal, as one might expect,<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn41;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[41]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon’s photograph is, at best,
half-remembered, but unforgettable:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Hey, songwriter,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you want to write a song about
a face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Think about a photograph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">That you really can’t remember <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">But you can’t erase<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Wash your hands in dreams and
lightning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Cut off your hair or whatever is
frightening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you want to write a song about
a face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you want to write a song about
the human race<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Then
na-na-na-na-na<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Yeah, yeah, yeah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Write a
song about the moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Art
intended to capture human truth, in short, is rarely simple <i>reportage</i> or
documentary; it’s not even memory. Truth is an unshakable impression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Which leads us to “Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog
After the War,” which was, in fact, inspired by a photograph<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn42;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[42]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> that
Simon had seen in a book (Flanagan 283)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">You
know Magritte, the surrealist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon’s <span style="color: black;">song offers a surrealist portrait of the famous Belgian
painter and his wife in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He imagines the “immigrant couple” engaged in a variety of activities:
“strolling down Christopher Street,” the gay hub of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greenwich Village; “dining with the power
elite;” and dancing naked in their hotel room “to the deep forbidden music
they’d been longing for,” namely, records by such doo-wop groups as “the
Penguins, the Moonglows, the Orioles, and the Five Satins.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of these details is based on actual
activities or travel by Rene or Georgette Magritte. They all stem from Simon’s
imagination, and he even changed the caption from “Rene and Georgette Magritte
with the Dog During the War” to “…. After the War” but not due to any logic,
Simon has insisted, but only for of the rhythm of the words (Flanagan 283-284).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The song, in short, smartly, but beautifully, captures and
reflects the irrationality of Magritte’s own surrealism (Kingston 268), and, by
doing so, celebrates both the left and right sides of the brain. Art criticism
and musical lyricism, all rolled into one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fact that, in real life, Rene and Georgette had married, split, and
then reunited perhaps adds poignancy, as well, to this album about Paul and
Carrie, as did their playing the Magrittes in the music video for the song
(Eliot 182).<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn43;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[43]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The memory of another photograph plays a major role in the final
track of the album, “The Late Great Johnny Ace,” Simon’s very personal
reflection on the murder of John Lennon. In it he travels back to his home in
Queens in 1954, then forward to London in 1964, and ends in New York City on
the fateful night of 8 December 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simon begins with his “listening to a rock ‘n’ roll song” back
when it was all new and hearing on the radio of the sudden death of
rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Ace.<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn44;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[44]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the song:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, I really wasn’t such a Johnny Ace fan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I
felt bad all the same<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I
sent away for his photograph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
waited ‘til it came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
came all the way from Texas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With a
sad and simple face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
they signed it on the bottom <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“From the Late Great Johnny Ace.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simon then
fast forwards to 1964, “the year of the Beatles” and “the year of the Stones,”
and how in London: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was the
Year of the Beatles</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was the Year
of the Stones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The year
after JFK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We were
staying up all night</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">And giving the days away</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And the music was flowing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Amazing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And blowing my way <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The final
verse recalls how he and the stranger who had told him the news of John
Lennon’s murder went to a bar and:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stayed
to close the place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
every song we played <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was
for The Late Great Johnny Ace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The song, and
album, conclude quietly -- with a string coda composed by Philip Glass,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn45;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[45]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> but, as
we listen, we hear the power of music and memory, of intelligence and emotion,
of love found and lost, of commerce and art, of photographs real and
re-imagined, of the rock ‘n’ roll life, and of the death of rock ‘n’ rollers.
All these threads Simon has “woven together” on his most personal, and, in my
opinion, his single best album. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I stated at the top, as <i>One-Trick
Pony</i> had done just two years before, <i>Hearts and Bones</i> flopped
commercially,<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn46;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[46]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and his marriage ended quickly, too, so a psychically bruised-and-battered
Simon sought refuge in the township music of South Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And why, you may ask, did that tape, </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Gumboots:
Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">attract
Simon so?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simple: because it reminded
him of his earliest love – <b>‘50s rock ‘n’ roll</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Works Cited<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bennighof, James.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Words and Music of Paul Simon</i>. Westport:
Praeger Press, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charlesworth, Chris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul
Simon and Simon & Garfunkel</i>.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>London:
Omnibus Press, 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eliot, Marc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Paul Simon: A Life</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Flanagan, Bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Written on My Soul: Rock’s Great
Songwriters Talk about Creating Their Music</i>.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jackson, Laura.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Paul Simon: The Definitive Biography of
the Legendary Singer/Songwriter</i>.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>New
York: Citadel Press, 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kingston, Victoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Simon & Garfunkel: The Biography</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New York: Fromm International,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1998.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Luftig, Stacey, ed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Paul Simon Companion: Four Decades of
Commentary</i>. New York:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shirmer
Books, 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Morella, Joseph, and Patricia Barey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Simon and Garfunkel: A Dual Biography</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New York:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Birch
Lane Press, 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newman, Randy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Blues.” <i>Trouble in Paradise</i>.
Warner Brothers, 1983.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">O’Neil, Thomas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Grammys for the Record: The Ultimate
Unofficial Guide to America’s<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Top
Music Awards</i>. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Runtaugh, Jordan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Paul Simon’s Early Years: 10 Fascinating
Pre-Simon and Garfunkel Songs.”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">www.RollingStone.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Santosuosso, Ernie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Record Sweeps.” <i>Hartford Courant </i>12
May 1968: 22A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon and Garfunkel. <i>Concert in Central
Park</i>. 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---. <i>Concert in Central Park</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Columbia Records, 1981.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---. <i>Sounds of Silence.</i> Columbia
Records, 1966.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---. <i>Wednesday Morning, 3 AM.</i>
Columbia Records, 1964.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon, Paul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Graceland</i>. Warner Bros. Records, 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Hearts and Bones</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Warner Bros. Records, Inc., 1983. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lyrics 1964-2008</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>One-Trick Pony</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (Album)</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warner Bros.
Records, Inc., 1980.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>One Trick Pony </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Film)</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., 1980. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One-Trick
Pony</i> (Script). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Paul Simon, a.k.a. Jerry Landis: Work in Progress, Vols. 1-3</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonus Records, 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Still Crazy After All These Years</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Columbia Records, 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---. <i>There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Columbia Records, 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon,
Paul and Art Garfunkel. <i>Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel (Tom and Jerry, Artie
Garr,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jerry Landis, True Taylor)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mam Records, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whitburn,
Joel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Billboard Book of Top 40
Albums: The Complete Chart Guide to Every<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Album in the Top 40 Since 1955</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New York: Billboard Books, 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Zollo,
Paul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Songwriters on Songwriting.</i>
Expanded Edition. New York: DaCapo Press, 1997. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Check out the 2012 documentary <i>Under
African Skies</i>, which captures Simon’s return to South Africa for a 25<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary <i>Graceland</i> reunion concert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> By 1980, for example, Simon had
appeared on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturday Night Live</i> five
times, including in its debut in 10/11/75, and twice as host (10/18/75 and
11/20/76) and twice as musical guest (10/29/77 and 3/15/80). He also appeared
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Annie Hall</i> in 1977 as the sleazy
record producer Tony Lacey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It spent eight weeks on the chart reaching only #35. Only
two subsequent albums, 1997’s<i> Songs from The Capeman </i>(#42)<i> </i>and 2018’s<i>
In the Blue Light </i>(#70), have performed worse (Whitburn 280).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Tom and Jerry briefly reunited in
1960 with four recordings, but none met with any success. (Jackson 33)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Here he came into contact with
such hit-makers as Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Neil Sedaka (Jackson 32-35).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> In England he used “Paul Kane.” Art
Garfunkel recorded occasionally as “Artie Garr” (Luftig 3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">
On 1964’s <i>Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.</i>, the song is entitled “The Sounds of
Silence.” On 1966’s <i>Sounds of Silence</i>, it is “The Sound of Silence.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> According to the 12 May 1968 <i>Hartford
Courant</i>, Simon and Garfunkel had the #1, 2, and 6 best-selling albums on
the <i>Billboard</i> Chart: <i>The Original Soundtrack from</i> <i>The Graduate</i>;
<i>Bookends</i>; and <i>Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme</i> (Santosuosso
22A). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Not to mention <i>Greatest Hits,
etc</i>. (1977), which included 2 new songs “Slip Slidin’ Away” and “Stranded
in a Limousine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Garfunkel also released on CBS
Records three top-20 albums in the 1970s: <i>Angel Clare</i> (1973); <i>Breakaway</i>
(1975), which also included “My Little Town;” and <i>Watermark</i> (1978).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Remember the lines from <i>Graceland</i>’s
“Boy in the Bubble:” “It’s a turn-around jump shot; it’s everybody jump start;
it’s ever generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Simon had written two songs for Warren
Beatty, but the director used neither “Silent Eyes” nor “Have a Good Time”
(Eliot 140).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon would record both and
release them on <i>Still Crazy After All these Years</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> In some places, the two films even
played in theatres side-by-side (Kingston 218; Eliot 168)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> See Note 3</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> All lyrics are taken from Paul
Simon, <i>Lyrics 1964-2008</i> (except where noted).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Shout-out to girlfriend Carrie
Fisher!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> As part of a televised 1960s
retrospective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> An allusion to “Ace in the Hole,”
the song at the center of the conflict between Jonah and the record company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The song was not included on the original soundtrack release but was included
with two different versions of other songs on the cd release in 2004. Its
omission on the original soundtrack could be seen as a further signal that even
Jonah’s craft has advanced well beyond this now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Bennighof disagrees: “this is not
exactly the kind of song Simon probably would have written in the 1960s” (94).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> It was referred to as ‘noble, but
failed experiment” and a very wide range of both more and less positive things,
nothing savage, but nothing glowing (Livingston 219-220; Morella 204-205).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> The film was $5 million over
budget <span style="color: red;">(cite?).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> “Before the film’s release, Paul
had been cavalier: ‘If you don’t risk a couple of really good audacious flops,
you get fat and lazy. I’m proud that I made up a movie, that I wrote it and
actually starred in it, and that’s hard enough without being…good’” (Morella
205).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> 16 June 1979<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Paul demanded that his solo songs
be performed, so, for a time, the concert was going to be half solo-Simon and
half Simon-and-Garfunkel. The reasons were several. First, Simon couldn’t
physically do an entire concert of just Simon, Garfunkel, and guitar. Simon had
calcium deposits in his fingers which prevented it. Furthermore, Simon really
didn’t want to be an opening act for Simon and Garfunkel (Charlesworth
115).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon’s following Simon and
Garfunkel simply didn’t make “show business sense” (Kingston 236).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, Artie agreed to Paul’s vision:
his learning and performing many of Simon’s solo works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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album charts in 1982.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> March 5, 1982<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Except
for the doo wop vocals performed by the Harptones in “Rene and Georgette
Magritte with Their Dog after the War.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="color: black;">Simon
briefly had touched upon this theme in <i>One-Trick Pony</i> in the song “Oh,
Marion:” The boy’s got brains/ he just don’t use ‘em / and that’s all/ The
boy’s got brains / he just refuses to use them, that’s all / He says “the more
get I get to thinking/the less I tend to laugh”/The boy’s got brains/ he just
abstains.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> In “Hearts and Bones,” “two people
were married / the act was outrageous / the bride was contagious /she burned
like a bride”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Self-deprecation had never been
much of a feature in Simon’s music, but label-mate Randy Newman, with Simon –
on backing vocals, no less – makes fun of the songwriter’s glum persona in “The
Blues” on 1983’s <i>Trouble in Paradise</i> (Warner Brothers Records, 1983).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="color: black;">This was
the first song Simon started writing during his therapy with Dr. Gorney (Eliot
170).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Clearly an allusion to the calcium
deposits in Paul’s fingers that prevented an entire night of acoustic Simon and
Garfunkel, the way Artie would have preferred the Central Park concert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the writers of the Great American Songbook, like Berlin, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Simon also refers to the title
track of <i>Hearts and Bones</i> in this discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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references to numbers are pervasive:<span style="color: black;"> “Twelve going on
thirteen” from “Think Too Much (a);” “one and the same” and “cooks a meal or
two” from “Train in the Distance;” and 1954 and 1964 from “Late Great Johnny
Ace.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moon;” Johnny Ace (self-inflicted gunshot would); JFK; John Lennon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The year was 1954 / and I hadn’t been playing that long</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref39" name="_ftn39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[39]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Among the lyrics printed in the album, and in <i>Lyrics:
1964-2008</i>, the line is “And possibly unscramble us,” although Simon clearly
sings “finally.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref40" name="_ftn40" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn40;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[40]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> The lyrics are misprinted in the
original LP release (and then in the CD booklet) with a “And <i>we</i> sat…,”
even though Simon sings “And they sat…” <i>Lyrics 1964-2008</i> has the correct
word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref41" name="_ftn41" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn41;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[41]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> Compare the unreality of photographs in
“Kodachrome” (1973): </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kodachrome / They give us those nice bright colors / They give
us the greens of summers / Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh
yeah….If you took all the girls I knew /When I was single / And brought 'em all
together for one night / I know they'd never match / My sweet imagination /
Everything looks worse in black and white<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wolleh</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref43" name="_ftn43" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn43;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[43]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Joan Logue directed (Electronic
Arts Intermix).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/gigliotti/Documents/How%20Hearts%20%5band%20Bones%5d%20Approach%20What%20They%20Yearn.docx#_ftnref44" name="_ftn44" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn44;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[44]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> On December 25, 1954<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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greatest songwriter of our time” (Simon, <i>Lyrics,</i> xiii).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(b)” stalled at #44 in the US and didn’t chart at all in the UK, while the
second single “Think Too Much (a)” / “Song about the Moon” (released in
February 1984) “vanished without a trace” (Jackson 178). with “almost no” FM
airplay (Eliot 182).<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-50166852652250023982017-07-25T13:39:00.000-04:002017-07-25T15:53:39.730-04:00Nine Random Thoughts from an Aortic Valve Replacement Recovery9. While Hartford Hospital is not a great place to get a good night's sleep, the surgery performed by Dr. Robert Hagberg and the care by the staff on the cardiac wing and ICU was phenomenal. (AND I recommend the all-you-can-eat sugar-free popsicles.)<br />
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8. Medical people really care about bowel movements.<br />
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7. When watching Rex Harrison in <i>The Agony and the Ecstasy,</i> I kept expecting him to break into one of those patter <i>My Fair Lady</i>-like songs, "Why Can't a Soldier be More Like a Pope?"<br />
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6. To protect the incision on my chest, for a time I developed the habit of hunching my shoulders, which made me look like I was about to launch into some Bob Fosse choreography. (I wasn't.)<br />
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5. Better classic film voice: Ronald Colman or James Mason?<br />
(I LOVE James Mason, but after <i>Lost Horizon</i>, <i>The Prisoner of Zenda</i>, <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>, and especially <i>Lucky Partners</i> -- with GINGER ROGERS!--, I gotta go with Colman!)<br />
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4. Unlike Ms. Winehouse, I'm looking forward to rehab!<br />
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3. Felt a bit of the 18th-century aristocrat when I developed a little gout in my right foot. (Didn't like the intense pain at all, but admittedly, if shamefully, enjoyed the aristocrat-iness.)<br />
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2. Must finally admit I too attended that Russia meeting with everyone else last summer, but I wasn't collusional at all --- just a little <i>Glasnost</i>-y<br />
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1. With my new bovine tissue valve, I'm ready to run with the bulls. Not ahead of the bulls, WITH THE BULLS!<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-64015901053827669142017-07-04T08:15:00.000-04:002017-07-04T08:18:05.727-04:00Top 7 Things I Hope My Cardiac Surgeon Does...<br />
...before, during, and after my aortic valve replacement surgery (<i>Nota bene</i>: a surgery to replace the worn-out valve that, in 2001, replaced the bad valve I was born with):<br />
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7. Learn, if he hasn't already, Nick Lowe's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yc2DOCtR_w">My Heart Hurts</a>;"<br />
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6. Enter operating room to Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey's version of Irving Berlin's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRNEKMI3bDk">Be Careful, It's My Heart</a>:"<br />
<em> Be careful; it's my heart.</em><br />
<em> It's not my watch you're holding;</em><br />
<em> it's my heart.</em><br />
<em> It's not the note I sent you</em><br />
<em> that you quickly burned.</em><br />
<em> It's not the book I lent you</em><br />
<em> that you never returned</em><br />
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5. Marvel at the Nathaniel-Hawthorne-fan-boy s<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">carlet</span><strong> <em>A</em></strong></span> tattooed upon my chest;<br />
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4. Remind everyone in the operating room it's "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey;"<br />
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3. Well,<i> THIS</i>:<br />
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2. Stop suddenly mid-point in the operation and ask the others <i>sotto voce</i>, "Shhhhhhh. Does anyone else hear strings zinging?"; <br />
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<strong>And the #1 thing I hope my cardiac surgeon does:</strong></div>
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Upon finishing the operation, dramatically drop the scalpel, throw his hands up, turn quickly, and exit the room without a word.<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-75298211809160862582017-06-07T09:01:00.000-04:002017-06-07T09:01:13.268-04:00Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Lost Discography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Yes, 50 years ago, the great "</b><i><b>It was Twenty Years Ago...": Live in London</b></i><b> was released, but what about the other Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band albums, on which all those great songs were originally released?</b><br />
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<b>We did some digging, and here's the complete list:</b><br />
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1) The eponymous debut album: <br />
<i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band </i>(1947) with the band's first hits (and perennial fan favorites):<br />
"Good Morning" (6 weeks on the charts, reaching #2)<br />
"When I'm Sixty-Four" (10 weeks, reaching #1)<br />
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<i><b>The Daily Mail</b></i><b> raved, "Wake up, World, post-war Britain is singing the future now!"</b></div>
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2)<i> SPLHCB II </i>(1948) <br />
<b>The sophomore slump personified. No one listened; no one cared.</b><br />
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<b>But the band rebounds (and knows it)!</b><br />
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3) <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is Getting Better</i> (1950)<br />
"Getting Better" (8 weeks on the charts, reaching #3)<br />
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4) <i>Nine Wholes</i> (1951)<br />
"Fixing a Hole" (5 weeks on the charts, reaching #5)<br />
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5) <i>Friends, Lovers, Countrymen...</i> (1954)<br />
Their greatest album, according to conventional wisdom.<br />
"With a Little Help from My Friends" (25 weeks on the charts, reaching #1)<br />
"Lovely Rita" (15 weeks, reaching #1)<br />
"She's Leaving Home" (10 weeks, reaching #5)<br />
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<b>On heels of widely successful </b><i><b>Friends, Lovers, Countryman...</b></i><b> European Tour, frontman (and titular Sergeant) Billy Shears leaves to pursue a film career in the US. After a series of suits and countersuits, the band retains name, undergoes significant changes in personnel, and embarks on various experiments in their sound.</b><br />
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6. <i>Passage to India</i> (1958), also known as "That sitar album."<br />
"Within You, Without You," (2 weeks on the charts, reaching #97)<br />
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7. <i>One Word: Plasticene</i> (1961)<b>***</b><br />
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (4 weeks on the charts, reaching #52)<br />
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<b>Billy Shears reunites with the original lineup for:</b><br />
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8. <i>Home Again</i> (1965)<br />
"For the Benefit of Mr. Kite" (10 weeks on the charts, reaching #7)<br />
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<b>The success of the reunion album sparks a new interest and the famous live album:</b><br />
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9. <i>"It was Twenty Years Ago...": Live in London</i> (1967)<br />
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<b>What should have been not just a retrospective but a new beginning ends tragically with Billy's mysterious disappearance in a plane over the English Channel. The band would never reunite.</b><br />
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<b>***American screenwriter Buck Henry, a huge fan of the band since </b><i><b>Friend, Lovers, Countrymen...,</b></i><b> would make a punning allusion (which most American filmgoers missed) to this album in Mike Nichols' 1967 </b><i><b>The Graduate</b></i><b>.</b><br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-695309069700596822016-08-22T15:43:00.003-04:002016-08-22T15:43:38.964-04:00The London Sinatra(s): A CCSU travel class (Dec 2016-Jan 2017)<h1>
London in Literature and Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">Webpage: <a href="http://web.ccsu.edu/cie/courseAbroad/?course=40">http://web.ccsu.edu/cie/courseAbroad/?course=40</a></span><br />
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“London
in Literature and Song” provides an opportunity for English and
non-majors alike to travel to London in order to become fully immersed
in a culture that has produced art that ranges from the high modernist
discourse of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to the songs and films of
Frank Sinatra. Professor Pozorski’s English 458 course will fulfill
upper-level literature requirements for English majors and minors. The
course will feature close readings of six modern British texts related
to World War I and will consider the ways in which the city of London
serves as an important backdrop for this history.<span style="color: red;"> <b>Professor
Gigliotti’s English 213, for general education literature credit, will
examine the effects of the musical and film work of three
quintessentially American artists, Frank Sinatra, daughter Nancy, and
ex-wife Ava Gardner in London, the center of Old World tradition that,
in the 1960s (thanks to the Beatles), quickly became THE center of a new
youth culture.</b></span><br />
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Pozorski’s class will focus on
the centrality of World War I to the literary landscape of 20th century
British literature. Due to its traumatic nature, the events of World War
I have captured the global literary imagination in canonical texts that
seem to perpetually revisit the scene of violence, partly in an attempt
to explain the Great War’s causes and effects. Literature set in London
is an exemplary case of this perpetual return to the scene: whether
treating the effects of war directly (as in T.S. Eliot’s poetry, Woolf’s
<em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>, and Sigmund Freud’s <em>Beyond the Pleasure Principle</em>) or somewhat less directly (in the more contemporary texts such as Ian McEwan’s <em>Saturday</em> and Mark Haddon’s <em>Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime</em>),
the shattering effects of World War I nonetheless seem to underwrite
canonical literature of London published between 1920 and 2005.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Meanwhile
Gigliotti’s class will offer a study of, as it were, the American Rat
Pack-er in London. While Frank Sinatra’s long career is linked mostly
with a variety of American cities ranging from Hoboken and the Big Apple
to Chicago and Vegas, Sinatra’s artistic presence was worldwide. And,
despite the singer’s primary association with his mining of the Great
American Songbook, he rarely met a great song he didn’t try to tackle.
ENG 213: The London Sinatra(s) will examine – through the lenses of
British scholars Karen McNally (film) and Chris Rojek (sociology) –
Sinatra’s artistic production in London itself, including his 1962
collaboration with British composer/arranger Robert Farnon, <em>Frank Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain</em>; the 1967 thriller <em>The Naked Runner</em>; and the 1970 charity concert at Royal Festival Hall. The class will also examine his daughter’s 1966 <em>Nancy in London</em> album and his expatriate ex-wife Ava Gardner’s 1970 film <em>The Devil’s Widow</em>, based on the traditional Scottish border ballad “Tam Lin.” Additionally, <em>Playing Sinatra</em>, by British playwright Bernard Kops, will offer a dispassionate look at isolated London siblings obsessed with the singer.</b></span><br />
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Through visiting cultural icons of the city (the Tate Gallery, British Library, British Museum, <em>et al</em>.), touring London’s musical heritage, as well as attending such theatrical events as <em>Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime</em>, <em>Mousetrap, The School of Rock</em>, and <em>Guys and Dolls</em>,
this program will provide students with the opportunity to become
immersed in London’s culture, as well as the literature and music it
produced.<br />
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<strong>Program Costs</strong><br />
The
cost of the travel program includes round-trip airport transfers in the
U.S. and abroad, economy-class international airfare,
multiple-occupancy accommodations, some meals, ground transportation,
theater tickets and most entrance fees. All personal expenses (i.e.,
most meals, medical, souvenirs, laundry, telephone, etc.) are at
additional cost. CCSU reserves the right to make changes to the program
itinerary at any time, with or without notice.<br />
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Dates<br />
12/26/16 — 01/04/17 <br />
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Registration Deadline</h6>
10/01/16<br />
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Courses</h6>
<b>ENG 213</b>: The London Sinatra(s) <br /><br />
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Prerequisite</h6>
Eng 110, or permission of instructor.<br />
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Cost</h6>
$2,695 per person, based on multiple occupancy<br />
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Scholarship</h6>
To be announced<br />
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Program Director(s)</h6>
Dr. Gil Gigliotti, English, (860) 832-2759; <a href="mailto:gigliotti@ccsu.edu">gigliotti@ccsu.edu</a><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-36754403856087610472016-05-13T12:52:00.003-04:002016-05-13T12:54:29.918-04:00Dear Connecticut Drivers.......while I appreciate that, on any given day, you may be in no rush at all or perhaps feeling impatient or maybe even experiencing a wave of generosity toward your fellows, it does not change the order in which cars at a four-way stop are supposed to proceed. <br />
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And, you know what? Your generosity or sloth or impetuosity (not to mention your damn cell-phone use) only complicates the process for the rest of us.<br />
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Look up the rules, if you don't already know them.<br />
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Then FOLLOW them.<br />
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Humbly,<br />
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That guy who arrived at the intersection after everyone else.<br />
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The Central Connecticut State University Bookstore is having a MAJOR clearance sale on my 2002 <i>A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit</i> for $34.95 (including shipping in the continental US) -- only a third of what it's priced at on Amazon.com.<br />
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I know you Sinatra completists out there have been waiting for this!<br />
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Just contact the store manager, Eileen Leib, at ven_leib@mail.ccsu.edu<br />
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...check out the show's blog: <a href="http://frankgilandfriends.blogspot.com/">http://frankgilandfriends.blogspot.com</a></div>
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gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-70812859846498484862015-12-14T11:11:00.004-05:002015-12-14T11:11:50.601-05:00New Britain Herald Coverage of CCSU's '100 Years of Sinatratude"!<br />
"<a href="http://www.centralctcommunications.com/newbritainherald/article_7405a9fc-a20b-11e5-98fd-ffcabcff7a78.html">Doing it Sinatra's Way at CCSU</a>" by Erv Dworkin, <em>New Britain Herald, </em>14 December 2015.gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-74818731334647813392015-12-12T00:30:00.000-05:002015-12-12T00:30:00.609-05:00Day 214: Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration<br />
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Happy 100th Birthday, Francis Albert Sinatra!</div>
gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-12585228150445718552015-12-11T02:00:00.000-05:002015-12-11T02:00:06.912-05:00Day 213: Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-65751269205219999952015-12-10T02:00:00.000-05:002015-12-10T02:00:03.180-05:00Day 212: Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-33168432790525456142015-12-08T02:00:00.000-05:002015-12-08T02:00:07.111-05:00Day 210: Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-52028099443969678172015-12-07T02:00:00.000-05:002015-12-07T02:00:05.666-05:00Day 209: The Sinatra Centennial Memorabilia Celebration<br />
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<br />gilbertgigliotti@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475508268152968342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517226373144597851.post-16703514193783286402015-12-06T15:12:00.001-05:002015-12-06T15:12:19.054-05:00"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Connecticut Edition)<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5664950ff01530d59123532">
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Hey, CT residents, Nicholas M. Donofrio, the man who is the head of the Board of Regents for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (ConnSCU), in response to faculty concern that actions by the ConnSCU system may jeopardize the access of all students to a strong liberal arts curriculum, actually said:<br />
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"No one argues about the need for a liberal arts base. Everyone needs to walk, talk, and chew gum at some point in time."<br />
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Don't the students of CT's largest university system deserve BETTER than this?! If this is what the ones in charge of higher education think about higher education, well then, as the Roman satirist Juvenal once asked, "Who will watch the watchmen?"<br />
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If you are justifiably concerned by such an attitude, contact the governor, your state senator, and/or representative. <br />
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See Mr. Donofrio's comment <a href="http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=12263">here</a> at minute 32:00. </div>
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