Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Live At Acer Arena, Sydney, 2009)

[yrkanak]

Respekt für fast 70 nicht schlecht gesungen! :)

[dlancer2k]

Yeah, it's Scarborough Fair, but it's not Scarborough Fair/Canticle. There is a major difference.

[Greysoults]

@dlancer2k whats the difference? :o

[dlancer2k]

@Greysoults Scarborough Fair is the old time English song. Scarborough Fair/Canticle adds lyrics from Simon's "The Side of a Hill" as counterpoint, which Simon sings in the Canticle version. Here it's just Scarborough Fair with both singing the same lyrics.

[Greysoults]

@dlancer2k Great, thank you for your answer^^ i didn't know that before, shame on me ^^

[Pattonfrodo]

that lady who says "oh" ! is cool! lol

[itsok4now]

No I am not going to Scarbough Fair

[12bulkhead]

This isn't the canticle version. I need the Canticle VERSION!!!

[whyME6511]

@12bulkhead ... in luck you are: just go to Andy Williams with Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair / Canticle ... absolutely beautiful version

[Count22]

would have liked to hear the original song.was actually derived in the 16th century from an old scottish story of an elf tricking a young woman by asking the impossible of her.countless versions have been made since,so for all the officianatos out there,there is no perfect version of Scarborough Fair.its been played and told 9 million ways.no-one knows who wrote it.alot like Greensleaves.

[jargainjones]

their voices haven't changed

[MrLandwaster]

pmarsh1986 is right. scarborough fair is an english folk song. actually, s&g's version is somehow a shortened form of the original one. scarborough fair canticle is different in the sense that it contains a 'vocal counterpoint', as pmarsh1986 noted, airing an anti-war sentiment. try searching for the original version of the song ;-)

[pmarsh1986]

Being a total pedant...this isn't Scarborough Fair/Canticle but just Scarborough Fair. Still a fantastic song though. Wish I was there!

[LaSoldat]

True it's not Scarborough fair/Canticle.

[bloblo112]

what's the differens? :)

[muskndusk]

@bloblo112 The Canticle version has a vocal counterpoint which Paul Simon sings. It turns it from a trad song into an anti war song (Vietnam was going on at the time).

[rbaleksandar]

@pmarsh1986

If you're talking about the song in this vide -> O_O This IS Scarborough Fair. I know this song very well and even if I didn't even at the beginning at about 00:14 it should tell you that this is Scarborough Fair/Canticle.

[pmarsh1986]

@rbaleksandar I simply said it isn't Scarborough Fair/Canticle. It IS Scarborough Fair clearly.

[rbaleksandar]

@pmarsh1986

Don't understand what you mean with "It is Scarbourough Fair." The song is called Scarborough Fair/Canticle and this one here is the same. I'm looking at the track list on the backside of one of their albums ('20 Greatest Hits', 1991). There is no such song by those two that's called just "Scarbourough Fair" without the "/Canticle" at the end. :)

[rbaleksandar]

@pmarsh1986 Pardon me, it's 1972. :P Side one, 7th track. :)

[rbaleksandar]

@pmarsh1986

Pardon. It's actually "S&G's Greatest Hits" (first release in 1972 and later on a CD in 1990). It's a bit confusing 'cause this album has been rereleased many times. :P

[rbaleksandar]

@pmarsh1986

:D Forget about it. It is Scarborough Fair/Canticle. Just look on the internet and listen to it. :D

[pmarsh1986]

@rbaleksandar Have you listened to it (on the album)? It has the counterpoint of Canticle which is a reworking of Paul Simon's song "The Side of a Hill". Scarborough Fair is an ancient song from England. Paul Simon learned it in the early 1960s from Martin Carthy. He added in the counterpont creating SF/Cantcile. Listen here: watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A

This version is simply of Scarborough Fair. The counterpoint is missing so is wrong to call it Scarborough Fair/Canticle.

[opti95]

yes! oh is right, this is a an example of a perfect song

[fadedgalaxia]

I love the "Oh!" at the beginning. Hilarious.

[lichtfus]

Wonderful song

[GBeret83]

One day God added the word harmony to the human vocabulary, then as an example of what the word actually meant, it's own stage singing this song right now.

[SisterMayhem]

Losing his voice??? Do you hear that range and tone??? Yikes....gorgeous

[oztish]

Losing his voice? He was brilliant at the show I went to (Melb Thurs 25th June). Such a great concert. Thank you for posting your videos - I've been reliving the night!

[clickcijum]

Was that Art Garfunkel singing in the beginning? Poor guy sounds like he's losing his voice. But he's still good. :)