PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY & THYME   -   Simon & Garfunkel

YEAR:  1966
LABEL:  Columbia
TRACK LISTING:  Scarborough Fair/Canticle,  Patterns,  Cloudy,  Homeward Bound,  The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine,  The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy),  The Dangling Conversation,  Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall,  A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission),  For Emily Whenever I May Find Her,  A Poem on the Underground Wall,  7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
IMPRESSIONS:  Maple Shade living room, wood panelling, lime green bean bag chair.  Yep, once again we're back there listening to this album on the ole 6 foot tall record player.  Hilariously and succinctly described by itunes as "Two singers, four herbs, twelve cuts", PSR&T sat among my Dad's other Simon and Garfunkel albums throughout my 1970s childhood and I would listen to them all.  No wonder I grew up to be such a bookish snot!  I didn't stand a chance!  My favourite song on the album was "The Dangling Conversation" --  a song Paul Simon dislikes as pretentious wanking -- however I really REALLY like it's raindrops-on-the-windowsill atmosphere of dull, grey light slanting sideways into the room accenting the dust particles in the air as I listen to it. 
MY FAVOURITE TRACKS:  Scarborough Fair/Canticle,  Patterns,  Cloudy,  Homeward Bound,  The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine,  The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy),  The Dangling Conversation,  Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall,  7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
GUEST ARTISTS:  Charlie O'Donnell (newcast on "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night")
FACT SHEET:  PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY & THYME is Simon & Garfunkel's third album.  "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" mixes the German carol in with a news broadcast by Charlie O'Donnell recorded on August 3, 1966:  the day of Lenny Bruce's death.  "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" combines a Paul Simon protest song with a 16th century English traditional folk song.