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Album • 1982

The Concert in Central Park (Live)

Simon & Garfunkel19 songs • 1 hour, 18 minutes

The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 people. A TV special of the event was shown on TV and released on video. Proceeds went toward the redevelopment and maintenance of the park, which had deteriorated due to lack of municipal funding. The concert and album marked the start of a three-year reunion of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and they worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hits from their years as a duo, their 21-song set list included material from their solo careers, and covers. Among them were "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer" and Simon's "Late in the Evening", with the show concluding with a reprise of the latter. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Mrs. Robinson (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  2. 2
    Homeward Bound (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  3. 3
    America (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  4. 4
    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  5. 5
    Scarborough Fair (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  6. 6
    April Come She Will (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  7. 7
    Wake up Little Susie (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  8. 8
    Still Crazy After All These Years (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  9. 9
    American Tune (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  10. 10
    Late in the Evening (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  11. 11
    Slip Slidin' Away (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  12. 12
    A Heart In New York (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  13. 13
    Kodachrome / Mabellene (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  14. 14
    Bridge over Troubled Water (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  15. 15
    50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  16. 16
    The Boxer (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  17. 17
    Old Friends (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  18. 18
    The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel
  19. 19
    The Sounds of Silence (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - September 19, 1981)
    Simon & Garfunkel

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