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Hazy Shade of Winter

Certain Songs #2214: Simon & Garfunkel – “A Hazy Shade of Winter”

October 29, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Bookends
Year: 1966

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“A Hazy Shade of Winter” was originally recorded for Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album, but at some point, they decided to instead release it as a single, perhaps figuring that a more rock-and-roll oriented song would do better than their previous single, the chamber-pop “The Dangling Conversation,” which was their first single not to go top 5, stalling out at a (relatively) dismal 25.

And so, based upon a cooly dynamic Paul Simon guitar riff and a relentless double-time drum part by Hal Blaine — which either he or Art Garfunkel augmented by stealing the tink-tink-tink three-beat tambourine offbeat from “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” giving the whole thing the satisfying thwacka-thwacka-tink-tink-tink, thwacka-thwacka-tink-tink-tink which drove the earlier song.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Bookends, Hazy Shade of Winter, Simon & Garfunkel

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