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Certain Songs #2213: Simon & Garfunkel – “A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)”

October 28, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Year: 1966

. . .

How do you deal with a problem such as Bob Dylan?

That’s gotta be a question that all of the other major 60’s songwriters had to be asking themselves as he put out one mindblowing album after another in the mid-1960s. Some, like Brian Wilson & Pete Townshend, totally ignored him. Others, like Lou Reed and Neil Young & even Ray Davies, leaned into the freedom he suddenly provided.

And the Beatles and Stones stole from him a bit and then went on to do their own things.

And Paul Simon? Perhaps because Dylan might have been one of the Greenwich Village folkies who made fun of Simon & Garfunkel in the early days, he wrote one of the biggest, broadest Dylan parodies ever recorded, 1967’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)”, which starts the satire with the title and never lets up.

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Certain Songs #2212: Simon & Garfunkel – “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”

October 27, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Parsley, Sage, Rosmary & Thyme
Year: 1966

. . .

Yes, I know. You totally and utterly hate this piece of hippie-dippie bullshit. Hell, even Paul fucking Simon hates this piece of hippie-dippie bullshit, one of the cheesiest songs ever written.

And now I’ve put it in your head. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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