{"id":1606,"date":"2014-11-11T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:55:05","slug":"and-the-moon-rose-over-an-open-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/11\/11\/and-the-moon-rose-over-an-open-field\/","title":{"rendered":"And the moon rose over an open field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of Paul Simon&#8217;s best songs, &#8220;America&#8221;, from Simon &#038; Garfunkel&#8217;s 1968 album <i>Bookends<\/i>; a song that is recently getting play on a certain TV commercial&#8230; Has Simon sold out? Well, the TV commercial is about patronizing local, small-town businesses. So I suspect Simon must have licensed the song for that message, which is consistent with the song&#8217;s theme of searching for the true America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKathy, I\u2019m lost,\u201d I said, though I knew she was sleeping.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m empty and aching and I don\u2019t know why\u201d<br \/>\nCounting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve all come to look for America<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon &amp; Garfunkel - America\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W773ZPJhcVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re at it, here&#8217;s the YouTube of what I think of as the Ur-Simon &#038; Garfunkel song &#8212; Scarborough Fair, with its gorgeous overlapping counterpoint melodies. (And its fundamental Italian sauce ingredients: parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon &amp; Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (Full Version) Lyrics\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BakWVXHSug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia on the ballad: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarborough_Fair_%28ballad%29\">Scarborough Fair (ballad)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then we may as well link Simon &#038; Garfunkel&#8217;s greatest song.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8230;All your dreams are on their way&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_a46WJ1viA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water_%28song%29\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul let Art sing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/simongarfunkel\/bridgeovertroubledwater.html\">Lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of Paul Simon&#8217;s best songs, &#8220;America&#8221;, from Simon &#038; Garfunkel&#8217;s 1968 album Bookends; a song that is recently getting play on a certain TV commercial&#8230; Has Simon sold out? Well, the TV commercial is about patronizing local, small-town &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/11\/11\/and-the-moon-rose-over-an-open-field\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}