1981 Art Garfunkel – Scissors Cut

Scissors Cut is the fifth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel released in August 1981 on Columbia Records. It was his second album to miss the US Billboard Top 40 (charting at 113) and his second album containing one US Top 40 single. The month following its release, Garfunkel would reunite with former partner, Paul Simon, for their famous 1981 Concert in Central Park.

In August 1981, Garfunkel released his fifth solo album Scissors Cut (U.S. No. 113, U.K. No. 51). This album included the Gallagher & Lyle hit “A Heart in New York” (U.S. No. 61). The U.K. version contains the track “The Romance” rather than “Bright Eyes.” The album was co-produced by Roy Halee, who also co-produced the Simon & Garfunkel albums, including Bridge over Troubled Water. Paul Simon makes a brief appearance on “In Cars” performing background vocals. Near the end of the song, Art sings, rather mystically, lines from “Girl from the North Country”. (“Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine” which itself comes from “Scarborough Fair” – an old English ballad covered by Simon and Garfunkel on the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme – a lyric extracted from this song.) The album is dedicated to Laurie Bird and includes a partial photograph of her on the rear cover.