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 […]
“A Heart In New York” is the only single by Art Garfunkel from his album Scissors Cut that hit the US billboard charts (#66).
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, and actor. He is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Highlights of Garfunkel’s solo music career include one top-10 hit, three top-20 hits, six top-40 hits, 14 Adult Contemporary top-30 singles, five Adult […]
Careless is the debut album by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop. It includes two hit singles: “On and On”, which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard singles chart, and “Save It for a Rainy Day” which made No. 22. The album itself rose to No. 34 on the Billboard albums chart. Notable contributors to the album […]
“Break Away” (also known as “Breakaway”) is a song written by Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle and first recorded by Art Garfunkel for his 1975 album Breakaway. Gallagher and Lyle released their own version on their 1976 album, also titled Breakaway. “Break Away”, with backing vocals by David Crosby and Graham Nash, was the second […]
Everything Waits To Be Noticed is the ninth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, although the album is actually a collaboration within a trio setting featuring singer-songwriters Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock. Credited to Art Garfunkel With Maia Sharp & Buddy Mondlock, the album is Garfunkel’s debut as a songwriter, co-writing six songs, and was […]
“I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” is a soul song co-written and performed by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder and Yvonne Wright, for Wonder’s fifteenth studio album Talking Book (1972). The song features in the 2000 comedy-drama High Fidelity starring John Cusack and Jack Black, and is included on its soundtrack. […]
Angel Clare is the debut solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released on September 11, 1973. It is his highest charting solo album, peaking at number 5 and contains his only Top 10 hit in the US, “All I Know” which peaked at number 9. It also contained two other Top 40 hits, “Traveling Boy” […]
“All I Know” is a song written by American songwriter Jimmy Webb, first recorded by Art Garfunkel on his 1973 debut solo album, Angel Clare, released by Columbia Records. Instrumental backing was provided by members of the Wrecking Crew, L.A. session musicians. Garfunkel’s version is the best known and highest-charting version, peaking at number nine […]
“I Shall Sing”, the third track of the album, was the second single of the Art Garfunkel album Angel Clare. The Van Morrison reggae based song (which would later be a hit for Boney M) was changed from reggae to a Latin beat by Jim Gordon, with Milt Holland providing the prominent percussion (namely agogo […]