SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
About seven years had gone by since Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel, teenage fans of early rock and rollers like The Every Brothers and The Sparkletones, had started making music together. Scoring a mid-size hit in late 1957 with "Hey, Schoolgirl" brandishing the psudonym Tom and Jerry, they quickly learned what so many others knew: a second hit would be hard to get. The duo made a few more tries then veered off onto separate routes, recording under monikers like (in Art's case) Tommy Graph or Artie Garr and (in Paul's case) Jerry Landis or True Taylor or Paul Kane, each struggling to find success outside a couple of Paul's charting side projects: singing lead for Tico and the Triumphs ("Motorcycle") and solo as Landis ... MORE ››
