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The Only Living Boy in New York (Completed)

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    Published on 22 Jun 2021 / In Folk / American

    Paul Simon wrote this as a thinly veiled message to Art Garfunkel, referencing in the first stanza a specific incident where Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22. Simon was left alone in New York writing songs for Bridge over Troubled Water, hence the lonely feelings of "The Only Living Boy in New York." Simon refers to Garfunkel in the song as "Tom", alluding to their early days when they were called Tom and Jerry, and encourages him to "let your honesty shine . . . like it shines on me". The background vocals feature both Garfunkel and Simon recorded together in an echo chamber, multi-tracked around eight times!

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    PeteH Nuxradio Andramegas Cbien: It took some time to complete but we're done. Thank you everyone for a superior job on this classic S&G song!!

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    Do-n-do-do, do-n-do-do, and here I am... ;)

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    Ooh la la! Tres bien! Meci beaucoup!!

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    How did you record the choir part?

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    Pete Hanratty
    Pete Hanratty 3 years ago

    beautiful vocals!!

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    @stubass: Thanks :) The choir part took 12 tracks on my Daw (offline rec + EQ + Reverb) ;)

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    @stubass: Thanks :) The choir part took 12 tracks on my Daw (offline rec + EQ + Reverb) ;)

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    Sorry, I'm a little false on the verse ends words, cause I can't get lower ':)) (It seems I've got the same voice range since I'm twelve LOL)

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    @Cbien: That's good! We need males with high voices!!

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    @Cbien: Isn't there an app that can automatically generate the harmony vocals?

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    @stubass: You can do it manually with Autotune and Melodyne, and I guess there's plenty of plugins to generate harmonies automatically... But where's the fun and the challenge, in that case? :P

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    Hank87
    Hank87 3 years ago

    If you need vocals let me know...

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    Cbien Laurast: Folks, no rush, no pressure. Just curious where we stand with this one. Merci!

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    Cbien
    Cbien 3 years ago

    I'm still in, maybe this week or the next ;)

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    @Cbien: Tres bien, monsieur. Merci beaucoup

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    Andrei
    Andrei 3 years ago

    stubass guitar track submitted, sorry it's the best i can on metal strings, hope it's ok for you.

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    stubass
    stubass 3 years ago

    Yes, it's fine. Thx!

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