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Paul Simon

lines on the record: 73
first: 2016-07-28
most recent: 2016-07-28
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Lot, really a lot But we were staying at some hotel in Hartford. And we were walking back to the room. And some guy was in the room. He was in the room with a girl, you know. And he said, hey What do you do? What's that guitar? What are you doing? We said, oh, we play. Going to flay at the Hartford State Theater, and he said, Really, I'll give you 20 bucks if you play a song. He said, really? He said, yeah, we said, okay Played for the 20 bucks. So we're getting paid $600”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going again? No, we never, of course not. Get him going. We didn't know anything. But they were going to pay us. I think they were paying us like. six hundred dollars for For a weekend or something. That's a lot of dough back in the day”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess a little bit You know Yeah, I remember once we got one of the shows we got booked at in Hartford and we played this theater called the Hartford State Theater It was really, and we were on a bill with a bunch of other rock and roll acts, Laverne Baker and I can't remember the others. Anyway, it was something like playing the Apollo in New York. The audience was, I'd say, 90% black. And they'd introduce us and they'd say, ladies and gentlemen, Tom and Jerry, and people would go, yay. Silence. We came up to the mic silence.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, we didn't think that this would be something that we would do. All we wanted to do was have a song that got played on the radio. The idea that we would actually go on American bandstand was beyond. What we possibly could have hoped for”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To no, our parents bought the outfits. And we made, and the record sold enough that we made... A couple of thousand dollars, enough money that I could buy my first car.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, it was first of all, it was like a big trip, was that the fact that we were getting on a train and going to Philadelphia? was already an adventure. And then we get on the show and we shared a dressing room with Jerry Lee Lewis. Yeah, who really did, you know, his nickname is the killer. And that's exactly what you look like. Came in there. He was combing his hair in a certain way. I said, whoa. This guy is definitely not from our neighborhood, you know.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess you could use you could have used that, you know. But anyway, he gave us that name like the cartoon. So we made this record and they played the record on Dick Clark's American band Stand and everyone voted. You know, I'll give it a 95. I'll give it a 95. And it became a hit. I mean, then we came down here to Philadelphia to come on Dick Clark's American bastion. We were 16. It was in November.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That song was a hit. It was called High School Girl. And the label, which was called Big Records, They gave us the name Tom and Jerry. You certainly couldn't use at that point the name Simon and Garfunkel.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did he kick you off the team? No, no, he didn't kick me off the team. No, I was a leadoff batter. It wasn't going to kick me off the team, but you did. Tried not to do any conflicting talent show gigs when there was game or practice.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably, yeah. Yeah, probably similar. Well, she made a record when she was in high school, too. Already, and I had made this record when we were in high school. I remember I played. Baseball for the high school baseball team. And I missed the practice because we were doing a talent show. And the coach said to me, Hey, look, you're going to have to make a decision, which is more important here. You know, I mean, either you're going to play ball or you're going to waste your time on a talent show. And like for me, it was I didn't want to give up either one, you know, but”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anyway, that was our first song. And then we would go around to little record companies that were in Midtown, Manhattan, and we'd take the subway in from Queens and we go and we knock on the door. You could just go in and play and audition. Or I would write letters to record companies saying we write songs and would you be interested in listening. I really didn't even, I just did it just because they would write back. I'd get an envelope that had... Ace records on it, and I'd be really excited whether Texas. Postmark.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was it was two hundred twenty dollars to buy this, and it was oh man I was excited So we would We would sing and then we heard the Everly Brothers and that That gave us a model. We were huge fans of the Everly Brothers. And we would listen to their singing and we learned how to sing in thirds or those kind of intervals that the Everly sing in. And we learned their songs. But before that, that would be a bad age fifteen, but before that, like when we were 13 or 14, I wrote a song. We wrote a song together. It was called The Girl for Me. And it was a hit in the sense that we'd sing it at On a street corner, and like people would listen to it. And then people would ask us to sing it at the talent show. Then we heard that there were kids in another neighborhood who were singing the song.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, that wasn't we made a record, a professional record. But we were recording on home tape recorder. I think I had a tape recorder. How do I do that? I think I sold my baseball card collection.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, no, that was no, we weren't up to that at all. First we joined up with three other kids, two girls, two sisters. The Pellegrini sisters, Angel and Ida. And Johnny Brennan, who was like a tenor, and we made a group. You know, we were imitating Popular songs And then we never could get the rehearsals right because everybody always had to go to. Some place after school or do something. So that group fell apart and Ardie and I started to sing together just as a duo. That's how it started”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's sort of when we became friends. Well, I didn't know him in that fourth grade story. I didn't know him. I mean, I didn't really get to know him until the sixth grade. And in the seventh grade we began to sing together. We were the only two kids who were interested Singing in the neighborhood. And he was sort of. He was like a famous singer. He was that, you know, he was that good talent. Famous in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood? Yeah.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, he didn't, but he bought a guitar for me for my thirteenth birthday And he showed me the cords that you play, which Work for 90% of the songs in the 50s. He showed me how to play those chords. And, you know, he encouraged me to You know to play, but he didn't want me to be a professional musician. No, he just said, you know, do this, learn this, you could do this, and you could work your way through college with this. I don't have to be a waiter. You could, you know, just learn the songs and you'll be okay. By the time I had decided which was probably like somewhere like a year into listening, that's exactly what I wanted to be, was what I was listening to on the radio. At the time, I decided that I didn't tell anybody. It wasn't like you could say, I'd like to be a rock and roll singer. There was no profession.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then in the fall that fall Alan Fried came on and played start to play rock and roll, you know, what became rock and roll? And that's when I start to get interested in it. So you're daddy.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An early RB record. You could call it doop. I don't think they called it doop, but essentially that's what it was. R&B, doap, something like that. And I'm thinking as I'm writing in, you know, Rizudo. Barrow, et cetera. I'm thinking that's the first thing I've heard on that show that I liked.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But before the Yankee games came on they had a show called Make Believe Ballroom, I think that's what was the name. Anyway, it was a pop music show, and they'd play, you know, whatever the pop music was that was popular, you know, of the day pericomo or day or Whether there was a singer named Vaughn Monroe that I particularly loathed, but I didn't pay any attention to it at all. I was just had it on early because I didn't want to miss the first pitch. And so it gave me time to fill out the lineups, you know. As I'm filling it out that this jockey says, I got this record in this morning, and I have to say this is the worst song that I've ever heard. And if this record is a hit, I will eat my hat. And he plays a record called G by the Crows.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To listen to the Yankee games in order to, it was on a station, it was on 1010 wins, which is still there. It's an old news station, right?”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, he was a band leader and he played in bands and so he was going out to do a club date. He was a bass player. And he stuck his head in the room and he said, oh, you have a nice voice, Paul. Which these casual things have a big impact. So that's when I started. I wasn't interested in the music that I was hearing, but again, you know. I can remember this how it began. I used to I was always a big Yankees fan, a big baseball fan. And I used to write out the score of the games, you know, write out the lineups. And then you can fill, you know.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Moment that so early on is I was sitting in my room, you know, playing something, I don't know what, might have been some baseball card game. Maybe I was making a set of baseball cards or something. And he was on his way out to work, and he was wearing a tuxedo.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can tell you exactly that. It was in the fourth grade, and We were sitting in the auditorium waiting for the school buses to come. It was a rainy day, so it was like maybe that's why everybody was there. So they had a little talent show. And this kid comes up and he sings. A song called They tried to tell us we're too young, and everyone in the audience Just, you know, going wild. And that kid was Art Garfunkel. And I said this is interesting. I wonder if I can sing, you know. So I checked it out to see if I could sing. So that's when it began. And my father was in music. Your father was a musician. The other big.”
2016-07-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 70 - Paul Simon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source