Old Friends (1997 Simon and Garfunkel album)

Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, and also includes previously unreleased outtakes. Some of these outtakes subsequently appeared on both the reissues of Simon & Garfunkel's five studio albums as well as the later boxed set The Columbia Studio Recordings .

Track listing

Disc 1

"Bleecker Street" - 2:44

^{Recorded: March 10, 1964}
^{Previously unissued demo version}

"The Sound of Silence" - 3:07

^{Recorded: March 10, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"The Sun Is Burning" - 2:48

^{Recorded: March 17, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." - 2:15

^{Recorded: March 17, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"He Was My Brother" - 2:50

^{Recorded: March 17, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"Sparrow" - 2:48

^{Recorded: March 31, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"Peggy-O" - 2:26

^{Recorded: March 31, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"Benedictus" - 2:39

^{Recorded: March 31, 1964}
^{From the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.}

"Somewhere They Can't Find Me" - 2:36

^{Recorded: April 5, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" - 1:59

^{Recorded: April 5, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"Leaves That Are Green" - 2:22

^{Recorded: December 13, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"Richard Cory" - 2:57

^{Recorded: December 14, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"I Am a Rock" - 2:51

^{Recorded: December 14, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"The Sound of Silence" - 3:07

^{Recorded: March 10, 1964 ; June 15, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"Homeward Bound" - 2:30

^{Recorded: December 14, 1965}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme ; Sounds of Silence}

"Blues Run the Game" - 2:53

^{Recorded: December 21, 1965}
^{Previously unissued outtake from the Sounds of Silence sessions}

"Kathy's Song" - 3:19

^{Recorded: December 21, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"April Come She Will" - 1:50

^{Recorded: December 21, 1965}
^{From the album Sounds of Silence}

"Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" - 2:10

^{Recorded: March 28, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

Disc 2

"Patterns" - 2:47

^{Recorded: June 8, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"Cloudy" - 2:23

^{Recorded: June 10, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"The Dangling Conversation" - 2:38

^{Recorded: June 21, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" - 3:12

^{Recorded: July 26, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"The 59th Street Bridge Song " - 1:55

^{Recorded: August 16, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" - 2:06

^{Recorded: August 22, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" - 2:04

^{Recorded: August 22, 1966}
^{From the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme}

"A Hazy Shade of Winter" - 2:17

^{Recorded: September 7, 1966}
^{From the album Bookends}

"At the Zoo" - 2:24

^{Recorded: January 18, 1967}
^{From the album Bookends}

"A Poem on the Underground Wall" - 4:30