Scarborough Fair / Canticle

This was not even Simon's first borrowing with Simon and Garfunkel.

Their prior hit, Scarborough Fair slash Canticle, based on an English ballad that dated to the 17th century, had been a hit in 1968.

Are

you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley sage rose made...

60s folky Martin Carthy complained about that one.

Remember, For once she was a true love of mine.

They've sort of squashed anytime into famous...

So it'll be like, "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?"

[laughs] Yeah.

"Parsley, sage, rosemary, anytime." [laughs]

Yeah, yeah.

That is fine.

So I'm listening to Scarborough Fair.

Um-

The emotional tension from the incident occasionally surfaced throughout their relationship.

Now I play Scarborough Fair for Emily and Paul Simon singing 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.

Remember me to

one who lives there.

She'll be a

true lover.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair Parsley, sage,

Oh! Where it's

just the one robot yelling the lyrics of Scarborough Fair.

I love that.

Yeah, that's great.

Let me just find his dates.[clears throat] 1859, died in 1924, and he was respons-responsible for going right the way around Britain and England and really writing down and collecting all the folk songs.

And without that, we wouldn't have things like "Rosemary," uh, "Scarborough Fair," so we wouldn't have things like that, which we all know so well from, um, Simon and Garfunkel, obviously.

And, and just all those songs, he actually wrote them down as he heard them because by writing them down, they become a version because all these folk songs, it was such an oral tradition, and no one had done that before.

And it became a bit of a thing in the Victorian era and later in the '20s to start writing and collecting all of these down.

We got six more great ones for you.

Coming in at number six, everybody knows Simon and Garfunkel, from Mrs. Robinson to Scarborough Fair to Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have gone down as one of the greatest duos of all time.

But how many of you out there have heard of Greenberg and Garfunkel? Well, I've got the story of their number one hit.

It was released by Simon & Garfunkel in early October 19, uh, 66.

And the fir- first track on the album is Scarborough Fair.

Here's a cover by Dan Avidan & The Super Guitar Brothers.

You know, um, Dan Avidan by, uh, from his other band, Ninja Sex Party.

Here is Scarborough Fair.

[singing] Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

Remember me to one who lives there.

She once was a true love of mine.