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Up 'til Now

Up 'til Now is the third compilation album by Art Garfunkel. The album is a mixture of three previously released solo tracks (including a track from The Animals' Christmas), seven new songs (including a duet with James Taylor and a track from an earlier recording session left off the Scissors Cut album), and two alternate takes of previously released songs. It also includes the acoustic version of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence", taken from the duo's 1964 debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. It was released in 1993 on Columbia Records. The album failed to chart.

The track "The Breakup" is a mock-up news flash of Art Garfunkel giving a serious philosophical reason for the duo's break-up, with Simon continuously interrupting him, in an effort, as Garfunkel put it, "To be like Nichols and May... hoping people won't take the break-up of Simon and Garfunkel seriously."

Track listing

  1. "Crying in the Rain" (Carole King, Howard Greenfield) <small>(Duet with James Taylor. Produced by Don Grolnick and Taylor)</small> – 3:39
  2. "All I Know" (Jimmy Webb) <small>(Alternate recording from 1989, with Jimmy Webb on piano. Original version appears on 1973 album “Angel Clare”.)</small> – 2:25
  3. "Just Over the Brooklyn Bridge" (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) <small>(theme for the CBS series Brooklyn Bridge)</small> – 1:07
  4. "The Sound of Silence" (Paul Simon) <small>(from the Simon & Garfunkel album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.)</small> – 3:06
  5. "The Breakup" <small>(Spoken word with Paul Simon)</small> – 2:16
  6. "Skywriter" (Webb) <small>(Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall with Nicky Hopkins on piano)</small> – 4:15
  7. "The Decree" (Webb) <small>(from the album The Animals' Christmas)</small> – 3:31
  8. "It's All in the Game" (Carl Sigman, Charles Dawes) – 3:52
  9. "One Less Holiday" (Stephen Bishop) <small>(From the Scissors Cut sessions)</small> – 1:47
  10. "Since I Don't Have You" (Jimmy Beaumont, Joseph Rock) <small>(From the album Fate for Breakfast)</small> – 3:38
  11. "Two Sleepy People" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) <small>(from the Penny Marshall film, A League of Their Own)</small> – 3:38
  12. "Why Worry" (Mark Knopfler) – 5:33
  13. "All My Love's Laughter" (Webb) <small>(Alternate recording from 1989, original version appears on 1977 “Watermark” album)</small> – 3:27
  14. "O Come, All Ye Faithful" <small>(Japanese Bonus Track)</small> - 2:09

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