Simon & Garfunkel - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, Granada TV Studios, Manchester, Britain, 3-17-1967

Not that long ago (as I write this in May 2022), I posted some albums of Simon and Garfunkel performing for the BBC and other radio or TV shows in 1965 and 1966. Next, we come to 1967. In my opinion, this is the best bootleg from that year. 

Granada TV, one of the few British TV stations at the time, put on an hour-long special showcasing the duo in early 1967. It was simply called "Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel." Even though the duo was extremely popular in the 1960s and beyond, selling tens of millions of albums, they didn't actually get on TV or the radio that much, other than short appearances that typically featured the same few songs over and over again. What's great about this is that it's professionally recorded for TV, so it sounds great, and it's nearly an hour long (53 minutes), so they were able to dig deeper into their musical bag of tricks.

It's basically just a concert broadcast on TV, though recorded in a studio before a small audience. As a result, there's no host at all. But Simon and/or Garfunkel did make some interesting comments between most of the songs.

All the songs only featured Simon and Garfunkel on vocals and Simon on an acoustic guitar. However, there's an interesting version of the song "7 O'Clock News - Silent Night." On the album version, the "7 O'Clock News" was a radio news broadcast with bad new contrasting with the Christmas hymn. But since this was a British TV show, there apparently was some person who read a recent British news broadcast, making it very different from the album version.

Oh, by the way, if you want to see as well as hear this, just search for it on YouTube. However, note that it's only in black and white, since most British TV shows didn't start broadcasting in color until about 1969.

01 He Was My Brother (Simon & Garfunkel)
02 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
03 Leaves That Are Green (Simon & Garfunkel)
04 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
05 A Most Peculiar Man (Simon & Garfunkel)
06 Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel)
07 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
08 For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her (Simon & Garfunkel)
09 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
10 The Dangling Conversation (Simon & Garfunkel)
11 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
12 The 59th Street Bridge Song [Feelin' Groovy] (Simon & Garfunkel)
13 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
14 Richard Cory (Simon & Garfunkel)
15 7 O'Clock News - Silent Night (Simon & Garfunkel)
16 A Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel)
17 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
18 At the Zoo (Simon & Garfunkel)
19 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
20 Cloudy (Simon & Garfunkel)
21 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
22 Benedictus (Simon & Garfunkel)
23 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
24 Blessed (Simon & Garfunkel)
25 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
26 A Poem on the Underground Wall (Simon & Garfunkel)
27 I Am a Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)
28 Anji (Simon & Garfunkel)
29 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700332/SIMNNGRFNKL1967_PSnAGGrandaTVStdiosManchstrBrtin__3-17-1967_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows Simon and Garfunkel when they were on the Andy Williams TV show in early 1968. I don't remember where I got the fancy text at the top, but I think it's a screenshot taken from another TV show.