Simon & Garfunkel - Overs (1970)

There are a number of out-takes collections by Simon & Garfunkel floating about online, but this one had quite a few songs that I'd never heard before, so I thought it was worth investigation. It includes demos, out-takes and live tracks from 1964 to 1970, all in reasonably good sound quality. The original double CD has 55 tracks, but a lot of them were multiple takes of the same song, or instrumental versions of released songs, so I've picked out the best sixteen songs for a more compact 41 minute album. It's a mixture of unreleased Simon originals and choice covers, with a five track live section. Paul over at Albumsthatshouldexist has had a similar idea for a S&G post at the same time (great minds think alike), and this should be a nice companion piece to his collection of unreleased Paul Simon compositions.

Track listing

01 Bleecker Street (demo 1964)
02 Sparrow (BBC session 1965)
03 Somewhere They Can't Find Me ('Sounds Of Silence' out-take 1966)
04 Bad News Feeling ('Sounds Of Silence' rehearsal 1966)
05 I Wish You Could Be Here ('Sounds Of Silence' rehearsal 1966)
06 Blues Run The Game ('Sounds Of Silence' out-take 1966)
07 You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies ('Bookends' out-take 1968)
08 A Poem On The Underground Wall (Live At Carnegie Hall 1967)
09 Red Rubber Ball (Live At Carnegie Hall 1967)
10 Anji (Live At Carnegie Hall 1967)
11 Blessed (Live At Carnegie Hall 1967)
12 A Church Is Burning (Live At Carnegie Hall 1967)
13 Feuilles-Oh ('Bridge Over Troubled Water' out-take 1970)
14 Hey Schoolgirl (Live At Carnegie Hall 1969)
15 That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine (Live At Carnegie Hall 1969)
16 Lightnin' Express (Live In Paris 1970)

It's called 'Overs' as it contains songs that were 'left over', but also because it includes six takes of the 'Bookends' songs 'Overs'. If you really want to hear them, along with twelve takes of 'For Emily....' then the original bootleg is fairly easy to find. I've left the back cover in the folder so that you can see exactly what was on the original 2xCDs.