PAUL SIMON – GREATEST HITS, ETC LP – Nr MINT A2/B2 UK 1977

Paul Simon – Greatest Hits, Etc.
(CBS Records  1977  10007)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– hype sticker on front – some wear to edges & a little rubbing
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT conditon

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Simon’s fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair’s songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: “The Sound of Silence”, “Mrs. Robinson”, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott.

Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the “100 People Who Shaped the World” by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.

Greatest Hits, Etc. is the first greatest hits compilation album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released in November 1977 by Columbia Records. It was his first compilation, spanning the first six years of his solo career. Its release was prompted by the facts that two years after his last studio album, Simon didn’t yet have enough material to release a new full-length album, and his contract with Columbia was finished but a new album was needed to fulfill it. Simon later signed with Warner Bros. Records. The album was initially supposed to be called Blatant Greatest Hits.

Track listing

All the songs were written and composed by Paul Simon, and were performed in the studio by Simon accompanied with many of the leading session musicians of the day.

Side one

1. “Slip Slidin’ Away” – 4:43
2. “Stranded in a Limousine” – 3:09
3. “Still Crazy After All These Years” – 3:24
4. “Have a Good Time” – 3:25
5. “Duncan” (Live) – 5:03
6. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – 2:45
7. “Something So Right” – 4:34

Side two

8. “Kodachrome” – 3:32
9. “I Do It for Your Love” – 3:35
10. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” – 3:33
11. “American Tune” (Live) – 4:09
12. “Mother and Child Reunion” – 2:50
13. “Loves Me Like a Rock” – 3:28
14. “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” – 3:28