Music Monday: Are you "feeling groovy" this morning?
Posted By RichC on October 12, 2020
Some of the best songs of a generation or music decade are the ones that make you feel good … or “groovy.” The 59th Street Bridge Song by folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel from the 1960s was one of those. To be sure, it was a tumultuous decade to be growing up, but it also had a generation who really wanted to 
live in a world with far more “love and peace” 
than we are seeing today. I can’t help but smile at some of the slang used in the “far out” 60s … but some of it can help me from “feeling groovy.”
Simon and Garfunkel were not the only group to record this song, but did have it first on the B-side of their album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album. The group Harpers Bizarre recorded it a year later in 1967 and ran it up the charts to #14 on Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Easy Listening chart. Eventually Simon and Garfunkel released it as the B-side of a single in 1967 and then again in 1971 on the A-side.
So for Music Monday, here’s the Harpers Bizarre version and the Simon and Garfunkel versions from my mp3 music archive.
| Harpers Bizarre – The 59th Street Bridge Song | 1967 |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song |
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