SIMON AND GARFUNKEL/PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME CL 2563 (-66) US MONO

 Their third album and the one that's mainly considered their breakthrough. It reached #4 on Billboard, #13 in the UK, has been rewarded 3xPlatinum in US and also from 1999 in the Grammy Hall Of Fame. All songs except the traditional "Scarborough Fair" and "Silent Night" penned by Paul Simon, "Cloudy" co-written by him and Bruce Woodley. There's a lot more on the album you can get from Wikipedia, but I'm not going into that. Check here instead  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley,_Sage,_Rosemary_and_Thyme  . Just wanna say that I'm stunned how fantastic this still sounds today. Not only because the vocals and backing, or that you get the three classics "Homeward Bound", "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy") and "Scarborough Fair", but also for the pressing and audio. This US mono is one of the best such I've ever heard. Big and clear with tophole separation it embraces me from first to last cut and make me wanna listen again immediately. It's like the guys have travelled all the way from 1966 just to pay me a visit. This is why the audio of an original is as important as the music itself. If honest and right-on it can take you back to the recordings and listen to the artists intentions. If distorted by various technical manners or transcribed to other more modern formats it becomes something else. Not necessarily bad, but...something else. Issued and reissued on all possible formats all over the world through the years. Premiere US had label as shown here in a glossy cover with Columbia ad inner.  (YZÄ*)  (ÖXCÅ*)