12.Jan.2009 Early Mother and Baby Reunion

Thanks to Kapeman, who found a real YouTube gem – Paul Simon performing a demo of what would become two songs: the melody is clearly “Mother and Child Reunion” (in embryonic form, as the title of this post suggests) and the verses eventually wound up in “Was a Sunny Day.”

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  • Danny C says:

    Your welcome. there is plenty more where that came from.

  • Gerard says:

    I first heard this U Tube audio clips on the BBC Paul Simon Songbook Radio Documentary series way back in the 1970s and updated again in 1990′s

  • ben ericson says:

    Pauli, darn good to write to you, i’ve been on this island for so long, can you send help, i mean it wouldn’t need to be much, too many affectionate monkeys, you feed em, and they won’t go away.

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