Best of Art Garfunkel [Germany] by Art Garfunkel (CD, Sep-1998, Sony)

Album Features
UPC:	5099749147324
Artist:	Art Garfunkel
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1998
Record Label:	Sony
Genre:	Pop, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Bright Eyes
2. Break Away
3. I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
4. Disney Girls
5. Miss You Nights
6. She Moved Through the Fair
7. Scissors Cut
8. Since I Don't Have You
9. Watermark
10. (What A) Wonderful World
11. When a Man Loves a Woman
12. Looking for the Right One
13. I Only Have Eyes for You
14. Crying in the Rain (Duet with James Taylor)
15. Another Lullaby
16. 99 Miles from L.A.
17. Heart in New York, A
18. Saturday Suit
19. Why Worry
20. Crying in My Sleep

Details
Distributor:	MSI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Special midpriced collection of tracks taken from Garfunkel's many solo albums that were issued during his tenure with Epic Records. Includes many Top 40 hits like "What A Wonderful World" (recorded with James Taylor and Paul Simon), "Bright Eyes" and many more great songs.

Taking a break from his acting career and his much-loved double act with Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel has some of his best solo songs collected on this album.It's a scandal that Sony Music's American catalog only offers a late '80s vintage compilation of Art Garfunkel's music, limited to 12 songs and indifferently mastered even by the standards of the time; meanwhile, Sony's British catalog has released this 20-song collection which, though it's not perfect, does offer upgraded sound along with a solid cross-section of Garfunkel's best work across 25 years of solo music-making. There are holes, to be sure, and not every track off of the U.S. best-of is represented -- where are "All I Know" and "Two Sleepy People," to name but two? -- but at least it's a step in the right direction for an artist who is deserving of the respect implicit in an ambitious release of this kind. Though the absent songs are, indeed, very much missed, the clean, bright mastering of "I Believe," "Disney Girls," "She Moved Through the Fair," "Watermark," "Break Away," "Miss You Nights," and "Crying in the Rain" makes this worth picking up, at least until Sony Music gets around to upgrading its American catalog. The clarity and crispness, and the vivid textures bring out a greater, silky purity in Garfunkel's voice than has ever before been evident on CD, and a presence to the accompaniment that leaves one more impressed than ever with these tracks as an art form in themselves, very much like Simon & Garfunkel's post-1965 productions. There is no annotation to speak of, but the quality of the audio justifies this disc -- if someone were to come up with a double-CD set that combined the non-overlapping tracks from this, Up 'Til Now, and the U.S. best-of in this quality, that would be the only Garfunkel package anyone needed. ~ Bruce Eder