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Paul Simon

Hearts and Bones

1983

© GlassPages, 1998

Cover Picture

References

• Warner Bros. 23942 (1983).

Credits

• All songs written by Paul Simon.
• Background vocals by Paul Simon.
• Produced by Paul Simon, Russ Titelman and Roy Halee.
• Tracks 1, 5 & 10 Co-Produced by Lenny Waronker.
• Engineered and mixed by Roy Halee.
• Synclavier programmed by David Nichtern.
• Additional Engineering: Lee Herschberg, Json Corsaro, Mark Linett, Gene Paul & James Dougherty.
• Second Engineers: Eric Korte, Andy Hoffman, Terry Rosiello, David Greenberg, Stuart Gitlin, Ken Deane, Dan Nash & Jim Santis.
• Recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood; Regent Sound Studios, New York; Power Station Inc., New York; Mediasound Inc., New York; Atlantic Recording Studios, New York and Sigma Sound Studios, New York.
• Mixed at Regent Sound Studios, New York.
• LP Originally mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York.
• CDD Pre-Mastering by WCI Record Group.
• Recorded using the 3M Digital Mastering Process.
• Digital Engineer: Tom Bates.
• Soundworks Digital Audio Facilities: Wayne Yurgelun.
• Production Assistants: Julie Hooker & Kimberly Boyle.
• Art Direction: Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff with Paula Greif.
• Design: Jeri McManus.
• Cover Photo: E.K.T.V.
• Closing of The Late Great Johnny Ace composed & orchestrated by Philip Glass; Conducted by Michael Riesman.
• © 1983 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• © 1983 Paul Simon.

Tracks

1. Allergies (4:37).
2. Hearts and Bones (5:37).
3. When Numbers Get Serious (3:25).
4. Think Too Much (b) (2:44).
5. Song about the Moon (4:07).
6. Think Too Much (a) (3:05).
7. Train in the Distance (5:11).
8. Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War (3:44).
9. Cars are Cars (3:15).
10. The Late Great Johnny Ace (4:45).
• Paul Simon: Acoustic Guitar.
• Dean Parks & Sid McGinnis: Electric Guitars.
• Steve Gadd: Drums.
• Greg Phillinganes: Fender Rhodes.
• Michael Boddicker: Syntesizer.


• Closing Composed & Orchestrated by Phillip Glass.
• Conducted by Michael Riesman.
• Michael Riesman: Syntesizer.
• Carol Wincenc: Flute.
• George Marge: Bass Clarinet.
• Martin Alsop: Violin.
• Frederick Zlotkin: Cello.
• Jill Jaffe: Viola.

Total Time 40:39.

Audio samples

Closing of Paul Simon "The Late Great Johnny Ace" by Philip Glass (1:10, 140.748 bytes )

Lyrics

THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY ACE
Lyrics: Paul Simon.
© 1981 Paul Simon.

I was reading a magazine
And thinking of a rock and roll song
The year was 1954
And I hadn't been playing that long
When a man came on the radio
And this is what he said
He said I hate to break it
To his fans
But Johnny Ace is dead
Well, I really wasn't
Such a Johnny Ace fan
But I felt bad all the same
So I sent away for his photograph
And I waited till it came
It came all the way from Texas
With a sad and simple face
And they signed it on the bottom
From the Late Great Johnny Ace

It was the year of The Beatles
It was the year of The Stones
It was 1964
I was living in London
With the girl from the summer before
It was the year of The Beatles
It was the year of The Stones
A year after J.F.K.
We were staying up all night
And giving the days away
And the music was flowing
Amazing
And blowing my way

On a cold December evening
I was walking through the Christmas tide
When a stranger came up and asked me
If I'd heard John Lennon had died
And the two of us
Went to this bar
And we stayed to close the place
And every song we played
Was for The Late Great Johnny Ace.

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