"WHOOOOOOOOO!" "Bye bye love..." What happened?
March 13, 2011 1:27 PM Subscribe
What happens at 01:58 in Simon & Garfunkel's "Bye Bye Love"?
A cover of "Bye Bye Love," recorded live in concert in Ames, Iowa, is the eleventh track on Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. At about 01:58, just as they're entering the chorus, somebody whoops loudly and the audience bursts into laughter and applause. What actually happened? Who is that, and what did he do? Is there any footage of the concert? Please help; this has bugged me for about twenty-five years and I'm sure it's bugged others for over forty.
A cover of "Bye Bye Love," recorded live in concert in Ames, Iowa, is the eleventh track on Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. At about 01:58, just as they're entering the chorus, somebody whoops loudly and the audience bursts into laughter and applause. What actually happened? Who is that, and what did he do? Is there any footage of the concert? Please help; this has bugged me for about twenty-five years and I'm sure it's bugged others for over forty.
The 1969 concert series was supposedly filmed by CBS/Columbia Records, but I can't turn up any clips from that show. Found this with a newspaper clipping from a concert in Illinois a month later (list of dates/locations for 1969 tour) that says:
posted by sysinfo at 2:15 PM on March 13, 2011
"Their two encores included ‘ Bye bye love’, during which Simon’s brother, Eddie, joined the pair."It's possible that he did the same in Ames and the whoop is related to something he did or just to his appearing (looked much like Paul, just four years younger.) Sorry that's not more concrete, though.
posted by sysinfo at 2:15 PM on March 13, 2011
Hmm, to tack on to musofire's suggestion, Eddie Simon does/did play guitar (cite.)
posted by sysinfo at 2:19 PM on March 13, 2011
posted by sysinfo at 2:19 PM on March 13, 2011
The same live recording was also included on the Old Friends box set (1997), and Art answered a question about it during a 1998 interview for his fan site:
Q: The new Old Friends set has a live track of Bye Bye Love in which the audience erupts in cheers. Is this because you are playing guitar on this number?
A: No. It’s because we recorded a live audience hand-clapping (in excellent rhythm) and therefore, being human, erupting. Then synched the vocals in the studio.
posted by amyms at 5:07 PM on March 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
Q: The new Old Friends set has a live track of Bye Bye Love in which the audience erupts in cheers. Is this because you are playing guitar on this number?
A: No. It’s because we recorded a live audience hand-clapping (in excellent rhythm) and therefore, being human, erupting. Then synched the vocals in the studio.
posted by amyms at 5:07 PM on March 13, 2011 [2 favorites]
amyms, are you sure that question isn't referring to the cheers at the end of the track?
I don't know, just wanted to offer it as a data point. The question doesn't specify, but the wording (i.e. "Is this because you are playing guitar?") makes it sound like they're talking about the audience's reaction during the song rather than the end.
posted by amyms at 8:08 PM on March 13, 2011
I don't know, just wanted to offer it as a data point. The question doesn't specify, but the wording (i.e. "Is this because you are playing guitar?") makes it sound like they're talking about the audience's reaction during the song rather than the end.
posted by amyms at 8:08 PM on March 13, 2011
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posted by musofire at 2:09 PM on March 13, 2011