Paul Simon (6,328 views)

[IhateMana]

Paul Frederic Simon (13 October 1941)
Associated Acts: Simon & Garfunkel (1956 - 1964, 1965 - 1970, 1972, 1975 - 1977, 1981 - 1984, 1990, 1993, 2003 - 2005, 2007 - 2010)
Vocal Range: C♯2 - E5

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Significant High Notes

E5 ("Cars Are Cars", "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War")
E♭5 ("Baby Driver", "The Obvious Child")
D5 ("Late in the Evening", "Loves Me Like a Rock", "Night Game", "Song About the Moon", "Think too Much ♭")
C♯5 ("Baby Driver", "Kodachrome", "Think too Much (a)", "Why Don't You Write Me")
C5 ("Crazy Love, Vol. II", "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light", "Papa Hobo", "You Can Call Me Al")
B4 ("All Because of You", "Allergies", "Duncan" Demo - San Fransisco 2/71, "Oh, Marion", "She Moves On", "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy", "Stranded in a Limousine", "When Numbers Get Serious")
B♭4 ("Further to Fly", "Gumboots", "Have a Good Time", "Night Game", "Peace Like a River", "Train in the Distance")
A4 ("Ace in the Hole", "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints", "Allergies", "Armistice Day", "Bridge Over Troubled Water" demo version, "Cars Are Cars", "Crazy Love, Vol. II", "Getting Ready for Christmas Day", "Graceland", "Hearts and Bones", "Kodachrome", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", "Mother and Child Reunion", "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor", "One-Trick Pony", "Paranoia Blues" Unreleased Version, "Proof", "Rewrite", "Run That Body Down", "Silent Eyes", "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy", "Song About the Moon", "Still Crazy After All These Years", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" acoustic demo, "That Was Your Mother", "Thelma", "Think too Much (a)", "Think too Much ♭", "You're Kind")
G♯4 ("The Afterlife", "All Because of You", "Congratulations", "Everything Put Together Falls Apart", "Graceland", "Have a Good Time", "He Was My Brother", "Hearts and Bones", "I Do It for Your Love", "I Know What I Know", "Late in the Evening", "Learn How to Fall", "Oh, Marion", "The Only Living Boy in New York", "Rewrite", "Richard Cory", "Silent Eyes", "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy", "Spiral Highway", "St. Judy's Comet", "Still Crazy After All These Years", "Stranded in a Limousine", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", "That's Why God Made the Movies", "Why Don't You Write Me", "You're Kind")
G4 ("50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints", "Allergies", "Armistice Day", "At the Zoo", "Baby Driver", "Beat Love", "Bernadette", "The Boy in the Bubble", "Cars Are Cars", "A Church Is Burning", "Citizen of the Planet", "The Coast", "Duncan", "Gone at Last", "Keep the Customer Satisfied", "The Late Great Johnny Ace", "Long, Long Day", "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light", "Loves Me Like a Rock", "My Little Town", "Nobody", "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor", "Papa Hobo", "Paranoia Blues", "Satin Summer Nights", "Save the Life of My Child", "Shelter of Your Arms", "So Beautiful or So What", "Soft Parachutes", "Something So Right", "Song About the Moon", "Spirit Voices" Work-in-Progress Demo, "Tenderness", "Train in the Distance", "Why Don't You Write Me", "You Can Call Me Al", "You Can Tell the World")
F♯4 ("Ace in the Hole", "All Because of You", "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine", "Blessed", "Congratulations", "The Cool, Cool River", "Gumboots", "How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns", "I Do It for Your Love", "It Means a Lot to Them", "Jonah", "Kodachrome", "Let Me Live in Your City" work in progress, "The Lone Teen Ranger", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", "Mother and Child Reunion", "My Little Town", "The Obvious Child", "Play Me a Sad Song", "Questions for the Angels", "She Moves On", "A Simple Desultory Philipic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "Silent Eyes", "Somewhere They Can't Find Me", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", "That's Why God Made the Movies", "Think too Much (a)", "Think too Much ♭", "When Numbers Get Serious", "You're Kind")
F4 ("Adios Hermanos", "The Afterlife", "America" live The Concert in Central Park, "American Tune", "Bernadette", "Born at the Right Time", "Born in Puerto Rico", "The Boy in the Bubble", "Bridge Over Troubled Water" demo version, "The Dangling Conversation", "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", "God Bless the Absentee", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "I Know What I Know", "In Cars", "Late in the Evening", "Long, Long Day", "Love and Hard Times", "Loves Me Like a Rock", "The Obvious Child", "Papa Hobo", "Peace Like a River", "(Pretty Baby) Don't Say Goodbye", "Rewrite", "The Rhythm of the Saints", "Shelter of Your Arms", "A Simple Desultory Philipic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)", "Song About the Moon", "That Was Your Mother", "Thelma", "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'", "Why Don't You Write Me", "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies")
E4 ("Allergies", "America", "American Tune", "Beat Love", "The Boxer", "The Boy in the Bubble", "Cars Are Cars", "Cecilia", "Congratulations", "Duncan", "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)", "Fakin' It", "Further to Fly", "Getting Ready for Christmas Day", "Graceland", "Hearts and Bones", "How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns", "I Am a Rock", "Kodachrome", "Learn How to Fall", "Love and Blessings", "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", "Mrs. Robinson", "Oh, Marion", "One-Trick Pony", "The Only Living Boy in New York", "Proof", "Questions for the Angels", "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War", "Richard Cory", "Run That Body Down", "Satin Summer Nights", "Save the Life of My Child", "Spirit Voices", "St. Judy's Comet", "Still Crazy After All These Years", "Tenderness", "That's My Story", "That's Why God Made the Movies", "Was a Sunny Day", "(What a) Wonderful World")


Significant Low Notes

D3 ("The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", "America", "American Tune", "Armistice Day", "Beat Love", "Benedictus", "Bernadette", "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine", "Blessed", "Born in Puerto Rico", "The Boy in the Bubble", "Cars Are Cars", "Citizen of the Planet", "Cloudy", "Dancin' Wild", "Dazzling Blue", "Down in the Willow Garden", "Duncan", "Flame", "Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "Gumboots", "I Do It for Your Love", "It Means a Lot to Them", "Jonah", "Loves Me Like a Rock", "My Little Town", "Patterns", "Peace Like a River", "Play Me a Sad Song", "A Poem on the Underground Wall", "Questions for the Angels", "Roving Gambler", "Run That Body Down", "Shy", "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy", "Something So Right", "Spirit Voices" Work-in-Progress Demo, "True of False", "Wake Up Little Susie" live The Concert in Central Park, "When Numbers Get Serious", "You Can Tell the World", "You're Kind")
C♯3 ("Adios Hermanos", "The Afterlife", "April Come She Will" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "Benedictus", "Cloudy", "The Cool, Cool River", "Hearts and Bones", "Learn How to Fall", "Leaves That Are Green", "Let Me Live in Your City" work in progress, "Love and Hard Times", "My Little Town", "The Obvious Child", "Peggy-O", "Richard Cory", "The Sound of Silence", "That's My Story")
C3 ("7 O'Clock News/Silent Night", "American Tune", "Barbriallen", "Born at the Right Time" Original Acoustic Demo, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" demo version, "Can't Run But", "Everything Put Together Falls Apart", "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "Homeless" Demo, "Homeward Bound", "I Am a Rock", "I Know What I Know", "Jonah", "Long, Long Day", "A Most Peculiar Man", "Nobody", "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor", "Patterns", "Rewrite", "Save the Life of My Child", "Soft Parachutes", "Song About the Moon", "Tenderness", "Thelma", "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", "You Can Call Me Al", "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies")
B2 ("All Because of You", "Armistice Day", "Bleeker Street", "Blues Run the Game", "Bookends Theme (Reprise)", "The Boxer", "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)", "Fakin' It", "Further to Fly", "Graceland", "Hearts and Bones", "I Am a Rock" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "It Means a Lot to Them", "Just a Boy", "Loves Me Like a Rock" acoustic demo, "Mrs. Robinson", "Night Game", "Old Friends", "The Only Living Boy in New York", "Overs", "Papa Hobo", "Paranoia Blues", "Patterns" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "Punky's Dilemma", "Questions for the Angels", "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War", "Richard Cory", "Roving Gambler", "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "She Moves On", "Shy", "A Simple Desultory Philipic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)", "Song for the Asking", "Stranded in a Limousine", "That's My Story", "That's Why God Made the Movies", "Two Teenagers")
B♭2 ("The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", "Baby Talk", "The Coast", "The Dangling Conversation", "Homeward Bound", "Love and Hard Times", "A Most Peculiar Man", "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War" Original Acoustic Demo, "Rose of Aberdeen", "The Side of a Hill", "The Sound of Silence", "Train in the Distance", "Under African Skies", "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'")
A2 ("America", "Armistice Day", "At the Zoo", "Blessed", "Born in Puerto Rico", "Dancin' Wild", "The Late Great Johnny Ace", "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light", "Night Game", "Overs", "A Poem on the Underground Wall", "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "The Sound of Silence" The Paul Simon Songbook version, "Teenage Fool", "You Can Call Me Al")
G♯2 ("7 O'Clock News/Silent Night", "The Obvious Child", "(Pretty Baby) Don't Say Goodbye")
G2 ("The Cool, Cool River", "Everything Put Together Falls Apart", "I Know What I Know", "Proof", "Save the Life of My Child", "She Moves On", "So Beautiful or So What")
F♯2 ("America")
F2 ("Late in the Evening", "Song About the Moon")
E2 ("Crazy Love, Vol. II", "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War")
E♭­2 ("The Boxer", "Train in the Distance", "Why Don't You Write Me")
C♯2 ("René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War" In the Blue Light version)
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

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{Questionable Notes}
Vocal Range: Soft A - Hard R

F5 ("Song About the Moon" [2])
E5 ("Ace in the Hole" [1])
C♯5 ("One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" [1])

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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}
Simon & Garfunkel

(1964) Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.: B♭2 - B2 - G♯4
(1966) Sounds of Silence: A2 - G♯4
(1966) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme: G♯2 - F♯4
(1968) Bookends: F♯2 - G2 - G4
(1970) Bridge over Troubled Water: E♭2 - G4 - G♯4 - E♭5

Solo

(1965) The Paul Simon Songbook: A2 - G4
(1972) Paul Simon: G2 - A4 - C5
(1973) There Goes Rhymin' Simon: C3 - A4 - D5
(1975) Still Crazy After All These Years: A2 - B♭4 - B4 - D5
(1980) One-Trick Pony: F2 - B2 - A4 - B4 - B4 - D5
(1983) Hearts and Bones: E2 - A2 - B4 - E5
(1986) Graceland: E2 - G2 - G4 - G♯4 - B♭4 - C5
(1990) The Rhythm of the Saints: G2 - G4 - E♭5
(1997) Songs from the Capeman: "The Vampires",
(2000) You're the One:
(2006) Surprise:
(2011) So Beautiful or So What: G2 - A2 - G4 - C5
(2016) Stranger to Stranger:
(2018) In the Blue Light:

[Brenda]

E5 in this performance of "One Summer Night".

I have a few passages that I feel like are good, not necessarily enough to bold, but maybe I'd personally since he has so few ones:
E4 or G♯4 in "He Was My Brother", E4 because it's a sustain, but G♯4 would be the overall passage, I guess.
F♯4 in "Jonah".
G4 in "A Church Is Borning".
A4 in "Still Crazy After All These Years".