The song opens, on Bookends, with a crossfade from " Save the Life of My Child". The lyrics do not follow any formal rhyme scheme. Drummer Hal Blaine, keyboardist Larry Knechtel, and bassist Joe Osborn provide additional instrumentation on the track. The duo's vocals span from the low note of B♭ 3 to the high note of F 5. The song has been described as a "folk song with a lilting soprano saxophone in its refrain as a small pipe organ paints acoustic guitars, framed by the ghostly traces of classic American Songbook pop structures." According to EMI Music Publishing's digital sheet music for the song, "America" is composed in the key of E-flat major and set in a 6/8 time signature, and has a moderately fast groove of 172 beats per minute. "America" is a song that "creates a cinematic vista that tells of the singer's search for a literal and physical America that seems to have disappeared, along with the country's beauty and ideals." Art Garfunkel once described the song as "young lovers with their adventure and optimism". Apparently, he liked it he wrote 'America' while he was here, including that line about taking four days to hitchhike from Saginaw. Then I asked him why he hadn't pulled out, and he said he had to see what a city named Saginaw looked like. I asked Paul Simon if they were still charging the $1,250 we paid them to play and he said they were getting about four times that much then.
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According to Dyer, Simon wrote the song while visiting the town in 1966 after Dyer had booked him for Y-A-Go-Go, a concert series hosted by the Saginaw YMCA. In 2004, Bob Dyer, a former disc jockey from Saginaw, Michigan, explained the song's genesis in an interview with The Saginaw News. Several years later, "America" was among the last songs recorded for Bookends, when production assistant John Simon left Columbia Records, forcing Simon, Garfunkel, and producer Roy Halee to complete the record themselves. Simon, reluctant to leave Chitty, invited her to come with him they spent five days driving the country together.
Producer Tom Wilson had called Simon, living in London at the time, back to the United States to finalize mixes and artwork for their debut studio album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. "America" was inspired by a five-day road excursion Simon undertook in September 1964 with Chitty. Problems playing this file? See media help. "America" follows two lovers as they travel the country, looking for America. A 2014 Rolling Stone reader's poll ranked it the group's fourth-best song. The song has been regarded as one of Simon's strongest songwriting efforts and one of the duo's best songs. It was inspired by a 1964 road trip that Simon took with his then-girlfriend Kathy Chitty. The song was written and composed by Paul Simon, and concerns young lovers hitchhiking their way across the United States, in search of "America", in both a literal and figurative sense. After peaking in the charts in July 1972, the song was switched to the A-side of the single and re-entered the charts in November 1972. The song was later issued as the B-side of the single “ For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (live version)” in 1972 to promote the release of the compilation album Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. It was produced by the duo and Roy Halee. "America" is a song performed by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, which they included on their fourth studio album, Bookends, in 1968. " For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Live)" From the album Bookends and Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
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