Simon & Garfunkel - The making of - The only living boy in new York

Tom, get your plane right on time I know your part'll go fine Fly down to Mexico Da-doodin'-da doo-din' da-doodin'-da, and here I am The only living boy in New York... Well, if there's a theme that goes through Bridge Over Troubled Water about people leaving, or something like that it was certainly unintentional. And the songs were written over... you know, rather a long period, because The Boxer's on that album but that was recorded maybe a year or so before the rest of the album, but The Only Living Boy In New York was written about Artie going to make Catch-22 in Mexico. And "Tom, get your plane right on time" was cos when we were kids we were Tom and Jerry. That was our first record. Hey, Schoolgirl - Tom and Jerry. You've taken me into cheap sentiment. I don't want to play my friendship with Paul on camera it's very deep, very private, and it's full of love. But yeah, those songs are about a friendship... I don't know how to talk about it, it's essentially a private, cherished thing. The Only Living Boy In New York, where you have all those huge voices, that's, I think we sang... I think we put, like, 12 or 14 voices on there. Singing together. But we literally were standing in the echo chamber, in LA. I heard those voices... Rather than in the studio editing echo, let's go into the echo chamber and try it. Go physically into this echo chamber, into this room. We really sang that whole thing right in the echo chamber, and it's... ..it really has a sound, you know. I mean, it really sounds big. I know that you've been eager to fly now Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine now Da-doodin'-da doo-din' da-doodin'-da, like it shines on me The only living boy in New York The only living boy in New York...