Tom & Jerry - Hey, Schoolgirl - 1957 (Audio)
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Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon met backstage in a school production of Alice In Wonderland but even before that Simon was intrigued by this tall, curly headed kid who could impress the girls with the sweetest and smoothest of singing voices. They teamed up as teens and at that tender age rehearsed like professionals, developing a miraculous precision and harmonic blend. To hide the ethnicity of their names, the record company named them Tom & Jerry, and they entered the world of rock and roll at fifteen with a song they wrote together and recorded called "Hey Schoolgirl." The song was a hit and the duo began to live out their dreams while still dreaming them, appearing on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" as high schoolers.
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Q: Did you write "Hey Schoolgirl" together?
Art: Yes. "Hey Schoolgirl" with its phrase "Woo-bop- a-loo-chi-ba" somewhat taken from "Be Bopa Lula," Gene Vincent's hit, was our attempt to remember an Everly Brothers song that we had both heard one summer. We were apart, Paul and I, in different places for the summer and at the end of the summer we had both remembered this great record by the Everlys and we were trying to reconstruct it. . . and we were getting it wrong! We were, in fact, writing [laughs] our own song, "Hey Schoolgirl, " in an attempt to remember this Everly Brothers song. When we heard the real Everlys song we realized, "Well, that ain't it, so the thing we were groping towards... is ours!" So we finished writing it and made a demo of it, and signed a contract with a small record company on the strength of it, because the guy was in the waiting room of the demo place, and we actually recorded it. It sold 150,000 copies.
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Who knew these guys would go on to worldwide fame as "Simon and Garfunkel.
👍👍🎵🎵 many thanks for all these good old photos
i wish simon & garfunkel would release all of their tom & jerry songs on cd. we should get a petition. anyone agree. who'll sign it.
@Jazz-dc6tf
2 жыл бұрын
lot of their stuff around. other than 'tom and jerry' look up 'jerry landis', 'artie garr' and 'tico & the triumphs'
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
I second that emotion‼️
Artie was a cutie back then, destined to be great with Paul . I will cherish their music.
@harryknackers7892
3 жыл бұрын
Likely story
Nessa época, tudo era sonho!
Unlike me, this never gets old. Got my crush on Art Garfunkel then and still have that crush.
This song os ahead of it's time and has very interesting and unusual chord progressions and it seems like they made up their own saying in their own language. That was a sign back in 1957,. that these guys were going somewhere..
had read about it but never had heard. so when got napster, first song i dowloaded. best ever.
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
How cool!
I think I remember hearing this back in the day. Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOL.
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
😂 🤗
hes never made a bad track, simon
Even as Teenagers known as Tom & Jerry in the 50's during their early years. They're still a lot more Talented than many of their Contemporaries.
@Keezie27
4 жыл бұрын
True
Boy can you hear the influence of the Everly Brothers in this song.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen Aussie fan. Great Lyrics>>>>>>>
Merci beaucoup pour ce beau partage 😍❤
...I knew it all the time.
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
😏😊
Very nice stuff...! 😃🎶💚👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Wow, they actually sounded good way back when.
never realized these two were "child prodigies" in other words, children of show biz parents so had connections / fostered youth in music exposure etc. makes sense. despite this Paul Simon still wrote great music so this should be seen as a real blessing.
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
Art Garfunkel's that is
@SuperMCFIVE
Жыл бұрын
Type in... Arthur Garfunkel - biography - JewAge ....there's some great info on his early life
Génial trop chou
So Art DID have a normal hairline at one point in his life
@keving9233
Жыл бұрын
🤣
me encanta cada to
Artie, blonde curly hihihi
What ever happened to these guys?? They seem awfully talented 😄
@laurinnnn
5 ай бұрын
They got old like all of us. I think they broke up years ago as a duet.
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