Angel Clare

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 41:11

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My first introduction to the light clear voice

whalle

A voice that I always find engaging. "Barbara Allen" and "Willow Garden" are choice. Reminds me of some of the best of Simon and Garfunkel. Glad to find it.

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Voice of an Angel

DreamboatAnnie

I love listening to his voice, the clear tones sound heavenly.

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my first album

pompitousoflove

500 albums later i now have gotten my fourth album...LP,cassette, Cd that got lost in a move, and now MP3. Needless to say..it is feel good classic. Comofort food if you would. Barbara Allen will break your heart!

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Garfunkel (he was billed without his first name here) had a lot riding on his debut solo album, and Angel Clare, named after a character in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, lived up to the heightened expectations for the man who had sung “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and other Simon & Garfunkel favorites. Garfunkel took no chances, issuing as the first single Jimmy Webb’s “All I Know,” which was arranged in a similar style to “Bridge” and made the Top Ten. Elsewhere on the record, Garfunkel took a more spirited approach, notably on a version of Van Morrison’s “I Shall Sing” that was reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Cecilia” and made the Top 40. Certainly, there was enough firepower on the record, which featured guitarists Jerry Garcia and J.J. Cale. But much of it was filled with stately, orchestra-laden ballads, sung by Garfunkel in his naïve, breathy tenor. If Simon & Garfunkel had been the thinking man’s Everly Brothers, Garfunkel alone turned out to be the thinking man’s Johnny Mathis. – William Ruhlmann

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