The Sound Lyrics Series Of Interviews
It’s from a series of interviews I conducted in 1992 at his Manhattan apartment, soon after he married Edie Brickell.The demo of this first version of the song is below, with the original lyrics. This covered his albums from `There Goes Rhymin’ Simon,’ his second solo album (featuring “Something So Right”) and concluded with `Hearts and Bones,’ his final album before `Graceland.’As mentioned in the first publication of this story, the lyrics of “Something So Right” are so focussed and poignantly human, built around the title, that it’s surprising to discover that Simon wrote it with another chorus and title altogether, before reinventing it as the song we know now.Simon confirms, in this newly-recovered interview section we are sharing below, that a revision was necessary to unify the love theme of the song.Here’s that additional material directly from the source, Paul Simon. Kevin Howlett of the BBC did the first chapter, and Paul’s friend, the composer Philip Glass, wrote the third chapter.I wrote the middle chapter, The Solo Years. Until today, that is, when I realized it was not included in any of the published interviews we did, but from interviews I conducted and then adapted for the liner notes of Paul Simon 1964/1993, his first box set.That Box Set divided his career into three sections: The Early Years, The Solo Years, and `Graceland’ and Beyond. Though I knew that Simon, in one of our many interviews, spoke about the birth of this song, I couldn’t find it anywhere. Since publication, we discovered we had the story of this song directly from Simon himself, which we bring you now Read this new addendum to the story behind the song, and hear the original demo of the song in its first incarnation,This is a revision to our original story behind “Something So Right” by Paul Simon.
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Barbra Streisand’s rendition is the closest to Simon’s in every way, except the key.
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