Talk:Art Garfunkel/Archive 1

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Someone changed the article to say that his master's degree is in architecture. I changed it back to mathematics; see http://www.artgarfunkel.com/bio.html.

Don't forget his stint in jail. Stormwriter


 * He hasn't been in jail. If he is convicted three times for possession he could be sentenced to 15 days in Jail. Preaky 03:56, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Jack Garfunkel was a math teacher at Forest Hills High School. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he had a remarkable record of working with students on projects in geometry that would often win recognition in the Westinghouse National Science Talent Search, not the Intel National Science Talent Search. Jack Garfunkel was NOT a salesman as it now incorrectly claims. I bet if you google "Jack Garfunkel" and "Westinghouse" you will find stories about his in that era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Special: Contributions) 21:17, 16 May 2014

I did further investigation and, surprisingly, there actually were TWO Jack Garfunkels in Forest Hills. Art's father was not the math teacher at Forest Hills HS. That was the other Jack Garfunkel, father of mathematician Solomon Garfunkel. I thought it was his father because I took several math classes with Garfunkel's brother at Queens College, so it seemed quite sensible that the father was the math teacher with whom he seems to have shared a name! Steve Conrad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Special: Contributions) 21:17, 18 May 2014

Dead link
This sentence appears in the article: "Art Garfunkel's website contains a year by year listing of every book he has read since 1968." The word "website" is a hotlink that is dead. Rich 21:00, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Fixed. Was easy to find on his website. No Guru 21:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Personal Life
Do we know anything about this? Relationships? Marriages? Children? JackofOz 08:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * He married once, which ended in a divorce that affected Garfunkel for awhile. He was later involved with a relationship with a Laruie Bird, if I recall right. Unfortunately, the woman later committed suicide. Garfunkel would ultimately marry a woman known as Kim (whose maiden name eludes me). They have one son born 1990, a James Garfunkel, who supposedly has a singing voice quite similar to his father's.--CBG

Someone has put in a personal life section with several relationships, 2 marriages, and 2 children; however the little summary box at the top right has not been updated to reflect the personal life information. I don't know how to fix this problem. I hope someone else will. Skysong263 (talk) 05:04, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

I do not think it is necessary or appropriate to specify that Garfunkel and his wife's children were born "via a surrogate mother". So what? CasparRH (talk) 16:25, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Does anybody have a cite for this, or is it just rumor?
I'd heard/read that Paul Simon had fallen in love with Art Garfunkel's voice and specifically wrote music for Art to sing.

Um, what instruments?
I'm just wondering why a page on a well-known musician doesn't mention what instruments he plays. I assume he gets vocal and guitar credits on most of his songs, but what else? And I shouldn't have to assume even that - this article should mention it explicitly. Thanks. [preceding comment unsigned]
 * Many great vocalists are also multi-intrumentalists but Art doesn't seem to be one of them. As far as I'm aware, he doesn't play any instruments on his records, though he does arrange. Paul Simon was the guitarist in Simon & Garfunkel, and I don't recall ever seeing Art with a guitar. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 03:44, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeshiva?
I heard a rumor that Art Garfunkel went to yeshiva as a child. Has anyone ever heard about this? 70.107.151.126 (talk) 22:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Japan
The Paul Simon article says S&G are touring Japan.

Copyright problem removed
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Simon & Garfunkel
What has happened to the final paagraph in this section? It seems divorced from the rest. What is "this song"? Myrvin (talk) 20:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I think "this song" is Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Cathalwoods (talk) 03:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I have removed it as uncited and garbled. Myrvin (talk) 08:05, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

television series
I seem to remember him in a tv series in the 70's or early 80's in which he played an alien. Can anybody remember what it was called82.42.121.120 (talk) 16:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, he portrayed the adorable fuzzy little alien "Alf" in the eponymous television series. In its third season, Paul Simon guest starred as "Bernie", a neighbor having a torrid affair with Mrs. Tanner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.25.73 (talk) 00:17, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

In the ALF series I remember seeing, the title character was voiced by Paul Fusco. 81.108.130.130 (talk) 14:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Is being of Romanian descent synonymous with being Jewish?
Well ... I don't think it is, but that's what this sentence infers: "He is Jewish—his paternal grandparents emigrated from Iaşi in Romania." Francis Hannaway 17:18, 2 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you mean implies, not infers. TheScotch (talk) 07:42, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Touché, TheScotch! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.34.222 (talk) 04:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Turning down role of Tom Hagen
As he's clearly said it's not true (http://www.artgarfunkel.com/qna.html), removed the claim that he turned down the role of Tom Hagen in The Godfather from the acting section. T.J. Crowder 7:26 GMT 17 August 2012 (UTC).

Unchained Melody
The article states he sang "Unchained Melody" in his school's stairwell when he was in first grade. Having been born in 1941 and "Unchained Melody" wasn't written until 1955 that claim seems unlikely.24.229.119.37 (talk) 17:46, 5 November 2014 (UTC)Gary Stump
 * Yeah, I just came here to make the same observation. But I guess it's possible. He may have been conflating different parts of his childhood. Maybe he liked "Unchained Melody" in high school; years later, while recounting his past, he forgot which tune he was singing at which point during his youth. —Largo Plazo (talk) 01:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Voice Classification
I do not quite see how the sentence "Garfunkel's voice changed almost imperceptibly until his late fifties, when it began to lower after years of smoking." classifies a voice – it doesn't even mention his voice type (tenor maybe?) and even if it did, I'm not sure if this fact alone would justify a whole paragraph. 178.198.198.22 (talk) 22:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There was more stuff in that section, but some of it (e.g. mentions of notes in particular songs) was highly questionable so it got trimmed. I don't think there's anything controversial about calling him a tenor though, and I'm pretty sure he was described as a tenor in the sleeve notes of at least one album, but I can't remember which one. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 03:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * He has described himself as a tenor in this 2012 interview: The Telegraph--46.223.21.230 (talk) 09:25, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Secondary instruments
Please discuss what instruments you think should be included in the infobox. Secondary instruments should be addressed in prose, not the infobox. Mlpearc ( open channel ) 19:13, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Second line - not grammatical
"He partnered in his earlier years with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel."

This sentence, which is very prominent in the article, is not grammatically correct. It doesn't indicate the sub-clause "in his earlier years" by the use of commas, and more importantly the construct "He partnered ... with" is grammatically inadmissible.

You can have:

He partnered, in his earlier years, Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

or

He was the partner, in his earlier years, of Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

or, even better:

In his earlier years, he was the partner of Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

or

In his earlier years, he partnered Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

Yes, I am a pedant - the pedants revolt! Urselius (talk) 14:54, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Pedants present correct, not incorrect, information. "To partner with" is an unremarkable, grammatical construction. "To partner" doesn't take a direct object unless it's something to the effect of "The chef partnered cilantro with grapefruit in his concoction."
 * If you don't believe this, check the definition of the verb "partner" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Exactly this usage is the second definition, and it gives examples dating back to 1859. —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Another pedant wants to say: ‘emigrated TO’ and ‘immigrated FROM’. A zillion family histories get this wrong. 101.175.192.26 (talk) 06:09, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

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Why is section on Garfunkel's career from 1976 to 1979 so negative?
Why is the section on Garfunkel's career from 1976 to 1979 only about flops? In 1979, Garfunkel released Bright Eyes which was Number one in the U.K. Singles charts and the best-selling single in the U.K. in 1979.Vorbee (talk) 17:36, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

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Wiki is dead
I have over the last 2 years given money to wiki every month, i hope everybody has. I have ingested more information than i could have done by other methods. I know some wiki pages are bullshit but believe me this site is important, now! is time to give back, if not, this resource is gone. How then will we find the information we require or at least have a trail too follow. I am not here to beg as nothing is free, so help out and continue building a data base that can be edited and corrected, if this is not how the truth is found then read a book with one author not millions and you will see true bias and subjective reality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Devlin-waugh (talk • contribs) 22:13, 4 December 2020 (UTC)