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Simon & Garfunkel - The Columbia Studio Recordings, 1964-1970 (1969)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. You Can Tell The World 2:49
  2. Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream 2:13
  3. Bleecker Street 2:47
  4. Sparrow 2:51
  5. Benedictus 2:41
  6. The Sound Of Silence 3:09
  7. He Was My Brother 2:53
  8. Peggy O 2:29
  9. Go Tell It On The Mountain 2:09
  10. The Sun Is Burning 2:50
  11. The Times Are A Changing 2:55
  12. Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. 2:24
  13. Bleecker Street Bonus Track 2:46
  14. He Was My Brother Bonus Track 2:52
  15. The Sun Is Burning Bonus Trac 2:47
CD2
  1. The Sound Of-Silence 3:09
  2. Leaves That Are Green 2:24
  3. Blessed 3:18
  4. Kathy's Song 3:21
  5. Somewhere The Cant Find Me 2:38
  6. Anji 2:18
  7. Richard Cory 2:59
  8. A Most Peculiar Man 2:33
  9. April Come She Will 1:53
  10. We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin 2:01
  11. I Am A Rock 2:59
  12. Blues Run The Game 2:55
  13. Barbriallen 4:06
  14. Rose Of Aberdeen 2:03
  15. Roving Rambler 3:04
CD3
  1. Bookends Theme 0:32
  2. Save The Life Of My Child 2:49
  3. America 3:35
  4. Overs 2:19
  5. Voices Of Old People 2:07
  6. Old Friends 2:35
  7. Bookends Theme 2 1:24
  8. Fakin It 3:22
  9. Punkys Dilemma 2:17
  10. Mrs Robinson 4:07
  11. A Hazy Shade Of Winter 2:17
  12. At The Zoo 2:32
  13. You Dont Know Where You Interest Lies 2:19
  14. Old Friends 2:11
CD4
  1. Bridge Over Trouble Water 4:55
  2. El Condor Pasa 3:09
  3. Cecilia 2:55
  4. Keep The Customer Satisfied 2:37
  5. So Long Frank Lloyd Wright 3:45
  6. The Boxer 5:13
  7. Baby Driver 3:17
  8. The Only Living Boy In New York 4:02
  9. Why Don't You Write Me 2:46
  10. Bye Bye Love 2:52
  11. Song For Asking 2:00
  12. Feuilles O (Demo Version) 0:22
  13. Bridge Over Troubled Water 4:46

Notes

This box set containing the remastered, expanded editions of all five of Simon & Garfunkel's original LPs on five CDs just — but only just — misses a top rating, by virtue of its packaging. The sound is, as with the individual editions of each title, a significant improvement over any prior releases of this material and proves to be utterly impeccable, and the annotated booklet, containing the original credits and notes off the albums as well as the lyrics and all of the new annotation for each individual album by Bud Scoppa, is fairly handy. The problem is the packaging of the individual discs in miniature recreations of the original LP jackets, which are somewhat awkwardly stowed in one side of the box interior — unless they're lined up perfectly, however, they will come out of that receptacle; additionally, as there are no inner sleeves for the CDs in their miniature jackets (a necessity and a courtesy provided by the Japanese when they issue CDs in miniature LP sleeves), it's easy for them to slide out of their jackets and get scratched and dinged even prior to purchase and opening. It's a shame that Columbia went to this kind of trouble in remastering and preparing this edition without seeing to such obvious details, and the result is a 50 dollar box set that is more inconvenient than it needed to have been.