STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - PAUL SIMON - THERE GOES RHYMIN' SIMON

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Good Tuesday morning to you faithful readers and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember New Orleans musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, Allen Toussaint, on what would have been his 82nd Birthday. He died in his hotel room, in 2015, age 77, while on tour in Spain, from a heart attack. His career spanned 11 solo studio albums and a multitude of work for other artists such as, Aaron Neville, Floyd Cramer, Otis Redding, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Lee Dorsey, The O'Jays, Rufus, The Hues Corporation, The Pointer Sisters,  Glen Campbell , Joe Cocker, and Paul Simon, to name a few. It's  his work on Paul Simon's There Goes Rhymin' Simon, that is our subject of sound today.

There Goes Rhymin' Simon was released May 5, 1973 on the Columbia label and produced a plethora of artists including Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Roy Halee. It reached #1 in both Spain and Sweden, #2 in America, #3 in Canada, and #4 in the UK and has been certified Platinum in the US. Six of the album's 10 tracks were released as singles as noted * below ; 

1. "Kodachrome" 3:32 (* #2 Hot 100)

2. "Tenderness" 2:53

3. "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" 3:27 (* #1 South Africa, #7 UK)

4. "Something So Right" 4:33 (* # 10 Australia)

5. "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" 3:46

Side two

1. "American Tune" 3:43 (* #35 Hot 100)

2. "Was a Sunny Day" 3:41
3. "Learn How to Fall" 2:44

4. "St. Judy's Comet" 3:19 (* did not chart)

5. "Loves Me Like a Rock" 3:31 (* #2 Hot 100)

Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar on "Kodachrome", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", "Something So Right", "American Tune", "Was a Sunny Day", "Learn How to Fall", "St Judy's Comet", "Loves Me Like a Rock"

Pete Carr – electric guitar on "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" and "St Judy's Comet", acoustic guitar on “Kodachrome”

Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar on "Kodachrome", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"
Cornell Dupree – electric guitar on "Tenderness"
Al Gafa, David Spinozza – guitar on "Something So Right"
Jerry Puckett – electric guitar on "Learn How to Fall"

David Hood – bass guitar on "Kodachrome", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor", "St Judy's Comet", "Loves Me Like a Rock"

Gordon Edwards – bass guitar on "Tenderness"
Bob Cranshaw – bass guitar on "Something So Right", "American Tune", "Was a Sunny Day"
Vernie Robbins – bass guitar on "Learn How to Fall"
Richard Davis – double bass on "Something So Right"

Barry Beckett – piano, Fender Rhodes on "Kodachrome", Hammond organ on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" (uncredited), piano on "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor", vibraphone on "St Judy's Comet"

Paul Griffin – piano on "Tenderness"
Bob James – Fender Rhodes on "Something So Right"; harmonium, piano, keyboards on "American Tune"

Bobby Scott – piano on "Something So Right"
Carson Whitsett – Hammond organ on "Learn How to Fall"
Don Elliott – vibraphone on "Something So Right"

Roger Hawkins – percussion, drums on "Kodachrome", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor", "Loves Me Like a Rock"

Rick Marotta – drums on "Tenderness"
Grady Tate – drums on "Something So Right", "American Tune"
James Stroud – drums on "Learn How to Fall"
Airto Moreira – percussion on "Was a Sunny Day"

The Onward Brass Band – horns on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"
The Dixie Hummingbirds – group vocals on "Tenderness", "Loves Me Like a Rock"
Rev. Claude Jeter – falsetto vocals on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"
Maggie and Terre Roche – backing vocals on "Was a Sunny Day"

Allen Toussaint – horn arrangements on "Tenderness"
Quincy Jones – string arrangements on "Something So Right"
Del Newman – string arrangements on "American Tune"

Uncredited - flute on "Something So Right", shaker on "Something so Right", Hammond organ on "Tenderness", horns on "Learn How to Fall" and "Kodachrome", strings on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"