Song 753: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Those of us who reside in the northeastern section of the U.S. will probably in the next couple of months see a substantial amount of white stuff falling from the sky and accumulating in areas along the ground, so this folkie anthem pretty well describes a lot of what we'll see in the near future. While I might possibly have heard the piece when it climbed the charts in October of 1966, soon after I began my sophomore HS year, I would get to know it quite well after it appeared on the S&G 1968 Bookends LP. I did not have 33s at the time, but my closest friend Ed did have all four of the S&G discs, and every time I visited him during our senior HS year, which I did quite often, he would play all of those records at least once, so during my final HS year I got to hear Paul and Art a lot more than any other music stars. While I looked around for my possibilities that year, when I headed out to college the next year, that truly became the springtime of my life as an adult.
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