Single:
My Little Town entered the Australian singles chart* on 17 November 1975 and peaked at #46.
Albums:
The song is on two albums:
Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years which entered the Australian albums chart* on 17 November 1975 and peaked at #39.
Also Art Garfunkel’s Breakaway which entered the Australian albums chart* on 17 November 1975 and peaked at #26.
Songwriter:
Paul Simon
Producers:
Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
In 1970 Simon and Garfunkel decided to part ways and record their own solo material.
In early 1975, Paul Simon decided to prepare material for a new solo album but one song, My Little Town, was written with Art Garfunkel specifically in mind.
Paul has been quoted as saying: “It originally was a song I was writing for Artie. I was gonna write a song for his new album, and I told him it would be a nasty song, because he was singing too many sweet songs! It seemed like a good concept for him.”
After playing the song for Art, the two decided to collaborate again in the studio on this one track.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Town
Lyrics:
In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps his eye on us all
And He used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord, I recall
My little town
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