11.12.2007 | 12:06 am

Video: Paul Simon – "You Can Call Me Al"

So Jens Lekman covered this one on Saturday, sans chorus, which prompted me to dig up the video. It’s still incredibly funny, despite the song itself being mired in typically ridiculous late-period (read: post-Simon & Garfunkel) Simon production. The bits where Simon is mouthing the backing vocals are my favorites, especially once you realize there’s really just that one line of totally superfluous vox and then he just sits there while Chevy Chase pretends to hit those gorgeous high notes. Speaking of which, Jens’ arguably superior live version? All over Hypem. Post on the show forthcoming.

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  • Lauren O-T

    omg i have’t heard this song since the last Stienstra family road trip in like 1999. What a throwback. I’d never seen the video. Now only if we had diamonds in the soles of our shoes…

  • Carman

    Graceland has that very 80′s production, but it really doesn’t do much to not make it a tremendous album.

    Regardless, Paul Simon’s first record probably has less production than anything by S&G. If anything, S&G were highly overproduced. And yes, I mean albums other than Bridge Over Troubled Water.

  • Dave Rawkblog

    I agree with you in regards to Bookends, but Parsley Sage… and its predecessors are pretty straightforward (except for the jokey Dylan digs).

  • Carman

    You’re probably a sucker for them, but I think Simon & Garfunkel were fine without the strings; Art’s voice already made it dad rock enough. Parsley, Sage… is a great album with some ridiculous production.

    Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. is what S&G should’ve been for their career.

  • fairest

    My mother’s comment 20 years later holds up. This video works humorously because of height differences.