Graceland by Paul Simon

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble 5:59 121,197
2 Paul Simon - Graceland 5:31 163,095
3 Paul Simon with General M.D. Shirinda And The Gaza Sisters - I Know What I Know 3:13 5,236
3 Paul Simon - I Know What I Know 4:45 84,438
4 Paul Simon with The Boyoyo Boys - Gumboots 2:44 4,736
4 Paul Simon - Gumboots 2:45 74,324
5 Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes 5:37 138,869
6 Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al 5:14 320,870
7 Paul Simon - Under African Skies 3:37 101,506
8 Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Homeless 3:48 4,344
8 Paul Simon - Homeless 3:47 81,180
9 Paul Simon - Crazy Love Vol. II 4:19 8,453
9 Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol II 4:19 5,216
10 Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother 2:51 75,674
10 Paul Simon with Good Rockin' Dopsie And The Twisters - That Was Your Mother 2:52 4,476
11 Paul Simon - All Around the The World or the Myth of Fingerprints 3:26 1,122
11 Paul Simon with Los Lobos - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints 3:16 3,322
12 Paul Simon - Homeless (Demo) (Bonus Track) 2:28 258
12 Paul Simon - Homeless (demo) 2:28 7,352
13 Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Unissued version) 4:42 884
13 Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (Unreleased Version) (Bonus Track) 4:41 255
14 Paul Simon - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints (Early Version) (Bonus Track) 3:18 177
14 Paul Simon - All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (Early version) 3:16 5,026
Paul Simon - Homeless (Album Version) 3:48 49
Paul Simon - Under African Skies (Album Version) 3:37 72
Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother (Album Version) 2:52 57
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (Album Version) 4:39 886
Paul Simon - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints (Album Version) 3:17 32
Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (Album Version) 5:48 84
Paul Simon - Gumboots (Album Version) 2:45 41
Paul Simon - I Know What I Know (Album Version) 3:13 43
Paul Simon - Graceland (Album Version) 4:51 101
Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble (Album Version) 3:59 74
Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol. II (Album Version) 4:19 36

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About this album

Legacy Recordings 34 tracks (132:04)
Graceland is an album released by Paul Simon in 1986. It was a hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US. The album won the Album of the Year Grammy award, while the title song won the Record of the Year Grammy award, for 1986 and 1987 respectively. In 2006, the album was added to the United States National Recording Registry, along with another 24 significant recordings that year.

Coming at a time when Simon’s musical career was at something of a low ebb following the disappointing public response to Hearts and Bones, the project was originally inspired by Simon’s listening to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys instrumental “Gumboots”, lent to him by Heidi Berg, a singer-songwriter with whom Simon was working (and who would later become an award-winning jingle singer and writer). Simon later wrote lyrics to sing over a re-recording of the song, which became the fourth track on the album.

The group Los Lobos appear on the last track, “All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints.” According to Los Lobos’s saxophone player Steve Berlin, Simon stole the song from Los Lobos, giving them no songwriting credit:

“It was not a pleasant deal for us. I mean he quite literally — and in no way do I exaggerate when I say — he stole the songs from us… We go into the studio, and he had quite literally nothing.
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