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When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, one of England\u2019s most respected folk musicians. When working together, the two created a traditional ballad called, \u201cScarborough Fair\u201d that would soon hit and become famous around the world. <\/p>\n
According to Carthy, he taught the song to Simon in 1964, years before iconic folk duo Simon & Garfunkel turned the song into their hit, \u201cScarborough Fair\/Canticle.\u201d However, what started as a friendly exchange of songs became one of the longest misunderstandings in folk history. <\/p>\n
In a new interview with The Times<\/a>, the story is laid out in full detail. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen Paul Simon passed through Britain in 1964, Carthy taught him \u2018Scarborough Fair\u2019 as well. It led to bad blood between the two for years, with Carthy believing the New York songwriter had stolen his arrangement for the Simon & Garfunkel classic \u2018Scarborough Fair\u2019 \/ \u2018Canticle.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n For years, the British musician silently endured his own irritation of the feud, where he believed that Simon had lifted his version of the song. But as time went on and the more times the song played with closer attention to detail, things changed drastically. <\/p>\n \u201cHe actually wrote a song in tribute to \u2018Scarborough Fair,\u2019 he didn\u2019t steal my arrangement, and if I had bothered to listen to his version for 30 seconds, I would have realized,\u201d Carthy admitted. \u201cPaul is an entirely honorable person.\u201d<\/p>\n The story<\/a> behind \u201cScarborough Fair\u201d is the result of Simon learning the centuries-old ballad from Carthy while visiting London in 1965. Carthy first picked up the song years earlier from a folk songbook by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seegar. Then, when Simon and Garfunkel reimagined the song as \u201cScarborough Fair\/ Canticle\u201d \u2013 which was paired with anti-war lyrics from Simon\u2019s earlier song \u201cThe Side of the Hill\u201d \u2013 it stuck as one of their beloved songs and was later featured in \u201cThe Graduate.\u201d <\/p>\n Their version credited only themselves as writers, which initially upset Carthy. Fortunately, the two men ultimately reconciled when Simon invited him to perform the track with him in London back in 2000. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That\u2019s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, one of England\u2019s most respected folk musicians. When working together, the two created a traditional ballad called, \u201cScarborough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092632,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092631\/revisions\/2092632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}