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"The Dangling Conversation" is a song written by Paul Simon, first released in September 1966 as a Simon and Garfunkel single "The Dangling Conversation"/"The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine". The song only climbed to 25 on the US charts and never made it onto the UK charts. Simon was surprised that it was not a bigger hit and attributed the song's lack of success to its heaviness.〔Jackson, L: ''Paul Simon: Definitive Biography'', Citadel Press, 2004〕 It was released a month later as a recording on the Simon and Garfunkel album ''Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme''. The theme is failed communication between lovers. The song starts in a room washed by shadows from the sun slanting through the lace curtains and ends with the room "softly faded." They are as different as the poets they read: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. Simon has compared this song to "The Sound of Silence", but says "The Dangling Conversation" is more personal.〔[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19795/m1/ Show 36 - The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library]〕 ==Cover versions== Joan Baez included a cover of the song on her 1967 ''Joan'' album. She changed one of the lines to "Is the church really dead?" and Simon insisted that a line be inserted on the album's back cover that read: "Paul Simon asks Joan to note that the original line is, 'Is the theater really dead?'" Les Fradkin has a dramatic version on his 2006 album, ''Jangleholic''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dangling Conversation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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