“Second Avenue” is a song written by American singer-songwriter
Tim Moore. The song was released in 1974 as Moore's second single from his debut LP, concurrently with a version by
Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, and actor. He is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Highlights of Garfunkel's solo music career include one top-10 ...
(billed as simply Garfunkel), which received greater notice.
The Garfunkel recording was a non-album single. It peaked at No. 6 on the US ''Billboard''
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
chart, No. 34 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100, and also charted in Canada and Australia.
Chart performance
;Tim Moore
;Garfunkel cover
Covers
*Others who have recorded cover versions of the song include
Colin Blunstone
Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born 24 June 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blunstone came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the English rock band the Zombies, whi ...
(on his 2009 album ''The Ghost of You and Me'').
References
External links
Lyrics of this song*
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{{Art Garfunkel
1974 songs
1974 singles
Asylum Records singles
Columbia Records singles
Art Garfunkel songs
Tim Moore (singer-songwriter) songs