Art Garfunkel - Disney Girls Lyrics

One of the most beautiful and under appreciated songs of the seventies. Love listening this song over and over. It reminds me of watching the Walton's on t.v. with my mom when i was around 11 or 12 years old. She would let me start a fire in our fireplace while she made popcorn on the stove topped with real butter then at 8 pm on Thursday nights the Walton's beautiful intro song would come on, witch still sends warm feelings of comfort through me to this day if i hear it. We would both watch it, my mom curled up on the couch with a glass of red wine, me on the rug where i liked to sit, leaning back against the couch. My mom got dementia when she was just 58 and died ten years later. These times with my mom in the seventies were so special and this album is a great part of those memories i hold so dear.

I love this version of art Garfunkel and captain and tennile

Most Disney girls are underage, many are barely teens, creepy

I’m 17 and I heard this song randomly and although it isn’t even the type of music I listen to, it immediately struck me how beautiful it is. Great songs really are timeless.

アート・ガーファンクルの透明な歌声が印象的なディズニー・ガールズです。このエロさ満載のジャケも素晴らしい。

Better than the Beach Boys ver. Minted tune!

Brings back tears of love and fun of the young days

A beautiful cover of one of the most beautiful songs ever written, in my opinion.

The only thing we know about when we die is that the people we love will miss us.

Love this version, but I do miss the "Dis-a-ney" pronunciation.

Yep.. Jr high wouldn't have been the same without this stuff

my mother was my father's disney girl... she passed away yesterday and he always played this song for her. i miss you mom, so much... i hope you're resting peacefully in heaven

One of the best little known songs of all time! I loved it from the first time I heard it and still do!

voz maravilhosa. mas volta pro Simon.

Einfach wunderbar!

...as laid back as u can be...as best as it could be sung by Art.... the genius in Bruce...

"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."

What a voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art Garfunkel doing his version of this song was absolutely beautiful. I saw him perform with the North Carolina Symphony and his voice was so incredibly beautiful I cried. He was so underrated when he was with Paul Simon. I don't think he got the appreciation he deserved. Art Garfunkel sings Like An Angel.

When and where have you heard an Angel sing?

Art looking like Han Solo

Pretty song. Ive only heard it a couple times, but here I am checking it again.

Not the one from Troubled Waters but the bridge is fantastic.

Lovely! Almost better than the original!

"Now I'll fill your hands with kisses and a Tootsie Roll." That would be actually be really nice since Tootsie Rolls are one of my favorite candies. 😊❤

PRICELESS !

Jesus, this is so beautiful.

In the small town of Red Bank nj in the 80s. A family would clean on a Saturday mornings. A record player a fat back tv and bacon and eggs. I miss the simple days of cozyness, ease and sunshine warmth. Those days are gone. Whatever happened to America? I miss my childhood and that old house. This is the best part of music that it sends us soaring to a time of beauty, pain, celebrations, and growing up. Thank you

アートガーファンクルは“天使の歌声”の形容が相応しく、本当に綺麗な声の持ち主だと思いました。
そしてこの名曲！！
悪い訳がありません(感動・笑)

そうですよね。山下達郎もラジオでそう云ってました。トニーテニールのバージョンもいいですが。

I like singer-songwriters ! Art is not ☝

Beautiful song I love both versions. For you JAYNE WARMAN. My only Love.xx Still.

Smooth, very smooth.

Great album sleeve, so seventies

Beach Boy Bruce Johnston on piano and whistling at the end.

Disney girl by day, Jezabel at night

Great voice!!!!

My gf gave me this. my first reply was that she is my Disney Girl hehehe <3

Arts' VOICE is PERFECT.... 'Surf's Up' is PERFECT !!!!

such sweet perfect heartfelt melody has to be the beach boys doesn't it...

Fantasy world. Brings me way back.

I have been listening to this ever since it came out, and still love it...

I'm 22 and I dig this their is still hope for music

' Reality is not for me, and it makes me laugh. But fantasy world and Disney Girls, I'm coming back....'

He could sing just about any song to a masterpiece.

Is that art whistling? he has a God given voice and could turn any around.

It's Bruce Johnston.

Never tire of hearing this beautiful song so beautifully sung, or is that sang. It is truly inspiring...

Awesome !

I remember being in college and listening to this album- we loved this song. The girls in the dorm.. obsessed over the entire album. Times from the late 70's long gone but memories that live forever. Good music never dies...

I too played Breakaway the album over and over when it came out. Richard Perry producer.

Great song. Never found my Disney Girl, unfortunately.

If you like this song as much as I do check out an artist by the name of Roger Manning - In The Name Of Romance. You might like whatever you can find on him.

Also love Cass Elliot's version of this. Actually the one that introduced me to the song.

Wow. You're killin me. So sorry.

Thank you Buddy, your honest & heartfelt post got me through a long night with so much to think through. Just thankful you found Rita - your Disney Girl, before the pain of her passing. Hope you're doing OK & know you'll never really lose her again as she will always be in your heart. Much love Dib xxx

One of the few times I've found myself liking a cover better than the original.

Really, the more you listen to this the more you realise there are few better songs. Perfectly done and yet you never hear it, even on SmoothFM or SmoothTV. To think there are four idiots who have given it the thumbs down...far outvoted by the intelligentsia, of course, which should tell them something,

This is a terrific cover but I still prefer Bruce's version in Surf's Up.

Anyone else catch that this is from an album called Breakaway....? Another Beach Boys song lol

Breakaway is a fantastic album. Really shows his solo talent!

Wrong "Breakaway" song Eric. The Beach Boys' Breakaway is a completely different song from Garfunkel's Breakaway. I love both songs though.

@Helenaville Tis true , the song 'Breakaway' which Garfunkel covered was written and previously released by duo Gallagher & Lyle. They were also responsible for 'I Wanna Stay With You' (sampled by Lemon Jelly) and a gorgeous little song called 'Heart On My Sleeve'

Eric Sandoval

Buddy from Brooklyn That is so sad..... Made me and the wife cry too...

If Art said, 'Drink this kool-aid, it's good.'  I would say, 'Bottoms up!'  Man, what a voice!  Or is it just me?  Anyway, anybody see FU 'Carnal Fnowledge?'  Fantastic movie.  Get out of here, you bullshit artist!  Hahahahah.  Ahh. Fuck.  I would suggest see it if you get a chance, if you haven't all ready.  stay cool, Rock on!

Beach Boys.....one of the greatest, but this is a much superior version...!!! Well done Art..

he kept it pretty true to the original, too....

my god... this was great when the Beach Boys did it, but Artie has the PERGECT voice for it!! this is the ultimate best song!! ;D had no idea he covered this... wow.

Also done by Mama Cass, The Captain & Tennille and that "Shy" guy. I put all 4 covers with the original in my Beach Boys covered and covering playlist.

if only ?

I guess Art and I must have similar tastes in lovely melodies when it comes to what to share with the many listeners with like taste. Very nice.  But (don't tell anyone), I still prefer The Beach Boys' version.

One of the best!

I heard it first time when I lived in Demark 1978 playing their album.oh what a joy to discover it again yonks later good music lives,on.forever in our hearts.

Well...you need to hear 'Shy' Disney girls (1957) this was played to the man himself! Who past comment! 'Art should have heard your track'....(RETV62..View Now!)...🎼

Ascoltatela ad occhi chiusi e per chi ballava i lenti negli anni 70 ....wowwww

...nothing like... blasts from the past... "tootsie roll"... and "lemonade" and "Patty Page"...and country shade... Open eyes and clearer stars, but Fantasy world and Disney girls are coming back...

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Annette Funacello (spelling) should have an honorable mention here too?  She's the original Disney Girl as I recall growing up.  What a dish?!

*****Open eyes and clearer stars*****
"open CARS and clearer stars"
See, that rhymes, eyes doesn't

Open cars and clearer stars
That's what I've lacked
But fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

The thing to always bear in mind is that great songs develop as different artists find something else in the work that an original artist might have missed. There are numerous examples of this and I think artistically it's a great thing because it's always more obvious to appreciate than say images, which can't change and can confuse us as to what a painter or photographer meant us to understand in the first place.

I've heard just about every version of this song and although I have huge expect for Bruce J's versions out there of which there are a fair few. They are all incredibly different as if the composer is constantly seeking the right interpretation. The Beach Boys recording on Surf's Up is a prisoner of its time and place, recorded in the great style and approach they were famous for but also with the imperfect technology of the day. It gave us the first hearing of a classic that made a huge impression on me as a young adult barely out of my teens not least for its sophistication of lyric, harmony and sentiment.

But it wasn't until the second half of the '70s that under the direction of stellar producer Richard Perry, Art Garfunkel brought something magical to the song. Nothing could suit his voice and style better and the attention to detail in the arrangement and vocal, based on the Beach Boys original in my humble opinion takes the song to another level. This version never fails to move me and in common with most cover versions of this song, Bruce Johnston became part of the impeccable background vocals you hear.

Arguably the best version of the song and one I'm sure BJ must be very proud of.

Great insight.  Covers are a new evolution of an old favorite tune, with respect going to all previous artists who recorded the tune, especially the original composer and singer.

@william blanc Exactly William. Any decision to record a cover is obviously out of regard and respect for the song and not about one-upman-ship. Garfunkel based his version on the Beach Boys arrangement presumably believing it to be the right respectful treatment of the song. However it is still quite different as well. Vocally it is similar but it is the brilliant orchestral arrangement that adds a new dimension to the song. If you listen to Bruce Johnston's 1977 recording on his own album 'Going Public' it couldn't be more minimalist and it is how he has performed it many times on his own.

The only exception I would make is where a note for note remake (including the music arrangement) has been recorded. Then I struggle to see a point to it in exactly the same way as a shot for shot remake of a classic film.

@Martin Cohen It's a masterpiece to me and my favorite interpretation of the song though I think I might have added more "ahhs and harmony" that I love from the Beach boys Pet sounds (so lush) but oddly enough was not included in their own version. My guess is they wanted to keep it heartbreakingly simple (sought of like Don Mclean's And I love you so which makes me cry every time). This version can bring me to tears also because of the nostalgia effect - everyone remembers the day they feel like shouting to the world or the people closest to them "I'm in love with a girl I found" (or in my case my college sweetheart who I married). It gets to the heart of what it is to be young and lucky enough to find the right person. Which leads me to the Carpenters "we've only just begun" - dear God Karen's vocals (may she rest in peace) - another gorgeous heartbreakingly clear and simple song which strikes your heart square in the center. I love music :)

lucy rosevelt I heard that Paul Williams performed a version of Disney girls in the 1980 musketeers reunion special
I wish I can hear it

Last summer at a Beach Boys concert I ran into Bruce Johnston back stage and I had to tell him what a magnificent song this is. He was very gracious. Burton Cummings of the Guess Who also told him how much he loved it. It's just a wonderful song...thank you Bruce....:)

Simply beautiful. But I prefer the Bruce Johnston version.

@yolojcl1 I never heard the Johnston version so I am happy to hear this version. Besides I love anything by Art.

@Adam Miller if it is a tribute, it's a nice one, but indeed, the original version has that extra laid back feel... In fact, the Garfunkel version does not really add that much, and is beaten with some noses length by the Beach Boys.

yolojcl1 this version is different listen to The Beach Boys version u will notice that they harmonize really well on this song if u don’t have the harmonies it don’t sound good like this version

@yolojcl1 Beautiful songs need to be covered.

I prefer this because of Arts voice and the production, the backing singers and strings.

I like this more than original! 

Better than Bruce Johnston!!! Wooo!! Totally amazing!! There is NO voice like Artie's. What a girft!  Brilliant version.

Best version out there

Grafrey listen to The Beach Boys version then there is harmonies going on come to the A cappella part

@simplemanplan I have.. Second favorite version.. Harmonies to die for.

And to think...this guy smoked for 50 years....sheesh. I personally believe there would be NO Josh Grobin if not for Art....

one of the sweetest voices ever - love this version - thanks for uploading

This is something special

Can't help but miss you Mary .. Even sadder at the fact your prescription abuse & drinking ruined our relationship. I will miss you forever. What could have been, you ruined. Thanks for ruining my life.

Cass Elliot does a gorgeous version of this, too! Toni Tennille (Captain & ...) does background vocals on Art Garfunkel's version, as does author, Bruce Johnston.

And we lost the SWEETEST Disney Girl today---April 8, 2013. R.I.P. Annette.

WHAT did I just hear? I have goose bumps all over....God how I miss my younger days....

This is waaaaaay better than Bruce Johnston's voice. I love the Beach Boys and Dennis Wilson, obviously, but Art's vocal can't be matched on this song.

I'll fill your hands with kisses and a tootsie roll!

This song really brings back great memories. I think it was late 1976 or early 77. A really great Art Garfunkel classic.

this is such a sweet sounding song! love it!

Life was rather like this in the 50s and the 60s growing up. Innocent, sweet. Playing jump rope, jacks, tag. Fireworks by the curb. I hope the kids of today have similar memories of their childhood.

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!

Ooooooh love this. His voice is amazing. Thank you Beach Boys too. I love you too xx

Amazing song, has to be a genuine classic and this has to be THE version.

Adore this song. His voice is amazing, The Beach boy wrote it, What a classic

Love this song and love that he sings it. Oh what magic.

I was cleaning house for a man who had a jukebox in his living room and I would randomly play songs and it was the first time I ever heard this song. I fell in love with it instantly!

Wonderful song by one of the true great voices

@LaVraiVerite ha ha, you're right. I forgot about that cork sucker

Some things remain constant. A soft voice and lyrics to match touch our unconscious better sides.

@landyachtfan79 You know, you're right, why be nice! - Those BASTARDS!!

ADD THIS TO YOUR UPLOADS AND KEEP THOSE SONY BASTAGES AWAY!

They removed 'I Only Have Eyes For You'.

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OH such a sweet sweet voice! I love Art and his music soo much!

I Know It's Greta isn't It, That's Just the beuaty of Artie, He Can Sing Great rock, Soft Ballads, Laid Bakc Smooth Grooves And Then Over The Top Sweet Soaring Love sonsg Like "For Emily", which are even better live.

He's An Angel of Pop music.

So True Man.