SONY - Please Remaster and re-release this brilliant record. By far the best of Art's mostly mediocre solo output. The production and the songwriting - ah, yes - the sublime songwriting by Jimmy Webb - at the top of his game - is fantastic. Art perfectly capture's Jimmy's angst- ridden lyrics and his voice is never better. This a stone classic that has never aged. I'd love to hear it using the best of today's mastering technolgy. Sony - I can guarentee you one sale right here.

Jimmy Webb is a fine songwriter.
Art Garfunkel is a fine singer.
The time and thought that has gone into this album makes it a truly memorable combination.
Has anyone, even Richard Harris or Webb himself, interpreted these songs better?
Who cares?
They are fine songs and great interpretations.
It is hard to know where to begin with accolades.
Even an early Webb song like 'Marionette' or 'All my love's laughter' shine like a diamond in this collection.
Listen to songs like 'Shine it on me' or the deceptively simple 'Someone else' to know that you are in the presence of someone who knows everything there is to know about the human condition and can express it so well in the confines of a 3 minute song.
Great songs, thoughtfully sung.

Watermark is one of the most intelligent, lovely albums made in the 1970s, a reminder that not all was disco or sappy ballads. Garfunkel joins Linda Ronstadt as one of the great interpreters of Webb's pensive and often demanding songs. Webb was involved in this production and it shows: the arrangements are classy and never intrusive. The CD's best cuts include the first song, "Crying In My Sleep," with wonderful wordplay (watch Webb toy with the various meanings of "ran" in one of the verses), the Celtic "All My Love's Laughter" (with a little musical help from the Chieftains), and "Mr. Shuck and Jive" with its jazzy arrangement and embittered lyric. The title track features haunting imagery (Webb is an imagist like Dylan and Joni Mitchell--he tends to think in pictures), and there's a surreal quality to the arrangement on "Wooden Planes," a great song best done by B.J. Thomas.

The original album was to have been released with the Jimmy Webb song Fingerpaint, but when its first single, Crying in My Sleep, didn't chart, Garfunkel hurriedly recorded What a Wonderful World, with the star power of James Taylor and Paul Simon, to kick off the new album. And Fingerpaint fell by the wayside, only to exist in the Dutch release, and maybe only for the first couple of months of the album's life there. Well, shoot, the Jimmy Webb songs here are awesome, and I'm sure his Fingerpaint is also, but when will we ever get to hear it? These days, CD rereleases always have extras tacked on, like obscure b-sides, and so forth. Columbia missed a great opportunity here. Same with the rerelease of Scissors Cut - why doesn't this include The Romance, as the European versions did, or Is This Love, which was the b-side of A Heart in New York?

This is without question Arts finest work. Along with Jimmy Webb they created one of the best Albums ever! I have spent many a saturday afternoon listening to this album and sipping Jack Daniels with my frind Gary. Thanks Art and Jimmy.