This is a quality recording in all aspects. A great selection of songs (all by different songwriters), excellent arrangements, quality studio musicians, and Art is in fine vocal form. The songs run the gamut of emotions, from the exuberance of "Oh How Happy" to the despair of "When Someone Doesn't Want You."

But it is a little known gem that steals the show. Dave Townsend's "Miss You Nights" is one of my all-time favorite songs, and Garfunkel nails it perfectly. After 22 years, it still manages to touch my heart with it's longing and mourning.

This is a must for any Art Garfunkel fan.

This album and Everything Waits to Be Noticed were in a tie for my least favorite Garfunkel album (which isn't saying they're not good, since the others get 5 stars from me), but the reinclusion of Bright Eyes, which originally was only in European pressings, lifted it up a notch.

Some of these songs would have sounded much better had Art sung them in a lower pitch, which he used on the following album, Scissors Cut, and made it sound as serious and classy as the tux he wore in the cover photo.

Sail on a Rainbow is a good example of this; I appreciate it much more when I imagine it being sung in a lower key.

To me, the album's mood changes too abruptly. That which Beyond the Tears creates is shattered 10 seconds into the next one, the chirpy Oh How Happy, which earns the distinction of being my least favorite Garfunkel song, out of the 100 or so I've committed to memory.

In a Little While I'll Be on My Way (so hold on baby, just-a one more da-ay, in a little while I'll be on my waaa-haaaAAAY - to you!) was actually a SINGLE?? I'd really like to see him back in the top 5 again, but sometimes someone needs to take you by the hand and keep you from going down the wrong path - friends don't let friends record mushy songs. Because this record bombed we probably got Scissors Cut, and Roy Halee back as a producer, so in a way this recording may have been a good thing.

But Garfunkel is probably one of my 20 favorite singers, and the rest of the songs here aren't too bad. Bright Eyes was deservedly a number one smash in Britain, and should have been here also. Miss You Nights would have been as good as the Cliff Richard original if he had sung it a bit lower also.

Someone apparently talked him into doing some frothy pop-disco stuff and he listened. He never went wrong with Jimmy Webb and I'm glad he used some of his material on later albums again.

Artie strikes again in 79 with this love it or leave it album. This is my favorite album by Mr. Garfunkel, though it is critically seen as a flop. From the hip (for Art at least) opening song, "In a Little While I'll be on My Way", to the electric guitar riddled "Take Me Away", everything here is done well, though it seems to contradict itself at times. Also present are some of Art's 50's remakes including the classic "Since I Don't Have You" and the lighthearted "Oh how Happy." Though the American album is missing the GREAT "Bright Eyes" Fate for Breakfast will always stay on my turntable. By the way, I'm 20. Strange? Possibly. Also note, the cover photos are wonderful, though a little confusing. We see a quite bald Garfunkel making a mess of dinner and sporting a blacked out tooth. I'm not sure what to think, he always looks so serious and mean. Ah well. I LOVE IT.

I could never have believed Art could top "Emily wherever I May Find Her," However, this entire album is full of to "Love" songs, and he is in top form on each one. Whatever took me so long? I truly enjoy the feeling Art has put into "Since I Don't Have You," but each and every one is a topper, and so hard to choose a favorite. I'll take 'em all and fall in love! Thankyou Art!

I AM RATHER SURPRISED TO READ, ALL THESE YEARS AFTER ITS ORIGINAL RELEASE, THAT THIS ALBUM IS CONSIDERED A FLOP BY SOME PEOPLE. I HAVE HAD AND ENJOYED THIS BEAUTIFUL ALBUM, AS WELL AS , "WATERMARK," (WHICH I CONSIDER HIS BEST) SINCE THEY FIRST TIME THEY APPEARED, " WAY BACK WHEN." WHILE I HAVE MOVED ON TO ELECTRONICA/TRANCE MUSIC SINCE THESE ALBUMS FIRST CAME OUT, THE YEARS HAVE IN NO WAY DIMINISHED THE JOY, THRILL AND WARMTH I STILL FEEL IN LISTENING TO THEM. THESE SONGS STAYED WITH ME THOUGH TIME.