“All I Know” by Art Garfunkel

"All I Know" is a Jimmy Webb song that Art Garfunkel got to first, cutting it for Angel Clare, his 1973 debut solo album on Columbia. Members of the Wrecking Crew, the L.A. session musicians, supplied the backing, and the arrangement is built like a pair of bookends: a lone piano sets the stage before Garfunkel starts singing, and when the orchestra ebbs away, the piano steps back in and plays melodic lines out to the finish.

It's orchestral pop of the plushest kind, all ache and upholstery, and it paid off. His version remains the best known and the highest charting, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending four weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1973.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.