“Kodachrome” by Paul Simon

"Kodachrome" was the lead single from There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon's third studio album, out on Columbia in 1973, and it takes its name from Kodak's reversal film. Simon wrote it, played guitar and produced it, sharing the production credit with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and the players on it are Barry Beckett on keyboards, Pete Carr and Jimmy Johnson on guitars, David Hood on bass and Roger Hawkins on drums, with Phil Ramone and Jerry Masters engineering.

Billboard's review that May tipped its hat to the song's grumpy, antisocial streak, and the following week it entered the Hot 100 at 82. Onstage, on The Concert in Central Park and his 1991 concert album, Simon flips one word in the song's verdict on black-and-white, and he's admitted he can't recall which way he wrote it in the first place.

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