' was issued as a single that summer and found only modest success on AM radio the duo were much more focused on the rising format, which played album tracks and treated their music with respect. They performed three new songs - 'Sparrow', 'He Was My Brother', and ' - and attracted the attention of Columbia producer, an African-American jazz musician who would also become the key architect of 's transition from folk to rock. ![]() ![]() By late 1963, billing themselves as Kane & Garr, they performed at, a Greenwich club that hosted Monday night performances. Simon also wrote and performed demos for other artists, working for a while with and.After graduating in 1963, Simon joined Garfunkel, who was still at Columbia, to perform again as a duo, this time with a shared interest in. Their last recording with Big Records was a cover of a single, 'Baby Talk', but the company went bankrupt soon after release the track was reissued on, but failed to sell, so Tom & Jerry was dissolved.Simon and Garfunkel continued recording as solo artists: Garfunkel composed and recorded 'Private World' for Octavia Records, and-under the name Artie Garr-'Beat Love' for Warwick Simon recorded with and Tico & The Triumphs, and wrote and recorded under the names Jerry Landis and Paul Kane. ![]() ![]() This upset Garfunkel, who regarded it as a betrayal the emotional tension from the incident occasionally surfaced throughout their relationship.
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