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Raw video, recorded this afternoon, April 6, 2014, of the first finger picking song I ever learned.
I had a giant crush on a women named Kathy in high school and learned this for her.

After recording some early work as "Tom & Jerry" and after recording "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." in 1954, Paul Simon moved to England to pursue a solo career, touring folk clubs and coffee houses.
At the first club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, he met Kathy Chitty on April 12, 1964 who became his girlfriend and inspiration for "Kathy's Song," "America," and others.

She worked part-time selling tickets at The Hermit Club in Brentwood, Essex.
She was 17, he was 22, and they fell in love.
He and Art were buskers in London, Paris and Copenhagen and she would pass the hat (sailor's cap) and collect the money they made.

Later that year they visited the U.S. together, touring around mainly by bus.
Kathy returned to England on her own with Simon returning to her some weeks later.
When Simon returned to the U.S. with the growing success of "The Sound of Silence", Kathy (who was quite shy) wanted no part of the success and fame that awaited Simon and they split up.
She is mentioned by name in at least two of his songs: "Kathy's Song" and "America," and is referred to in "Homeward Bound" and "The Late Great Johnny Ace."
There is a photo of Simon and Kathy on the cover of The Paul Simon Songbook.

(2014) She now lives in a small, detached three-bedroom house on a quiet cul-de-sac, and catches a bus each day to her job as an administrator for a technical college, where she has worked for 25 years.

But with his initial success, the shy and sensitive Kathy became frightened of the huge attention from fans and returned home from the US in the mid-1960s.

Now living on the outskirts of a remote mountain village in North Wales, her partner Kenneth Harrison, whom she has been with for more than 40 years and had three children, said they moved from Essex to 'escape' in the early 1970s.

'She wasn't very comfortable with it,' he said. 'We're very good friends with Mr Simon and there's never been a rift.'

In fact, Mr Harrison, 67, admits that he knew both Simon and Miss Chitty before they met as a musician on the 1960s folk scene.
'I was there. I was part of that crowd as the second person to meet Paul Simon when he came to Britain in 1963.

'America is the one [hit song] which we'll never escape from because it's a song about America losing its way.'

At 68, Miss Chitty still retains her 5ft4in boyish figure, huge eyes and sensitive features.

Her hair is now grey but still cut in the same bob as when pictured sat on cobblestones playing with toys alongside Simon on his first album, The Paul Simon Song Book, released in 1965.

Ironically, she still has requests for interviews from music biographers across the world about her time with Simon, but all they have received is the sound of silence.

'Kath always was and remains a private person,' added Mr Harrison, a former local journalist, on her behalf. 'She has never spoken publicly about her past and while understanding that there is a huge public interest in this matter, has no intention to do so.'

A friend told the Mail: 'The break-up (with Simon) was very traumatic. It was ultimately a world that didn't do Kathy any favors. She simply couldn't cope with the public attention.'

Each morning Mrs Chitty walks the half mile route to the edge of the quiet Welsh-speaking village to catch the bus in a nearby town to work. Miss Chitty has had the same administrative part-time role at a local technical college for more than 25 years.

She leaves mid-morning and returns late afternoon while greeting neighbors on the way.

Her three children now all live in London.

Neighbors say she is still incredibly shy, but friendly to those she has got to know over the 40 years she has lived in the hamlet.