Fate for Breakfast is the fourth solo album by Art Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...

 released in March 1979 on Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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. It was his first album to miss the US Billboard Top 40 and his first album containing no US Top 40 singles. However, the European release of the album does include a different version of the song "Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)

"Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt, and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1978 film Watership Down and as such is considered the theme song of the film and the later television series adaptations. The track also appears on Garfunkel's fourth studio album,...

", which was featured in the film version of the novel Watership Down

Watership Down (film)

Watership Down is a 1978 English adventure drama animated film written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the book by Richard Adams. It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions...

, and reached the number-one spot in the UK, and became the biggest selling single of 1979 there. Likewise, the album itself garnered international success, reaching the top-ten in some European countries.

Track listing

1. "In a Little While (I'll Be on My Way)" (Dennis Belfield) – 3:27
2. "Since I Don't Have You
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   " (Joseph Rock, Jimmy Beaumont, Lenny Martin) – 3:39
3. "And I Know" (David Batteau
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   , Michael Sembello
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   ) – 3:40
4. "Sail on a Rainbow" (Stephen Bishop
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   ) – 3:45
5. "Miss You Nights
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   " (Dave Townsend) – 3:47
6. "Bright Eyes
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   "Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt, and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1978 film Watership Down and as such is considered the theme song of the film and the later television series adaptations. The track also appears on Garfunkel's fourth studio album,...
   
   " (Mike Batt
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   ) – 4:00 — (Not included on US album release)
7. "Finally Found a Reason" (Craig Bickhardt, David Batteau, Micheal Sembello, Rick Bell) – 2:41
8. "Beyond the Tears" (Jeffrey Comanor, Robert Gundry) – 3:53
9. "Oh How Happy" (Charles Hatcher
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   ) – 2:41
10. "When Someone Doesn't Want You" (Jeffrey Staton) – 3:34
11. "Take Me Away" (Grant Gullickson, Lance Gullickson) – 4:04

Personnel

• Art Garfunkel - vocals, harmony vocals
• Penny Nichols - background vocals
• Stephen Bishop
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   - guitar, background vocals
• Michael Brecker
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   - tenor saxophone
• Rob Mounsey
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   - synthesizer, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Oberheim
• Tom Scott
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   - tenor saxophone
• Chris Spedding
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   - guitar
• Leah Kunkel - background vocals
• Gene Page
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   - arranger
• Simon Phillips
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   - drums
• Louie Shelton - electric guitar
• Billy Alessi - background vocals
• Bobby Alessi - background vocals
• Maxine Anderson - background vocals
• Michael Baird - drums
• Dennis Belfield - bass
• Errol "Crusher" Bennett - percussion
• Ray Cooper
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   - percussion
• Carolyn Dennis
  Carolyn Dennis
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   - background vocals
• Alan Estes - percussion
• Lyle Forman - percussion
• Steve Gadd
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   - drums
• Jim Gilstrap - background vocals
• Roland Harker - guitar
• DeLisle Harper - bass
• Lyle Harper - bass
• Les Hurdle - bass
• Neil Jason - bass
• Neil Johnson - bass
• Larry Knechtel
  Larry Knechtel
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   - piano
• Hugh McCracken
  Hugh McCracken
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   - electric guitar
• Roy J. Morgan - drums
• Del Newman - string arrangement
• Lee Ritenour
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   - electric guitar
• Larry Rolando - acoustic & electric guitar
• Edwin Roxburgh - bass
• Jeffrey Staton - acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Richard Tee
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   - electric piano
• Richie Zito
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   - electric guitar

Chart positions

Chart (1979)	Position
Australian Kent Music Report Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	3
Austrian Albums Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	24
Canadian RPM Albums Chart RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...	66
Dutch Mega Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	1
New Zealand Albums Chart	1
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	9
Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	7
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	2
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	67
West German Media Control Albums Chart	6

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)	Position
Australian Albums Chart	24
UK Albums Chart	31

Certifications