The album was produced by Reginald Warburton and Stanley West as Columbia/CBS Records LP BPG 62579 in the UK; remastered CD Columbia/Legacy/SME CK 90281.

While Simon was touring and appearing on radio shows in England in 1965 (sometimes with Garfunkel), he began to receive attention from fans.

The lyrics to "The Side of a Hill" were later reworked by Garfunkel[citation needed] as "Canticle" and sung as counterpoint to "Scarborough Fair" on the duo's third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Simon's 1965 liner notes to the album comment on the songs that "there are some I would not write today", but that they "played a role in the transition" to his position as a musician at that time.

The CD features two bonus tracks, alternative versions of "I Am a Rock" and "A Church Is Burning" which were not part of the 1965 LP release.

The lyrics for the anti-war song "The Side of a Hill" were incorporated into the Simon & Garfunkel arrangement of "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.