Mother and Child Reunion "Bridge over Troubled Water"—to sound like a Jamaican song, but felt it ended up sounding like a "bad imitation." Simon was instructed by the musicians on the differences among reggae, ska, and bluebeat. He felt awkward at first because he was "the only white guy there and I was American." Simon later overdubbed piano and vocals to the track back in New York. Mother and Child Reunion "Mother and Child Reunion" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his second self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records. It was released as
Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) created in 1979. The preceding series, "Degrassi High", ended in 1991, although a television movie, "School's Out", aired in 1992 and wrapped up the storylines of the characters. "Mother and Child Reunion" reunited some of those characters in a ten-year high school reunion, while also introducing a new generation of Degrassi Community School students: Emma Nelson, , J.T. Yorke and Toby Isaacs. The episode received mixed reviews from the mass media, with the "Ottawa Citizen" saying that it offers "nothing new to viewers familiar with the groundbreaking preceding series", and "The Seattle Times" saying it "soft-pedals through the issues", although