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"The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a song by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon. The duo's studio audition of the song led to a record deal with Columbia Records, and the original acoustic version was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia's 7th Avenue Recording Studios in New York City for their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M ...
The album's title is a slight modification of the title of the duo's first major hit, "The Sound of Silence", which originally was released as "The Sounds of Silence". [2] The song had earlier been released in an acoustic version on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and later on the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate.
Sounds of Silence, a 1966 album by Simon & Garfunkel; The Sound of Silence, 1968 album by Carmen McRae; 4′33″, a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage, also known as The Sounds of Silence "Sound of Silence" (Dami Im song), Australia's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
"Kathy's Song" is a song originally by Paul Simon from his 1965 debut album The Paul Simon Songbook. [1] It was re-recorded for Simon & Garfunkel 's second album Sounds of Silence , released in 1966.
The overdubbed version of the eponymous single was released on their second studio album, Sounds of Silence, released on January 17, 1966. [3] It peaked at twenty-one on the Billboard charts and at thirty in the UK Album Charts, and later received a three-times multi-platinum certification by the RIAA.
In 1965, an edited version of "The Sound of Silence", became a US AM radio hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. They released their second album, Sounds of Silence, in 1966, and toured colleges nationwide.
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Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. was re-released in January 1966 (to capitalize on their newly found radio success because of the overdubbing of the song "The Sound of Silence" in June 1965, adding electric guitars, bass guitar and a drum kit, which was done under the direction of producer Tom Wilson without the duo's knowledge), and reached No. 30 on ...