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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 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.
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
[citation needed] Two songs ("The Sound of Silence" and "He Was My Brother") were re-recordings of songs originally found on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. Of the remaining songs, all but two ("A Church Is Burning" and "The Side of a Hill") would be subsequently re-recorded in studio versions by Simon and Garfunkel.
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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 .
"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 song was covered by Wings during their 1975–1976 Wings Over The World tour (available on the 1976 album Wings Over America). Denny Laine sang lead. In the version released on Wings Over America, during the first chorus line Laine (jokingly) substitutes John Denver's name for Richard Cory's, thus inciting a roar of laughter and applause from the audience.