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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 .
Simon & Garfunkel performing in Dublin, 1982 American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel recorded songs for five studio albums. Consisting of guitarist/singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel, the duo first met as children in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1953, where they first learned to harmonize with one another and began writing original material. By 1957, the teenagers had ...
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
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[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.
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (Live with applause cross-fade into the studio version of "The Sound of Silence") – 1:50 "The Sound of Silence" (Acoustic version with electric overdubs) – 3:11 "I Am a Rock" – 2:53 "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Traditional; arranged by Simon, Art Garfunkel) – 3:09
The original name is "The Sound of Silence", then when Bob Wilson reissued the "electric" version, it was renamed "The Sounds of Silence", and as such it was known for many years, till Paul Simon finally got to unify the title in every S&G record, back to the original title. Nazroon 00:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)