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Connie Fisher (born 17 June 1983) is a British actress, singer and TV presenter, who won the BBC One talent contest How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. On 15 November 2006, she opened to excellent reviews in the part of Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in the West End, London on a six-month contract, which was extended until 23 February 2008. [1]
Sounds of Silence is the second studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966. 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 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 band's previous album, Sounds of Silence, was a "rush job" produced to capitalize on the success of their first hit single, "The Sound of Silence". [4] The studio time for Parsley caused its budget to increase into an unusual cost for albums at that time—around $30,000 (US$281,723 in 2023 dollars [5]), Simon speculated. [6]
Paula Dorothy Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. [2] After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, she released her first album, Harbinger, which suffered from a lack of promotion when the label, Imago Records, folded shortly after its release.
By January 1966, "The Sound of Silence" had topped the Hot 100, selling over one million copies. [55] Simon reunited with Garfunkel in New York, leaving Chitty and his friends in England behind. CBS demanded a new album to be called Sounds of Silence to ride the wave of the hit. [56]
"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.
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 ...