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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 ...
The album has proven a long and durable seller, currently being certified for 14 million units sold in the U.S. alone. It is easily their best-selling album in the U.S., and holds the record in the U.S. for the best-selling album by a duo. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The Best of Simon and Garfunkel is the fifth compilation album of greatest hits by Simon & Garfunkel, released by Columbia Records in 1999, containing 20 tracks. Shortly after its release, this album was revised and re-issued as an expanded 2-CD version: “ Tales from New York: The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel ”.
Bookends is the fourth studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records.
Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 26, 1970, by Columbia Records.Following the duo's soundtrack for The Graduate, Art Garfunkel took an acting role in the film Catch-22, while Paul Simon worked on the songs, writing all tracks except Felice and Boudleaux Bryant's "Bye Bye Love" (previously a hit for ...
Simon and Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York City, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize and Simon began writing songs. As teenagers, under the name Tom & Jerry, they had minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl" (1957), a song imitating their idols, the Everly Brothers .
Two full songs from the Bookends album are included as one track: "Old Friends" segues into the “Bookends Theme ”, as it does on Bookends and the B-side of the “Mrs. Robinson” single. This is in contrast to the "clean" version of " Bookends " (without the segued string from " Old Friends ") which was featured on Simon and Garfunkel's ...
The Independent ranked "Kathy's Song" 18th among Simon & Garfunkel's 20 greatest songs, [3] while Ultimate Classic Rock ranks it 10th and describes it as "uncomplicated" yet "Simon's prettiest song and one of the most gorgeous songs ever written". [7] Gold Radio UK ranks it 12th. [8]