Artist: Simon and Garfunkel
Genre(s):
Folk
Rock
Folk: Folk-Rock
Pop
Easy Listening
Rock: Folk-Rock
Discography:
Old Friends: Live On Stage (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
The Definitive Simon and Garfunk
Year: 1991
Tracks: 20
The Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
The Simon And Garfunkel Collection
Year: 1981
Tracks: 17
Greatest Hits
Year: 1972
Tracks: 14
Bridge Over Troubled Water (remastered)
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bookends (Remastered)
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
Bookends
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
The Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds of Silence (remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 12
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Wednesday Morning, 3 Am
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M (Remastered)
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
The Graduate
Year:
Tracks: 14
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel
Year:
Tracks: 33
The to the highest degree successful folk-rock duette of the 1960s, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crafted a series of memorable hit albums and singles featuring their choirboy harmonies, ring acoustic, and electric guitars; and Simon's acute, delicately molded songwriting. The mate constantly inhabited the more than polished end of the folk-rock spectrum, and were sometimes criticized for a certain collegial sterility. Many too feel that Simon, as both a singer and songster, didn't genuinely bloom until he began his own enormously successful solo career in the seventies. But the best of S&G's work can stand among Simon's best material, and the duette did progression musically all over the course of their five-spot albums, moving from basic folk-rock productions into Latin rhythms and gospel-influenced arrangements that foreshadowed Simon's eclectic method on his solo albums.
Paul Simon & Garfunkel's recording history in reality predated their offset mid-'60s hit by most a decade. Childhood friends piece ontogeny up together in Forest Hills, NY, they began making records in 1957, playacting (and often writing their have material) in something of a adolescent Everly Brothers expressive style. Calling themselves Tom & Jerry, their first single, "Hey Schoolgirl," actually made the Top 50, merely a series of follow-ups went nowhere. The duet split up, and Simon continued to shinny to make it in the euphony business as a songster and casual performing artist, sometimes using the name calling of Jerry Landis or Tico & the Triumphs.
By the early '60s, both Simon and Garfunkel were advent under the influence of folk music. When they reteamed, it was as a tribe couple, though Simon's pop roots would serve the act considerably in their material's synthesis of family line and pop influences. Signing to Columbia, they recorded an initially unsuccessful acoustic debut (as Simon & Garfunkel, not Tom & Jerry) in 1964, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. They once more went their separate slipway, Simon moving to England, where he played the kinfolk circuit and recorded an obscure solo album.
The Simon & Garfunkel story might have over at that place, demur for a brainwave of their producer, Tom Wilson (world Health Organization likewise produced various of Bob Dylan's early albums). Folk-rock was pickings off in 1965, and Wilson, world Health Organization had helped Dylan electrify his good, took the strongest track from S&G's debut, "The Sound of Silence," and embellished it with electric guitars, bass, and drums. It got to act one in early 1966, giving the duad the impetus to reunite and make a sober go at a transcription vocation, Simon returning from the U.K. to the U.S. In 1966 and 1967, they were regular visitors to the pop charts with some of the best folk-rock of the era, including "Homeward Bound," "I Am a Rock," and "A Hazy Shade of Winter."
Simon & Garfunkel's early albums were erratic, simply they steadily improved as Simon sharpened his songwriting, and as the couple became more comfortable and adventurous in the studio. Their execution was so clean and tasteful that it price them some hipness points during the psychedelic earned run average, which was a flake wacky. They were far from the raunchiest thing going, just managed to pull off the peachy exploit of appealing to variable segments of the pop and john Rock audience -- and various years groups, not just now limited to adolescents -- without compromising their medicine. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (late 1966) was their first very consistent album; Bookends (1968), which actually blended antecedently released singles with some new real, reflected their ontogenesis maturity. One of its songs, "Mrs. Robinson," became one of the biggest singles of the late '60s afterward it was prominently featured in one of the charles Herbert Best films of the period, The Graduate (which besides had early Simon & Garfunkel songs on the soundtrack).
It was unsurprising, in retrospect, that the duo's partnership began to weaken in the late '60s. They had known each other almost of their lives, and been playacting together for over a decennium. Simon began to find constrained by the limits of working with the same henchman; Garfunkel, world Health Organization wrote virtually none of the material, felt overshadowed by the songwriting talents of Simon, though Garfunkel's high tenor was crucial to their invoke. They started to phonograph record some of their contributions singly in the studio, and hardly played live at all in 1969, as Garfunkel began to pursue an acting career.
Their last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, was an enormous hit, topping the charts for x weeks, and containing foursome score singles (the title course, "The Boxer," "Cecilia," and "El Condor Pasa"). It was certainly their most musically ambitious, with "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and "The Boxer" employing thundering drums and tasteful orchestration, and "Cecilia" marking one of Simon's offset forays into South American rhythms. It as well caught the confused, reflective tenor of the multiplication better than about any other popular release of 1970.
That would be their last album of new material. Although they didn't necessarily mean to break up at the time, the break from recording finally became permanent; as Simon began a solo calling that brought him as a great deal success as the S&G outings, and Garfunkel chased coincidental acting and recording careers. They did reunite in 1975 for a Top Ten single, "My Little Town," and periodically performed unitedly since without ever approaching close to generating albums of new material. A 1981 concert in New York's Central Park attracted half a meg fans, and was commemorated with a live album; they likewise toured in the early '80s, only a aforethought studio album was canceled due to artistic differences.
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