Bridge over Troubled Water (Album)

Bridge over Troubled Water
Studio album by Simon and Garfunkel
Publication (s)	1970
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Folk rock
Title (number)	11
running time	36 min 29 s
occupation	Paul Simon , Art Garfunkel , Los Incas , Joe Osborn , Larry Knechtel , Fred Carter Jr. , Hal Blaine , Jimmy Haskell , Ernie Freeman
production	Paul Simon, Arthur Garfunkel, Roy Halee
chronology Bookends (1968) Bridge over Troubled Water Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (1972)

Bridge over Troubled Water is the title of an album by the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel from 1970 and a song on it. The fifth album by Simon and Garfunkel is the last joint studio album between the two musicians. In 1971, Simon and Garfunkel won six Grammy Awards in the categories of Album of the Year and Best Sound Mixing, as well as for the song Bridge over Troubled Water in the categories of Best Single of the Year, Best Song of the Year and Best Contemporary Song of the Year . The album was at the top of the Billboard Top 200 charts for ten consecutive weeks from March 7th to May 9th, 1970.

Track list

All songs written by Paul Simon, other authors are indicated.

page 1

1. Bridge over Troubled Water - 4:52
2. El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (English text by Paul Simon. Arrangement of a Peruvian folk melody from the 18th century by Jorge Milchberg) ^∗ - 3:06
3. Cecilia - 2:54
4. Keep the Customer Satisfied - 2:33
5. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright - 3:47

Page 2

1. The Boxer - 5:08
2. Baby Driver - 3:14
3. The Only Living Boy in New York - 3:58
4. Why Don't You Write Me - 2:45
5. Bye Bye Love (live) ( Felice and Boudleaux Bryant ) - 2:55
6. Song for the Asking - 1:49

^∗The true composer Daniel Alomía Robles was featured on later editions .

Released versions

In addition to the first publication on LP , various equipment variants were and are offered on the CD :

• In 1993 Sony Music released two publications on CD as part of the Mastersound series , the recordings being digitally revised using the Super Bit Mapping process (SBM) and a 24-carat gold coating instead of the aluminum layer. There are two versions of this series: a Limited Edition in a storage box that can be opened to the side in an elongated book shape with a glued-in and enlarged booklet and a Collector's Edition in which the CD case is kept in a cardboard slipcase. The front of the slipcase has a semicircular cut-out the size of a CD, through which the gold layer of the sound carrier is visible.
• In the Spiegel Edition - The Vinyl Classics series , the album was also released as a black CD with a vinyl groove look on the label side, the CD case is in a gray cardboard slipcase with a punched window.
• The album is also available in CD boxes with the coupling of one or two other Simon & Garfunkel albums.
• In 2001 the CD was released in a remastered sound with the demo versions of Feuilles-O and Bridge over Troubled Water as bonus tracks.
• In 2011 a 40th Anniversary Edition of the album was released as a double CD. On CD 1 you can find the album in a remastered sound, but without the bonus tracks released in 2001. CD 2 contains the album Live 1969 . A limited edition also includes a bonus DVD with the TV special Songs of America from 1969 as well as a documentary about the creation of the album.

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	500,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	25,000
France (SNEP)	platinum	300,000
Canada (MC)	4 × platinum	400,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	25,000
United States (RIAA)	8 × platinum	8,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	10 × platinum	3,260,000
All in all	2 × gold 25 × platinum	12,560,000

Main article: Simon & Garfunkel / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Bridge over Troubled Water at Allmusic (English)
• Bridge over Troubled Water at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 710
2. ^ Rob Copsey: The UK's biggest studio albums of all time. officialcharts.com, October 13, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .