Sounds of Silence

This article describes the music album. For further works see Sound of Silence .

Sounds of Silence
Studio album by Simon & Garfunkel
Publication (s)	1966
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Folk rock
Title (number)	11
running time	29 min. 09 sec.
occupation	Paul Simon: guitar , vocals Art Garfunkel: Singing Hal Blaine : drums Glen Campbell : guitar
production	Bob Johnston , Tom Wilson
Studio (s)	CBS Studios in Nashville and Los Angeles
chronology Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1965) Sounds of Silence Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)

Sounds of Silence is a music album by the American folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel . It was released in the United States on January 17, 1966. In the US, it rose to number 21 on the Billboard 200 and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 143 weeks.

history

After the release of her first album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM , Art Garfunkel had resumed his architecture studies and Paul Simon was in the UK for a year on business; The Paul Simon Songbook, recorded for the BBC , dates from this period . Producer Tom Wilson , who had already produced the first album, recognized the looming success of folk music. In the absence of Simon and Garfunkel, with the help of studio musicians, he provided the piece The Sounds of Silence, which had already been recorded for the first album, with electric guitar , bass and drums . This version was released and quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 .

Simon and Garfunkel returned to the studio to record a new album under the direction of Bob Johnston . Johnston had now replaced Wilson, who had retired after producing Bob Dylan's song Like a Rolling Stone . In addition to the two tracks Somewhere They Can't Find Me and We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin ' , which were recorded with Tom Wilson on April 5, 1965, all other tracks were recorded in December 1965. The recordings used are from December 13th, 14th and 21st.

Track list

All titles except Angie (also written Anji in later editions ) are by Paul Simon.

page 1

1. The Sounds of Silence - 3:02
2. Leaves That Are Green - 2:21
3. Blessed - 3:14
4. Kathy's Song - 3:16
5. Somewhere They Can't Find Me - 2:34
6. Angie ( Davey Graham ) * - 2:15

Page 2

1. Richard Cory - 2:57
2. A Most Peculiar Man - 2:29
3. April Come She Will - 1:49
4. We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin ' - 1:55
5. I Am a Rock - 2:50

* Erroneously attributed to Bert Jansch on the label of the first issues

On the version released in Great Britain, the piece Homeward Bound was also represented.

Bonus title

The following bonus tracks can be found on the new edition of the album in the box The Columbia Studio Recordings 1964–1970:

1. Blues Run the Game - 2:55
2. Barbriallen - 4:06
3. Rose of Aberdeen - 2:02
4. Roving Gambler - 3:03

The play Blues Run the Game was written by Jackson C. Frank ; the other three titles are modified traditionals .

Others

• In contrast to the later albums, Sounds of Silence does not yet contain full text prints; for most of the titles only individual stanzas are reproduced. The two exceptions are Angie with the note: "Written by Davy Graham, one of England's finest jazz / blues guitarists." and We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin ' with the note: "Just for fun."
• The track Somewhere They Can't Find Me is a mixture of two other tracks: the music comes from Davey Grahams Angi , the lyrics come - except for the chorus - from the song Wednesday Morning, 3 AM , which was released on the album of the same name .
• The piece Richard Cory is based on the poem of the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson .
• The introduction to this version of The Sounds of Silence was mixed in two years later in the title Save the Life of My Child (from the album Bookends ).

Cover versions

The following new recordings ( cover versions ) have been released over the years:

• The Sounds of Silence
  • The Bachelors (1966)
  • Los Mustang (1966), published in Spanish as El Ritmo Del Silencio on the EP Submarino Amarillo , released in 1966 .
  • The Ventures (1970)
  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad (later ABBA singer ; Swedish: En ton av tystnad, 1971)
  • Emilíana Torrini (1996)
  • The Bates (1998)
  • Gregorian (1999)
  • Atrocity (2000)
  • Nevermore (2000)
  • Michelle Darkness (2007)
  • Brooke Fraser (2007)
  • Pat Metheny (2011)
  • Behnam Moghaddam (within the TV casting show The Voice of Germany , 2012)
  • Disturbed (2015)
• Richard Cory
  • Them feat. Van Morrison (1969)
  • Wings (1976 on the album Wings over America )
• Blessed
  • The Tremeloes (1966)
• I am a rock
  • The Hollies (1966)
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (1997)

Versions in other languages:

• Gérard Lenorman: Chanson d'innocence
• Bernd Clüver: The room of silence

Web links

• Sounds of Silence at Allmusic (English)
• Sounds of Silence at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bud Scappa: Liner Notes to Simon and Garfunkel: The Columbia Studio Recordings, 1964-1970, p. 22
2. ↑ Simon and Garfunkel: The Columbia Studio Recordings, 1964-1970; P. 20 (credits to The Sounds of Silence )
3. ^ Cover of the album Sounds of Silence , Columbia Records CS 9269
4. ↑ Los Mustang - Submarino Amarillo at www.discogs.com
5. ↑ Coverinfo.de (accessed on April 21, 2007)