Sounds of Silence (album)
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| Studio album by Simon and Garfunkel | |||||
| Released | January 17, 1966 | ||||
| Recorded | March 1964 , June 1965, and December 1965 |
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| Genre | Folk rock | ||||
| Length | 29:09 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Producer | Bob Johnston | ||||
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Sounds of Silence is an album by Simon and 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 Sounds of Silence," which was released previously on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and also on the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate. It was taken from their debut and electric instruments and drums were overdubbed by Bob Dylan's studio band on June 15, 1965 and released in September 1965 as a single. "Homeward Bound" was released on the album in the UK. It was also released as part of the box set Simon & Garfunkel Collected Works, on both LP and CD.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs by Paul Simon, except where noted.
[edit] Side one
- "The Sounds of Silence" – 3:08
Recorded: March 10, 1964 - "Leaves That Are Green" – 2:23
Recorded: December 13, 1965 - "Blessed" – 3:16
Recorded: December 21, 1965 - "Kathy's Song" – 3:21
Recorded: December 21, 1965 - "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" – 2:37
Recorded: April 5, 1965 - "Anji" (Davey Graham) – 2:17
Recorded: December 13, 1965
[edit] Side two
- "Richard Cory" – 2:57
Recorded: December 14, 1965 - "A Most Peculiar Man" – 2:34
Recorded: December 22, 1965 - "April Come She Will" – 1:51
Recorded: December 21, 1965 - "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'" – 2:00
Recorded: April 5, 1965 - "I Am a Rock" – 2:50
Recorded: December 14, 1965
[edit] Bonus tracks (2001 CD reissue)
- "Blues Run The Game" (Jackson C. Frank) – 2:55
Recorded: December 21, 1965 - "Barbriallen" (traditional) – 4:06
Recorded: July 8, 1970 - "Rose of Aberdeen" (traditional) – 2:02
Recorded: July 8, 1970 - "Roving Gambler" (traditional) – 3:03
Recorded: July 8, 1970
[edit] Trivia
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The song "Richard Cory" was based on a poem with the same title by Edwin Arlington Robinson. The chorus, however, is entirely of Simon's composition.
Two songs on the album deal with suicide: "Richard Cory" and "A Most Peculiar Man".
The English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg lifted the opening lines of "Leaves That Are Green" ("I was 21 years when I wrote this song/I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long") for his song "A New England", which appeared on Bragg's 1983 EP Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy and was subsequently a UK hit for Kirsty MacColl.
"Somewhere They Can't Find Me" is essentially a reworking of the title track of the duo's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. It was recorded along with "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'" a few months before producer Tom Wilson dubbed electric instruments on "Sounds of Silence".
There are three cover variations of the LP:
- Original issue: SIMON & GARFUNKEL on one line; SOUNDS OF SILENCE on another, all in capital letters, no song titles on the front.
- Second issue: Enlarged title letters, with only the first letter of the words "Sounds" and "Silence" in the album title capitalized. The first letters in "Simon" and "Garfunkel" are capitalized, but the rest are in lower-case. Song titles also included on the front.
- Third issue: Same front cover as the second, the back cover has the copy of Tiger Beat magazine in Garfunkel's hand airbrushed out.
The title song The Sound of Silence has inspired many songwriters around the world, including Bengali songwriter Kabir Suman. Recently the song has been used in the movie: Watchmen(2009).
[edit] Personnel
- Paul Simon: lead vocals, guitar
- Art Garfunkel: lead vocals
- Glen Campbell: Guitar
- Hal Blaine: Drums
Sounds of Silence was recorded in December 1965 at CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California. The album was produced by Bob Johnston.
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