Here’s a little album from the legendary American Folk Duet Simon & Garfunkel, who were quite famous throughout the 1960’s. This album features 25 of the pairs greatest hits as the name suggests. Hope you enjoy!
Simon & Garfunkel – The 25 Songs
Tracks;
1. Sound of Silence
2. Homeward Bound
3. Kathy’s Song
4. Most Peculiar Man
5. I am a Rock
6. Somewhere they cant find me
7. Leaves that are Green
8. Wednesday Morning 3 AM
9. Bleecker Street
10. Patterns
11. Angie
12. Richard Corey
13. We’ve got a groovy thing goin
14. April come she will
15. Cloudy
16.Benedictus
17. A poem on the Underground Wall
18. He was my Brother
19. The Times They are a Changin
20. Flowers Never bend in the Rainfall
21. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
22. The Dangling Conversation
23. Last Night I had the Strangest Dream
24. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
25. Go tell it on the mountain
Who were Simon & Garfunkel?
Simon and Garfunkel were a famous American Folk duet from the 1960’s. They were famous for their hits ‘Mrs Robinson’, ‘The Sound of Silence’ and ‘The Boxer’ among others. The duet was made up of singer and songwriter Paul Simon and Singer-Songwriter and future actor Art Garfunkel.
They first met at the Elementary School in Queens, New York that they both attended in 1953. The pair formed a duet called Tom & Jerry and had a minor hit with “Hey Schoolgirl” in 1957, a song about worshipping their Idols, The Everly Brothers. However, after a few years they decided to take their musical career more serious and in 1963, they signed with Columbia records using their own names Simon & Garfunkel. The Duet released their debut album Wednesday Morning 3AM in October 1963 but it was a bit of a flop.
After their album had poor sales, Simon went back to Solo singing. However, when their song The Sound of Silence hit Number One in the US Billboard Chart in 1966, the pair reformed and cut their second album, The Sounds of Silence. This was followed by a nationwide tour. They released their Third album Parsley, Sage , Rosemary & Thyme that same year and their music was featured in the Mike Nichols movie The Graduate featuring Dustin Hoffman the very next year.
In 1968 the duet had another Two big releases. Firstly, a soundtrack to the Movie and Secondly, their Fourth album “Bookends”. This featured their Number One hit Mrs Robinson. They released their Fifth and final album Bridge Over Troubled Water around the time of their break up in 1970.
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