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Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence [1966] [Album]
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1. The Sound of Silence (3:08)
2. Leaves That Are Green (2:23)
3. Blessed (3:16)
4. Kathy's Song (3:21)
5. Somewhere They Can't Find Me (2:38)
6. Anji (2:17)
7. Richard Corey (2:58)
8. A Most Peculiar Man (2:34)
9. April She Will Come (1:52)
10. We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin' (2:00)
11. I Am a Rock (2:51)
2001 bonus tracks:
12. Blues Run the Game (Bonus Track)
13. Barbriallen (Previously Unreleased)
14. Rose of Aberdeen (Previously Unreleased)
15. Roving Gambler (Previously Unreleased)
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Sounds of Silence is the second album by Simon & 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 Sound of Silence," which originally was released as "The Sounds of Silence".
The song had earlier been released in an acoustic version on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and later on the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate. Without the knowledge of Simon and Garfunkel, electric instruments and drums were overdubbed by
Bob Dylan's studio band on June 15, 1965. This new version was released as a single in September 1965, and opens the album.
"Homeward Bound" was released on the album in the UK, placed at the beginning of Side 2 before "Richard Cory". It was also released as part of the box set Simon & Garfunkel Collected Works, on both LP and CD. Many of the songs in the album had been
written by Paul Simon while he lived in London during 1965.
"I Am a Rock," "Leaves That Are Green," "April Come She Will," "A Most Peculiar Man," and "Kathy's Song" had appeared on The Paul Simon Songbook, released in August 1965 in England as had another version of the title track. "Richard Cory"
was based on a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" was essentially a rewrite of the previous album's "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." and "Anji" was an instrumental piece that Simon had picked up, presumably in
London, from guitarist Davey Graham. Hence the only brand new Paul Simon compositions on the album were "Blessed" and "We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'".
AllMusicGuide review.
Simon & Garfunkel's second album was a radical departure from their first, owing to its being recorded in the wake of "The Sound of Silence," with its overdubbed electric instrument backing, topping the charts.
Paul Simon arrived with a large song-bag, enhanced by his stay in England over the previous year and his exposure to English folk music, and the duo rushed into the studio to come up with ten more songs that would fit into the folk-rock context of
the material came from The Paul Simon Songbook, an album that Simon had recorded for British CBS during his stay in England, some parts of it more radically altered than others.
as confessional pop-poets, sensitive and alienated post-adolescents that endeared them to millions of college students going through what later came to be called an "identity crisis"; and the latter for endearing them to thousands of high-school
English teachers with its adaptation of Edward Arlington Robinson's poem.
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