Posted on 10/12/2024 1:42:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff
“Bridge over Troubled Water” is the titular song of Simon & Garfunkel’s album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, which was released in 2008. This song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and reigned at the top chart for six continuous weeks. “Bridge over Troubled Water” also topped the adult contemporary chart in the U.S. for six weeks. The single has sold 6 million copies worldwide
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Today's modern music is crap, flame away.
Rock and roll has been going downhill since Buddy Holly died.
Quantum Leap - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel - streaming off my website
Bridge over Troubled Water has always seemed a little sappy to me.
Ha ha!
When I played Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 for my kids, my son said "so they're sort of an oom-pah band?"
And they put Hal Blaine’s drum kit in font of an elevator shaft to get just the right sound on “The Boxer”. No triggers, no auto tune…just instruments and ears.
Confessing jealousy of Paul Simon right here. May God forgive me.
Sherlock Holmes - Boxer (Holmes (Brett)) - Simon & Garfunkel -
streaming off my website
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/hw/video/Sherlock-Holmes-Boxer-Simon-and-Garfunkel.htm
I happen to think (as of this writing and for the last several years) that Wedding Bell Blues is one of the best written pop songs ever, if not the best. The way the melody carries the lyric is astounding to me.
I also amuse myself wondering if someone dare Laura Nyro [RIP] to write a song about someone named “Bill,” and she went at it head-on.
When a perfect pop song finds the perfect arrangement, and the perfect singer in Marilyn McCoo, it can still give a listener shivers and fascinations decades on.
Oh, I wanted to mention “Mother and Child Reunion.” The other best song evah. Absolutely astounding sentiment delivered in the most unique and gripping fashion.
just close your eyes and listen to the music.
Very clever!
When I heard it as a high school freshman, I thought they recorded it in a prison cell block.
Oh I love that song! Marilyn McCoo is so cute and sincere in it, and Hal Blaine on drums just seems to be having so much fun.
I can never listen to it once. I always re-play it four or five times.
No flames, just sadness. There’s great music happening in this world and if you can’t even be bothered to look that’s you damaging your life. Sucks for you. But, not my problem.
I like those also
I was told that it was somebody putting lit M-80’s into a garbage can but it always seemed a bit too cute for me.
It cut me to the quick anew when I was an estranged dad.
Huh?
Interesting mashup!
After a man hears what he wants to hear, what is left must be the truth...
“Rock and roll has been going downhill since Buddy Holly died.”
Lol - his music is almost as interesting as Lubbock.
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