[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: NEW YEARS RETROSPECTIVE

#1 ON JANUARY 1, 1966

An enterprising producer at Columbia took the original acoustic version of this tune and re-mixed it with a folk-rock bed. Paul Simon was horrified, but it was the beginning of a great career.

This was the year that Lyndon Johnson ramped up the war in Vietnam and the country took a right turn in the congressional elections.

Simon & Garfunkel: "The Sounds of Silence"

[Fiji Hill]

Simon & Garfunkel "The Sounds of Silence"

That song makes no sense whatsoever. Si & Gar, you need to go back to Hey, Schoolgirl