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Simon & Garfunkel -The Sound of Silence (Original from 1964)

submitted by Janine V.

(Lilithia)
1 decade 1 month 2 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

This is the original version from 1964 from the album "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM." Just Simon's guitar and the vocals. The famous version was released in 1966. After "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" flopped, they split up. Without either their knowledge, electric guitars and drums were added and that version of The Sound of Silence became very popular, reaching #1 on the charts in America on New Years Day, 1966. Because of this, Simon and Garfunkel teamed up again and created three more studio albums, one of which one a Grammy award for album of the year and song of the year (Bridge Over Troubled Water).

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lurgee.

For some odd reason, since last week I can't listen to the line "Hello darkness my old friend" without thinking of Mitch McConnell...

sixshot says...

Sometimes the original or just the acoustics are enough to make a song good. Is this version commercially available somewhere? I'm part of the sad people who only recognize and know the popular one. And hearing the original is just as good as hearing the edited version.

Here:

http://www.amazon.com/Wednesday-Morning-A-M-Simon-Garfunkel/dp/B00160ANTG/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018Q4G5A/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk6

(it's also available on international Amazon sites)

Sometimes the original or just the acoustics are enough to make a song good. Is this version commercially available somewhere? I'm part of the sad people who only recognize and know the popular one. And hearing the original is just as good as hearing the edited version.

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Simon & Garfunkel: The Sound of Silence (Live) has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

ant

*dead -- "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that."

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by ant.

BSR

I guess this is where I come in.

- declared dead by ant.

Mordhaus has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because Mordhaus's points are already fully charged.

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