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Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.
Simon & Garfunkel, an American singer-songwriter duo, has released five studio albums, fifteen compilation albums, four live albums, one extended play, twenty-six singles, one soundtrack, and four box sets since 1964.
Background. Origin and original recording. Paul Simon, the song's composer, c. 1966. Simon and Garfunkel had become interested in folk music and the growing counterculture movement separately in the early 1960s.
Today marks 55 years since the 1968 release of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends. The album’s hit single, “Mrs. Robinson,” was the first song of the rock and roll genre to receive the GRAMMY for Record of the Year.
Biography. During the early-’60s era of earnest faux-folkiness, Simon & Garfunkel seemed at first to be utterly typical. Like so many other harmony-enthralled youngsters, they’d cut their teeth on the Everly Brothers, they knew the Great Traditional Songbook as well as the next folk group, and they were driven by the same strivings as the ...
May 28, 2024 · Simon and Garfunkel, American musical duo, consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, who achieved iconic status in the 1960s by wedding Everly Brothers-styled harmonies to themes of urban alienation and self-examination, which both matched and mirrored contemporary society’s changes.
Jul 10, 2020 · Simon and Garfunkel were one of the leading lights in the '60s folk-rock movement, and although they only recorded music for a handful of years, their legacy has lived on for decades. From their plaintive folk ballads to their gospel anthems, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel created some of the finest songs of the 20th century.
About Simon & Garfunkel. Originally inspired by the Everly Brothers, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel met at grade school in Forest Hills, Queens during a production of Alice In Wonderland and began...
From the folk-rock explosion of the 1960s, Simon & Garfunkel quickly rose to the top of the charts with a winning combination of catchy, lyrically articulate songs and rich vocal harmonies.
Dec 4, 2020 · Play all. The Sound of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Homeward Bound, The Boxer, Bridge Over Troubled Water, + more beloved songs from one of the greatest folk duos of all time.
