BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM 1965, ONE OF MY FAVS WRITTEN BY PAUL SIMON AND SUNG BY SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, QUINTESSENTIAL NEW YORKERS... Garfunkel was student at Columbia University, when I was a student there. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence LYRICS https://youtube/watch?v=dTCNwgzM2rQ Live in Central Park, 1981. Hello darkness, my old friend Ive come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted In my brain still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of A neon light that split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share and no one dared Disturb the sound of silence Fools said I, you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon God they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the signs said, The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of silence Songwriters SIMON, PAUL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence The Sound of Silence is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their debut studio album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964). The song was written by Paul Simon over the period of several months between 1963–1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City. The album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Simon returning to England and Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University. In spring 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston and Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the songs producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instrumentation with the same musicians who backed Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the songs remix until after its release. The single was released in September 1965 and immediately began climbing the charts. The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1965, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which CBS titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the songs success. The song was a top ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically important in 2013.
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