Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel

• 1 Bridge over Troubled Water 04:53
• 2 El Condor Pasa / If I Could 03:06
• 3 Cecilia 02:55
• 4 Keep the Customer Satisfied 02:35
• 5 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 03:41
• 6 The Boxer 05:07
• 7 Baby Driver 03:15
• 8 The Only Living Boy in New York 03:58
• 9 Why Don't You Write Me 02:46
• 10 Bye Bye Love 02:44
• 11 Song for the Asking 01:49
• Total Runtime 36:49

Info for Bridge Over Troubled Water

„Bridge Over Troubled Water was one of the biggest-selling albums of its decade, and it hasn't fallen too far down on the list in years since. Apart from the gospel-flavored title track, which took some evolution to get to what it finally became, however, much of Bridge Over Troubled Water also constitutes a stepping back from the music that Simon & Garfunkel had made on Bookends -- this was mostly because the creative partnership that had formed the body and the motivation for the duo's four prior albums literally consumed itself in the making of Bridge Over Troubled Water. The overall effect was perhaps the most delicately textured album to close out the 1960s from any major rock act. Bridge Over Troubled Water, at its most ambitious and bold, on its title track, was a quietly reassuring album; at other times, it was personal yet soothing; and at other times, it was just plain fun. The public in 1970 -- a very unsettled time politically, socially, and culturally -- embraced it; and whatever mood they captured, the songs matched the standard of craftsmanship that had been established on the duo's two prior albums. Between the record's overall quality and its four hits, the album held the number one position for two and a half months and spent years on the charts, racking up sales in excess of five million copies. The irony was that for all of the record's and the music's appeal, the duo's partnership ended in the course of creating and completing the album.“ (Bruce Eder)

Ranked #51 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' - '...The partnership at its best...' (Rolling Stone)

'...An album about the end--a casually ambitious look back at an expiring musical partnership (Simon and Garfunkel) and decade (the Sixties)...' (Rolling Stone)

Paul Simon, vocals, guitar
Art Garfunkel, vocals
Los Incas, Peruvian instruments
Joe Osborn, bass
Larry Knechtel, piano
Fred Carter, Jr., guitar
Peter Drake, Dobro, pedal steel guitar
Hal Blaine, drums
Jimmie Haskell, strings
Ernie Freeman, strings
Jon Faddis, brass
Randy Brecker, brass
Lew Soloff, brass
Alan Rubin, brass

Recorded from November 1968 – November 1969
Engineer and co-producer by Roy Halee
Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roy Halee

Digitally remastered

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