Bridge Over Troubled Water: Simon & Garfunkel
All of today’s music is from 1970. I was in Ghana. I missed most of it, but I was sent Bridge Over Trouble Water, and I brought Joni’s Clouds with me. The list is from today’s Parade Magazine.
In 1970, after producing so much wonderful music, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles and CSN&Y broke up.
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August 2, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Sadly that those groups broke up. However, I can’t think of one Simon and Garfunkel song I don’t like. Thanks for this one.
August 2, 2020 at 6:19 pm
I’m with you, Bob. Their first album was a mixture of new and old. They sang some traditional folk, some new Simon written folk and even a Dylan. I even liked all of these.
August 2, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Is this the most over rated bland song of all time ? Sail on silver girl…yawn, I will lay me down, I don’t care.
Of course the album sold in gobs, and I don’t own it.
Meanwhile, I received the new version of Bobbie Gentry’s “The Delta Sweete” which has been remastered and issued in both stereo and mono form. It is super playable and begs the question why did Gentry just quit and head for seclusion
Richard and Linda Thompson have announced a retrospective Boxset with all their albums including bonus tracks before their very Acrimonious divorce. “Hard Luck Stories” is significantly cheaper to buy and ship from amazon.co.uk than from the US store.
The best albums of 1970 ? ZepIII, Live at Leeds, Moondance, Morrison Hotel, Layla and Other assorted love songs…of course at that time I had no money to buy albums but that would change when I became a reluctant clerk in 1973
August 2, 2020 at 6:30 pm
My Dear Hedley, the blasphemer
This album won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971, with its album also winning several awards in the same year. Take that!
I haven’t ever been a fan of Bobbie Gentry’s. Her Ode to Billie Joe is such a “lively” song with a suicide and something thrown off the bridge. She is worth about 100 million so early retirement worked out!
I never did catch up with all the music released during the two years I was in Ghana. I would have no idea of the best album.
August 2, 2020 at 9:24 pm
For once Hedley and I agree. I’m not a big fan of BOTW either. Not sure what it is exactly except maybe that it sort of feels like it was computer-generated to include all the parts of other songs the public enjoyed (of course, this was before computers did that sort of thing). I’ll take ‘So Long Frank Lloyd Wright’ or “The Only Living Boy In New York City’ over BOTW any day. The rest of the album did nothing for me. My best of ’70 list would definitely include “Moondance” (it’s in my top 5 of all time and was the first album I ever upgraded to CD). I’ll add Cat Stevens’ “Tea For The Tillerman” and George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass.” All three of those are head and shoulders above BOTW in my (always humble) opinion.
August 2, 2020 at 10:35 pm
im6,
You and I agree about Tea for the Tillerman. I still have it in vinyl.
I found Simon and Garfunkel in 1965 or 6. Before them, I was already heavy in folk music like found Dylan, PP&M, Mariam Makeba and so many more. S&G were a new folk sound, a different sort. I was an immediate fan. I don’t like all their songs, but I do love their sound.