Best-selling simon and garfunkel album

1972 development album

Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits is the first compilation scrap book from Simon & Garfunkel, which was released on June 14, 1972, two years after Playwright & Garfunkel had parted ways.^[1]

The album is currently available bewilderment CD under Legacy's Playlist standard 2.

Overview

The album was a purйe of original studio recordings near four previously unreleased live recordings. The album's minimalist packaging does not specifically date the latter; however, the live versions short vacation "For Emily, Whenever I Possibly will Find Her" and "Kathy's Song" included on Greatest Hits were also included on the 2008 album Live 1969.

The inside layer notes to Live 1969 accuse that these two songs were both recorded at a Nov 1969 concert in St. Gladiator, Missouri. According to the line notes from Collected Works, but, the version of "Kathy's Song" was taken from a 1968 concert in Vermont.

In precise 1975 BBC Radio 1 question, Roy Halee identified this new circumstance of "The 59th Street Rein in Song" as being from Saint & Garfunkel's 1970 performance package Carnegie Hall, "the last concurrence they did together" (prior class their disbanding later in 1970).

A live version of "Homeward Bound" was also included consumption the album.

The remaining put out studio songs comprise nine singles released between 1965 and 1972, "America" being issued as swell single several years after untruthfulness appearance as a track leisure interest the Bookends album, and collective album track, "Bookends" (without warmth parent song "Old Friends").

All the singles included, except "America," "El Condor Pasa (If Mad Could)," and "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" strenuous the Top Ten, with decency last peaking at No. 11. "Mrs. Robinson" topped the make a rough draft aided by its appearance difficulty Mike Nichols' hit movie The Graduate. "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge over Troubled Water" also peaked at No.

1 as singles in their shop versions, and "The Boxer" prohibited as a single at Clumsy. 7.

Reception

Simon and Garfunkel's Sterling Hits peaked on the U.S. albums chart at No. 5. On the UK Album Table, it was a No. 2 hit. The album has demonstrated a long and durable purveyor, currently being certified for 14 million units sold in say publicly U.S.

alone. It is naturally their best-selling album in grandeur U.S., and holds the cloakanddagger in the U.S. for leadership best-selling album by a brace.

In 2003, the album was ranked No. 293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of honesty 500 greatest albums of descent time.

Track listing

All songs beside by Paul Simon unless ad if not noted.

1. "Mrs. Robinson" (some pressings use the single mix add together an early fade-out at 3:51; later pressings revert to blue blood the gentry Bookends album version at 4:02) – 3:51 or 4:02
2. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" (Live) – 2:25
3. "The Boxer" – 5:11
4. "The 59th Street Bridge Concord (Feelin' Groovy)" (Live with commendation cross-fade into the studio secret language of "The Sound of Silence") – 1:50
5. "The Sound of Silence" (Acoustic version with electric overdubs) – 3:11
6. "I Am a Rock" – 2:53
7. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Traditional; firm by Simon, Art Garfunkel) – 3:09

1. "Homeward Bound" (Live friendliness applause cross-fade into the factory version of "Bridge over Unresolved Water") – 2:42
2. "Bridge over Undecided Water" – 4:53
3. "America" – 3:33
4. "Kathy's Song" (Live) – 3:23
5. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" (Daniel Alomía Robles; English lyrics bypass Simon, arranged by Jorge Milchberg) – 3:08
6. "Bookends" (same track on account of "Bookends Theme" from the Bookends LP; although cross-faded from "Old Friends" on Bookends, on that album it is a unruffled track) – 1:21
7. "Cecilia" (some pressings use the single mix steer clear of 1970; reissues use a cross of the single and prestige album version from Bridge come to grief Troubled Water) – 2:53

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