The Sound of Silence

"The Sound of Silence"
"The Sound of Silence"
Single by Simon & Garfunkel
from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. and Sounds of Silence
B-side	"We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'"
Released	October 19, 1964 (original acoustic version) September 12, 1965 (overdubbed electric version)
Recorded	March 10, 1964
Studio	Columbia 7th Ave, New York City
Genre	Folk rock
Length	3:05
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Paul Simon
Producer(s)	Tom Wilson
Simon & Garfunkel singles chronology
Audio
	"The Sound of Silence" on YouTube
Alternative release

"The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a 1964 debut single by Simon & Garfunkel and is the leading single from their debut studio album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. It went to number 1 in the United States, Japan and South Africa, number 2 in New Zealand, number 3 in Zimbabwe, Australia and Austria, number 10 in the Netherlands and number 4 in Canada. It was covered by Paul Simon in 1974. In 2015, it was covered by American alternative band Disturbed for their sixth studio album Immortalized. It went to number 42 in the United States, number 4 in Australia, number 29 in the United Kingdom, number 31 in Ireland, number 32 in New Zealand and number 1 in Austria.

References

Notes

↑ Kruth, John (2015). This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul, Fifty Years On. Milwaukee: Backbeat Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-61713-573-6.

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[1] Kruth, John (2015). This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul, Fifty Years On. Milwaukee: Backbeat Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-61713-573-6.

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v t e Simon & Garfunkel singles
Discography List of songs recorded
Sounds of Silence	"The Sound of Silence" / "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'" "I Am a Rock" / "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall"
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme	"Homeward Bound" / "Leaves That Are Green" "The Dangling Conversation" / "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" / "April Come She Will"
Bookends	"A Hazy Shade of Winter" / "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" "At the Zoo" / "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" "Fakin' It" / "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" "Mrs. Robinson" / "Old Friends" / "Bookends"
Bridge over Troubled Water	"The Boxer" / "Baby Driver" "Bridge over Troubled Water" / "Keep the Customer Satisfied" "Cecilia" / "The Only Living Boy in New York" "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)" / "Why Don't You Write Me"
Other singles	"America" "My Little Town" "Wake Up Little Susie"
Other songs	"Richard Cory" "Patterns" "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" "Save the Life of My Child" "Overs" "Punky's Dilemma" "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"
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v t e Paul Simon songs
Discography
The Paul Simon Songbook	"I Am a Rock" "Leaves That Are Green" "April Come She Will" "The Sound of Silence" "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" "Patterns"
Paul Simon	"Mother and Child Reunion" "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" "Duncan"
There Goes Rhymin' Simon	"Kodachrome" "Loves Me Like a Rock" "American Tune" "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" "Something So Right" "St. Judy's Comet"
Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin'	"The Sound of Silence"
Still Crazy After All These Years	"Gone at Last" "My Little Town" "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" "Still Crazy After All These Years"
Greatest Hits, Etc.	"Slip Slidin' Away" "Stranded in a Limousine"
One-Trick Pony	"Late in the Evening" "One-Trick Pony" "Oh, Marion"
Hearts and Bones	"Allergies" "The Late Great Johnny Ace" "Think Too Much"
Graceland	"You Can Call Me Al" "Graceland" "The Boy in the Bubble" "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" "Under African Skies" "Homeless"
The Rhythm of the Saints	"The Obvious Child" "Proof" "Born at the Right Time"
You're the One	"Old" "You're the One"
Surprise	"Father and Daughter" "That's Me" "Outrageous"
So Beautiful or So What	"Getting Ready for Christmas Day" "The Afterlife"
Stranger to Stranger	"Wristband" "Cool Papa Bell" "The Werewolf"
Featured singles	"Wonderful World" "The Blues" "The Boxer" "New York Is My Home"
Other songs	"Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War" "Thelma"
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Studio albums	The Sickness Believe Ten Thousand Fists Indestructible Asylum Immortalized Evolution Divisive
Compilation albums	The Lost Children
Live albums & DVDs	M.O.L. Music as a Weapon II Live & Indestructible Indestructible in Germany
Singles	"Stupify" "Down with the Sickness" "Voices" "The Game" "Prayer" "Remember" "Liberate" "Guarded" "Stricken" "Just Stop" "Land of Confusion" "Ten Thousand Fists" "Inside the Fire" "Perfect Insanity" "Indestructible" "The Night" "Another Way to Die" "The Animal" "Warrior" "Hell" "3" "The Vengeful One" "Immortalized" "The Light" "The Sound of Silence" "Are You Ready" "A Reason to Fight"
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