The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver by Bruce Spizer

Author:Bruce Spizer [Spizer, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Beatles, music, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison
Publisher: 498 Productions, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The first American number one single of 1966 had a history going back to March 1964. That month, singer/songwriter Paul Simon and his occasional musical partner Art Garfunkel recorded their first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, a folk music album that included a Simon original called “The Sound Of Silence.”

The LP was released that October on Columbia Records and disappeared among the wave of new folk albums released in the wake of the success of the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul & Mary. The following year, with folk rock on the rise and “The Sound Of Silence” getting some college radio airplay, Tom Wilson, who had produced the original recording, added electric instrumentation and released it as a single, now called “The Sounds Of Silence,” in September 1965. Simon, performing solo in England, and Garfunkel, attending Columbia University in New York, knew nothing of this until the single took off in December, reaching number one on January 1 and trading places with “We Can Work It Out” throughout January. A hastily recorded and rather inconsistent new Simon &

Garfunkel LP, dubbed Sounds Of Silence, just missed reaching the album Top 20 in the spring of 1966 but, after Paul and Art notched two more Top 5 singles in the first half of 1966 with “Homeward Bound” and “I Am A Rock,” their new album, the much-loved follow-up that fall, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme, would be a Top 5 LP. Their late 1966 single “A Hazy Shade Of Winter” peaked at 13.

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