Making it way up the charts as an album, with a couple songs on the charts to move it there, was an album that has since become classic, poetical singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle's SOUNDS OF SILENCE. Both the title song and "I Am A Rock" moved the duo into position and lead to fame and fortune in lasting careers for both musicians, despite personal incompatibilities that arose. Like other creative duos that became alientated they reuinted for song eventually.
If you're wondering why the title of this post is DESERT ISLAND MUSIC, it's because this album is of the quality and timelessness that gets it chosen as "an album I would take to a desert island with me if I could."
Here is a song about loneliness and isolation.
SIMON and GARFUNKLE OFFICIAL link : " Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" has been selected as one of 25 recordings to be preserved at the U.S. Library of Congress. The track, which was originally released on the duo's first album, Wednesday Monring, 3 A.M., became a #1 hit in 1966 after Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson overdubbed drums, electric guitar and electric bass for the song’s release as a single. Recordings are added to the National Recording Registry for long-term preservation due to cultural, artistic and historic importance to the nation’s aural legacy."
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