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Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Bridge Over Troubled Water is an album by Simon and Garfunkel released on January 26, 1970. In the title song from the album "bridge" is used as a metaphor for something stable and comforting, as opposed to the wildly streaming river, representing trouble, pain, unrest. It has been covered by many artists since. Bridge over Troubled Water hit #1 on Billboard Music Charts' Pop albums list. It won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as for Best Engineered Recording[?].

Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Roy Halee
Label: Columbia LP KCS 9914; QUADLP CQ 30995; CD CK 9914; Remastered CD 66004.

All songs by Paul Simon except * Felice and Boudreaux Bryant and ** Paul Simon, Jorge Milchberg, and Daniel A. Robles.

The songs "Cuba Si, Nixon No", "Groundhog", and the demo "Feuilles-O" were recorded during sessions but not released on the album. "Cuba Si, Nixon No" was later released on a bootleg copy of an 11 November 1969 concert by Simon & Garfunkel at Miami University[?], Oxford, OH, while the demo recording of "Feuilles-O" was released on 4 October 1997 on the box set Old Friends.

    Personnel 

Tracks:

  1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (4:52) SAMPLE
  2. El Condor Pasa (If I Could)** (3:06) --arrangement of 18th century Peruvian folk anthem
  3. Cecilia (2:54)
  4. Keep The Customer Satisfied (2:33)
  5. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright (3:47)
  6. The Boxer (5:08) -- features a flute bridge instead of the "extra verse"
  7. Baby Driver (3:14)
  8. The Only Living Boy In New York (3:58)
  9. Why Don't You Write Me (2:45)
  10. Bye Bye Love* (2:55) --live recording from Ames, Iowa
  11. Song For The Asking (1:49)

    Chart positions 

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles

1969

1970