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  • The Sound Of Silence
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  • Gramophone record
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  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Columbia Records singles
  • 1965 songs
  • Oricon Weekly number-one singles
  • Simon & Garfunkel songs
  • Songs in memory of deceased persons
  • Songs written by Paul Simon
  • United States National Recording Registry recordings
  • 1965 singles
  • Song recordings produced by Tom Wilson (record producer)
  • Mercy (band) songs
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  • %22The Sound of Silence%22 is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over the period of several months between 1963–1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut studio album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M..Released in October 1964, the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Paul Simon returning to England and Art Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University. In spring 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instrumentation with the same musicians who backed Bob Dylan's %22Like a Rolling Stone%22. Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the song's remix until after its release. The single was released in September 1965 and immediately began climbing the charts.The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1965, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which Columbia titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. The song was a top ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being %22culturally, historically, or aesthetically important%22 in 2013 along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.Originally titled %22The Sounds of Silence%22 on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. as well as on the single release and Sounds of Silence album, the song was retitled for later compilations beginning with Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.
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  • Paul Simon
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  • USSM19918647
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  • Tom Wilson (record producer)
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  • Gold
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  • Columbia Records
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  • 1964-03-10
  • 1965-06-15
  • Columbia Studios
  • June–July 1965
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  • The Sound Of Silence
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