734. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon)

This is the title song of Simon and Garfunkel's final album together, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970). It was a number one hit, and stayed at the top of the charts for six weeks, when it was replaced by The Beatles' "Let it Be."

Simon wrote the song in1969 specifically for Garfunkel to sing, while Garfunkel was in Europe filming "Catch 22". The original version had two verses and the lyrics were rather different. Garfunkel suggested Simon should sing it and thought it needed an extra verse, so a third was added. Apparently Simon regretted letting Garfunkel do the song as a solo, and in their recent "Old Friends" tours they have sung alternate verses.

The song won the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1971. A cover by Aretha Franklin later won a Grammy award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 1972.

Other artists who have covered it include Elvis Presley, Charlotte Church and American Idol star, Clay Aiken.

(Information is from Wikipedia)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• song
• art
• garfunkel
• aretha
• franklin
• elvis
• presley

[lifeson241]

Good job !! This is one of my all time favorite songs, a masterpice, now I know the chords thanks to you !! rock on brother

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for watching. It is a great song.

[mktmic7]

this a fun one to do , nice job*******

[raymondcrooke]

Thanks for checking out my rendition. I enjoyed yours too.

[van1976]

6th grade for me when this came out--circa 1970 about--it was a big hit

Good rendition and reminising

[raymondcrooke]

Simon and Garfunkel made a great impression on me when I first heard them doing the soundtrack of "The Graduate." After that they just got better and better with songs like this one.

[coliban]

Interesting interpretation.

[raymondcrooke]

The mic is just the built-in one on my Mac. Thanks for your comment.

[Revereeed]

Very nice cover of the, in my opnion, most beautiful song ever written.

It's just a shame, that the mic doesn't do your voice justice at some moments :(

Keep up the good work :)