Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon and Garfunkel. First released on January 26 1970, it reached number one on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list. It won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as for Best Engineered Recording, while its title track won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971. It has since sold over 25 million worldwide.

The album proved to be a vast success in the United Kingdom, enjoying several runs at number one, spending some years in the charts and eventually becoming the country's biggest-selling album of the 1970s. In August 2006 the continued popularity of the album was proven when it charted 7th place in The BBC Radio 2 Music Club Top 100 Albums.

In 2001 the TV network VH1 named Bridge over Troubled Water the thirty-third greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 51 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The songs "Cuba Si, Nixon No", "Groundhog", and the demo "Feuilles-O" (later Garfunkel released "Feuilles-Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls On Their Way To The Moon?" as the flip to his "I Shall Sing") were recorded during sessions but not released on the album. "Cuba Si, Nixon No" was later released on a bootleg copy of an November 11 1969 concert by Simon & Garfunkel at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, while the demo recording of "Feuilles-O" was released on October 4 1997 on the boxed set Old Friends.

A remastered and expanded version of the album was released on CD in 2001, also containing "Feuilles-O" and a previously unreleased demo version of "Bridge over Troubled Water". The Demo can be heard here [1]

Track listing

All songs by Paul Simon except 2., by Paul Simon, Jorge Milchberg, and Daniel A. Robles, and 10., by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.

"Bridge over Troubled Water" – 4:52 ()
"El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" – 3:06
"Cecilia" – 2:54
"Keep the Customer Satisfied" – 2:33
"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" – 3:47
"The Boxer" – 5:08
"Baby Driver" – 3:14
"The Only Living Boy in New York" – 3:58
"Why Don't You Write Me" – 2:45
"Bye Bye Love"* (live recording from Ames, Iowa) – 2:55
"Song for the Asking" – 1:49

2001 Re-released version

Feuilles-O
Bridge over Troubled Water Demo

Personnel

Paul Simon — lead vocals, guitar
Art Garfunkel — lead vocals
Los Incas — Peruvian instruments
Joe Osborn — bass guitar
Larry Knechtel — piano
Fred Carter, Jr. — guitar
Hal Blaine — drums
Pete Drake-Steel guitar and Dobro
Jimmy Haskell and Ernie Freeman — strings
? - flute, saxophones, horn section

Awards and ratings

In the 1971 Grammy awards the album (and its contents) won five grammys:

Record of the Year (Bridge over Troubled Water)
Album of the Year
Best Contemporary Song ("Bridge over Troubled Water")
Best written Song ("Bridge over Troubled Water")
Best Engineering

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) — singles

1969

"The Boxer"
Pop Singles, 7
Adult Contemporary, 3

1970

"Bridge over Troubled Water"
Pop Singles, 1
Adult Contemporary, 1
"Cecilia"
Pop Singles, 4
"El Condor Pasa"
Pop Singles, 18
Adult Contemporary, 6

Trivia

Half Man Half Biscuit released an album with the punning title Trouble Over Bridgewater.
The Bridge Over Troubled Water Lp is Columbia Records' best selling album http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=247.
The album is fourth on most cumulative weeks at number 1 on the UK Charts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_albums_%28UK%29

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Paul Simon \| Art Garfunkel
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Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. \| Sounds of Silence \| Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme \| The Graduate \| Bookends \| Bridge Over Troubled Water
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The Concert in Central Park \| Live from New York City, 1967 \| \| Live 1969
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Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits \| Collected Works \| Old Friends \| The Best of Simon and Garfunkel \| The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970) \| The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
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Released January, 1970
Format 7" 45 RPM
Recorded 1969
Genre Folk Rock
Length 4:55
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Paul Simon
Producer(s) Roy Halee, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel
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Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel.

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Owner Jann Wenner
Publisher Wenner Publishing
Editor Jann Wenner
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Founded 1967
Language English
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