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Bridge Over Troubled Water, released in 1970, is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel, as well as one of the best-selling albums of all time. Its track list includes hits like "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", "The Boxer" and "Cecilia." The album won the 1971 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year.Yet despite the album's success, the duo decided to split up shortly after its release, as tensions between the two had finally reached breaking point.Fun fact: former US President Lyndon Johnson listened to this album a lot in the final years of his life because it cheered him up when he felt down. |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: This is most notably expressed in "The Only Living Boy in New York" which is basically about Paul missing Art (the "Tom" in the song; in the early days when they performed as "Tom and Jerry", Art was "Tom") when the latter went to Mexico to film Catch-22. |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Simon and Garfunkel are shown in full frontal close-up, walking behind each other. |
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The Title Track was inspired by this lyric from the Swan Silvertones' Gospel Music Song "Mary Don't You Weep": |
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Miniscule Rocking: "Song for the Asking" is under two minutes. |
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Take That, Audience! |
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Take That, Audience!: "Keep the Customer Satisfied". |
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Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title |
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Overlapping with Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title, Bob's Burgers has done episodes called "Bobby Driver" and "Bridge Over Troubled Rudy". |
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Stock Sound Effects: "Baby Driver" has car noises. |
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One Head Taller |
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One Head Taller: Put to good use on the album cover. |
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A Friend in Need |
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A Friend in Need: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" |
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Obsession Song |
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Obsession Song: "Why Don't You Write Me", complete with a threat of suicide near the end. |
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Echoing Acoustics |
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Echoing Acoustics: The backing vocals on "The Only Living Boy in New York," recorded in an echo chamber. |
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Pep-Talk Song: "Bridge Over Troubled Water". |
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Streetwalker: The speaker in "The Boxer" says he tried to get a job but all he got was "a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue." |
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World Music: "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)" has a decidedly Peruvian atmosphere, down to the panflute playing. Simon based the song on a traditional Peruvian folk tune—or so he thought. It was actually what amounted to a Peruvian show tune, composed by writer/musician Daniel AlomÃa Robles in 1913 for a zarzuela (a musical play based on Spanish theatrical traditions) called El Cóndor Pasa ("The Condor Passes"), about a miners in an Andes village. Simon has said that "Why Don't You Write Me?" was conceived as a Reggae song, but by the time it was recorded the arrangement had gotten watered-down. |
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Studio Chatter: While Garfunkel sings "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"'s fade-out to the words so long producer Roy Halee is heard on the recording calling out: So long already, Artie! |
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Questioning Title?: "Why Don't You Write Me?". |
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One-Man Song: "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright". |
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Mood Whiplash: The mournful "The Boxer" is followed by the far more upbeat in tone "Baby Driver". A less extreme example is that the rather upbeat-sounding (despite its lyrics) "Bye Bye Love" fades directly into the warm but wistful "Song for the Asking". |
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Scatting: "The Boxer" and its "Lie la lie" chorus. |
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Break-Up Song: "Cecilia" and "Bye Bye Love". Most of the album has a feeling of breaking up and saying goodbye. Not surprising seeing that the band itself wasn't getting along as well as they used to. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" was for instance written by Simon as a veiled reference to Garfunkel, something Garfunkel himself wasn't informed about at the time. |
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Big Applesauce: "The Only Living Boy in New York". |
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One-Woman Song: "Cecilia". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The Title Track was inspired by this lyric from the Swan Silvertones' Gospel Music Song "Mary Don't You Weep": The "silver girl" in "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is a reference to Simon's wife Peggy. "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" is a tribute to architect Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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Cover Version |
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Cover Version: The 1913 Daniel AlomÃa Robles song "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" and The Everly Brothers song "Bye Bye Love". A version of the Haitian folk song "Feuilles-O" was recorded but was left off the album (but has since been released as a bonus track)—Garfunkel would later record his own solo version. |
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A less extreme example is that the rather upbeat-sounding (despite its lyrics) "Bye Bye Love" fades directly into the warm but wistful "Song for the Asking". |
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Intercourse with You |
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Intercourse with You: "Cecilia" "Baby Driver" |
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If you don't pay attention to the lyrics, "Bye Bye Love" sounds very upbeat. The lyrics sound like they're nearing the Despair Event Horizon. |
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Big Guy, Little Guy |
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Big Guy, Little Guy: The album cover goes out of its way to emphasize this dynamic, with the front cover photo showing Simon barely getting to Garfunkel's chin, while the back cover photo also shows the two of them walking together with Garfunkel being much taller. |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was influenced by gospel music, specifically the Swan Silvertones' "Mary Don't You Weep", which has an immediate lyrical inspiration in the song. Despite that the song has no huge choir, but the piano work is certainly similar to a gospel tune. |
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In the Style of |
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In the Style of: The arrangement of the title track used Phil Spector's productions for The Righteous Brothers as a model, particularly their version of "Ol' Man River". |
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Department of Redundancy Department |
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Department of Redundancy Department: The affirmations in the verses of "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)": |
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Titled After the Song |
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Titled After the Song: 2017 saw the release of two films named after songs on this album, Baby Driver and The Only Living Boy In New York. Shining (Norway)'s first album Where the Ragged People Go takes its title from "The Boxer": Overlapping with Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title, Bob's Burgers has done episodes called "Bobby Driver" and "Bridge Over Troubled Rudy". |
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