After attending college and recording individually as solo artists and with other performers, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited in 1963 to begin performing as a folk music duo. Billing themselves as Kane & Garr in late 1963, they caught the attention of Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson performing three original songs including "The Sound of Silence."
Soon, the popularity of the song spread along the East Coast. Columbia Records released a folk-rock remix of the song using new studio musicians in September 1965. Simon and Garfunkel were not notified about the new version until its release, and Paul Simon was horrified by the results. Despite his concerns, "The Sound of Silence" hit #1 on the U.S. pop chart in January 1966.
To capitalize on the success of their hit single, Simon and Garfunkel recorded an album titled "Sounds of Silence" in just three weeks. It hit stores in January 1966 and included the duo's next top 10 hits "Homeward Bound" and "I Am a Rock" on the U.K. version. "Homeward Bound" was left off the U.S. version of the album. "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme," the next Simon and Garfunkel album, became their first to hit the top 10 of the album chart. It included three top 40 pop hits, "Homeward Bound" among them. By the end of 1966, Simon and Garfunkel were top pop stars.
The duo reached the peak of their commercial success with their next two studio albums "Bookends" in 1968 and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 1970. Between them, the albums included four more top 10 pop hit singles, among them the #1 smash hits "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." At the time "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the bestselling album of all time and the top seller under the CBS Records umbrella until Michael Jackson's "Thriller," released in 1982.
Text: Profile of Simon and Garfunkel (by Bill Lamb, liveaboutdotcom)
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