Sounds of Silence is an album by Simon and Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966. The album's title is a slight modification of the title of the duo's first major hit, " The Sounds of Silence," which was released previously on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and also on the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate. It was taken from their debut and electric instruments and drums were overdubbed by Bob Dylan's studio band on June 15, 1965 and released in September 1965 as a single. "Homeward Bound" was released on the album in the UK. It was also released as part of the box set Simon & Garfunkel Collected Works, on both LP and CD.
CBS YS-659-C released In Japan in August 1966
With Bonus Track : I Am A Rock (US single version)
Cover is a photographic reproduction, printed on paper and covered inside and out with a thin plastic sleeve
Track 5 is listed as "I Am A Rock" on the cover and "I Am A Pock" on the label.
South Korea
1966 UK Released in a white cover, with no text, except a stamp on the back saying
"Loaned For Promotion Only. Not For Sale. Ownership And All RIght Reserved"
Saudi Arabia cassette
| A1 | The Sounds Of Silence | |
| A2 | Leaves That Are Green | |
| A3 | Blessed | |
| A4 | Kathy's Song | |
| A5 | Somewhere They Can't Find Me | |
| A6 | Anji (instrumental) | |
| A7 | Patterns | |
| A8 | Cloudy | |
| B1 | Homeward Bound | |
| B2 | Richard Cory | |
| B3 | A Most Peculiar Man | |
| B4 | April Come She Will | |
| B5 | We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin' | |
| B6 | I Am A Rock | |
| B7 | The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine | |
| B8 | The 59th Street Bridge Song | |
| B9 | I Am A Rock |
The insert lists Cloudy as track A8, something the cassette does not do. Additionally, I Am A Rock is repeated on the insert for track B9, something again omitted on the labels.
"Cloudy" and second "I'm A Rock" are both presents on cassette.
Columbia – COL 460954 8 MiniDisc 1992
Track listing
All songs by Paul Simon, except where noted.
| A1 | The Sounds Of Silence | 3:02 | |
| A2 | Leaves That Are Green | 2:21 | |
| A3 | Blessed | 3:14 | |
| A4 | Kathy's Song | 3:16 | |
| A5 | Somewhere They Can't Find Me | 2:34 | |
| A6 | Angie
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2:15 | |
| B1 | Richard Cory | 2:56 | |
| B2 | A Most Peculiar Man | 2:29 | |
| B3 | April Come She Will | 1:49 | |
| B4 | We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin' | 1:55 | |
| B5 | I Am A Rock | 2:50 |
Bonus tracks (2001 CD reissue)
"Blues Run The Game" (Jackson C. Frank) – 2:55
"Barbriallen" (traditional) – 4:06
"Rose of Aberdeen" (traditional) – 2:02
"Roving Gambler" (traditional) – 3:03
The song "Richard Cory" was based on a poem with the same title by
Edwin Arlington Robinson, best known for his collection, Spoon River Anthology.
The chorus, however, is entirely of Simon's composition.
The English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg lifted the opening lines of "Leaves That Are Green" ("I was 21 years when I wrote this song/I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long") for his song "A New England," which appeared on Bragg's 1983 EP Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy and was subsequently a UK hit for Kirsty MacColl.
"Somewhere They Can't Find Me" is essentially a reworking of the title track of the duo's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
There are three cover variations of the LP:
Original issue: SIMON & GARFUNKEL on one line; SOUNDS OF SILENCE on
another, all in capital letters, no song titles on the front.
Second issue: Enlarged title letters, with only the first letter of the words
"Sounds" and "Silence" in the album title capitalized. The
first letters in "Simon" and "Garfunkel" are capitalized,
but the rest are in lower-case. Song titles also included on the front.
Third issue: Same front cover as the second, the back cover has the copy of
Tiger Beat magazine in Garfunkel's hand airbrushed out.
Personnel
Paul Simon: lead vocals, guitar
Art Garfunkel: lead vocals
Glen Campbell: Guitar
Hal Blaine: Drums
Sounds of Silence was recorded in December 1965 at CBS studios in Nashville,
Tennessee and Los Angeles, California. The album was produced by Bob Johnston.