Bridge Over Troubled Water

	Name	Bridge over Troubled Water
	Type	LP
	Artist	Simon And Garfunkel
	Cover	BridgeWaterjpg
	Background	Orange
	Released	January 26 1970
	Recorded	November 1968 and<br>November 1969
	Genre	Folk-rock
	Length	36:29
	Label	Columbia Records
	Producer	Paul Simon , <br> Art Garfunkel ,<br> Roy Halee
	Last Album	'' Bookends ''<br />(1968)
	This Album	''Bridge over Troubled Water''<br />(1970)
	Next Album	'' Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits ''<br />(1972)

''Bridge over Troubled Water'' is an Album by Simon And Garfunkel (their fifth and final studio album) originally released on January 26 1970 . The album 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 Song Of The Year in the Grammy Awards Of 1971 .

In 2003 the TV Network VH1 named ''Bridge over Troubled Water'' the thirty-third greatest album of all time.

The songs "Cuba Si, Nixon No", "Groundhog", and the demo "Feuilles-O" 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".

TRACK LISTING

#" Bridge Over Troubled Water " –4:52

--- –3:06

Cecilia

#"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
#")
#"Song for the Asking" –1:49

Felice and Boudreaux Bryant and
-- Paul Simon, Jorge Milchberg, and Daniel A. Robles.

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

Jimmy Haskell and Ernie Freeman: strings

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

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Roy Halee

Label: Columbia LP KCS 9914; QUADLP CQ 30995; CD CK 9914; Remastered CD 66004.

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

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Bridge Over Troubled Water