The Sound of Silence

"The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the original 'acoustic' version of the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City and included on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. Released on October 19, 1964 [2] the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo disbanding, with Simon returning to England and Art Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University.

For other uses, see The Sound of Silence (disambiguation).

"The Sound of Silence"
Side-A label of the 1965 U.S. vinyl single
Single by Simon & Garfunkel
from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. and Sounds of Silence
B-side"We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'"
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1965 (1965-09-12)
RecordedJune 15, 1965 (overdubbed version); original vocals recorded on March 10, 1964
StudioColumbia Recording, New York City
GenreFolk rock[1]
Length3:05
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Paul Simon
Producer(s)Tom Wilson
Simon & Garfunkel singles chronology
"The Sound of Silence"
(1965)		 "Homeward Bound"
(1966)
Audio
"The Sound of Silence" on YouTube
Alternative release
Artwork for the original 1966 German vinyl single

In 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts, and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instruments and drums. This remixed version was released as a single in September 1965. Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the song's remix until after its release.

The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 1, 1966, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which Columbia titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. The remixed single version of song was included on this follow-up album.

It later featured in the 1967 film The Graduate and was included on the The Graduate (soundtrack) album. It was additionally released on the "Mrs. Robinson 'EP'" in 1968, along with three other songs from the film: Mrs. Robinson, April Come She Will and Scarborough Fair/Canticle.

The song was a top-ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" in 2012 along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.

Originally titled "The Sounds of Silence" on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., the song was shortened for later compilations beginning with the 1972 compilation album, Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.[3]

Background

Origin and original recording
Song composer Paul Simon, circa 1966

Simon and Garfunkel had become interested in folk music and the growing counterculture movement separately in the early 1960s. Having performed together previously under the name Tom and Jerry in the late 1950s, their partnership had since dissolved when they began attending college. In 1963, they regrouped and began performing Simon's original compositions locally in Queens. They billed themselves "Kane & Garr", after old recording pseudonyms, and signed up for Gerde's Folk City, a Greenwich Village club that hosted Monday night performances.[4] In September 1963, the duo performed three new songs, among them "The Sound of Silence", getting the attention of Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson, a young African-American jazz musician who was also helping to guide Bob Dylan's transition from folk to rock.[5][4][6] Simon convinced Wilson to let his partner and him have a studio audition, where a performance of "The Sound of Silence" got the duo signed to Columbia.[7]

The song's origin and basis remain unclear, with multiple answers coming forward over the years. Many believe that the song commented on the John F. Kennedy assassination, as the song was recorded three months after the assassination.[4] Simon stated unambiguously in interviews, however, "I wrote The Sound of Silence when I was 21 years old",[8][9] which places the timeframe firmly prior to the JFK tragedy, with Simon also explaining that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate.[6] "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again.'"[10] In a more recent interview with Wynton Marsalis, Simon was directly asked, "How is a 21-year-old person thinkin' about the words in that song?" His reply was, "I have no idea."[11] According to Garfunkel, the song was first developed in November, but Simon took three months to perfect the lyrics, which he claims were entirely written on February 19, 1964.[12] Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."[6]

To promote the release of their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., the duo performed again at Folk City, as well as two shows at the Gaslight Café, which went over poorly. Dave Van Ronk, a folk singer, was at the performances, and noted that several in the audience regarded their music as a joke.[13] "'Sounds of Silence' actually became a running joke: for a while there, it was only necessary to start singing 'Hello darkness, my old friend ... ' and everybody would crack up."[14] Wednesday Morning, 3 AM sold only 3,000 copies upon its October release, and its dismal sales led Simon to move to London, England.[15] While there, he recorded a solo album, The Paul Simon Songbook (1965), which features a rendition of the song, titled "The Sounds of Silence".[16]

The original recording of the song is in D♯ minor, using the chords D♯m, C♯, B and F♯. Simon plays a guitar with a capo on the sixth fret, using the shapes for Am, G, F and C chords.[17] The vocal span goes from C♯3 to F♯4 in the song.[18]

Remix
The song's heavy airplay in Cocoa Beach, Florida, alerted Columbia to release the single.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. had been a commercial failure before producer Tom Wilson was alerted that radio stations had begun to play "The Sound of Silence" in spring 1965. A late-night disc jockey at WBZ in Boston began to spin "The Sound of Silence" overnight, where it found a college demographic.[19] Students at Harvard and Tufts University responded well, and the song made its way down the East Coast pretty much "overnight", "all the way to Cocoa Beach, Florida, where it caught the students coming down for spring break."[19] A promotional executive for Columbia went to give away free albums of new artists, and beach-goers were interested only in the artists behind "The Sound of Silence". He phoned the home office in New York, alerting them of its appeal.[20] An alternate version of the story states that Wilson attended Columbia's July 1965 convention in Miami, where the head of the local sales branch raved about the song's airplay.[21]

Folk rock was beginning to make waves on pop radio, with Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" (which Wilson had also produced) and the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" charting high.[22] Wilson listened to the song several times, considering it too soft for a wide release.[19] Afterwards, he turned on the Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!", which gave him the idea to remix the song, overdubbing rock instrumentation.[23] He employed musicians Al Gorgoni (and Vinnie Bell) on guitar, Bob Bushnell on bass, and Bobby Gregg on drums.[24] The tempo on the original recording was uneven, making it difficult for the musicians to keep the song in time.[22] Engineer Roy Halee employed a heavy echo on the remix, which was a common trait of the Byrds' hits.[22] The single was first serviced to college FM rock stations, and a commercial single release followed on September 13, 1965.[21] The lack of consultation with Simon and Garfunkel on Wilson's remix was because, although still contracted to Columbia Records at the time, the musical duo at that time was no longer a "working entity".[22][25] It was not uncommon at the time for producers to add instruments or vocals to previously existing recordings and re-release them as new entities.

In the fall of 1965, Simon was in Denmark, performing at small clubs, and picked up a copy of Billboard, as he had routinely done for several years.[21] Upon seeing "The Sound of Silence" in the Billboard Hot 100, he bought a copy of Cashbox and saw the same thing. Several days later, Garfunkel excitedly called Simon to inform him of the single's growing success.[21] A copy of the 7-inch single arrived in the mail the next day, and according to friend Al Stewart, "Paul was horrified when he first heard it ... [when the] rhythm section slowed down at one point so that Paul and Artie's voices could catch up."[23] Garfunkel was far less concerned about the remix, feeling conditioned to the process of trying to create a hit single: "It's interesting, I suppose it might do something, It might sell," he told Wilson.[26]

Chart performance

"The Sound of Silence" first broke in Boston, where it became one of the top-selling singles in early November 1965;[21][27] it spread to Miami and Washington, D.C. two weeks later, reaching number one in Boston and debuting on the Billboard Hot 100.[28]

Throughout the month of January 1966 "The Sound of Silence" had a one-on-one battle with the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The former was No. 1 for the weeks of January 1 and 22 and No. 2 for the intervening two weeks. The latter held the top spot for the weeks of January 8, 15, and 29, and was No. 2 for the two weeks that "The Sound of Silence" was No. 1. Overall, "The Sound of Silence" spent 14 weeks on the Billboard chart.[29] Despite this, it does hold the dubious distinction of being first single in Billboard history to drop outside the top ten from the No. 1 spot.[30]

In the wake of the song's success, Simon promptly returned to the United States to record a new Simon & Garfunkel album at Columbia's request. He later described his experiences learning the song went to No. 1, a story he repeated in numerous interviews:[31]

I had come back to New York, and I was staying in my old room at my parents' house. Artie was living at his parents' house, too. I remember Artie and I were sitting there in my car one night, parked on a street in Queens, and the announcer [on the radio] said, "Number one, Simon & Garfunkel." And Artie said to me, "That Simon & Garfunkel, they must be having a great time." Because there we were on a street corner [in my car in] Queens, smoking a joint. We didn't know what to do with ourselves.[32]

For his part, Garfunkel had a different memory of the song's success:

We were in L.A. Our manager called us at the hotel we were staying at. We were both in the same room. We must have bunked in the same room in those days. I picked up the phone. He said, 'Well, congratulations. Next week you will go from five to one in Billboard.' It was fun. I remember pulling open the curtains and letting the brilliant sun come into this very red room, and then ordering room service. That was good.[31][33]

Reception

In 1999, BMI named "The Sound of Silence" as the 18th most-performed song of the 20th century.[34] In 2004, it was ranked No. 157 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the duo's three songs on the list. The song is now considered "the quintessential folk rock release".[35]

On March 21, 2013, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for long-term preservation along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.[36]

Film and television

When director Mike Nichols and Sam O'Steen were editing the 1967 film The Graduate, they initially timed some scenes to this song, intending to substitute original music for the scenes. However, they eventually concluded that an adequate substitute could not be found and decided to purchase the rights for the song for the soundtrack. This was an unusual decision, as the song had charted more than a year earlier, and recycling established music for film was not commonly done at the time.[37]

With the practice of using well-known songs for films becoming more commonplace, "The Sound of Silence" has since been used for other films, including Kingpin (1996), Old School (2003), Bobby (2006), Watchmen (2009), Trolls (2016), and A Twelve Year Night (2018). In the German TV movie Ein Drilling kommt selten allein the song was sung by grandparents to calm down crying triplets.

The song was used during the fourth season of the television series Arrested Development in 2013 as a running gag alluding to characters' (primarily GOB's) inner reflections. It was also used as part of the soundtrack of episode 4 of The Vietnam War, the 2017 documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Other allusions and parodies

The Canadian band Rush alluded to the song lyrics in the last lines of their hit song "The Spirit of Radio."[38]

The song was parodied by faith-based comedian Tim Hawkins (as 'Sounds of Starbucks') on October 16th, 2018.[39]

In the Gdansk’s Sound of Silence - http://www.znadwiliiwilno.lt/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Znad-Wilii-1-77_2-kwietnia-1.pdf

A Portal parody of the song was made by YouTuber Harry101UK, a voice actor and composer who makes Portal parodies of songs.[40]

Charts and certifications

Cover by Disturbed
"The Sound of Silence"
Single by Disturbed
from the album Immortalized
ReleasedDecember 7, 2015 (2015-12-07)
Length4:08
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Paul Simon
Producer(s)Kevin Churko
Disturbed singles chronology
"The Light"
(2015)		 "The Sound of Silence"
(2015)		 "Open Your Eyes"
(2016)

A cover version of "The Sound of Silence" was released by American heavy metal band Disturbed on December 7, 2015.[59][60] A music video was also released.[61] Their cover hit number one on the Billboard Hard Rock Digital Songs[62] and Mainstream Rock charts,[63] and is their highest-charting song on the Hot 100,[64] peaking at number 42. It is also their highest-charting single in Australia, peaking at number four.

David Draiman sings it in the key of F#m. The chord progression is F#m, E, D, A. The first two verses are almost an octave lower than the original and jumped up an octave for the last three verses.[65] His vocal span goes from E2 to A4 in scientific pitch notation.[66]

In April 2016, Paul Simon endorsed the cover.[67] Additionally, on April 1, Simon sent Draiman an email praising Disturbed's performance of the rendition on American talk show Conan. Simon wrote, "Really powerful performance on Conan the other day. First time I'd seen you do it live. Nice. Thanks." Draiman responded, "Mr. Simon, I am honored beyond words. We only hoped to pay homage and honor to the brilliance of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Your compliment means the world to me/us and we are eternally grateful."[68] As of September 2017, the single had sold over 1.5 million digital downloads[69] and had been streamed over 54 million times, estimated Nielsen Music.[70] The music video has over 500 million views on YouTube, while the live performance on Conan has over 100 million, making it the most watched YouTube video from the show.

On September 27, 2016, the Disturbed version of "The Sound of Silence" was released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 4.

The Disturbed version was used in the episode "Ian Garvey" of The Blacklist in November 2017.

A live version of "The Sound of Silence" with guest Myles Kennedy is included on Live at Red Rocks and Evolution (Deluxe Edition).

The AMC show Into the Badlands features Disturbed's version of "The Sound of Silence" in episode 13 of season 3 ("Black Lotus, White Rose") in April 2019.

Accolades
Region Year Publication Accolade Rank
United States 2015 Loudwire 20 Best Rock Songs of 2016[71] 1
10 Best Rock Videos of 2016[72] 2

Weekly charts
Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[73] 4
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[74] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[75] 23
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[76] 40
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[77] 45
France (SNEP)[78] 191
Germany (Official German Charts)[79] 2
Germany (Airplay Chart)[80] 28
Hungary (Single Top 40)[81] 36
Ireland (IRMA)[82] 57
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[83] 32
Portugal (AFP)[84] 44
Portugal Digital Songs (Billboard)[85] 1
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[86] 8
Slovenia (SloTop50)[87] 22
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[88] 45
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[89] 12
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[90] 29
US Billboard Hot 100[91] 42
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[92] 3
US Rock Airplay (Billboard)[93] 8
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[94] 22
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[95] 1
US Hard Rock Digital Songs (Billboard)[62] 1
Chart (2019) Peak
position
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)[96] 67

Year-end charts
Chart (2016) Position
Australia (ARIA)[97] 44
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[98] 3
Germany (Official German Charts)[99] 14
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[100] 100
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[101] 9

Decade-end charts
Chart (2010–2019) Position
Germany (Official German Charts)[102] 50
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[103] 49

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[104] 2× Platinum 140,000
Austria (IFPI Austria)[105] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[106] 4× Platinum 320,000
Germany (BVMI)[107] 3× Gold 600,000
Italy (FIMI)[108] Gold 25,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[109] Gold 7,500*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[110] 2× Platinum 120,000
Sweden (GLF)[111] 3× Platinum 120,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[112] Gold 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[113] Platinum 600,000
United States (RIAA)[114] 3× Platinum 1,502,000[69]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Other cover versions
  • French singer Marie Laforêt released a single in 1966 titled La Voix Du Silence covering the song in French.
  • Los Angeles punk band the Dickies recorded a cover of the song, released on a single in 1978.[115]
  • A cappella group Pentatonix recorded a cover of the song, released as a single in 2019. The video amassed more than 50 million views in a year.
  • Synth-pop group Chromatics covered the song and later released it is a single for their 2019 album Closer to Grey.
  • American Progressive Metal band Nevermore covered the song with entirely new music and slightly different lyrics on their 2000 album Dead Heart in a Dead World.
  • Canadian poet and folk singer Leonard Cohen narrated the song while describing its origin by Paul Simon and released it in 2007.
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