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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel formed in 1957 as Tom & Jerry and had minor success, as Simon & Garfunkel the two rose to fame in 1965 with the hit “The Sound of Silence” which was in the hit movie The Graduate. Their genres include soft rock, folk rock and world music. They have multiple Grammy Awards, Brit Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All questions about the lives of this duo and their music can be found here.
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Did Simon and Garfunkel record If I were a carpenter?
I think you could be thinking of Simon and Garfunkel's
"El condor Pasa (If I Could)"
The Kingston Trip might have also sung "If I had a hammer"
Peter Paul and Mary sis a popular version of "If I had a hammer " in the
What type of music do Simon and Garfunkel play?
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel.
How is the song I'am a rock by Simon and Garfunkel poetic?
Well, this is just opinion, but the song is full of analogy, especially the first lines concerning December and the cold and loneliness. It also contains symbolism in the form of the character being an isolated rock or island.
What does the canticle in Simon and Garfunkel Scarborough Fair stand for?
This is a little ambiguous. It implies that canticle is an abbreviation or an acronym, which it isn't. It means hymn or psalm. In terms of what it stands for or means in the song Scarborough Fair/Canticle, Paul Simon reworked his earlier song The Side of a Hill, with new anti-war sentiments. It creates an interesting paradox against a traditional English folk song where a man and woman task each other with the impossible where upon completion they will become lovers again. Love lost and anti-war, poles apart but about loss. There are copyright and arrangement issues but that's for a different question
What did the lyrics to The Sound of Silence mean in 1964 when Simon and Garfunkel first sang it?
The question as originally phrased did not specify which Simon and Garfunkel song was being asked about. However, an educated guess is that the questioner was asking about The Sound of Silence since it was one of the duo's biggest hits (it got them signed to a record contract) and was first released in 1964 - although it was written by Paul Simon in about 1963 and they were performing it prior to being signed to their record contract.
Although there is folklore that suggests it was inspired by the Kennedy assassination, it clearly was not related since it was written and performed before that event took place. Art Garfunkel has been quoted as saying that the song is about "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."
