SIMON & GARFUNKEL Sounds Of Silence 1971 UK CBS MINT
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SIMON & GARFUNKEL Sounds Of Silence 1971 UK CBS MINT
SIMON & GARFUNKELSounds Of Silence
1971 UK CBS (SBPG 62690) PRESSING
SUPERB COPY WHICH LOOKS UNPLAYED AND SOUNDS LIKE NEW
PRESSED WITH SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRICES: S 62690 A5 / CBS S 62690 B7
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SLEEVE WHICH OMITS ANY PRINTERS CREDITS
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE
Simon & Garfunkel's second album, Sounds of Silence, was recorded 18 months after their debut long-player, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM -- but even though the two albums shared one song (actually, one-and-a-half songs) in common, the sound here seemed a million miles away from the gentle harmonizing and unassuming acoustic accompaniment on the first record. In between, there had been a minor earthquake in the pop/rock world called "folk-rock," which resulted in the transformation of their acoustic rendition of "The Sound of Silence" into a classic of the new genre, complete with jangling electric guitars and an amplified beat that helped carry it to the top of the charts. The duo hastily re-formed, Paul Simon returning from an extended stay in England with a large song bag (part of which he had already committed to vinyl, on his U.K. album The Paul Simon Songbook). Simon & Garfunkel rushed into the studio in the fall of 1965 to come up with a folk-rock album in a hurry: fortunately, they'd already recorded two sides, "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" (actually, Simon's rewrite of their first album‘s title track) and "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'," both featuring a band accompaniment. Davy Graham's bluesy "Anji," a rare instrumental outing by Simon, filled another slot, and "Richard Cory" filled another. The latter, Simon's adaptation of poet Edwin Arlington Robinson‘s work, was a sincere effort at relevance -- Richard Cory has every material thing a man could want but still takes his own life, a hint at one aspect of middle-class teenaged angst of the mid-'60s; high school English teachers were still using it to motivate students in the '70s. Though a rushed effort, this was a far stronger album than their debut, mostly thanks to Simon's compositions; indeed, in one fell swoop, the world learned not only of the existence of a superb song-poet in Paul Simon, but, in Simon's harmonising with Art Garfunkel, the finest singing duo since the Everly Brothers.
Side 1:
The Sounds Of Silence
Leaves That Are Green
Blessed
Kathy's Song
Somewhere They Can't Find Me
Anji
Side 2:
Homeward Bound
Richard Cory
A Most Peculiar Man
April Come She Will
We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'
I Am A Rock
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of clean, unmarked labels without any spindle traces or any sign the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Pristine playing surfaces.
I don't think the record has even been out of its inner sleeve before today as even under bright light there is barely a wispy hairlines to be seen
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays perfectly throughout with nothing to fault.
No clicks, ticks or pops and beautifully clean
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Apart from a little storage rub to the edges the cover is again like new with all spine text clear and bold
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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