Track listing

1. The Sound of Silence
   The Sound of Silence
   "The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. An initial version preferred by the band was remixed and sweetened, and has become...
   
   
2. Cecilia
3. El Condor Pasa
   El Cóndor Pasa (song)
   El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes....
   
   
4. The Boxer
   The Boxer
   "The Boxer" is a folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon in 1968 and first recorded by Simon & Garfunkel. It was released as the follow-up single to their number one hit "Mrs. Robinson", and reached #7 in the US charts. It later appeared on their last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, along...
   
   
5. Mrs. Robinson
   Mrs. Robinson
   "Mrs. Robinson" is a song written by Paul Simon and first performed by Simon & Garfunkel. When released as a single in 1968, it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, for their second chart-topping hit after "The Sound of Silence"...
   
   
6. Bridge Over Troubled Water
   Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
   "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...
   
   
7. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
   Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
   "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon from his 1972 self-titled album.-Lyrical subject:The song is about two boys who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song and has become a matter of some debate...
   
   
8. Peace Like a River
9. Mother and Child Reunion
   Mother and Child Reunion
   "Mother and Child Reunion" is a song by Paul Simon on his album, Paul Simon , his first solo album after Bridge Over Troubled Water. It was released as a single on February 5, 1972, reaching #4 on the U.S...
   
   
10. American Tune
    American Tune
    "American Tune" is a song written and first performed by Paul Simon. The song first appeared on There Goes Rhymin' Simon , Simon's second solo album following the breakup of Simon and Garfunkel...
    
    
11. Loves Me Like a Rock
    Loves Me Like a Rock
    "Loves Me Like a Rock" is a 1973 song recorded by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Simon wrote the song, which appears on his solo album There Goes Rhymin' Simon....
    
    
12. Kodachrome
    Kodachrome (song)
    "Kodachrome" is a song written and recorded by Paul Simon. It appeared on his 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon.-Description:The song is named after the Kodak 35mm film Kodachrome...
    
    
13. Gone At Last
14. Still Crazy After All These Years
    Still Crazy After All These Years
    Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth studio album by Paul Simon.Recorded in 1975, the album produced four US Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last" , "My Little Town" , "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" and the title track . It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1976...
    
    
15. Something So Right
    Something So Right
    Something So Right is an American television situation comedy which ran on two different networks during its time on the air, and in reruns on the USA Network for a number of years after its cancellation....
    
    
16. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
    50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
    "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" is a 1975 hit song by Paul Simon, from his album Still Crazy After All These Years. Backing vocals on the single were performed by Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson and Phoebe Snow.-Creation:...
    
    
17. Slip Slidin' Away
18. Late in the Evening
19. Hearts and Bones
    Hearts and Bones
    Hearts and Bones is the sixth solo album by Paul Simon. It was released in 1983.The album was originally intended to be a Simon & Garfunkel reunion album called Think Too Much, following their Central Park reunion concert in 1981, and the world tour of 1982 - 1983. In fact, some of the songs...
    
    
20. Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
    Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
    "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" is a ballad written and sung by Paul Simon.It first appeared as the eighth track on Hearts and Bones, the 1983 album that was the fifth in Simon's solo career...
    
    

1. The Boy in the Bubble
2. Graceland
   Graceland (song)
   "Graceland" is the title song of the album Graceland, released in 1986 by Paul Simon. The song features vocals by The Everly Brothers.The lyrics deal with the singer's thoughts during a road trip to Graceland after the failure of his marriage to actress and author Carrie Fisher.-Reception:It was...
   
   
3. Under African Skies
4. That was Your Mother
5. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
6. You Can Call Me Al
   You Can Call Me Al
   "You Can Call Me Al" is a song by Paul Simon, the first single released from his album Graceland. The song originally charted in the U.S. at No. 44 in October 1986 but it was reissued with greater promotion in March 1987 and hit No. 23. In the UK it peaked at No. 4, while in Sweden and the...
   
   
7. Homeless
8. Spirit Voices
9. The Obvious Child
10. Can't Run But
11. Thelma
12. Further to Fly
13. She Moves On
14. Born at the Right Time
15. The Cool, Cool River
16. The Sound of Silence
    The Sound of Silence
    "The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. An initial version preferred by the band was remixed and sweetened, and has become...
    
    

Musicians

• Ademola Adepoju - Pedal steel guitar
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
  
• Francisco Aguabella - Conga
  Conga
  The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...
  
  
• Artur Andres - Percussion
• Mingo Araújo - Casinette, Conga, Drums, Percussion, Sordu, Talking Drum
• Ken Asher - Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• Patti Austin - Vocals (Background)
• Cyro Baptista - Percussion
• Barry Beckett - Keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Adrian Belew - Guitar
• Beloba - Percussion
• Hal Blaine - Conga, Drums, Percussion
• Michael Brecker - Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Randy Brecker - Piccolo trumpet
  Piccolo trumpet
  The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...
  
  , Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Briz - Vocals (Background)
• Bob Bushnell - Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• J.J. Cale
  J.J. Cale
  JJ Cale , born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has...
  
   - Guitar
• Pete Carr - Guitar
• Anthony Carrillo - Bongos
• Fred Carter, Jr. - Guitar
• Tony Cedras - Keyboard
• Don Chacal - Bata, Bongos, Conga, Gourd
  Gourd
  A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crops like cucumbers, squash, luffas, and melons. The term 'gourd' however, can more specifically, refer to the plants of the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita or also to their hollow dried out shell...
  
  , Percussion
• Wells Christy - Synclavier
  Synclavier
  The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...
  
  
• Kim Cissel - Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Bob Cranshaw - Bass-guitar
• Jorge Ferreira da Silva - Percussion
• Wilson DasNeves - Cowbell, Percussion
• The Dixie Hummingbirds - Vocal Group
• Jerry Douglas - Dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  
• Peter Drake - Dobro, Pedal steel guitar
• Gordon Edwards - Bass guitar
• Don Elliott - Vibraphone
  Vibraphone
  The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
  
  
• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing...
  
   - Vocals
• Jon Faddis - Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Babacar Faye - Percussion
• Deborah Feingold - Cover Photo
• Alex Foster - Alto-saxophono
• Steve Gadd - Drums
• Alexander Gafa - Guitar
• Eric Gale - Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Earl Gardner - Trumpet
• Russell George - Bass guitar
• Florence Gnimagnon - Vocals (Background)
• Morris Goldberg - Penny Whistle
• Gordinho - Sordu
• Al Gorgoni - Guitar
• Bobby Gregg - Drums
• Winston Grennan - Drums
• Dave Grusin - Horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
   Arrangements
• The Harptones - Vocal Arrangement, Vocals (Background)
• Roger Hawkins - Drums
• Giovanni Hidalgo - Conga
• Neville Hinds - Organ
• David Hood - Bass guitar
• Cissy Houston - Vocals
• Johnny Hoyt - Saxophone
• Anthony Jackson - Bass guitar, Contrabass Guitar
  Contrabass guitar
  A contrabass guitar is a low-register plucked string instrument in the guitar family with six strings.-History:Musical instruments called contrabass guitars having existed at least since 1899, when a "Grand Concert Contra Bass Guitar" was listed in Mr. Joseph Bohmann's catalogue...
  
  
• Jackie Jackson - Bass guitar
• Alonzo Johnson - Bass
• Remy Kabocka - Talking Drum
• Vusi Khumalo - Drums
• Larry Knechtel - Bass guitar, Keyboards, Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Collaboration, Vocals
• Denzel Laing - Percussion
• Tony Levin - Bass guitar
• Ralph MacDonald - Percussion
• Makhaya Mahlangu - Percussion
• Michael Mainieri, Jr. - Marimba
  Marimba
  The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
  
  , Vibraphone
• Marçalzinho - Percussion
• Hugh Masekela - Flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  
• Mazzola - Arranger, Chicote, Rhythm Production
• Charlie McCoy - Harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  
• Hugh McCracken - Guitar (Electric)
• Victor Montanez - Drums
• Airto Moreira - Percussion
• Sidinho Moreira - Bongos, Conga, Percussion, Sordu, Tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  
• Forere Motloheloa - Accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , Composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
  
• Rob Mounsey - Synthesizer
• Isaac Mtshali - Drums
• Youssou N'Dour - Percussion
• Milton Nascimento - Lyricist, Vocals
• Del Newman - String Arrangements
• Vincent Nguini - Bass guitar, Claves
  Claves
  Claves are a percussion instrument , consisting of a pair of short Claves (Anglicized pronunciation: clah-vays, IPA:[ˈklαves]) are a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short Claves (Anglicized pronunciation: clah-vays, IPA:[ˈklαves]) are a percussion instrument (idiophone),...
  
  , Guitar, Guitar Arrangements
• The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...
  
   - Vocal Group
• Joe Osborn - Bass guitar
• Dean Parks - Hi String Guitar
• Greg Phillinganes - Synthesizer
• Chikapa "Ray" Phiri - Arranger, Guitar, Guitar Arrangements
• Leonard Pickett - Tenor-saxophone
• Raphael Rabello - Guitar
• Décio Ramos - Percussion
• Sherman Robertson - Guitar
• Linda Ronstadt - Vocals
• Alan Rubin - Trumpet
• Alton Rubin - Drums
• Dave Rubin - Washboard
  Washboard
  A washboard is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its originally subsidiary use as a musical instrument....
  
  
• Armand Sabal-Lecco - Bass guitar
• Robert Sabino - Piano
• Paulinho Santos - Percussion
• Paulo Sérgio Santos - Chicote
• Bobby Scott - Piano
• John Selolwane - Guitar
• Joseph Shabalala - Composer, Lyricist, Vocals
• Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
  
   - Arranger, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist, Producer, Synthesizer, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
• Valerie Simpson - Vocals (Background)
• Von Eva Sims - Vocals
• Phoebe Snow - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
• Pedro Sorongo - Percussion, Scraper
• David Spinozza - Guitar
• Renelie Stafford - Vocals
• Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
   - Guitar
• Grady Tate - Drums
• Richard Tee - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer
• Assane Thaim - Percussion
• John Tropea - Guitar (Electric)
• Deidre Tuck - Vocals
• Uakti - Percussion
• Naná Vasconcelos - Conga, Gourd, Percussion, Triangle
  Triangle
  A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted ....
  
  
• Kim Wilson - Harmonica

Production

• Greg Calbi - Mastering
• Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...
  
   - Producer
• Gregg Geller - Consultant
  Consultant
  A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
  
  
• Philip Glass - Liner Notes
  Liner notes
  Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
  
  
• Roy Halee
  Roy Halee
  Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle...
  
   - Engineer, Musical Supervision, Producer
• Jeri Heiden - Art Direction
  Art director
  The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
  
  , Design
• Kevin Howlett - Liner Notes
• Bob Johnston - Producer
• Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
   - Arranger
• Jorge Milchberg - Arranger
• Muscle Shoals - Rhythm Section, Producer
• Phil Ramone
  Phil Ramone
  Phil Ramone is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten...
  
   - Producer, Recording Supervision
• Jacob Sam - Composer
• Paul Samwell-Smith - Producer
• Steven Strassman - Assistant Engineer
• Peter Thwaites - Assistant Engineer
• Russ Titelman - Producer
• Richard Travali - Assistant Engineer
• Paul Zollo - Liner Notes