First Time Hearing Simon & Garfunkel The Sound of Silence Central Park 1981 Reaction - TRULY POETIC!

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[@SquirrelTheater]

No dancers, no backing tracks, no Autotune. Just pure talent. 👍🏻😎 “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is a personal favorite.

[@jgilbertify]

Yeah............................. The originals bringing the Talent

[@TheEricthefruitbat]

Paul Simon is one of the greatest songwriters of my generation, and Art Garfunkel has a voice like liquid gold. Together they are unsurpassed. I really recommend "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to get the full effect of their greatness.

[@dagmar.6954]

I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel & had a lot of their records. Absolutely loved them & their harmonies. You won't find a bad song. They have had so many hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", "Kathy's Song", "Scarborough Fair", "At The Zoo", "Cecilia", "America", "I Am A Rock", "El Condor Pasa" etc. Paul Simon went on to have a huge solo career with lots of great songs.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Bridge Over Troubled Water will be next!

[@wgandy9541]

@@barsandbarbells2022 Great to know it is next please listen to the studio version first to get the full impact they wanted you to get from the song. Live performances are ok but usually they can never match the studio version.

[@johndessoye]

Still Crazy After All These Years!

[@terri2494]

@@johndessoye That was from one of Paul’s albums. Hopefully they’ll want to check out some of his solo work as well.

[@tonybennett4159]

@@barsandbarbells2022 Hope you will do the studio version as that became a massive hit around the world.

[@GBeret83]

And God said "let there be 2-part harmony." And behold, there was Simon & Garfunkel.

[@justanoldmansopinion]

Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", "Kathy's Song", "Scarborough Fair", "I Am A Rock", and more are all masterpieces. You cannot go wrong with any of them.

[@tomrogers1305]

Check out their Bridge Over Troubled Water. Then see it covered by South Korean powerhouse, SoHyang. Unforgettable.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Bridge over troubled water & a lot of the covers coming soon!

[@Davelakful]

Scarborough Fair is one of my favorite songs ever. Really is to funny, i can never listen to it just once ie need to play it at least twice in a row 😀

[@DMichaelAtLarge]

Simon and Garfunkel were the premier folk singers, the epitome of the genre. There's no such thing for me as growing tired of their music. Now that you've discovered them, you'll want to explore lots of their music. When they broke up, Art Garfunkel went on to do a few things, but Paul Simon is the one who continued to have a great career. He's a consummate songwriter and writes unique songs that are fascinating and sophisticated. His work is just as mesmerizing to explore as what the two of them together produced. As for Disturbed's version, sure, it's haunting and intriguing, but it doesn't hold a candle to the beauty of S&G's performance. Plus, it irritated me that people would call it Disturbed's Sound of Silence when they'd upload their own cover of the song on KZbin. It's Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence, dammit! Not Disturbed's!

[@thomastimlin1724]

Totally support that!

[@danettecrossley7912]

This is their song but all the people who you mentioned did it great but it will always be Simon and Garfunkel song from back in the hippie peace and love days originally God bless

[@kenmatthews46]

Paul Simon wrote this song in 1964. However it was inspired by Art Garfunkel's college roommate who lost his sight and became blind, "hello darkness my old friend". The song has a very interesting history.

[@eddie56120032003]

The song was written about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

[@tdgallagher218]

I watched a Paul Simon interview in which he spoke about this song. He said he had a habit of playing his guitar in the bathroom and would turn the lights off to help him concentrate better. This inspired him to write the opening line of the song.

[@jackempson3044]

My ten year old grandaugher heard them in my car and she said they sounded like Angels singing.

[@jasonward1470]

She might have been right.

[@sorrystaunton]

Nothing like singing in front of 500,000 people for a free concert in Central Park….what a night!!!

[@patriciaquinn6377]

I was there. It was some night!!

[@paigetania]

10,000 people maybe more, X FIFTY, pity they didn't show them all.

[@The214624]

Free Concert in Central Park, 500,000 in attendance and no incidents. The GOOD OLD DAYS !!!

[@tonybennett4159]

The great thing about the singer songwriters of that era was that their lyrics were poetic and personal and they sang them so that you could hear every word.

[@granfall00n]

Next “Bridge over troubled water”. Studio version.

[@michaelway7936]

There was half a million people who attended this landmark concert, this is the definitive version of the song

[@terri2494]

I’ve heard estimates ranging from 400,000 to a million. That’s why you hear the audience respond when they sing, “And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more.” This was eleven years after they broke up. It was a free concert in Central Park.

[@texadan314]

Definitive? I like the original better.

[@larrystuder8543]

Knowing the original so well, I can hear every bad note, every change of key. They got older. They did a GOOD JOB, but the Original is even better... and Disturbed- forget it...

[@tomrogers1305]

Been a long time since hearing this. Don't recall them starting so out of sync. But who's going to complain about a free concert on Central Park?

[@mikeguerrero72]

​@Larry Studer No kidding Larry. The original studio version is absolutely the best. That being said, I think that they did just fine in Central Park. A live performance with a half million people watching and who knows how many on TV. If I'm not mistaken, weren't they broken up and decided to do this in Central Park? I think that's why the people reacted like they did. Kind of a 'Welcome Back' applause from the fans.

[@Zentrix-24]

This will always be my fav version, not just because Paul Simon wrote it but they sang a message provoking deep thought. I'd consider this more a folk ballad. S&G have great harmonies as well. There are many others awaiting a reaction such as "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and "The Boxer" + more.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

BOTW coming soon!

[@chrisalldis3375]

Its the Original!

[@richardkawucha1232]

Simon and Garfunkel are, in my opinion, one of the greatest duos of my music age. Most of their songs are protest songs. You can't go wrong with any of them. Even as he aged Garfunkel's voice stayed memorable.

[@ronaldmcrae4896]

Agree, another great dou was the Everly Brothers.

[@richardkawucha1232]

@@ronaldmcrae4896 True, and the same could be said about The Righteous Brothers. These were more love song/love gone wrong singers. Simon and Garfunkel sang more about issues. "The Sun Comes To Earth" is about the atomic/nuclear bombs. "Look for America" is about finding one's self.

[@mikemiller3069]

@@richardkawucha1232 The title is just "America", not "Look for America". Not to be confused with "American Tune" which is another of S&G's hits.

[@richardkawucha1232]

@@mikemiller3069 Hey! At my age I feel lucky to remember they sang it. 😆

[@mikemiller3069]

@@richardkawucha1232 I feel you there. 😂

[@thebeardedcurmudgeon]

You need to react to Bridge Over Troubled Water from this same concert. Good reaction by the way.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Thank you! That one is coming soon!

[@paulauvray1962]

This concert in central park was very spécial at this time ! you can listen to the full concert !!!

[@allanboyer2769]

Paul Simon wrote this song. It is, indeed, the original version. Pentatonix is a good band, I like their stuff, but this is classic. One of the best songs ever written. This version was performed in September of 1981 in Central Park to an audience of half a million people. One of the largest concert audiences in history. It was their first live album.

[@LeeCarlson]

When Paul Simon heard David Draiman's performance of this song, he said that when he and Art Garfunkle sang it in the 1960s it was a warning regarding the trend toward self-absorption, and when Disturbed performed the song it was a chastisement for people not heeding their warning a half-century earlier.

[@geraldherrmann787]

their original album version is from 1964. for me, the most impressive take on the song is their very own live performance 2009 from madison square garden with orchestra, hits (me) even more than the disturbed version.

[@wpollock1]

Just a cozy group of people - 500,000 people.....😀

[@waynevarrelman9363]

Probably the 'GREATEST" song ever written!..... the message is more relevant today than ever.

[@jackempson3044]

Simon wrote the song. Doing covers is like paintiing by numbers. Everything is already written for you to copy. Simon and Garfunkel are the real deal. They're the originators and creators of this song. Listening to bands do cover songs is like getting after-market car parts.

[@burrichgrrl57]

Agreed. I don't generally care for covers. I do like Disturbed version.

[@RiverSong5683]

Paul Simon wrote this and is a true poet. No one can touch this talented duo or even when they split and went solo.

[@quaresma9003]

7 grammy awards & Rock n'Roll Hall of fame

[@doomhunter697]

Their version is a warning- Disturb's is anger that the warning was ignored.

[@CoastalNomad]

I was gonna Comment That....... Checked comments to make sure was not duplicating......

[@eddie56120032003]

The song was written in 1964 and inspired by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Without a LONG history. America was at a time of civil rights, possible nuclear war with Russia, etc. etc. Here comes a young, handsome, smart guy, beautiful wife, two young children, that was the start of a new generation in politics. Then was so quickly taken from everyone. When it happened, America at that time was more than devastated. Then Paul Simon wrote the song.....

[@757optim]

A song that stands the test of time. Perhaps unfortunately.

[@chrisgray8741]

The reason people went nuts when they said “10,000 people maybe more “ was because there were more than 500,000 people there in central park

[@mikepesce2611]

This 1981 performance at Central Park had over 500,000 in attendance.

[@guitarman8462]

This concert was about a million or more fans . Simon & Garfunkel have a huge music library .

[@lingoman1]

This is live, 1981 but the song was recorded in the 60s, as already mentioned. I like the original recording because that is how it was released and what I got used to hearing. Live is fine but not as originally recorded. It reflects what was happening in the 60s. Simon & Garfunkel were icons and to some extent, they still are.

[@mikeguerrero72]

Jorge, you think like I do. Considering they were Live, they did a good job. It can't be compared to the studio version. All of their songs, just like The Beatles, were done in a studio. So we fell in love with this kind of music. Now we have an opportunity to see a younger generation listening to music and enjoying it just as we did. Who knows? It could inspire another Frank Sinatra, or Tony Bennett. People just need to listen.

[@thomastimlin1724]

@@mikeguerrero72 The reality is when they were on the road in the 1960's, they had to do it this way, 1 guitar and 2 voices, that's it.

[@mikeguerrero72]

@Thomas Timlin they got really good at it huh?

[@harlanginsberg7269]

This was a free concert. I was 25 and at the concert sitting on a towel in Central Park listening to this unbelievable music.

[@terri2494]

Oh wow. You just made me and a lot of other people jealous. Far more than if you’d said you were at Woodstock.

[@harlanginsberg7269]

@@terri2494 Lol Well I was at Watkins Glen which drew a lot more then Woodstock. Not as muddy though

[@kmwwrench]

This came out when I was in college and will always be my favorite version. I was not impressed by either the Disturbed nor the PTX version. But there are several other covers that I do like. Geoff Castellucci (from Voiceplay) recently released a solo version; Tim Foust (from Home Free) and Peter Hollens have a duet version on Peter's channel, which is probably my favorite cover; and The Hound and the Fox have a version featuring Adam Chance from Home Free. All 3 are different approaches and all 3 are different from the original, but still respect it. For more Simon and Garfunkel, I recommend the performance of Bridge Over Troubled Water from the same Central Park concert. Art Garfunkel's voice is amazingly, breathtakingly beautiful. Happy listening!

[@ralphkern380]

I believe Art Garfunkel said this song is about man's inability to communicate with each other. True in 1964... true now.

[@dougca7086]

React to Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

[@paulwalker9421]

Paul Simon wrote this song and Simon And Garfunkel are iconic !

[@mikeconway9849]

Great reaction Phil and Sam! I was barely in my teens when this song came out. I loved the voices, harmonies and acoustics in the song. One thing I did not pay attention to, though, was the lyrics. It was the cover by Disturbed that forced me to listen to the words and appreciate their meaning. Paul Simon is a great songwriter!

[@barsandbarbells2022]

💯 !

[@ronaldmcrae4896]

Hated Disturbed's version when I first heard it but after the shock wore off I found i like both. Same lyrics but different approach, both great.

[@terri2494]

When my sister told me about the Disturbed version I was surprised that she thought it was great. For fifty years I thought it would be pointless to cover it because no one could come close to S&G’s version. I actually did like his take on it when I watched it. I think it works because it’s such a different style, and of course it’s very well done. I’ve seen a lot of reaction videos to this and S&G’s studio version and I think this is the first time I’ve seen negative comments about the Disturbed cover (from other commenters, not you). It’s mentioned a lot and everyone seems to like it, which is a HUGE compliment.

[@rhwinner]

It was written by Paul Simon as an acoustic number. However the producer added a backing track on to it after the sessions were done without Simon's permission. It was a big hit for them, but Simon never liked it. To this day he always performs it as an acoustic song, never with electric instruments.

[@RossWrock]

This concert is worth a watch in its entirety. Simon and Garfunkel had been broken up for a full decade when the city of New York arranged this concert to pay for the much needed upkeep to the city's largest green space. At this point, they did not get along personally, and their musical careers went in wildly different directions. Still, they performed like consummate professionals, and sang many of their biggest hits. New York was hoping 300,000 people might attend. More than a half million showed up to the park, and many were turned away. People didn't care, and went to the rooftops of many of the buildings that were close by. At the time, this was the 7th largest live concert ever in US history.

[@justlookin11]

Simon and Garfunkel the first and a warning, Disturbed second version and our failure to heed the first. Pentatonix third version a vision of hope thru the darkness.

[@fawnebrown4619]

Never tire hearing any of their songs. The harmonies are beyond compare. Hope you react to many more Simon & Garfunkel songs. Pick any song. There is not a bad one to be found. America and Old Friends are two of my favorites.

[@brucesavage8493]

Simon and Garfunkel are great live but their recordings are much better. Please react to the record version of Bridge Over Troubled Water.

[@markhine3232]

This is the best version of this powerful song. Glad you chose it. It has such an awesome msg and they harmonize so well together. Plz if you could, react to I AM A ROCK. It it blows my mind as to how lonely n depressing it is to be alone all the time. God bless guys

[@OscarMorales-y2v]

Hey guys, did you know that there were 500.000 people in that concert??? It was remarkable....You should react to "The Boxer", same concert....Amazing...

[@jamesrobertson2361]

FYI There were more than 500,000 people in attendance.

[@deborahdennehy9937]

Yes, the lyrics & meaning was from Simon & Garfunkel with their tremendous singing, Art Garfunkel is the tall guy & Paul Simon was the guitarist/pianist. Just an excellent duo. 'Bridge over troubled water' is also a fabulous song as many others of theirs. I was either 9 or 10 when the album came out, & my parents bought it for me!! That was a LONNG time ago!! xx

[@BillO964]

I can not stand the Disturbed version. Horrible.

[@stephenlawson3071]

"Stripped down" is the way it always was until Disturbed....disturbed.....the sound...of ...silence. lol

[@howiedavis2316]

I would love to see your reaction to Art Garfunkel - All I Know (his solo album), he has the voice of an angel. 🎼👼

[@MM-xy3wv]

You guys should listen to the studio version is so much better.😊

[@maryhosea6475]

This is their song . Written by them in 1964. How prophetic! Young people dont talk anymore. They are walking around oblivious to other people.

[@mikefixx7177]

Love the studio version much better, this song is too slow.

[@ZitaZone]

The small guy there is Paul Simon who wrote the song. Simon and Garfunkel were a great duo in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Paul Simon went on to a great solo career

[@waltersmith6100]

This version had two issues, unfortunately. #1 is the simple fact that it was live. #2, which is really sad, is when they did this concert, there was a lot of bad blood between them, and it could be sensed in the sound. The studio version was simply Beautiful. In my opinion, Disturbed totally destroyed it!

[@Wellch]

I could not sense any bad blood when they were singing it.They hid it well.

[@LuigiSpumante]

The original artists, also writers of this song, perform it with only their voices and a guitar. Because, it is a song about the sound of silence, not of the darkness, or the disturbed.

[@dougleclaire9424]

The Audience? 1 million !!!! in Central Park!!!!

[@joankisloski6972]

Perfection.... No one does it better.

[@richardkane3828]

they are the original Paul wrote it.

[@tramsey9059]

live version here not near as emotional and clear as their record version

[@guitarman8462]

You should watch this whole concert !!! 🤙🎸

[@mem1701movies]

Damn she’s good lookin’

[@stephenlawson3071]

And they're not even in their prime in this video.

[@kirkhall2099]

Check out the studio album version. Much better. They really liked Disturbs version and would have liked to sang it in that way.

[@michaelcunningham-i8o]

They wrote this song, no auto tune no, mixers; Just pure talent all pure and the best harmony ever. Why do we need modern remakes that have no talent might as well have AI for everything. No more humans. What a sad world now.

[@lisannebaumholz5028]

As others have mentioned, there are so many Simon & Garfunkel songs worth listening to as well as Paul Simon material from his solo career. When Paul Simon became a Kennedy Center honoree in 2002, Steve Martin gave some opening remarks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pampomuao6aHmNU

[@markhine3232]

Also Paul Simon had some great song ME N JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOL YARD...50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER...KODACHOME...YOU CAN CALL ME AL(THE OFFICIAL VIDEO IS FUNNY AND TERRIFIC.

[@MrBill68]

I heard a great comparison between this version and Disturb's. The original was a quiet warning. Disturb's was a furious commentary that the warning was not heeded.

[@brandonflorida1092]

Yup, despite their countless brilliant hits, this and about 4 others are the only Simon and Garfunkel songs ever reacted to. No one or, in some cases almost no one, touches, "Richard Corey," "Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall," "Scarborough Fair," "The 59th Street Bridge Song," "At the Zoo," "I Am a Rock," "Homeward Bound," etc., etc.

[@ronsharkey2330]

This was part of the sound Track 😢for movie The Graduate! ,! A classic on its own.😊😮

[@jayjobb6372]

DON'T YOU DARE compare this song to Disturbed or Pentatonix who had not even been born yet. You (like every other reactor) are so deluded by other decades and genres of music that you can't possibly know the impact this song and duo had on a million people that gathered around Central Park to pay homage to these two artists. They originally did this epic song back in the 60s when no one else could write and perform like them. I suggest you stay away period from making comparisons to any song (work of art) and take it as is. Don't try and interject styles or instruments. This song touched the world back in the 60s and in the 80s at Central Park. Disturbed and Pentatonix did their version of it. But never try to make any comparison... Especially without knowledge of the musicians and the social, technological, and cultural background that spawned an iconic hit like this. Simon and Garfunkel also wrote and performed Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Don't make their fantastic version of that song subject to any other artist's version. Thanks and keep learning.

[@DrewD55]

Not the original version. The original came out in 1964, and the remixed version, with electric instruments that became a #1 hit, came out in 1966. This was from a 1981 reunion concert they played in front of half a million people in Central Park. It's aight, but not great. Hate the Disturbed cover.

[@buttjuice858]

Simon and Garfunkel were prevalent during the Vietnam War years and their songs were poignant for the time and beyond. There is another studio version that have an electric melodic guitar and drums.

[@markrinehart8813]

The real story behind the song The Sound of Silence: Simon had started writing “The Sound of Silence” late in 1963, as a response to the assassination of John F Kennedy, a hero of his, on November 22. He took his guitar into the bathroom where he liked the acoustics and, as was his habit, turned off the light and sat there playing.

[@dougleclaire9424]

Yes...this is the original version written by Paul Simon. This was performed by 1 million folks in Central Park. Do you get that? You've never heard Simon and Garfunkel ever??

[@thomastimlin1724]

At this point, except for record in 1975 called My Little Town" S and G had not sung together since about 1970. They had parted ways. This was a reunion concert, Sound of Silence was released in 1965/66, it was their first national/international hit then. I hate Disturbed's version.. It's too much death and Darth Vader, over the top for me. THIS is the real version, live...they are doin it slower than the original record here...mentioning Disturbed in the same sentence as Simon and Garfunkel who are legends, is a bad joke to me. to say you're listening to a stripped down musical components version here is ridiculous in a way...this was the original sound of this song, which came first, when there was nothing to strip down. This is the way they had to perform it on the road n the 1960's when they were young, just two voices and one guitar.

[@an.american]

Disturbed butchers this song. S&G studio version of this song is 100% better. Reaction ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Selection ⭐⭐

[@deirdre108]

Outstanding version here--no need to gild the lily by adding extraneous effects. Also, recognize that Paul is singing the lower harmony AND playing guitar while Art is singing the melody. Just perfect!

[@merlinathrawes746]

This is how Simon & Garfunkel wanted the song to sound like. The recording company, when this song was originally released, insisted on the "wall of sound" after the 1st verse, which made the song quite a bit different than S&G wanted. You should listen to that version as well, just for comparison's sake. But this is how they wanted it.

[@carolynsaint6263]

Don't forget the Elvis version. LOL

[@barsandbarbells2022]

It's Coming!

[@danmcdonagh8924]

Don't forget that they wrote this in 1964 which was a peaceful time not a dark time like when Disturbed did it. I don't like when people call the original as a version, which true but they wrote it to have the message that they did. It is easy to to do a remake of the original and make your own. It is the ORIGINAL IN 1964.

[@carlanderson7618]

Love your selections, if I may recommend another "Rabbit hole" for you to head down -Bob Seger Against The Wind - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2WVYaZ6bNuZeqs

[@markmurphy558]

While Disturbed did a great cover of this song 50 years after the original, it is insulting to S&G to put his effort in the same category as the originators. When you realize the scope and importance of S & G and Paul's solo work to the American Songbook, you will realize what we are talking about.

[@cheryla7480]

The Simon and Garfunkel version is still the best. Their harmonies aren’t as perfect here, because the had split up and came back to do this concert. I much prefer their earlier versions. Disturbed’s version is an “ angry “ one , where as S&G’s version is softly sorrowful, the way I think Paul intended when he wrote it.

[@dougca7086]

Paul Simon writes all their songs of course this was in front of a half-million people in Central Park New York you should react to 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon

[@rubroken]

This original is very airy and light, which doesn't match the lyrics(still my favorite) but Disturb's cover matches the lyrics much better(great interpretation of the song)

[@DanoSeer]

You have to take into account the era this song was done also. The culture was much different, and many folk singers were trying to promote peace and quell some of the violence in the world. The original will always be the best. That's why today many songs sound so negative and dark, because our culture is. And they all "pray to the neon god" don't they?

[@Fonoyb]

Why do the Reaction videos always choose this video from Central Park. It will not give you the Best reaction. They hadn't played together for years when they did this. Try the Recorded version. It's Besutiful and the Best.

[@larryfisher2633]

They did it and sang it first.

[@sam04019491]

You should watch Paul Simon sing this at ground zero as part of a 9/11 memorial. It’s chilling.

[@JillFijolek]

You should definitely react to John Farnham singing Bridge over Troubled Water. In my opinion it is far superior to this version.

[@fordcorsair]

Still find it hilarious when the original craftsmen of songs are somehow thought to be inferior to cover artists who came along 50 years later. The original arrangement and recording reflects the songwriters' intent - covers are an interpretation of lyrics to suit another artist's genre. So if you prefer metal to folk, you will always prefer the metal version whether it really reflects the original feeling or meaning or not. Every S&G song, no matter how many times covered, is always best by S&G.

[@lauraoday1761]

I love Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle, BUT... you have to hear it by Dan Vasc

[@Pintail16]

Vietnam.... MIA signs, the welcome home signs in the front yards of the families that hoped their young men would soon be home.

[@juanamcintosh4661]

If you want to hear their Harmony Truly find their versions from the 60s and the 70s I love this version but their voices are much more in tune when they were younger

[@danmcdonagh8924]

The early 60's was much more positive and peaceful time. At that time was not meant to be Dark.😅

[@dynamitewallflower]

Please just listen first then comment ,that way you will get the full effect of the beautiful harmonies and song that is Simon and Garfunkel !!

[@elee1086]

Listen to Simon Garfunkel bridge over trouble water then listen to Johnny cash doing it.

[@KlickyMonster]

I will break the sound of silence and recommend Paul Simon’s “Duncan.”