BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER sung with piano only, by Sam Harris, Live, in Concert!

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Facebook ► facebook.com ► Download Sam ► SamTunes.NET Sam Harris sing BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER, with piano only, Live, in Concert! “Bridge over Troubled Water” is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel’s final album together, released January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album “Simon & Garfunkel, Live 1969.” It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks. “Bridge over Troubled Water” also topped the adult contemporary chart in the US for six weeks. This song’s recording process exposed many of the underlying tensions that eventually led to the breakup of the duo after the album’s completion. Most notably, Paul Simon has repeatedly expressed regret over his insistence that Art Garfunkel sing this song as a solo, as it focused attention on Garfunkel and relegated Simon to a secondary position. Art Garfunkel initially did not want to sing lead vocal, feeling it was not right for him. “He felt I should have done it,” Paul Simon revealed to Rolling Stone in 1972. Garfunkel said that the moment when he performed it in Madison Square Garden in 1972 was “almost biblical.” In recent performances on the “Old Friends” tour, Simon and Garfunkel have taken turns singing alternate verses of the vocal. Rolling Stone named it number 47 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Simon wrote the song in the summer of 1969 while Garfunkel was filming Catch-22 in Europe. The song originally had two

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August 30, 2010

terry0710 @ 10:14 pm #

The Best. I love it

terry0710 @ 10:14 pm #

The Best. I love it.

topup73 @ 10:26 pm #

I love when I first heard Sam sing it…and I still love hearing Sam sing it! And sing it he does!

BCati @ 11:51 pm #

Would love to hear you sing, “I Am What I Am,” not in drag, of course! :-)

August 31, 2010

lavenderliberal @ 2:27 am #

I just blogged this, and all I could say was: “We’re So Lucky You’re Ours, Sam”

Pippilly @ 4:18 am #

Bravo, Sam!

amjPeace @ 6:23 am #

Such a pretty song, and done so beautifully!
For me, the troubled waters are nerves over a new job.
Thanks for reminding me that God is there, my ever-present Bridge.
… and thanks for the goosebumps, too LOL!
You both rock!

angieros @ 6:27 am #

Oh Sam…I sure love when you sing this one! Gives me ‘jittabumps’ everytime!
Please come down here to Florida someday soon….I KNOW I would have tears in my eyes watching you do this live….so many of your songs bring tears to my eyes Sam….
Love ya so much!
Angie…your gal in Florida

urbanwarrior @ 8:49 am #

Your voice is amazing, Sam. What a gift!

bcdoula @ 5:14 pm #

I love when gospel Sam emerges at the end of this song. Fantastic performance!!!

winenot1 @ 11:57 pm #

There is a great big beautiful black woman gospel singer in there somewhere! So good!

September 3, 2010

MrMcMusic01 @ 7:37 pm #

SING, MAHALIA, SING!!!!!!!!!

BuckeyeSecretary @ 9:38 pm #

Sam Harris I have loved you forever!!!!

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