The new “Sound of Silence” was released in October and began to climb the charts. Disc jockeys in Florida and Boston picked through the failed album and began airing “The Sound of Silence.” The album's producer, Tom Wilson, who had been involved with some of Bob Dylan's work, got Dylan's backing band to record "a jangly, amplified rhythm section from the second verse onward" and dubbed it in. Yet, as they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. The album was a bust, and the duo - who had been recording and performing off and on since 1957, under the names "Tom and Jerry" and "Kane and Garr," threw in the towel and went their separate ways, with Simon moving to England, joined occasionally by Garfunkel to sing a few gigs. The song was included - under the name "Sounds of Silence" - on "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.," the debut album of Simon and Garfunkel that was released in October 1964. Here's a video of the pair skating to this song at the European Championships a year ago. Tonight at the Winter Olympics, French Figure Skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres wowed the world with their routine, set to Disturbed's haunting cover of "The Sound of Silence," written by a 21-year-old Paul Simon in 1964.
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