"U.S., Epic Records released the single, which reached number 11 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and was one of the top 100 songs of 1967. The song sold one million copies globally, earning gold disc status. The Tremeloes also recorded an Italian version, ""E in silenzio"". The song was also covered by Swedish singer Jim Jidhed (in English) in 1989. Silence Is Golden (song) ""Silence Is Golden"" is a song recorded by the American vocal group the Four Seasons. The song was co-written by group producer Bob Crewe and group member Bob Gaudio. Philips Records released it in 1964"
"Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the bestselling music groups of the 1960s and became counterculture icons of the decade's social revolution, alongside artists such as the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan. Their biggest hits—including ""The Sound of Silence"" (1964), ""Mrs. Robinson"" (1968), ""The Boxer"" (1969), and ""Bridge over Troubled Water"" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide. The duo met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize together and began writing"
"The Square Set The Square Set was a 1960s rock band from Cape Town South Africa, known for their songs ""Silence is Golden"" (SA number 1 Hit (1967)) """"Carol Corina"""" (SA number 10 hit (1968)), and """"That's What I Want"""" (international number 1 hit in Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal (1971-1972)). The band formed in March 1966 and was called Neville Whitmill and the Humans. Founder members Nol, Neville, Derek and Keith rehearsed daily for 6 months composing new songs and covers before contracting their first professional gig at the Clifton Hotel. Nol Klinkhamer hailed from the Conservetoire of Music in"
"1967 hit ""Cold"") failed even to ""Bubble Under."" In 1967, only one single reached #1 on both charts ""Somethin' Stupid"" by Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra. This trend began to reverse by the end of the decade. Notable artists with multiple #1 songs on this chart during the 1960s include Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, The 5th Dimension, and Glen Campbell. ""Love Is Blue"" by Paul Mauriat held the top of the Easy Listening chart for 11 weeks in 1968, which remained the longest stay at #1 until 1993. The Hot 100 and Easy Listening"
"""Is It True"" was released in England and later in the US, and it became a hit and a gold record. ""What'd I Say"" became another hit throughout Europe but was never released in the US. Most had equal success with other artists for whom he produced chart-topping albums and singles between 1964 and 1969, notably Donovan with ""Sunshine Superman"", ""Mellow Yellow"", ""Jennifer Juniper"", and ""Hurdy Gurdy Man"", and Lulu's hits ""To Sir, with Love"", ""The Boat That I Row"", ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"" (which finished equal first in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest), ""Me the Peaceful Heart"", and ""I'm a Tiger""."
"chart. The song was also a hit for Shirley Bassey at the same time in the United Kingdom. It has since been covered by a large number of artists. The song became a Gold record. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1971. Richard Carpenter of Carpenters heard the song during an evening of relaxation at the movies while on tour. He decided it would be ideal for the duo. It became a hit for them in 1971, reaching No. 3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart and No. 1 for three weeks on the US"
"the early San Francisco bands including many signed to the Tempo/Autumn Record Label. A year later, Haeny and John Coltrane worked on 4 unreleased tracks. After his relocation to Los Angeles, Haeny was responsible for working on production for the single, ""I'm a Believer"" along with Jeff Barry. The hit from the band The Monkees became a well-known track, which went Gold within two days of its release following over 1 million advance orders. It was the last No. 1 hit of 1966 and the biggest selling record in 1967 as the single spent 7 weeks at number one in"
"at number one. ""Bookends"" was considered a breakthrough for the duo, placing them on the same level as artists such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones at the forefront of the cultural movement in the 1960s. The album has continued to receive critical acclaim. Simon & Garfunkel first burst onto the national scene when their hit single ""The Sound of Silence"" made waves on radio in 1965, during a period in which the duo had broken up due to the failure of their debut release, ""Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."" (1964). Following another release, ""Sounds of Silence"" (1965),"
"Lulu (singer) Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. Later in her career she had hits internationally with ""To Sir with Love"" from the 1967 film of the same name and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest 1969 winning entry ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"", and in the UK for her 1964 hit ""Shout"", which was performed at the closing"
"""When Lotti brought her material to Crewe in 1967, he exclaimed, 'Good God, who are your friends?'"" Golden waited one year while Crewe cleared his schedule, and in 1968 began recording an autobiographical album, ""Motor-Cycle"", ""a synthesis of funky singing and honest hip lyrics about urban teenage trauma."" Atlantic Records moguls, Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegün bought the [demo] tapes after one hearing, with Wexler ""modestly telling his staff Golden would be the greatest single pop artist since Aretha Franklin."" The release of ""Motor-Cycle"" in 1969 generated media interest in Golden. ""Look"" magazine described Golden's songs and poetry as ""rich"
"where ""Golden Rainbow"" played until it closed on January 11, 1969. The stars of ""Golden Rainbow"", Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, were already well known from their extensive work in music, film and television during the 1950s and 1960s. The musical is perhaps best remembered for the song ""I've Gotta Be Me"", released as a single in the late 1960s by both Lawrence and Sammy Davis, Jr. (Davis's version reached #11 on the pop chart and #1 on the easy listening chart). The show concerns a man living in Las Vegas, Nevada and raising his son alone; his late wife's"
"Is Golden"". Both this last single and ""Here Comes My Baby"" also entered the Top 20 of the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on CBS' co-owned Epic Records. All members shared vocals, though most of the songs featured either Hawkes or drummer Dave Munden as the lead singer. Guitarist Rick Westwood sang falsetto co-lead vocal with Hawkes' lower range vocal and group harmonies also featured on ""Silence Is Golden"". Their regular hits were accompanied by frequent appearances on BBC's ""Top of the Pops"" TV programme. Their songs were popular with younger music fans and parents rather than rock music fans, although"
"1967), Chuck Berry (""Live at Fillmore Auditorium"" 1967), Savoy Brown (""Blue Matter"" 1968), Karen Dalton (""It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best"" 1969), the Rolling Stones (""Jamming with Edward!"" 1972), Bob Dylan (""Self Portrait"" 1970), Hound Dog Taylor (""Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers"" 1971), Grateful Dead (""Europe '72"" 1972), Foghat (""Stone Blue"" 1978), Eric Burdon (""Comeback"" 1982), Eric Clapton (""From the Cradle"" 1994), Susan Tedeschi (""Better Days"" 1995), Paul Butterfield Blues Band (""The Original Lost Elektra Sessions"" 1995), Gov't Mule with Little Milton (""Mulennium"" 1999), Keb Mo (""The Door"" 2000), Diesel (""ITunes Live from"
"Gladys Knight Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the ""Empress of Soul"", is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian and author. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald ""Bubba"" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles (""Midnight Train to Georgia"" and ""That's What Friends Are For""), eleven number-one R&B singles, and six number-one R&B albums. She has won seven Grammy"
"Square Set songs. The previously unreleased 'Silence Is Golden' had a makeover with Graham Beggs at the helm and was released on Gallos Continental label in or about March 1967. It reached number 1 on the Springbok radio charts around July 1967.This led to the release of the bands first full album, 'Silence Is Golden'. 'That's What I Want', a song first recorded by UK group The Marauders in 1963, was also recorded by The Ronnie Singer Sound, a Cape Town band Marks had previously worked with. The latter version was given to The Square Set to record. The song"
"1967 in music The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its ""Summer of Love"" in San Francisco. It saw major releases from The Beatles (""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" and ""Magical Mystery Tour""), Small Faces (""Itchycoo Park""), Eric Burdon & The Animals (""Winds of Change""), Big Brother and The Holding Company (""Big Brother and The Holding Company""), The Doors (""The Doors"" and ""Strange Days""), Jefferson Airplane (""Surrealistic Pillow"" and ""After Bathing at Baxter's""), Moby Grape (""Moby Grape)"", Traffic (""Mr. Fantasy""), Pink Floyd (""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn""), Love (""Forever Changes)"","
"Golden Earring Golden Earring is a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings (the definite article was dropped in 1967, while the ""s"" was dropped in 1969). They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs ""Radar Love"" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom and went to number thirteen on the United States charts, ""Twilight Zone"" in 1982, and ""When the Lady Smiles"" in 1984. During their career they have had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts while releasing"
"Paul Simon Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's musical career has spanned seven decades, with his fame and commercial success beginning as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel (originally known as Tom & Jerry), formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel. Simon was responsible for writing nearly all of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the U.S. singles charts: ""The Sound of Silence"", ""Mrs. Robinson"", and ""Bridge over Troubled Water"". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity and Simon began a successful solo"
"Hot 100, becoming Cher's second top ten single after ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"", and number twelve in Canada. ""You Better Sit Down Kids"" was covered by Roy Drusky, Liza Minnelli, Glen Campbell and Bono himself on ""All I Ever Need Is You"" (1971). The year of 1967 was full for Sonny & Cher. They released their third studio album ""In Case You're In Love"" in March which yielded the U.S. top ten single ""The Beat Goes On"" and the U.K. top five single ""Little Man"". In April, they promoted the musical comedy ""Good Times"" along with its"
"at No. 6 on the ""Go-Set"" National Top 60 and remained in the charts for 16 weeks. It is included in a time capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The song is written and was recorded by John Stewart, an ex-member of the Kingston Trio. It is Lindsay's first major hit, reaching No. 8 on the Australian Singles Chart in 1971. His other popular singles from the 1970s are ""July You're a Woman"" (1973), ""Silence on the Line"" (1977) and ""Empty Arms Hotel"" 1979). In January 1974 he won a Golden Guitar trophy at the Country Music"
"20th century. In 2004, it was ranked No. 157 on ""Rolling Stone"" list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the duo's three songs on the list. The song is now considered ""the quintessential folk rock release"". On March 21, 2013, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for long-term preservation along with the rest of the ""Sounds of Silence"" album. When director Mike Nichols and Sam O'Steen were editing the 1967 film ""The Graduate"", they initially timed some scenes to this song, intending to substitute original music for the"
"five million copies by the end of 1967. Rosso was awarded a gold disc. On 9 January 1965 it reached the Number 2 position in Australia and stayed in the charts for 19 weeks, and in the United Kingdom it peaked at number 8 on the Record Retailer singles chart. In the United States it reached #32 in the Billboard Easy Listening Charts. In Canada, the song reached #24 in the RPM Adult Contemporary charts. Il Silenzio contains the following spoken lines: ""Il Silenzio"" is a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th"
"The Sound of Silence ""The Sound of Silence"", originally ""The Sounds of Silence"", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut album, ""Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."". Released in October 1964, the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Paul Simon"
"by Columbia or any other major label. Arguably the most commercially successful Columbia pop act of this period, other than Bob Dylan, was Simon & Garfunkel. The duo scored a surprise No. 1 hit in 1965 when CBS producer Tom Wilson, inspired by the folk-rock experiments of The Byrds and others, added drums and bass to the duo's earlier recording of ""The Sound of Silence"" without their knowledge or approval. Indeed, the duo had already broken up some months earlier, discouraged by the poor sales of their debut LP, and Paul Simon had relocated to the UK, where he famously"
"Angeles, California. ""The Sound of Silence"" (electric overdubs) personnel ""The Sound of Silence"" overdubs were recorded at Columbia's ""Studio A"" at 799 Seventh Avenue near 52nd Street by Columbia Records staff producer Tom Wilson on June 15, 1965. Sounds of Silence Sounds of Silence is the second studio album by Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966. The album's title is a slight modification of the title of the duo's first major hit, ""The Sound of Silence"", which originally was released as ""The Sounds of Silence"". The song had earlier been released in an acoustic version on the album"
"was an American vocal group that had 40 charted singles on the Billboard ""Hot 100 Chart"" between 1955 and 1967, including four No. 1 hits, and for a period of time was the most successful vocal group in the world. From the age of 20 to the present time, Conti has performed with some of the world's greatest artists both in the studio and touring the globe, including Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Gene Simmons, Wilson Pickett, Jose Feliciano, Richie Sambora, Paul Simon, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rita Coolidge, Helen Reddy, Karen Carpenter, Laura Brannigan, Player, Raquel Welch, The Brooklyn Dreams"
"gold record award from the Recording Industry Association of America in August 1968. Although Nobles is the title artist, he does not personally perform on the track. The song was simply ""Love is All Right"" without his vocal track. The horn section which is featured eventually became the group MFSB. The track itself features a simple, unvarying rhythmic line played by different instruments, finished off each time around by a melodic, heralding horn section line. According to Bobby Eli, a guitarist on the session, the instrumental track was the result of he, guitarist Norman Harris, bassist Ronnie Baker, and drummer"
"Happiness Is Dean Martin Happiness Is Dean Martin is a 1967 studio album by Dean Martin arranged by Ernie Freeman and Bill Justis. This was the first of two albums that Martin released in 1967. He had released five albums in 1966, as well as appearing in his television show and starring in three films. Martin's eight previous singles had been Top 40 hits between 1964 and 1966; three tracks from this album, ""Nobody's Baby Again"", ""(Open Up the Door) Let the Good Times In,"" and ""Lay Some Happiness on Me,"" had previously been released as singles. ""Happiness Is Dean"
"person to achieve the feat: In 1968 with ""What Is Calypso"" and ""Social Bacchanal"", in 1969 with ""Black Is Beautiful"" and ""One Foot Visina"", then in 1970 singing ""Brotherhood of Man"" and ""See Through"" and finally, in 1971 he won the competition performing ""Mathematical Formula"" and ""Melvine & Yvonne"". Furthermore he was noted for exploring ideas such as black consciousness, apartheid, and global politics in his lyrics. Lord Nelson was one of many for whom he composed music. In 1970, he was awarded the Silver Hummingbird Medal for his contribution to calypso. In 1987, his soca song ""Thunder"" was awarded"
"which reached number 11 on the Hot 100, as well as ""Kicks"", ""Hungry"", and ""Good Thing"", all of which peaked inside the top 10. In addition, the band's three 1966 studio albums—""Just Like Us!"", ""Midnight Ride"", and ""The Spirit of '67""—were each certified gold in the United States. The band's popularity began to wane during the late 1960s, but in 1971 they released their first U.S. number one single, ""Indian Reservation"", a song written by John D. Loudermilk. However, the band did not duplicate the song's success with any subsequent singles, and by 1975 Columbia Records abandoned the group. Notes"
"success of ""Hanky Panky"" by a defunct group, the Shondells, whose membership included Tommy James, revived James' career, where he assembled a new group under the name Tommy James and the Shondells. They followed with twelve more top 40 singles. In 1967, Strawberry Alarm Clock emerged from the garage outfit Thee Sixpence and had a No. 1 hit in 1967 with psychedelic ""Incense and Peppermints"". Garage rock was not an exclusively male phenomenon—it fostered the emergence of all-female bands whose members played their own instruments. One of the first of such acts was New York's Goldie and the Gingerbreads, who"
"His success continued into 1967 with another No. 1 in ""All The Time"" (on top for 5 weeks) and a number 2 hit with ""What Locks The Door"". In 1967, he received the prestigious awards for Male Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year, and Album of the Year from the Country Music Association. In all, he recorded nine No. 1 country hits on various charts including five No. 1 ""Billboard"" hits. His success continued into 1968 with another No. 1 with ""You Are My Treasure"" and the top 5 hit ""Love Takes Care Of Me"". In 1969, he"
"2006, came out on June 2006, include the band performing in a dark room, but aside from that the UK version shows live clips of the London Forum show, while the international one shows scenes of a city (Portland, Oregon), the countryside, and a bay. There are three ""volumes"" of the single. Enjoy the Silence ""Enjoy the Silence"" is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, taken from their seventh studio album, ""Violator"" (1990). The song was recorded in 1989 and released on 16 January 1990 as the album's second single. The single is Gold certificated in the"