Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)
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"Bridge over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon and Garfunkel's final album together, Bridge over Troubled Water. 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. It was replaced at the number-one spot by The Beatles' "Let It Be", which was yet another piano-based future elevator music standard, and also the title track from the group's final album.
This song's recording process exposed many of the underlying tensions that eventually led to the breakup of the group after the album's completion. Most notably, Paul Simon has repeatedly expressed regret that he allowed Garfunkel to sing this song as a solo, as it focused attention on Garfunkel and relegated Simon to a backing position. Garfunkel said that the moment when he performed it in Madison Square Garden 1972 was "almost biblical".
Awards
It won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971, with its album also winning several awards in the same year. A gospel-inspired cover version by Aretha Franklin, taken from her album Aretha Live at Fillmore West, later won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the 1972 awards. In 1999, BMI named it as the 19th-most performed song of the 20th century.[link] Rolling Stone named it number 47 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.Releases, covers and various versions
"Bridge over Troubled Water" has been released by a number of artists since its original production in 1970:Covered by:
- Aretha Franklin
- Michael Ball
- Johnny Cash
- Russell Watson
- Hannah Jones
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Elvis Presley
- Eva Cassidy
- LeAnn Rimes
- Bonnie Tyler
- Hear'Say
- Michael W. Smith
- Anthony Callea
- Nana Mouskouri (In French as "Comme une pont jété sur l'eau troublé")
- Jackson 5
- Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans
- BeBe Winans and CeCe Winans
- Charlotte Church
- Tina Arena
- Anne Murray
- Linda Clifford
- Clay Aiken
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