Before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Tom and Jerry. Just two teenagers from Queens. Paul Simon was performing as Jerry Landis. Art Garfunkel was Tom Graph. Their job was close-harmony covers of Everly Brotherssongs and Sam Cooke's "You Send Me." Nobody was writing Dylan-level material. The distance between those covers and "The Sound of Silence" is one of the most extraordinary creative leaps in American music. Simon made that leap on his sixth try.
Not his sixth great song. His sixth song. The five songs before it are mostly forgotten. The sixth one's been playing continuously for 60 years.
When the original acoustic version came out in October 1964, it sold approximately 2,000 copies. Beatlemania had swept America. Simon was discouraged. He moved to England. Garfunkel went back to college. The song sat in a Columbia Records vault, largely unheard.
Then producer Tom Wilson, without telling either of them, added electric guitars and drums and rereleased it in September 1965. Wilson had just produced Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone." He heard something in "The Sound of Silence" that its own authors had walked away from. On January 1, 1966, it reached No. 1.
Sixty Years Later, a New Generation Found the Darkness
In 2026, "The Sound of Silence" is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a No. 1 hit. Gen Z playlists are placing it between Billie Eilish and Noah Kahan. One observation circulating widely: "Simon and Garfunkel write like they were subtweeting 2026; they just didn't know it yet."
Paul Simon wrote five songs before he wrote "The Sound of Silence." We don't know what those five songs were. We know what the sixth one was.
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