Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel recorded the lead song of their best and final album on this day, November 9, 1969, the title track of Bridge over Troubled Water.
The duo had been playing shows around the east coast and also recording in New York City. Fixated and committed to the album, they passed on performing at Woodstock.
The song took two months to create. Simon explained to Dick Cavett how the music is a complicated amalgam of Bach, The Beatles, and gospel. And the title comes from something a scat singer belted out.
The album is one of the best selling of all time, moving over 25 million units, and it collected six Grammys including Album of the Year and Song of the Year. But its wild success didn’t stop Art Garfunkel from pursuing his acting career and the band split up the same year the album came out.
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