<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>“<b>Bridge over Troubled Water<\/b>” is a song composed by American singer-songwriter\u00a0<a title=\"Paul Simon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Simon\">Paul Simon<\/a>\u00a0and recorded by\u00a0<a title=\"Simon & Garfunkel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_%26_Garfunkel\">Simon & Garfunkel<\/a>. Produced by the duo and\u00a0<a title=\"Roy Halee\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Halee\">Roy Halee<\/a>, the song was released as the follow-up single to “<a title=\"The Boxer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Boxer\">The Boxer<\/a>” in January 1970. The song is featured on their fifth\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Studio album\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Studio_album\">studio album<\/a>,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Bridge over Troubled Water\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water\">Bridge over Troubled Water<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1970). Art Garfunkel performs lead vocals over a piano accompaniment exhibiting strong influence of\u00a0<a title=\"Gospel music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_music\">gospel music<\/a>. The original studio recording employs elements of\u00a0<a title=\"Phil Spector\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Spector\">Phil Spector<\/a>‘s “<a title=\"Wall of Sound\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wall_of_Sound\">Wall of Sound<\/a>” technique using L.A. session musicians from the\u00a0<a title=\"The Wrecking Crew (music)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)\">Wrecking Crew<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">“<\/span><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>* <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n style=\"display:block\"\r\n data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>“Bridge over Troubled Water” is a song composed by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by the duo and Roy Halee, the song was released as the follow-up single to “The Boxer” in January 1970. The song is featured on their fifth studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). Art Garfunkel performs lead vocals over a piano accompaniment exhibiting strong influence of gospel music. The original studio recording employs elements of Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” technique using L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1902],"tags":[1918,1917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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