Talk:Bridge over Troubled Water (song)

message: Is this song a cover or a work based on Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom"? Oscar Peterson's song was released almost 10 years earlier (at least) and starts with the melody of BOTW before lots of improvisations around the theme. Could it be a central inspiration to Simon and Garfunkel (subconciously)? The melody is really to similar to be a coincidence. Pharaohmø  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.147.200 (talk) 16:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see what you mean, but apart from the two bars of Simon's tune that carry the title words it's not anything really similar, and even that snippet is used in quite a different way in the wider context of BOTW. It's like saying Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a rip-off of Dylan's Memphis Blues Again - the same sedately descending scale of chords in the same key, though Elton makes the chords more opulent. It's striking if you've noticed it but nowhere near definite. /Strausszek (talk) 20:20, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity with Oscar Peterson song 

message: why is it in the youtube cat????--Tresckow 04:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  you tube 

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message: Some mistake surely: "It was written on the guitar in the key of E Sharp although on an early demo version Paul Simon detuned the song on his guitar to an F."   --Pfold (talk) 13:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Confused by all of the above. The song is in Eb. If it were in G, the final line would have Garfunkel going up to a top C! I have also read a book about songwriting written by Paul Simon saying that he always intended it to be in either Eb or in Ab and that was his starting point for composing it. Given that this bit of the article is unreferenced and unclear at best, wrong at worst, I'll remove it until someone can verify it and explain it better and say why it ended up in Eb for the release. GDallimore (Talk) 18:47, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Key signature?

message: The first time the song was included in a national broadcast was a 11/30/1969 CBS special. But the song was performed in the concerts that made up the "Live 69" album (released in 2008), earlier in the Nov. 1969, at the least. Added "national audience " for "in public" to the citation in "Writing and Recording."RaqiwasSushi (talk) 14:45, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First public performance 

message: The link used for this article was dead. That video was blocked by request of Sony Music Entertainment due to copyright violation with this statement: “This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.”  And (smaller): “Sorry about that.”
I deleted the fan-uploaded Central Park version.
On August 25, 2015, the artists' channel SimonGarfunkelVEVO published a YouTube video of the song. I added their live link that is not a copyright violation. Al Leluia81 (talk) 15:54, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright of song video 

message: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" debuted at #40 as "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" on the 26 January 1970 WLS 890 Hit Parade, so the single must have been released earlier than that date.  Also the single debuted at #22 on the 28 January 1970 KHJ "Boss 30", too soon if the single had been released on 26 January 1970.107.185.145.26 (talk) 06:11, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date 

message: Please consider adding the December 2015 Draiman version by Disturbed (Chicago metal band)to the list of covers.  It's magnificent!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.56.88.246 (talk) 15:05, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Cover of Bridge over Troubled Water 

message: There are two citations to "Ebel 2004", but no source listed in the Bibliography. Yoninah (talk) 23:36, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference missing

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The second and third paragraph of the Background section seem to tell the same things twice (in other words, the third paragraph starts the story over again). Bever (talk) 04:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: Is Paul singing backing vocals on the final verse? I know that Artie sings the first two verses solo, but it sounds like Paul is joining in on the last verse, since it's clearly not sung by Artie alone. I think it's highly unlikely that Paul would've sat out vocally or instrumentally on the song, since he wrote it and was one of the producers.
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replies: text: Yes. John Link (talk) 23:17, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Simon's participation 

message: "The song's instrumentation was recorded in California while the duo's vocals were cut in New York."
That ambiguously suggests that recording sessions were simultaneously held in California and New York.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.108.121.166 (talk) 15:01, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  'While' 

message: In case we'd like to add a clarification to this article regarding the specific Bach influence on this song, the 6-note melodic phrase of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" that goes with the lyrics "and tears are in your eyes"
(notes: E | F E D G | E) is exactly comparable to the last six notes of the soprano line of the Bach chorale, which are: E | F E D G | E (the lyrics of that phrase are "ge - grü - ßet seist du mir."). 173.88.246.138 (talk) 17:38, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specificity of Bach influence