Paul Simon Relaunches Solo career on ‘Mother and Child Reunion.

This week marks fifty years since Paul Simon, the solo musician, was reintroduced. They first met Simon in the late 50s when he released a string of flop singles such as “True or False” “Anne Belle”He went by the pseudonyms True Taylor, Jerry Landis. He briefly sang the novelty song on the Hot 100. “The Lone Teen Ranger”In 1962, he released the U.K. LP. Three years later, he released it. The Paul Simon SongbookNone of them were even remotely successful.

However, in 1965’s summer, things were just as The Paul Simon Songbook was tanking in England, Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Silence” was becoming an enormous hit in America thanks to Columbia producer Tom Wilson’s decision to add electric instrumentation to it without even telling the two singers about his plan. He also recorded the song that day. “Like a Rolling Stone”With Bob Dylan. Simon and Garfunkel became superstars with the song, and Simon dedicated the next five years to the partnership. However, it collapsed in 1970, right after the release. Bridge over Troubled Water

Simon began working on his first solo album when it became obvious that the duo was done. The first single was “Mother and Child Reunion,”You can listen to it right here. The reggae-inspired tune was unlike anything he’d ever attempted. “[It] is not a song that you would have normally thought that Simon and Garfunkel would have done,”He told the story Rolling Stone‘s Jon Landau in 1972. “It’s possible that they might have. But it wouldn’t have been the same, and I don’t know whether I would have been so inclined in that direction. So for me it was a chance to back out, and gamble a little bit; it’s been so long since it was a gamble.”

The title for the song came from the name for a chicken-and-egg dish on a New York City Chinese-restaurant menu, but the emotion behind it came gushing out after Simon’s dog was run over by a car. “It was the first death I had ever experienced personally,”He told the story Rolling Stone. “Nobody in my family died that I felt that. But I felt this loss — one minute there, next minute gone, and then my first thought was, ‘Oh, man, what if that was [my wife] Peggy? What if somebody like that died? Death, what is it, I can’t get it.’ And there were lyrics straight out forward like that.”

The number four hit on the Hot 100 was Simon’s first single. This proved that Simon could be accepted by audiences without Art Garfunkel. It was again proved over and over again in the following years with songs like “Kodachrome,” “Loves Me Like a Rock,” “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”Also, the charts soared. But this all started 50 years ago. “Mother and Child Reunion.”

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