Favorite BIG #1 HITS Through the Years: 1970 Pop

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Back from a quick, fun, and most necessary trip to Nashville for a concert, and it's time to present another very well-known song as I look at #1 songs through the years. Today's selections -- both country and pop -- are, in fact, so well-known that if you say you've never heard of them you're either (a) fibbing or (b) an Amish person who is cheating by being on the internet. Let's start with the pop classic. 1970 (Pop): Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel Take that melody and Art Garfunkel's voice, and substitute names out of the phone book or a grocery list, and this would still be great. Add those gorgeous lyrics of Paul Simon's, and this is one of the greatest songs in the history of American pop music. Period. There's a game I like to play every now and then: a song will come to mind, and I'll spend time on You Tube finding various recorded cover versions of the song, to see if I can find good (occasionally) and bad (frequently) versions of the song. I don't play that game with this song. This is Artie's baby to sing, then, now, and forever. Bridge Over Troubled Water Written by Paul Simon Recorded by Simon & Garfunkel From Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970 #1 for six weeks #1 song of 1970 Sail on, silver girl: