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词条 I Am a Rock
释义

  1. Writing, recording, and commercial success

     Solo-acoustic version  Electric version with Garfunkel 

  2. Chart performance

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  3. Other versions

  4. References

  5. External links

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| format = 7-inch single
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| writer = Paul Simon
| producer = Bob Johnston
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"I Am a Rock" is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first performed by Simon alone as the opening track on his album The Paul Simon Songbook which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the United Kingdom. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, as the American folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, re-recorded it on December 14, 1965, and included as the final track on their album Sounds of Silence, which they released on January 17, 1966.

Writing, recording, and commercial success

Solo-acoustic version

Thematically, "I Am a Rock" deals with isolation and emotional detachment. The song was not included on Simon & Garfunkel's acoustic debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which was released on October 19, 1964. Some sources say that it was performed by Simon on January 27, 1965, on a promo show for the BBC.[2] Simon likely began writing the song before the end of January 1964, and had it completed by May 1965, when he first recorded it. It was included on his solo-acoustic The Paul Simon Songbook LP released in the UK in the summer of 1965.[3]

Until 1981, the initial official recording of "I Am a Rock" on The Paul Simon Song Book remained unavailable in North America. This was partly because Simon himself was dissatisfied with the album, saying on the album's liner notes:

"This L.P. contains twelve of the songs that I have written over the past two years. There are some here that I would not write today. I don't believe in them as I once did. I have included them because they played an important role in the transition. It is discomforting, almost painful, to look back over something someone else created and realize that someone else was you. I am not ashamed of where I've been and what I've thought. It's just not me anymore. It is perfectly clear to me that the songs I write today will not be mine tomorrow. I don't regret the loss."[4]

As a result, the Song Book album was only made available in North America when it was released as part of the box set of albums Paul Simon: Collected Works. The album was not released on CD until March 23, 2004.[5] When it was, Columbia Legacy included two bonus tracks, one of which was an alternate take of "I Am a Rock", during which one can plainly hear Simon stamping his foot for a beat.

In 1965, the solo-acoustic version "I Am a rock" was also released as a rare A-side of a single in the UK, backed with "Leaves That are Green".

Electric version with Garfunkel

While Simon was in Europe during the summer of 1965, Tom Wilson, the producer of Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., responded to requests for "The Sound of Silence" from American radio stations and dubbed an electric guitar, bass, and drums onto the original track. He then released the song as a single, whereupon it entered the United States pop charts. When Simon heard about the success of this song, he was still touring in Europe as a solo folk singer.

Simon immediately returned to the United States, and with Garfunkel in December 1965 began a series of hasty recording sessions to match the electric "mold" created by Wilson with many of the other songs that Simon had recorded on the Song Book, including "I Am a Rock," which was re-recorded during these sessions on 14 December 1965.[6] The result was the album Sounds of Silence, which the duo released the following January. "I Am a Rock" was the fifth and closing track on Side 2 of the record. Along with most of the other tracks on the album, it was produced by Bob Johnston and recorded in New York at Columbia Recording Studios using some of the same session players that had appeared on Bob Dylan's recent Highway 61 Revisited LP.[3]

The album quickly capitalized on the success of the new album's title track as a #1 single, and itself rose to #21 on the Billboard charts. The duo cashed in quickly on their new-found success. They released "I Am a Rock" as a single in the late spring of 1966,[7] and the song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, the third single (chronologically) by Simon & Garfunkel to reach the top 5 (after "The Sound of Silence" and "Homeward Bound").

This single had two incarnations. First, as a promotion, it was released on red vinyl to radio stations, with a mono mix on one side and a stereo version on the other. These copies are somewhat difficult to locate for collectors. The standard version sold in stores, however, was the black vinyl 45 rpm record with the red Columbia Records label. The B-side was a version of "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall," which was later released on Simon & Garfunkel's even-more-successful (and critically acclaimed) album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The single mix of the song features a more prominent lead vocal track (and different phrasing in the opening lines) by Paul Simon, and less reverb, than the more common LP version.

Chart performance

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1966)[8] Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report20
Canada RPM Top Singles[9]6
Dutch Singles Chart10
New Zealand (Listener)[10]2
Swedish Singles Chart10
UK Singles Chart[11]17
US Billboard Hot 1003
US Cash Box Top 100[12]4
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Year-end charts

Chart (1966)Rank
US Billboard Hot 100[13]51
US Cash Box [14]40
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Other versions

  • It was covered in 1966 by The Hollies on their fourth album Would You Believe?.
  • It was covered in 1966 by The Grass Roots on their first album Where Were You When I Needed You.
  • It was covered in 1968 by Bobby Goldsboro on his album Word Pictures
  • It was covered in 1982 by The Church on their EP Singsongs.
  • It was covered in 1986 by The Coolies on their album dig..?, along with eight other tongue-in-cheek covers of Simon & Garfunkel classics.
  • It was covered in 1990 by The Hated on the Wedge 7" compilation, and released again on Simple Machines 7"s (1990-1993) in 1994.
  • It was covered in 1993 by Red House Painters on their third album Red House Painters.
  • It was covered in 1997 by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their album Have a Ball.
  • It was covered in 1997 by Arjen Lucassen on his solo album Strange Hobby.
  • It was covered in 2000 by Shelter on their album When 20 Summers Pass.
  • It was covered in 2001 by April Wine on their album Back to the Mansion.
  • It was covered in 2007 by Shaw Blades on their album Influence.
  • It was covered in 2016 by Tim Heidecker, with parodic lyrics, as "I Am a Cuck".[15]
  • It was covered in 2017 by The Wailin' Jennys on their album Fifteen
  • It was covered in 2017 by ASP on their album Zutiefst.
  • It was covered in 2018 by The Longshot on their EP Return To Sender - EP.

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/12/jangle-bell-rock-a-chronological-non-holiday-antho.html |title=Jangle Bell Rock: A Chronological (Non-Holiday) Anthology… from The Beatles and Byrds to R.E.M. and Beyond |last=LaBate |first=Steve |publisher=Paste |date=December 18, 2009 |accessdate=August 9, 2018}}
2. ^See the bootleg disc Far East Reunion, released by Hard Rain Records (Hard Rain 007/008). Jean-Marc Orliaguet [https://web.archive.org/web/20060721205825/http://www.ckk.chalmers.se/guitar/SGintro.html claims] (archived July 21, 2006) this show aired on 27 January 1965 (accessed 13 April 2006). This is dubious, however, because the liner notes to Far East Reunion claim this is a promo show for the release of the Simon & Garfunkel EP Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which itself was not released until 1966.
3. ^1 {{cite web|title=I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3872|website=Song Facts|accessdate=January 19, 2019}}
4. ^Paul Simon, liner notes, The Paul Simon Song Book. London: CBS Records, 1965.
5. ^This date is cited from Paul Maclauchlan's discography {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011107/http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/simon/simon64_71.html |date=2007-09-27 }} of Simon's career (accessed 27 September 2006).
6. ^Heylin, Clinton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=c9d62SgEJpkC&printsec=frontcover Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions, 1960-1994], Macmillan, 1997. Cf. pp.34–36. {{ISBN|978-0-312-15067-9}}. It mentioned Tom Wilson's use of the technique he tried with Dylan's early recordings, later with Simon and Garfunkel's work.
7. ^The reference number is Columbia 45 4-43617.
8. ^{{cite web|author=Steffen Hung |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Simon+%26+Garfunkel&titel=I+Am+A+Rock&cat=s |title=Simon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock |website=Swisscharts.com |date= |accessdate=2016-09-29}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5765&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5765.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5765 |title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1966-06-06 |accessdate=2018-01-13}}
10. ^http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qsongid=1107#n_view_location Flavour of New Zealand, 12 August 1966
11. ^{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| pages= 499-500}}
12. ^Cash Box Top 100 Singles, June 18, 1966
13. ^Musicoutfitters.com
14. ^Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 24, 1966
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/tim-heidecker-proudly-proclaims-his-cuck-status-ne-241766|title=Tim Heidecker proudly proclaims his "cuck" status in new parody anthem|last=Hughes|first=William|date=August 26, 2016|website=The A.V. Club|publisher=Onion, Inc.|access-date=August 27, 2016}}

External links

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