Vinyl Record
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. on LP vinyl. A 1964 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1964
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1964 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is Simon & Garfunkel in 1964, before success made their harmonies feel inevitable. The debut album arrived as a mostly acoustic folk record, closer to the Greenwich Village and collegiate folk circuit than to the folk-rock identity that would soon define them. That context is essential because its initial failure nearly ended the partnership. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel move through traditional material, covers and early Simon originals with a seriousness that belongs to the pre-electric moment: You Can Tell The World, Bleecker Street, Sparrow, He Was My Brother, The Sun Is Burning and the title song all sit in a plain, intimate frame. The Sounds Of Silence is here in its original acoustic form, before producer Tom Wilson's later electric overdub turned the song into a hit and pulled the duo back together. Heard after the famous version, the debut can feel almost ghostly: the same songwriting intelligence, but without the production shock that made the public listen. It is the fragile first draft of a major career.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. matters because it preserves Simon & Garfunkel before the breakthrough, before folk-rock and before the myth hardened. Its commercial disappointment and later rescue through The Sounds Of Silence are central to understanding why the duo's career almost did not happen.
For collectors, this debut is valuable because it shows the duo in their original acoustic frame. The key context is the 1964 folk setting and the first appearance of The Sounds Of Silence before the later electric single transformed their fortunes.
Early-1960s acoustic folk with close two-part harmony, plain guitar arrangements, traditional repertoire, young Paul Simon originals, solemn protest-era mood and the unadorned first version of The Sounds Of Silence.
Recommended for: Collectors tracing Simon & Garfunkel from folk debut to folk-rock success; Listeners interested in the acoustic origin of The Sounds Of Silence; Fans of early Paul Simon songwriting in a sparse 1964 setting.
When was Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. released? It was released in 1964 as Simon & Garfunkel's debut album. Does it include The Sound Of Silence? Yes. It includes the original acoustic version, titled The Sounds Of Silence on the album. Why did the album become important later? After the debut struggled commercially, a later electric version of The Sounds Of Silence became a hit and revived the duo's career.