{"id":31603,"date":"2025-03-07T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1970-simon-garfunkel-hit-1-with-bridge-over-troubled-water\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:02:37","slug":"on-this-day-march-7-1970-simon-garfunkel-hit-1-with-bridge-over-troubled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1970-simon-garfunkel-hit-1-with-bridge-over-troubled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 7, 1970: Simon &amp; Garfunkel hit #1 with &#8216;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-07\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, March 7, 1970\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/strong> hit #1 with their fifth and final studio album, <em>Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The album featured such iconic Simon &amp; Garfunkel tunes as the title track, \u201cThe Boxer,\u201d \u201cThe Only Living Boy in New York,\u201d and \u201cCecilia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Garfunkel concentrating on an acting career, Simon wrote all the songs on the album, with the exception of\u00a0a cover of the <strong>Everly Brothers<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cBye Bye Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album went on to become a massive hit and spent 10 weeks at #1. It also sold 25 million copies, and went on to win six Grammy Awards, including album of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, March 7, 1970\u2026 Simon &amp; Garfunkel hit #1 with their fifth and final studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The album featured such iconic Simon &amp; Garfunkel tunes as the title track, \u201cThe Boxer,\u201d \u201cThe Only Living Boy in New York,\u201d and \u201cCecilia.\u201d With Garfunkel concentrating on<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-march-7-1970-simon-garfunkel-hit-1-with-bridge-over-troubled-water\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}