Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

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Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released on June 14, 1972, after the duo had split up in 1970. It combines ten studio songs (nine singles from 1965–1972 plus the album track "Bookends") with four previously unreleased live recordings.

The studio songs include many of their biggest hits. "Mrs. Robinson" topped the charts, and the studio versions of "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge over Troubled Water" both reached No. 1. "The Boxer" peaked at No. 7. "America" was issued as a single after it appeared on the Bookends album. The live tracks on the album include performances of "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" and "Kathy's Song." Some live recordings are noted as coming from a 1969 concert in St. Louis, while others have different reported origins; one live track, "The 59th Street Bridge Song," is described as from a 1970 Carnegie Hall show in some sources.

The album itself did very well, reaching No. 5 in the United States and No. 2 in the United Kingdom. It has sold about 14 million copies in the U.S. and is the best-selling Simon & Garfunkel album there. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 293 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

All songs were written by Paul Simon unless otherwise noted.