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Art Garfunkel
Solo artist Forest Hills United States
Art Garfunkel is an artist from Forest Hills. Art Garfunkel has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “All I Know”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #173. The station that charted Art Garfunkel most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 2 appearances.
Art Garfunkel, born in Forest Hills, Queens in 1941, met Paul Simon in an elementary school production of Alice in Wonderland, and the two were already making music together in the '50s. Through the '60s Simon & Garfunkel turned out "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "Scarborough Fair", "The Boxer" and "Bridge over Troubled Water", and it was Garfunkel's high, choirboy-pure voice that floated over the top of all of it. Bridge over Troubled Water was also the name of their final album, in 1970, and then they went their separate ways.
Going solo on Columbia, Garfunkel leaned into what he did best: lush, unhurried ballads that let that voice hang in the air. Angel Clare, in 1973, is a soft-focus beauty, and "All I Know" is its aching centerpiece. Fate for Breakfast followed in 1979 with "Bright Eyes", as delicate a vocal as he ever cut.
The solo run brought him two number ones in Britain and a steady stream of adult contemporary hits at home, and all told he has collected eight Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award among them. He and Simon went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame together in 1990.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Art Garfunkel on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All I Know | 1 | #173 | – | – | |
| 2 | Bright Eyes | 2 | #51 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 173 | All I Know | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) |
| 1988 | 51 | Bright Eyes | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1988) |
| 1987 | 84 | Bright Eyes | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1987) |
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