“Baby Driver” by Simon and Garfunkel

"Baby Driver" rides along on Bridge Over Troubled Water, the fifth and last studio album from Simon & Garfunkel, released on Columbia in January 1970, and like nearly everything on it, it's Paul Simon's song, written while Art Garfunkel was off acting in Catch-22. The duo sing it together over a heavyweight studio crew: Hal Blaine on drums, Joe Osborn on bass, Larry Knechtel on keyboards, Fred Carter, Jr. on guitar alongside Simon, and strings credited to Ernie Freeman and Jimmie Haskell.

Roy Halee engineered and co-produced with the pair, the same partner who helped push the album partway beyond their folk-rock style into rock, R&B, gospel, jazz and pop. The record won six Grammys, Album of the Year among them, and the duo split later in 1970.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.