Pop music in the 1960’s produced several top recording duos dotting the music charts and influencing future song writers and groups to this day. Lets explore a few successful duos from the 60’s that also recorded as lesser known names before they hit it big as the names they are known as today.
An early release by duo that called themselves Tom & Jerry in 1957 did not fair well, although the duo did manage to crack the top 100 on the music charts. But subsequent releases proved to be very substantial, not only for pop rock, but for folk rock as well. After minimal success as Tom & Jerry and reuniting together in the mid 60’s as Simon and Garfunkel, the duo forged a path through pop and folk music that is iconic.
With a barrage of finely crafted pop and folk arrangements, Simon and Garfunkel amassed many pop hits such as Homeward Bound, Sounds Of Silence, I Am A Rock, Mrs. Robinson (from the movie The Graduate), The Boxer and the Garfunkel-led ballad Bridge Over Troubled Water, among others. After they split up, Garfunkel went on to record several well-received albums, but Paul Simon became known as one of the most prolific and...