Tony from Wilmette, IlI am certain I heard this song in the end credits of MAD MEN.Steve from Whittier, CaTheir partnership swansong-or, ahem, condor-song.Very ulda been longer.Paul Simon will celebrate his 73rd birthday next month on October 13th and one month later on November 5th Art Garfunkel will also turn 73 years old. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 6th 1970, "El Condor Pasa" by Simon and Garfunkel entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #54 and on October 25th, 1970 it peaked at #18.Anono from UsThis is my favorite S & G song, regardless of who originally wrote - Madison, Wi : Speak for yourself when you generalize all Americans as stupid (meaning they don't appreciate a broader spectrum of musical genres).Apparently that country now has 2 national anthem songs. El Condor Pasa is now a heritage song for Peru and is a national anthem for that country as of 2004. S&G made the song popular world wide which did make the government of Peru very happy. He gets credit along with 2 others (Peruvian) people for the song El Condor Pasa (If I Could) because he added lyrics. He wasn't even born when that song was made. Simon gets no credit at all for El Condor Pasa as he had nothing to do with that song. Lots of wind pipes, pan flutes etc and no words. The music was used in plays with an orchestra. It's an Andean musical tune composed in 1913 and copyrighted in the US in 1933.
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