7 O'Clock News/Silent Night

About 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night

"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966). The track is sound collage juxtaposing a rendition of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" with a simulated "7 O'Clock News" bulletin of the actual events of August 3, 1966.

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1966

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This is the early evening edition of the news.
The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing
  section of the Civil Rights Bill.
Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the
  measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination
  by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start
  and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an
  overdoes of narcotics.
Bruce was 42 years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open
  housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the
  police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out
  if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.
In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought
  before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment.
In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the
  House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-
  Viet nam war protests.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting
  anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial
  increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the U.S. should look forward
  to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York,
  Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single
  weapon working against the U.S.
That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.

Silent night
Holy night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate (1967), propelling them further into the public consciousness. more »

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