Keep the Customer Satisfied (song)

"Keep The Customer Satisfied"

Song by Simon & Garfunkel from the album Bridge over Troubled Water
Released	January 26, 1970
Format	7"
A-side	"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Recorded	1969
Genre	Pop, folk rock
Label	Columbia 45079
Writer(s)	Paul Simon
Producer(s)	Roy Halee, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel

"Keep the Customer Satisfied"

1971 45rpm picture sleeve

Single by Gary Puckett

from the album The Gary Puckett Album

B-side

"No One Really Knows"

Released

January 1971

Genre

Rock

Length

2:40

Columbia 45303

Gary Puckett singles chronology

"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"
(1970)

"Keep the Customer Satisfied"
(1971)

"Part Time Love"
(1977)

"Keep the Customer Satisfied" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from the group's fifth studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). It was included as the B side of their signature hit, "Bridge Over Troubled Water." "Keep the Customer Satisfied" recounts the exhausting tours that Simon grew tired of, a similar theme to that of their earlier song, "Homeward Bound".

The song was covered by Gary Puckett for Puckett's 1971 LP, The Gary Puckett Album. ^[1] "Keep the Customer Satisfied" reached No. 71 on Billboard in the winter of 1971.^[2] It reached No. 50 on the Cash Box chart,^[3] and No. 38 in Canada.^[4]

The song was produced by Richard Perry.

Chart performance

Puckett cover

Chart (1971)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ^[2]	71
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[3]	50
Canadian RPM ^[4]	38

Hunt cover

Chart (1970)	Peak position
UK ^[5]	41

Other cover versions

In the UK, the song charted at number 41 in February, 1970 as performed by Marsha Hunt.^[5]

"Keep the Customer Satisfied" was covered by Robson & Jerome in 1996. It was featured on their album, Take Two.

References

↑ Rames El Desouki, The Traveller Publishing. "CVINYL.COM Vinyl Price Guide: Puckett, Gary - The Gary Puckett Album (Columbia C 30862)". Cvinyl.com. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
1 2 "Lyrics: Keep The Customer Satisfied by Gary Puckett". Top40db.net. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
1 2 "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles". 50.6.195.142. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
1 2 "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
1 2 "MARSHA HUNT | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-03.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Simon & Garfunkel

Paul Simon Art Garfunkel

Studio albums	Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Sounds of Silence Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Bookends Bridge over Troubled Water

Live albums	The Concert in Central Park Live from New York City, 1967 Old Friends: Live on Stage Live 1969

Compilation albums	Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits Collected Works The Simon and Garfunkel Collection 20 Greatest Hits The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends The Best of Simon and Garfunkel Two Can Dream Alone Tales from New York: The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970) Tom & Jerry The Collection The Essential Simon & Garfunkel Before the Fame Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel The Collection: Simon & Garfunkel America: The Simon and Garfunkel Collection

Soundtrack albums	The Graduate

Videos	The Concert in Central Park Old Friends: Live on Stage

Discographies	Simon & Garfunkel Art Garfunkel Paul Simon

Other	Songs Paul Simon solo albums Paul Simon songs Art Garfunkel solo albums Bridge over Troubled Water (Paul Desmond album)

Book Category

Simon & Garfunkel singles

Discography • List of songs

Sounds of Silence	"The Sound of Silence" / "We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'" "I Am a Rock" / "Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall"

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme	"Homeward Bound" / "Leaves That Are Green" "The Dangling Conversation" / "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" / "April Come She Will"

Bookends	"A Hazy Shade of Winter" / "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" "At the Zoo" / "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" "Fakin' It" / "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" "Mrs. Robinson" / "Old Friends" / "Bookends"

Bridge over Troubled Water	"The Boxer" / "Baby Driver" "Bridge over Troubled Water" / "Keep the Customer Satisfied" "Cecilia" / "The Only Living Boy in New York" "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)" / "Why Don't You Write Me"

Other singles	Hey Schoolgirl Our Song This is my Song Surrender, Please Surrender I'm Lonesome "America" "My Little Town" "Wake Up Little Susie"

Other songs	"Richard Cory" "Patterns" "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" "Save the Life of My Child" "Overs" "Punky's Dilemma" "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"

Category

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

Gary Puckett Kerry Chater Gary 'Mutha' Withem Dwight Bement Paul Wheatbread Barry McCoy Richard Gabriel

Studio albums	Woman, Woman Young Girl Union Gap Incredible The New Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Album

Other albums	Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's Greatest Hits 10 Greatest Hits Looking Glass: A Collection A Golden Classics Edition Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Super Hits The Best of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap Young Girl: The Best of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

Singles	"Woman, Woman" "Young Girl" "Lady Willpower" "Over You" "Don't Give In To Him" "This Girl Is a Woman Now" "Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance"

B-Sides	"Don't Make Promises" "I'm Losing You" "Daylight Stranger" "If The Day Would Come" "Could I" "His Other Woman" "The Beggar"

Cover Songs	"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "Honey" "Kentucky Woman" "Kiss Me Goodbye" "Lady Madonna" "Mr. Tambourine Man" "Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)" "Silence Is Golden" "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" "To Love Somebody" "You Better Sit Down Kids"

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