Talk:Bridge over Troubled Water

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[edit] Capitalization, or not, of "Over"

I just came across a small feud on this issue and so thought it wise to start a discussion about it. Apparently some people think that it should be "Bridge over Troubled Water" and others think that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is more correct. Not being any sort of expert on this I'd tend to look at what the authors wrote on their album cover. Note that it says "Simon and Garfunkel" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water", indicating that they did indeed intend for the O to be capitalized.

What is the reasoning behind enforcing a different capitalization?

It is also worth noting that both ways are currently, untidily being used on the page. aLii 14:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

1. The authors didn't typeset the album cover...
2. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Album tiles and band names:

   "Convention: In titles of songs or albums, unless it is unique, the standard rule in the English language is to capitalize words that are the first word in the title and those that are not conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for), prepositions (in, to, over, through) or articles (an, a, the)." --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

1. The authors may not have personally typeset the cover, but are you suggesting that they did not have any input and did not approve of this cover? Do you have a citation?
2. After following the link Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Album tiles and band names I do not find anything about album titles etc. I assume you meant: Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Album titles and band names. It seems useful for cases where there is no set capitalization, for example the new Pearl Jam album is entirely printed in capitals, or for when differing conventions are used (can't think of a good example off hand). However is this not a case of "unless it is unique"? aLii 00:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• Infact after just scanning over my CD collection it has only just occured to me that approx 80% of albums are written in all capitals. Others are written entirely in lowercase and the rest conform to the above naming convention anyway. Bridge Over Troubled Water is actually quite rare in allowing us to have this discussion at all, further leading me to believe that it should probably be considered a unique case. aLii 01:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Horn credits

It would be good to know who played the horns on this album; it has a great horn arrangement on "Keep the Customer Satisfied", tenor sax solo on "Baby Driver" and flute solo "So Long, Frank lloyd Wright". --Design 08:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)