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"Mrs. Robinson" is a song by Simon And Garfunkel that appears in the motion picture '' The Graduate '' ( 1967 ) and on their album '' Bookends '' ( 1968 ). "And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know" In the film, listless recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock ( Dustin Hoffman ) has an affair with an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson ( Anne Bancroft ). The song was not completed for the film; only snippets are heard as incidental music. When the film and the music became popular, Paul Simon put the snippets together into a complete song. Audio sample: The lines: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio ? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you" are perhaps the most memorable. Paul Simon , a fan of Mickey Mantle , was asked on ''The Dick Cavett Show'' by Mantle why he wasn’t mentioned in the song instead of DiMaggio. Simon replied, "It's about syllables, Mick. It's about how many beats there are." For himself, DiMaggio initially complained that he hadn't gone anywhere, but soon dropped his complaints when he realized that he gained new fame with Baby Boomer s because of the song. In a in DiMaggio's honor in April of the same year. The song was used in the 1999 film '' American Pie '', in a scene with similar younger man/older woman overtones to the original scenes in ''The Graduate''. A January 19 , 2006 Final Jeopardy! clue revealed that the song was originally written about Eleanor Roosevelt . The show also suggested that the nonsense syllables in the song's lyrics were earmarks of its being incomplete, not finished before it was needed for the movie. COVER VERSIONS Frank Sinatra covered a Tongue-in-cheek version of this song for his 1969 album '' My Way ''. This version changes a number of lines, including replacing "Jesus" with "Jilly" (Sinatra's close bartender friend) and including a new verse directly referring to Mrs. Robinson's activities in ''The Graduate'': The PTA , Mrs. Robinson, Won't okay the way you do your thing Ding ding ding. And you'll get yours, Mrs. Robinson, Foolin' with that young stuff like you do Boo hoo hoo, woo woo woo. A notable cover version of this song was recorded and charted by the '90s musical group Lemonheads . The single peaked at number 8 on "The Billboard Hot 100" on 1992. This version can be heard in a scene in '' American Pie 2 '', featuring the same two characters as the scene in the original movie; it is also used in '' Wayne's World 2 '' in scenes spoofing Benjamin's rush to the church. Soul band Booker T & The MG's also made a cover version of the song, but was never released as a single. Their version of the song is without vocals. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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