Simon admitted in the editorial that he didn't quite nail the explanation to DiMaggio, and went on at more length: He accepted the explanation and thanked me. I said that I didn't mean the lines literally, that I thought of him as an American hero and that genuine heroes were in short supply. Coffee commercial, I'm a spokesman for the Bowery Savings Bank and I haven't gone anywhere.' 'What I don't understand,' said, 'is why you ask where I've gone. Paul Simon wrote of the encounter and conversation in a New York Times article marking DiMaggio's passing in 1999: The song asks 'Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?' then immediately answers itself 'Joltin' Joe has left and gone away.' The former New York Yankee and three-time MVP was puzzled by the lines, and he told Simon just that when they happened to meet. Joe DiMaggio Wasn't Wild About His Inclusion In The Lyrics Robinson”, he asked Simon to change the title and the song “Mrs. Roosevelt' had the same number of syllables as “Mrs. It was originally a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt and the passing of an era a more innocent era to be exact. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff,” but it wasn’t finished yet. When director Mike Nichols said he needed another song for his movie, Paul Simon told him that they were too busy touring and that he only had “a song about times past, about Mrs. Roosevelt.” The song and had absolutely nothing to do with the plot of The Graduate. Robinson is one of the main characters in the movie played by Anne Bancroft, she seduces the young protagonist Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and sets in motion a plot that deals with the forces of love and lust amid the generation gap of the '60s. Robinson' is almost inseparable from the 1967 film The Graduate, in which it appears. To explore the modern era of Moog recordings click here.Simon & Garfunkel's song 'Mrs. To explore Moog moving into mainstream music click here. Wendy Carlos purchased the first Moog modular synthesizer and recorded Switched-on Bach, which was recorded entirely of hand created voices one track at a time.įeatures the original version of the hit single, “Popcorn” by Hot Butter Micky Dolenz plays an early Moog synth on “Daily Nightly” and Paul Beaver plays a Moog on “Star Collector.”Ī conceptual album featuring Paul Beaver on Moog synthesizer.ġ968 The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd BrothersĪfter seeing the Moog synthesizer on display at the Monterey Pop Festival, Simon and Garfunkel added a synth track to their song “Save the Life of my Child.” Cited as the first major Rock and Roll recording to feature a Moog synthesizer, the Doors album Strange Days exposed the masses to the possibilities of analog synthesis.ġ967 The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

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