In fact, Bookends and The Graduate held the top two positions for eight consecutive while “Mrs. Robinson” and number of new tracks, were enough to push Bookends to Number One in its fifth week on the chart, temporarily displacing The Graduate for seven weeks. Those songs, combined with full version of “Mrs. “At the Zoo” reached number 16 in April 1967 and “Fakin’ It” stalled number 23 in August 1967. I remember him saying, ‘Can you make it into a funeral dirge just to give it an odd twist?”‘ Instead, “Punky’s Dilemma” appears on Bookends as a dreamy folk-pop number.īookends also includes three previously released singles that hadn’t yet appeared on an album: “A Hazy Shade of Winter” climbed to number 1 in December 1966 (a cover by The Bangles would reach number two in 1987). “Paul wrote, ‘Wish I was a Kellogg’s Cornflake/Floatin in my bowl., ‘ but Mike didn’t quite go for it. “That was supposed to be used in the scene when Dustin’s character is at home, finished with college, floating in the pool and wondering what to do with his future,” says Garfunkel. “Punky’s Dilemma” was written specifically for The Graduate, but wasn’t used in the film because Nichols fell in love with the way previously released Simon & Garfunkel songs worked in the film. When the film came out, we were back in the studio finishing the album, so the rest of the song got written after the film’s release.” Paul never finished writing the verses during that time, so in the movie you just hear the ‘dut-da-duts,’ but the chorus exists. The duo showed Nichols the chorus, with the line, “Jesus loves you more than you will know.” Garfunkel recalls, “The sarcastic edge was just right. Robinson,” named after the character portrayed by Anne Bancroft in The Graduate. It was featured twice in the film and on the soundtrack, but the completed version of the tune wasn’t unveiled until April 1968 with the release of Bookends.įollowing Garfunkel’s suggestion, Simon agreed to change his song-in-progress “Mrs. Robinson” was the only new Simon & Garfunkel song on the album, and arguably the most popular. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were working on their fourth album, Bookends, when filmmaker Mike Nichols asked them to score his film The Graduate. Robinson / Hazy Shade of Winter /At the Zoo Track listing: Bookends Theme (Instrumental) / Save the Life of My Child / America / Overs / Voices of Old People / Old Friends / Bookends Theme / Fakin’ It / Punky’s Dilemma / Mrs. Producers: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee
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