Hah...me neither! But, I was a raging hormonal teenager in high school, and I went just to see the "good parts" in the movie. As far as I'm concerned, the only good parts in the movie were the music, and of course...that classic line...
Posted on 05/27/2018 6:17:55 AM PDT by Nextrush
Mister Robinson needs your prayers over in police state Britain!
The original Mrs. Robinson was a parsons wife who had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the brother of the famous literary sisters. Mr. Bronte was living with the Robinsons’ serving as a tutor to their son. Mrs. Robinson was 15 years older than Mr. Bronte. Bramwell was fired. When Mr. Robinson died Bramwell wanted to marry the widow but was turned down.
Monroe is buried in the Westwood section of LA. DiMaggio had fresh flowers sent there every day until he himself died.
Paul Simon remarked later that his boyhood hero (as were many in the 50s and early 60s) was Mickey Mantle and he wanted to include Mantle into the lyrics as a loss of boyhood innocence.
Two problems. Mantle was still an active player with the Yankees so the “where have you gone?” question seemed odd. Also, Mantle’s name lacked the cadence of the song.
So Simon stepped back a generation and asked “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?”
By 1967, Joe DiMaggio had a job as a hitting instructor for the Oakland A’s. I would have liked the verse to have said “Joltin’ Joe’s now with the Oakland A’s...Hey, hey, hey...”
Ode to a Cougar.
Oh, and “plastics.”
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo. What’s that you say Mrs. Robinson, Joltin Joe has left and gone away..
My Mom would turn on the Top 40 station and pipe it into my room in order to get myas outta bed for skool.
I remember the morning, all sleepy and not wanting to wake up, hearing the above lyrics and thinking . . WTH did I just hear a song with “Joe DiMaggio”? So to convince myself I was dreaming while dozing off, I listened a bit more intently and when the “Joltin Joe” hit, I knew I wasn’t dreaming.
And don’t most young boys have a Mrs Robinson Fantasy at some point in their adolescence?
The only one of my 45s to have survived 'til now.
ML/NJ
Seriously, it’s a song by Simon and Garfunkle.
Dustin Hoffman was 30 as a college grad, Anne Bancroft was 36 and had to be made up to look older than she was.
Katherine Ross was 29 and played a college girl.
I listen to the 60s on 6 channel on Sirius XM all the time, and while I love 60s music there are some songs I get tired of hearing. But “Mrs Robinson” is one that yes, I’ve heard it a million times, but whenever that galloping guitar intro starts, it’s such a flashback to the movie and that era that the time machine just jumps back 50 years in a millisecond. Classic.
Little known trivia: the original title was “Mrs. Roosevelt” but was changed for obvious reasons.
Wrecking crew member Hal Blaine played drums, and Larry Knechtel played bass on the track.
Little piece of trivia ... The nyloned leg being sensuously destockinged before a blushing Dustin Hoffman in the famous poster shot for the movie did not belong to Anne Bancroft, but to Linda Gray, who later became famous as the long-suffering wife of JR Ewing in the TV soap opera “Dallas.”
DiMaggio was fairly litigeous protective of his image. Paul Simon said once that they got a letter from his lawers as soon as the song came out. DiMaggio cooled it when he recognized it as a compliment.
Not so much for Phil Rizzuto when he recorded the play by play for Meatloaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Lights and wasn’t exactly told the context in which it would be used.
Love the song, love “The Graduate”, love the comments on this thread. Great lazy Sunday thread. Thanks.
Hah...me neither! But, I was a raging hormonal teenager in high school, and I went just to see the "good parts" in the movie. As far as I'm concerned, the only good parts in the movie were the music, and of course...that classic line...
That would have put a huge time stamp on the song...it wouldnt have been so timeless..
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