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Mrs. Robinson
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Very nicely done! Great song by one of the best song writers ever! I was never sure if it was written for “The Graduate” or adapted for the movie. The movie seemed so scandalous at the time, today it would probably get a G rating!
Paul Simon said that some songs just came to him like a download. I think Sounds of Silence was one of them. I’ve always enjoyed Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
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I’ve been working on 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover for 6 months now. I have the guitar part mostly down, it’s the singing that is getting me. Paul’s range is greater than mine. 🙂
He’s touring again this summer. I saw him last year and it was great.
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I have a grandson named August, I shudder a bit when his parents call him “Gus”! lol!
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I just found this little tidbit:
Joe DiMaggio
Simon, who was a baseball fan (and a New York Yankees fan, in particular), loved Mickey Mantle. When asked on The Dick Cavett Show why, then, did he not cite Mantle over DiMaggio he retorted, “It’s about syllables, Dick. It’s about how many beats there are.”
Simon reportedly later met DiMaggio at a restaurant in New York City in the 1970s and the slugger immediately asked Simon, “What I don’t understand is why you ask where I’ve gone. I just did a Mr. Coffee commercial, I’m a spokesman for Bowery Savings Bank and I haven’t gone anywhere!”
Apparently, DiMaggio wasn’t up for poetic license.
Simon later said of the encounter, “I didn’t mean the lines literally, that I thought of him as an American hero and that genuine heroes were in short supply. He accepted the explanation and thanked me. We shook hands and said good night.”
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Nice job and nice clean recording.
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Thanks.
I’ve been trying to up my recording game. It has gotten a lot better but still have more to learn/do.
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