First time ever hearing Simon & Garfunkel "Mrs. Robinson" Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@crusadeelectronics2444]

This song was originally from the movie The Graduate. Mrs. Robinson was a character in the movie.

[@marknicholes8559]

A very complicated character :-)

[@jackattack2608]

I was watching both Asia and BJ react. BJ seemed to like the music and didn't seem to pay attention much to the lyrics. Asia was perplexed as she tried to make sense of what they were singing about. They mentioned that it was the innocence of the song they were attracted to. Innocence was the last thing that could describe what the song was about. it helps to know what the song was used for in the movie "The Graduate". Without that, it is very hard to get a meaning out of the song but there are a few clues. I wondered if she knew who Joe DiMaggio was and why they reference that? What is it they have to hide from the kids? The song is good but without seeing the movie, not easy to interpret.

[@mslauralew]

Look at you. Trying to educate idiots who have never heard of The Graduate.

[@dagmar.6954]

I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel & had a lot of their records. Absolutely loved them & their harmonies. You won't find a bad song. They have had so many hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Sound Of Silence", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", "Scarborough Fair", "At The Zoo", "Cecilia", "America", "I Am A Rock", "El Condor Pasa" etc. Paul Simon went on to have a huge solo career with lots of great songs.

[@dawnt5487]

Without a doubt! So many wonderful melodies.

[@keithjones6023]

And here's to you Simon and Garfunkel, two artists who made wonderful music together.

[@allanjones1680]

Jones in the bones...lol

[@sikksotoo]

This song is in Forrest Gump, originally from The Graduate, I think it's in American Pie too. And probably a dozen other movies :)

[@tedcole9936]

If my memory’s correct, they did drop the name “Mrs. Robinson” into this song which was already partially written, to make it fit the character in the Graduate. Check out the film, there were other Simon & Gar songs in it…. And it’s a great film. Starred Dustin Hoffman (very young) Anne Bancroft, and Katherine Ross.

[@creinicke1000]

I never liked the movie... I know a lot of folks do. To me it was terrible message.. terrible family Dynamics.. very flawed humans behaving badly. I did like the ending when he yells for her in church and she finally breaks free from her mindset and goes.

[@ParkerAllen2]

That's right. Simon was working on a song about Eleanor Roosevelt and when the director asked for a song for his movie "The Graduate" Simon rewrote it as a song about Mrs. Robinson.

[@thomastimlin1724]

@@creinicke1000 I get that...now we have worse....the old argument "Is it art imitating life, or life imitating art..."

[@denisbriggs2992]

The movie was "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman Mrs Robinson was the character played by Ann Bancroft

[@boblarson4748]

Anne Bancroft was born in September 1931 while Dustin Hoffman was born less than 6 years later in August 1937.

[@ZaPpaul]

It was also in Forrest Gump as he remembers.

[@patrickquinlan67]

Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" from "Graceland" album is a masterpiece. In fact, that entire album is amazing.

[@Apostrophe65]

Simon & Garfunkel have been playing in my home my entire life. Paul Simon is up there as one of the greatest American songwriters we've ever had. Please review the song America, It's on the same album.

[@klintburns7230]

Hopefully they've been paying rent, otherwise you've missed out on some serious jack!

[@donnaabbato508]

Love you two!!!

[@dawnt5487]

First rock song to win a Grammy for record of the year in 1969.

[@PeterDay81]

it's from the film The Graduate (1967) .

[@kathyyore309]

My mom played a lot of Simon and Garfunkel when I was young. I absolutely love their words, harmony,feel,music. They are music perfection.

[@evelyngalarza5627]

Cecilia is fun

[@ripmod1]

"The Graduate" cane out in 1967. The song was released as a single the following year. The movie won 6 or 7 academy awards including the award for being the best picture.

[@ekhamp1]

No it only won for best director

[@johnvasi]

God, you make me feel old. The Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack for the 1967 movie, The Graduate, was really unique because the songs intentionally fit the movie plot and characters so perfectly. And the music was so good. Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sound of Silence… This is not the place to discuss the movie, but Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft, has a very special place in film history.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

A song that defines a generation. I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Simon at a party, and talking for a while. Brilliant.

[@radone5896]

"The Boxer" is their best song from many points of view, production values, a deep meaningful story and ethereal harmonies and orchestration, highly recommended.

[@briansmith303]

Definitely recommend The Boxer!

[@jamesscanlan6240]

I'd say Bridge but so many classics.

[@johnnybarstow8950]

The song comes from the movie The Graduate and Mrs. ROBINSON is one of the main characters in the movie, you should check out the movie the graduate, they also play some more of their songs in that movie.

[@kenmarcantel9697]

From the movie The Graduate

[@barriehull7076]

Simon's inclusion of the phrase "coo-coo-ca-choo" is a homage to a lyric in the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus". "Mrs. Robinson" was awarded two Grammy Awards at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards in 1969. Mrs. Robinson was played by Ann Bancroft. In 1961, Bancroft met Mel Brooks at a rehearsal for Perry Como's variety show . Bancroft and Brooks married on August 5, 1964, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall, and remained married until her death. Their son, Max Brooks, was born in 1972.

[@mamb70]

One of the greatest duos ever along with the Righteous Brothers and Everly Brothers. Had many hit songs. Sounds of Silence may be their biggest, my favorite. This song was a big hit in 68.

[@denystull355]

I don't know. Bridge Over Troubled Water might be bigger, a lot of other artists covered it...

[@davidjames3080]

The song plays in Forrest Gump while he is receiving the medal of honor from LBJ (LBJ: 'where were you hit son' FG: In the butt ocks sir' LBJ: 'That must be a sight. I'd like to see that', so Forrest does exactly that and moons the president). That scene.

[@jaquettajones]

This song was a HUGE HIT along with the film THE GRADUATE in the late 60's which Simon and Garfunkel wrote and performed the entire soundtrack - Mrs. Robinson was a character in the movie. - I am sure it has been used in many movies since them.

[@ronaldcollins5327]

The Graduate !

[@jamesscanlan6240]

Paul is one of the greatest American songwriters.

[@lisamayerwille8752]

I agree!

[@sarahzentexas]

Mrs Robinson = the married older woman Dustin Hoffman has an affair with in The Graduate. The soundtrack was all Simon & Garfunkel.

[@aharon59]

Listen to America, one of my favorite S&G songs, also Feelin` Groovy ( 59th St bridge song ) or really any other song, even album tracks they really didn`t record any stinkers.

[@eximusic]

Mrs not Miss Robinson. The difference is important to the song meaning. It was in the movie The Graduate.

[@leefriedman9882]

I know others have said this, but the character Mrs. Robinson is in the movie, The Graduate. S & G were asked to provide songs for the movie. The director didn't think one of the songs they gave him fit the move quite right and asked if they had anything else. They were working on another song called Mrs. Roosevelt. They changed the name and gave it to the director, and the rest is history. If I'm not mistaken, the song fit in so well, that they used some other S & G songs as the soundtrack to the film, e.g., Sounds of Silence & Scarborough Fair.

[@gagecarty4290]

The movie is " The Graduate "😊 Starring, Dustin Hoffman She was the older woman with eyes on her daughter's friend

[@zq9m3xh8]

The Joe DiMaggio reference is sort of a lament to the loss of an age of innocence.

[@ta2gypsy]

Longing to have our HEROS back even though "he's left and gone away"

[@quincee3376]

Honestly Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits or whatever it's named is one of thee greatest albums of all time. You can't go wrong with any of their music.

[@hichambarrak2902]

The Graduate, 1967. Unforgettable movie with Dustin Hoffman & Katherine Ross. This song was top notch in the movie. And you're right BJ, this song was also in the movie Forrest Gump where the songs indicated exactly the times the movie was evolving.

[@kevinjones4559]

Brilliant acoustic guitar playing.

[@danielmesery2904]

The BOXER BY S.G. IS MY fav. of theirs ,, can ya give it a shot. Movie is GRADUATE☮️🍺,🌟

[@johnlavalley5410]

It was in the movie the graduate, about a high school grad hooking up with an older women Mrs. Robinson great movie

[@thedealer777]

"Mrs. Robinson,” was originally titled, “Mrs. Roosevelt.” Named after the 32nd First Lady. The song had absolutely nothing to do with the plot of The Graduate. 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 and Joe DiMaggio and stuff,” but it wasn’t finished yet. It was originally a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt and the passing of an era; ...a more innocent time. Nichols used it, and Simon changed it to "Mrs. Robinson."

[@johnwalters978]

now the song makes more sense

[@quintondees4501]

These guys were fantastic

[@jaccilowe3842]

The original cougar 🤣

[@heathcliff8624]

"Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes" by Paul Simon off of his 1985 solo album Graceland.

[@TheNewRevolution]

This song is in a lot of movies but it was originally wrote for the movie The Graduate. Another one of their popular songs The Sound of Silence was also from that movie.

[@andrewrobinson7800]

Associated with a movie and a scandalous affair between a young man and an older woman " Mrs Robinson" love this movie

[@seabreeze8894]

Folk rock is the genre. Simon and Garfunkel are one of the best duos ever, and they have many many hits that y’all would find equally as great as Mrs. Robinson.

[@TheMikeman1971]

I really like the lyrics of this song ., very good pick. Thumbs up !

[@glassontherocks]

It was written Mrs Roosevelt but Simon changed it to cover the fact that she was an alcoholic. That's what the song was about. She was in a treatment center for a time.

[@kevinmarker-cz3bx]

I took a me day from work..and decided to hang with you two. You never disapoint..thank you.

[@JulieR207]

The Sound of Silence & Bridge Over Troubled Water are two worth listening to as well.

[@ed9095]

You need to watch the movie, The Graduate, for this tune to make any sense. Highly recommended!

[@willblood7082]

The song premiered in the 1967 movie “The Graduate”, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols. Personally I believe the best lyrics in the song are “where have you gone Joe DiMaggio a nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you”. With the turbulent 60s it’s a plea for more innocent times.

[@b0tterman]

The movie it was written for was "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman. Late 60's film. Won the Oscar for best director--Mike Nichols.

[@cmnslcf]

In 'Forrest Gump', the song is played as Forrest is at the White House receiving his Congressional Medal of Honor.

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

I love Asia's laugh it's so jolly!

[@Thomas-aka-TomD]

From the move THE GRADUATE. Paul Simon wrote most of their songs. I hope you get into his solo work. Check out Oprah's favorite LP 'Graceland' by Paul Simon....and many more works....

[@eugenestandingbear6516]

Try "the boxer" or "Cecilia". This is true POP music. Short for "popular". Total roots mix for the day . Soulful. The were best friends from youth.

[@edwardthorne9875]

Simon and Garfunkle led the way into folk pop. This album was in everybody's record collection. Simon is a master songwriter/lyricist, one of the finest America has ever produced. For me, each new single was a radio event. And they proceded to produce hit after hit, but every song on the albums was great too. They helped form the worldview of everyone who had ears to hear.

[@fridaylong2812]

You need to watch the movie 'The Graduate' (1967), which the song was written for, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. You'll understand the song then. It was used in Forest Gump nearly 30 years later.

[@Apostrophe65]

This was part of the soundtrack to the film The Graduate.

[@ricklaszlo8223]

In the movie The Graduate Mrs Robinson was played by Anne Bancroft who was married to Mel Brooks at that time

[@brianfisher6165]

This is the sound track to one of the Greatest movies ever filmed "The Graduate"👌👍✌😁

[@evelyngalarza5627]

I love you guys! Thanks for the smiles

[@iainprendergast8311]

Paul Simon has such a knack for deconstructing America and then putting it back together again by the end of the song. Vibe Miester

[@michiganjfrog366]

The Graduate movie soundtrack..1967. Also, in the 90's a band called the Lemonheads covered it. I think the movie Friday gave a nod with Mrs. Parker.

[@studiodudeshed39]

Love it when you go back this far. Good channel.

[@ellesee7079]

It was in Forrest Gump, when he got his medal!

[@AndICanTalk2]

Great song, great reaction. Cecilia, and I am a Rock are both fantastic, but they have a ton of amazing songs.

[@jimwagner9522]

Great song

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Love the reactions.

[@sealdrup]

Agree with Dagmar below....The Boxer and so many more.

[@zigman63]

As someone who has been trying to play guitar for over 45yrs,you can't beat a bit of Paul Simon on guitar.

[@johnbrookes3261]

Yes you guessed it this is the song title to the movie the graduate Mrs Robinson the alchoholic who takes her daughters boyfriend . Simon and Garfunkel were just different but so good . Paul Simon such a clever song writer and musician .

[@d.j.starling3559]

Yes, BJ, this song was used in Forrest Gump. 👍 Just one of many great Simon & Garfunkel songs! Bridge Over Troubled Water & Sound Of Silence are probably their two biggest hits, with lots of awards, too. Mrs Robinson was a character in the movie, The Graduate, from 1967, & that's where this song was introduced. Movie was first starring role for Dustin Hoffman & told the story of his character having an affair with his girlfriend's mother, who is Mrs. Robinson.

[@jasoncarman9656]

Glad y’all back! This is from a movie with Dustin Hoffman “The Graduate” where he as a student and the teacher had a thang going on… The difference in how that’s expressed then and it is now. …too funny and he was in college ai believe.. Peace!!!

[@thomaskolioupoulos6590]

Was in the Movie The Graduate...These dudes are poets...sheer lyricist genius...It's Folk all the way...

[@clydeb7713]

Joe Dimaggio was used as a metaphor about a time when America looked up to sports heros as their role models and positive vibes. He of course was a Yankee great.

[@alienlv426ify]

Anne Bancroft was Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate.

[@hihoktf]

In Happy Feet 2, you get Queen with David Bowie (Under Pressure) in a great scene for the song.

[@jameslake9806]

Asia, when you asked, at the end, what would we call this type of song? For me, the word is "Memorizing". Cool smooth song.

[@JoTracy]

It's also from the movie, The Graduate

[@TW-me4lw]

You're right, Asia. Simon & Garfunkel had many hits. As did Paul Simon, solo, after the duo broke up. Art Garfunkel had a few hits, solo, also. But, Paul Simon is one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. He wrote many infectious, fun songs ( _Me And Julio_ , _Cecilia,You Can Call Me Al_, to name a few). He also wrote some more serious, profound songs like _American Tune_ , a song which I hope you two will checkout.

[@TheDivayenta]

From the movie, The Graduate- a classic!

[@kennethcamilleri4678]

This is most iconic movie soundtrack of all time….Joltin Joe didn’t like his name mentioned at the time…he said he never went anywhere…he is still here…he never got what they meant….RIP Joe D

[@jazzminb]

This song is originally from the soundtrack of a classic movie called "The graduate"

[@michaela8706]

The original working title for this song was "Mrs. Roosevelt" as in Elenore Roosevelt. The director of the movie the Graduate wanted the song for his movie and since one of the characters name was Mrs. Robinson, also 3 syllables, he had them change the name. Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) is an older woman who tries to seduce a younger man, Dustin Hoffman who actually likes her daughter. The song plays is Forrest Gump when Pres. Lyndon Johnson is giving Forrest Gump the Congressional Medal Of Honor and Forrest tell him he was hit in the buttocks. Then shows him. Good to see y'all are doing better. Thanks and God Bless.

[@michaela8706]

P.S. about Joe Dimaggio. Paul Simon, who was a huge Mickey Mantle fan, was asked why did he use Dimaggio instead of Mantle, and Simon replied, "It's about syllables".

[@MrDiddyDee]

@@michaela8706 Simon once bumped into Dimaggio at a restaurant and he challenged Simon to explain why he had said in the song that he was gone. Paul explained he hadn't meant literally gone, it was just a metaphor for America's loss of heroes and those with integrity. Dimaggio was a major league hero of Paul's father's generation, and, yup, Simon had chosen that name mainly because it scanned well with his melody, he could easily have picked some other symbolic American icon but that's what came to mind..

[@michaela8706]

@@MrDiddyDee Thanks for that. Very cool story.

[@carollittle1059]

They are back together and touring. Paul Simon wrote, Sound of Silence.

[@nonsuch]

You guys REALLY need to do The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel. It's probably their most popular song and IMHO, their best.

[@iamhudsdent2759]

Paul Simon commented about Joe DiMaggio (the famous baseball player), when DiMaggio took the lyric literally (Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo. What's that you say Mrs. Robinson, Joltin' Joe has left and gone away, hey hey hey). The lyric was about the nation's values and loss of innocence since Joe's times., the WWWII generation. DiMaggio said he had not gone anywhere and was somewhat offended by the lyric. Paul Simon said, "I guess he couldn't understand himself as a metaphor (for lost American values of a previous time that had been perverted in the 1960s - the JFK assassination, Nixon, the Vietnam war, drugs, rock and roll, Charles Manson, etc). So Asia and BJ, you are young. This song has a historical and cultural context that you have to understand. It's like you are archaeologists who dug something up from the past, and don't know what it is.

[@teddtarr]

According to the account I read, "Joltin' Joe" actually confronted Paul when they happened to encounter each other in a NYC cafe/restaurant, & Paul ( a life-long Yankees fan) explained to Joe that he had used his name mainly because it fit the line of verse meter-wise (had just the correct number of syllables). No indication whether or not Joe accepted that story, but Paul apparently "stuck to it".

[@dantean]

Simon and Garfunkel were genius together.

[@mikemet1744]

Kodachrome is another amazing song. Rock on all.

[@mandymcinerney2816]

This song was covered in the 90's I think. Done by Smashmouth I think. Their version was more hard/punk rock though. The original is the best

[@franciscoguzman1034]

The movie is the Graduate from the 1960.

[@cristy4742]

To Ms. Asia, The part where President Johnson was giving Forest Gump a Medal of Honor.

[@susannewitt6112]

The Graduate is such a good movie and novel.

[@emcsquared8681]

Joe DiMaggio asked Paul Simon once “so why did you put me in your song”? And Paul said “because Babe Ruth doesn’t have enough syllables”.

[@sandydiller4828]

omg you guys, the entire album is from The Graduate. WATCH IT!!!

[@GTLyons]

You two never fail to make me smile... thumbs up for my guilty addiction to Asia and BJ Reactions .... yep and Amen.

[@thatmanstumototours2270]

You will have to watch the real movie(The Graduate) now....

[@victorcowboywest]

B.J. the original movie was the Graduate 1967.

[@toyman9642]

Great music from The Graduate!

[@jennhen2675]

You need to watch the movie The Graduate.

[@kenmarcantel9697]

From the movie the graduate

[@armenflintstone]

This song was written for the movie”the Graduate” where the main character has an affair with Mrs Robinson, a woman much older than him who was trying to ruin his relationship with her daughter. Yes it was a passing clip in Forest Gump. The ironies in the song are right out there. A couple of young kids of jewish descent telling Mrs Robinson that Jesus loves her more than she knows…politics “any way you look at it lose…hide the affair in the pantry with cupcakes…joe DiMaggio being a symbol of a bygone era, but he too has moved on…. All about innocence lost…(by the way joe DiMaggio was pissed when this song came out and confronted Paul Simon in a restaurant Telling him “I’m still here, what are you talking about!!!”)