Dave Grusin, Simon & Garfunkel - The Graduate (1967 Film)

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. Album Description

Retro liasons easy listening...

The additional, unexpected tracks of music are fun. Such as a foxtrot and the stipclub music scene from the film. Dated in a charmingly retro way. The affair of it's day (young man-olderwoman)is perhaps even more relevent or comon today. The tongue-in-cheek humor of the title track ,Mrs. Robinson, is kinda campy and fun. The folk-rock style from the eras well known artists is easy on the ear and to sing along with as one drives etc. Overall I got more than I thought I'd get due to the tracks from the film that I hadn't expected. It's a fun collection of music. September 7, 2008

NEW REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE

In September 2007, a Japanese mini-sleeve version of this title was released, along with a re-issue of all the other S&G 'sleeve catalog titles.

The Japan 'sleeve version of this title is remastered, whereas this CD is a 40-year-old LP-EQ'd master, and sounds terrible.

If you are looking to sonically match the "The Graduate" with the 2001 S&G remastered studio albums, the Japan 'sleeve edition is the only remastered version available.

Link to the 2007 Japan mini-sleeve remastered version of The Graduate. September 12, 2007

The Graduate - soundtrack

A great piece of history wwith music that never gets old. Timless, and wonderfully produced. July 9, 2006

A Taste of Two Worlds

Before you buy this, listen to the samples first. In an echo of previous reviews, I agree that this is not a comprehensive Simon and Garfunkel album, nor is it meant to be. This is a collection of contrasts, an example of the Generation Gap as represented through the eyes of Benjamin Braddock. In the musical juxstaposition of youth and middle age, modernism and antiquity, we experience the '60's just before the "Age of Aquarius" and psychedelia. This is a wonderfully novel album, good for cocktail parties and conversation; a blast from the past, if you will. If lounge music is your bag, invest in this classic. It is pretty groovy in that makes unhipness hip, in a very retro sort of way. It inspires me to put on my mini skirt and get out the martini shaker. It is great to put in a shuffle mix with some Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and a S&G disc like "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme". Talk about a taste of two worlds...Enjoy. November 20, 2005

'60s SOUNDTRACK

Whimsical soundtrack to the 1967 Mike Nichol's film blends the foxtrot generation with the soft-core hippie music of '60s Simon and Garfunkel. Hence, you get the folkish and electric versions of "Sounds of Silence" alongside '40s cocktail lounge big band that sounds like your local TV station holding a telethon, and a hot striptease blues number, (in the film it's when Dustin Hoffman takes Katharine Ross to a strip joint), with blazing sax and rolling drum solo. The centerpiece here is Simon's traditional English folk, "Scarborough Fair", with it's precise musicbox harpsichord sounding impossibly perfect. And, where have you gone, "Mrs. Robinson"? Only the first altered stanza is found here, as it was in the movie. August 20, 2005

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