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Pop-folk duo Simon and Garfunkel were two years away from making one of the best-selling albums ever, 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water, when they contributed to the songs to The Graduate, and so kick-started the rise of the song-based soundtrack and soundtrack album. Previously, there had been musicals, title songs and then more contemporary pop musicals (such as The Beatles's Help) but The Graduate used Paul Simon's songs to comment on the action of a contemporary dramatic comedy. "The Sound Of Silence" and "Mrs Robinson" remain two of the best pop songs ever written, while "Scarborough Fair Canticle" has a madrigal-like beauty. The album also features the instrumental score by Dave Grusin. His witty, strongly crafted music is largely inspired by such 20's and 30's dances as the foxtrot and cha-cha, used in the film to comment ironically on the generation-gap theme. Although Grusin has since had great success with his jazz piano based score for The Firm, and Paul Simon later scored his own film, One Trick Pony, The Graduate remains Simon, Garfunkel and Grusin's classic contribution to cinema history, and the album one of the most important soundtracks ever issued. --Gary S. Dalkin
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1-The Sound Of Silence 2-The Singleman Party Foxtrot 3-Mrs. Robinson 4-Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha 5-Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Interlude) 6-On The Strip 7-April Come She Will 8-The Folks 9-Scarborough Fair/Canticle 10-A Great Effect 11-The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine 12-Whew 13-Mrs. Robinson 14-The Sound Of Silence (Sony Music)14 Tracks Original Soundtrack Recording. Songs by Simon & Garfukel and recorded
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The Graduate is one of my favourite films and I think one of the things that makes this film so good is the soundtrack.
This is a combined soundtrack between three artists, the main songs coming from Simon and Garfunkel, with additional material from a great jazz composer, David Grusin.
Simon and Garfunkel are one of my favourite groups. Their voices compliment each other perfectly and I think that Paul Simon is one of the greatest songwriters of our age. He has an ear for melody and certainly has his finger on the pulse when it comes to making music.
On this album are the classic songs 'The Sound of Silence', 'Scarborough fair', 'April come she will' as well two short versions of 'Mrs Robinson', the full track of the song was recorded at a later date.
David Grusin's part in the soundtrack was to make all the incidental music, such as music for the party and other 'background' music. This soundtrack really shows off his talent for writing songs in different styles, from the fluidity of 'Singleman Party Foxtrot' to the 60's funked-up jazzof 'on the strip'.
All in all this is one of the best soundtracks ever recorded, it takes you to another time, to a time of flower power, freedom and sexual revolution. A classic book, a classic film and a classic album.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Some of the tracks here seem to be slightly different from previously heard versions! It makes for an interesting listen. I love the soundtrack & these eternal songs.
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When we bought this in the sixties we felt that we had been ripped off, but this record collects together perhaps the very best of S&G's songs, including April Come She Will and both versions of the Sound of Silence as well as Scarborough Fair, and there is also some accoustic guitar instrumentals which are worth having, and forty years later, I find the orchestral music worth having too. There is a particularly nice track with guitar and dark orchestra strings. This is a nice sixties record.
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Missed opportunity
I think I'd hoped that this would be rather more redolent of the film which, I recall, included quite a lot of incidental guitar music from Paul Simon. Read more
Published on 23 April 2010 by Mr. T. F. Sargent
a mixed CD
I must admit to being disapointed by this CD, when I bought it I was under the impression that it was a Simon and Garfunkle album, unfortunatly it's not. Read more
Published on 16 May 2003 by S. Beard
Hey, SONY-you need to Remaster THE GRADUATE, too...
this album exists on its own terms in reference to the film, and as such deserves the full respect of all the other S&G titles. Read more
Published on 29 July 2002 by Mark C.
This record isn't quite worth it
If you are a Simon & Garfunkel completist you may want this record, but really it's apart from a premature version of Mrs Robinson and a few other S&G pieces, it's mostly... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2000 by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro
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