From the soundtrack of “The Graduate,” a movie about cougaring long before that became hip, this #1 almost didn’t happen. Paul Simon wrote just a few snippets of the song for the flick, considering the effort a throwaway. He and Art Garfunkel only fleshed out a far different full version several months after the movie became a hit. Years later, Joe DiMaggio asked Simon about the reference to him when they ran into each other at a restaurant. Paul said he didn’t really mean Joe had died, that it was more of a rhetorical thing. DiMaggio accepted that explanation, then Joltin’ Joe had left the restaurant and gone away...hey hey hey...hey hey hey...
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