Track Listing

1. Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
2. Singleman Party Foxtrot - Dave Grusin
3. Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
4. Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha - Dave Grusin
5. Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Interlude) - Simon & Garfunkel
6. On the Strip - Dave Grusin
7. April Come She Will - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Folks - Dave Grusin
9. Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
10. Great Effect - Dave Grusin
11. Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine - Simon & Garfunkel
12. Whew - Simon & Garfunkel
13. Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
14. Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14249 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English

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

Customer Reviews

A captivating time capsule of music from a classic film
If you're looking for a good collection of Simon & Garfunkel tunes, you probably want to pass this by. Although there are a few S&G favorites here like The Sound of Silence, April Come She Will and Scarborough Fair, most of the other S&G songs are special film versions that don't always work on their own. They were marvelous in the context of the film however, and if you enjoyed the movie, you will enjoy them on this disc. The other half of the soundtrack employs a delightful lounge-type orchestral score by jazz musician and composer Dave Grusin. These instrumental tracks, consisting of fox trots, cha cha's and the like, when used in the film, represent the world of the adults while the S&G tunes represent the fears, frustrations and concerns of the younger generation. However, the Grusin tracks do work well on their own. They are bouncy, infectious and a lot of fun. The sequencing of the tracks on the album works really well and makes for a truly memorable listening experience. The sound quality is suprisingly good for a disc that hasn't been remastered in over a decade.

There's More Here Than 'Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo'
We all know and love the Simon & Garfunkel music for 'The Graduate', but there's much more on this album. Dave Grusin (who was totally uncredited on the original LP release of this material) contributed music, as well. The S & G tracks speak volumes for Benjamin Braddock, but Grusin speaks for Mrs. Robinson's generation, and he does it with a sly wit seldom heard in movie music. The best Grusin track on this CD is 'Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha', a delicious spoof of all the Henry Mancini/ Frank DeVol movie music so popular with adults in the early 60's. If you're familiar with that genre, you'll laugh out loud at Grusin's ever-so-slightly overblown cha-cha, with its organ notes and woodwinds. It starts out brightly attractive, and when it's over, you realise you've been had: it's totally empty, meaningless music- perfect listening for Mrs. Robinson. This track is expertly performed; the orchestra obviously had a grand time stressing the deliberate vacuousness of Grusin's composition. One note for Simon & Garfunkel addicts: the versions of 'Mrs. Robinson' heard here are not anything like the version you're familiar with. The film used only an instrumental version; film director Mike Nichols commissioned the version with lyrics from Paul Simon after the movie's completion in hopes it would become a successful tie-up for the movie. He guessed right. This one is a must for your S & G collection, but there are other delights in store for you. Trust me.

'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.