Most everyone knows that the song “Mrs. Robinson” came from the 1968 film “The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. But here’s some cool stuff you may NOT know:

Paul Simon originally called the song “Mrs. Roosevelt” after Eleanor Roosevelt, but when Art Garfunkel learned that the director of “The Graduate, Mike Nichols, was using Simon and Garfunkel songs on the soundtrack and needed one more…he mentioned that Robinson and Roosevelt had the same number of syllables…and that led Mike to convince Paul to change the title and lyrics.

Only bits and pieces of the song were used in the film, but when “Mrs. Robinson” was released as a single,it climbed straight to #1 on the Hot 100…and later became the first rock-related song to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year!

Then,In 1999, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The lyric “Where have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio; the nation turns its lonely eyes to you” really irritated Joe at first…because, and I Quote: “I Haven’t gone anywhere,” ‘but he later embraced it to a certain degree, when he realized the song was keeping his name alive for new generations.

Fun Fact: Mickey Mantle once asked Yankees fan Paul Simon why he didn’t use HIS name in the song. The answer: It’s all about the syllables, Mick.

“So here’s to ‘Mrs. Robinson’ by Simon and Garfunkel: most definitely a Great Song of ‘1968!