Graduate Soundtrack CD

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Graduate Soundtrack album for sale was released Jan 01, 2002 on the Columbia label. The soundtrack to Mike Nichols' The Graduate remains a key musical document of the late '60s, although truth be told, its impact was much less artistic than commercial (and, for that matter, more negative than positive). Graduate Soundtrack buy CD music With the exception of its centerpiece track, the elegiac and oft-quoted "Mrs. Robinson" -- which only appears here as a pair of fragments -- the Simon & Garfunkel songs that comprise much of the record (a series of Dave Grusin instrumentals round it out) appeared on the duo's two preceding LPs; Nichols' masterstroke was to transplant those songs into his film, where they not only meshed perfectly with the story's themes of youthful rebellion and alienation (and the inner life of the central character, Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock) but also heralded a new era in movie music centered around the appropriation of past pop hits, a marketing gimmick that grew exponentially in the years to follow. ...See Full Description

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Trk	Song	Time	Price	Buy MP3
1	Sound of Silence	3:05	$1.29
2	Singleman Party Foxtrot	2:50	$0.99
3	Mrs. Robinson	1:11	$1.29
4	Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha	2:51	$0.99
5	Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Interlude)	1:39	$0.99
6	On The Strip	1:59	$0.99
7	April Come She Will	1:49	$0.99
8	Folks	2:27	$0.99
9	Scarborough Fair/Canticle	6:22	$1.29
10	Great Effect	4:05	$0.99
11	Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine	1:43	$0.69
12	Whew	2:10	$0.99
13	Mrs. Robinson	1:12	$1.29
14	Sound of Silence	3:08	$1.29

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The Expanding World of Movie Music
The importance of folk music in the social protest movements of the 1960s, along with the identification of rock music with the American counterculture, meant that the growing movie audiences of young adults was primed to hear those kinds of music on movie soundtracks. In the second half of the 1960s, increased emphasis on unique music for a specific film encouraged a turn for pop music groups for scoring films. Hollywood hired rock musicians for a film, or they aquired the rights to previously recorded music. The scoring for "The Graduate" consisted of songs by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel that lent a distinctive underpinning to the film's offbeat story line. Nonetheless, although the Simon and Garfunkel "sound" was new and different, it was used conventionally. Just track, for example, the lyrics for "The Sounds of Silence" through the movie: its essential purpose remained strongly narrative, precisely as in classic Hollywood scoring.
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CD Universe Part number	1085159
Label	Columbia
Orig Year	1968
Discs	1
Release Date	Jan 01, 2002
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Teo Macero
Recording Time	36 minutes
Additional Info	Soundtrack