Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel

[Hatch]

Need help to settle an office bet.

 

Have The Beatles or Paul McCartney ever recorded / performed a version of Mrs Robinson ?

 

I am in the no camp, but fella in the office insists he is right and that they have.

I can't find anything on google.

[Scummer]

Google seems to throw up a lot of pages which say that the answer is no.

[Hatch]

Google seems to throw up a lot of pages which say that the answer is no.

 

Thats the problem , He is insisting all that is wrong.

[Block 5]

I don't think so.

[Deppo]

I'll be a monkey's uncle if this occurred.

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

I've never heard of a Beatles version , but Frank Sinatra certainly did do a truly terrible cover 'Mrs Robinson' - best avoided if you care for the original .

[saint_bert]

Will ask my mate whos a beatle addict

 

Will post findings

[Ponty]

There was a Lemonheads version, I think.

[saint_bert]

My mate says no.

 

Id bet my house on him

[sadoldgit]

No they didn't.

[sadoldgit]

There was a Lemonheads version, I think.

 

Yes there was.

[Deppo]

It got tacked on to the end of 'It's A Shame About Ray'. I don't like it when record labels do that. An elpee is a stand-alone piece of art.

[sadoldgit]

The Beatles did a few cover versions when they started out but soon gave that up as they had so much good material of their own. They didn't record it and I can't imagine them playing it live. Can't remember when Mrs Robisnon came out but The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 and I think that MR came out after that?

[Deppo]

Macca might have done a version at some point, though.

[St Landrew]

They certainly haven't released a version. But they may have jammed in the studio, and had it recorded on tape. Various bands, over the years, have recorded songs which were never released. For example, Jimi Hendrix's catalogue of unreleased material was quite large, and he jammed quite a few songs that you wouldn't have expected of him.

Mrs Robinson was written for the film, The Graduate, by Paul Simon, which was released in 1967. So, I would imagine the song to have been written in 1966 or 67. I think S&G released a complete version of the song as a single in 1968.

[St Landrew]

Funny, if you go on Youtube, you can see/hear various versions of Mrs Robinson, even a Beatles cover, or so 'tis said. They are actually ALL the Simon & Garfunkel version. I know Art Garfunkel's distinct voice in a thousand. I think you're quite safe.

[hamster]

I used to be a Beatles nut, can't remember this at all. I am sure I have heard it at some time if they had done, I used to own some studio tapes at one time. Must be worth a fortune nowadays.

 

Love the Beatles to bits.

[Hamilton Saint]

The Beatles and/or Paul McCartney have never recorded Mrs. Robinson. The Beatles never performed it in a concert (they stopped performing in Live concerts in 1966; The Graduate came out in 1967 and the Mrs. Robinson single and Bookends LP came out in 1968 ). The only possible time they might have jammed with it in the studio would have been during the sessions at Twickenham film studio and the Apple recording studio in Savile Row during the filming of Let It Be. But I have never heard of that either.

 

BTW, Mrs. Robinson is a great single (I love the acoustic guitar work in it - Paul Simon), and Bookends is a great album - their best, IMO.

 

And The Graduate is a superb film! One of the best comedies of the 60s. Brilliant acting from Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. The S&G music works great.

Edited 25 February, 2010 by Hamilton Saint