Hoje é dia de recordar Simon e Garfunkel - e a senhora Robinson...!

Art Garfunkel - oitenta e um anos

  

Art Garfunkel (Queens, Nova Iorque, 5 de novembro de 1941) é um cantor e ator norte-americano conhecido por, entre 1958 e 1970, ter formado com o seu amigo íntimo e de infância, Paul Simon, que se conheceu quando estudava, a dupla Simon & Garfunkel. Juntos, fizeram êxitos como The Boxer e Bridge over Troubled Water.

   

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Simon e Garfunkel lançaram o álbum há 54 anos

   

Bookends is the fourth studio album by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate.

Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Simon's lyrics concern youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality. Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon, who joined the recording when Paul Simon suffered from writer's block. The album was recorded gradually over the period of a year, with production speeding up around the later months of 1967.

Initial sales for Bookends were substantial in the US, and the album produced the number-one single "Mrs. Robinson". The album sold best in the US and in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number one. Bookends was considered a breakthrough for the duo, placing them on the same level as artists such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones at the forefront of the cultural movement in the 1960s. The album has continued to receive critical acclaim.

   

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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

       

 And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey  

    
Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret just the Robinson's affair
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids

 
  
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey 

      
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
      

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jolting Joe has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
  
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
  
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
  
Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret just the Robinson's affair
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids
  
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
   
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
  
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jolting Joe has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
  
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
  
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
  
Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret just the Robinson's affair
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids
  
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
   
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
  
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jolting Joe has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

Simon e Garfunkel lançaram um álbum emblemático há cinquenta anos

Bookends is the fourth studio album by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate.

Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Simon's lyrics concern youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality. Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon, who joined the recording when Paul Simon suffered from writer's block. The album was recorded gradually over the period of a year, with production speeding up around the later months of 1967.

Initial sales for Bookends were substantial in the US, and the album produced the number-one single "Mrs. Robinson". The album sold best in the US and in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number one. Bookends was considered a breakthrough for the duo, placing them on the same level as artists such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones at the forefront of the cultural movement in the 1960s. The album has continued to receive critical acclaim.

  

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Joe DiMaggio nasceu há um século...

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio (Martinez, Califórnia, 25 de novembro de 1914  - Hollywood, 8 de março de 1999) foi um jogador de beisebol norte-americano que jogou no New York Yankees na MLB. Ele foi eleito para o salão da fama do beisebol em 1955. Ele é o irmão do meio dos também jogadores Vince e Dom.

Nascido Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio Jr. numa família ítalo-americana, os seus pais, Giuseppe Di Maggio e Rosalia Mercurio, eram da localidade de Isola delle Femmine, Sicília.

DiMaggio foi nomeado três vezes MVP da MLB e foi selecionado treze vezes para o All-Star Game (o único jogador a ser selecionado para o Jogo das Estrelas em todas as temporadas em que atuou). Na sua retida dos campos, era o quinto maior rebatedor de home runs na história das grandes ligas com 361 HRs e o sexto em slugging percentage, com 57,9%. Ele é mais conhecido por sua sequência de 56 jogos com pelo menos uma rebatida (de 15 de maio a 16 de julho de 1941), que ainda é recorde na MLB. Joe DiMaggio retirou-se em 1951 como um dos melhores jogadores de todos os tempos dos Yankees.

Em 1969, pela sua conduta impecável, recebeu o prémio dos profissionais do beisebol e foi eleito o maior desportista vivo.

Outro facto que o tornou famoso, foi o seu curto casamento com a atriz Marilyn Monroe, em 1954.

Fumador ativo durante boa parte da sua vida, foi-lhe, perto do fim da vida, diagnosticado cancro no pulmão. Em outubro de 1998, foi submetido a uma cirurgia para retirar um tumor e ficou 99 dias sob terapia intensiva. Apesar da alta, DiMaggio nunca se restabeleceu completamente após a operação e não apresentava condições para se submeter a um tratamento de quimioterapia. Faleceu em 1999. O corpo de DiMaggio foi enterrado em Martinez, na Califórnia, sua cidade natal.

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