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I don't know how many of you saw this, but PBS ran a concert that celebrated Paul Simon winning the first Gershwin Award for Popular Song, from the Library of Congress. It was a great concert, for the most part. They had various singers do their own versions of Paul Simon songs interspersed with old clips of Paul's earlier performances. Occasionally, they would have somebody come out and say a few words about him, as well.
One of the old clips they showed was Paul Simon in center field of Yankee Stadium singing "Mrs. Robinson" shortly after Joe DiMaggio died. Then Bob Costas told a story about Simon running into DiMaggio in a San Francisco restaurant and asking him about the song. According to Costas, DiMaggio thought that the song was basically "a bunch of hippies making fun of him". Simon explained that it was definitely NOT making fun of him and apparently put DiMaggio's mind at ease about it.
Nice story, and pretty amazing clip of the song. There was definitely some dust flying around the Yankee dugout that day.
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