Fact #159879

Paul Simon : The degree to which the song Mrs Robinson touched on the mood of the movie (The Graduate), without being specific about the movie was conscious. I remember the recording of it in California. I think it's all my guitars - a regular six-string that plays the lick, a 12-string, and a lot of congas. When I go back through those early records, I am struck again and again by how often the sounds which are on the Rhythm of The Saints album are there - conga, conga again, bongos, squeaker, shakers, moaning sounds from a conga, where you wet your finger and rub it against the grain of the conga. That's in Mrs Robinson all the time - those are Caribbean sounds.
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