《毕业生》电影原声大碟带由戴夫 格鲁辛与保罗 西蒙合作编写，前者负责音乐部份，后者则负责片中多首插曲，包括脍炙人口的The Sound Of Silence、Scaebrough Fair、Mrs Robinson等，当年都是令人朗朗上口的畅销曲。格鲁辛是着名爵士乐钢琴手，但配乐风格颇为多 样化，本片偏向清新的民谣风，颇能反映入世未深的大学生心境。西蒙则是着名民谣二重唱Simon And Garfunkel的作曲主将，历年参与电影配乐的作品只有5部，去年的《成名之路》Almost Famous是最新作品。

by Jason Ankeny
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, much more negative than positive). With the exception of its centerpiece track, the elegiac and oft-quoted "Mrs. Robinson," the Simon & Garfunkel songs that comprise much of the record (a series of
Dave Grusin
instrumentals round it out) appeared on the duo's earlier LPs
Sounds of Silence
and
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
;
Nichols
' masterstroke was to transplant these pre-existing songs into his film, where they not only meshed perfectly with the story's themes of youthful rebellion and alienation 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. The Graduate soundtrack, then, merits the dubious honor of being the earliest and one of the most successful Hollywood repackagings of "found" pop songs, a formula essentially based around coercing fans to purchase material they already own in order to acquire the occasional new track or two; moreover, it's both the legacy and the curse of Simon & Garfunkel's songs -- some of the best the duo ever recorded -- that they're now forever linked with a hit film for which, with one exception, they weren't even written. And while The Graduate offers a successful marriage between movies and music, when one considers all of the other songs shoehorned into films where they didn't belong -- and now burdened with cultural baggage their authors never intended -- it's hard not to wish the synergy between
Nichols
and Simon & Garfunkel had never existed at all.