I had the by-chance pleasure of sitting next to Paul Simon at a Yankees game. I knew who he was but never let on. We talked baseball. Dude knows the game, knows the players, loves the Yankees. It was Jose Canseco’s rookie year on A’s.
I was at this game, sitting in the RF Bleachers. 20 years later, I still get goosebumps when Paul Simon sings "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio..." and the crowd breaks out in applause.
This is just a man coming out with a guitar in from of 45k people... let's all remember how amazing that is. No band behind him. Dam... so cool. All the players are even watching. This was huge.
If there's one man who's used to that it's Paul Simon. Back in his glorious days, he was playing in front of 500.000 people only with an acoustic guitar.
I was at this game with my father. Joe D was his favorite player growing up and he began to weep during this part. Me being just a 12 year old at the time, I felt a little awkward standing there next to him. But I’m sure there was plenty others in the stadium that we’re doing the same. Now many years later, my father has passed, and every time I hear this song I relive this moment and it makes me cry. Life is funny thing.
I'm so sorry man, I hope the time you passed with your father was a great time and you were a good son. He sounds like a great man. People who cry are usually the most strongest, supportive and beautiful human beings. Sorry again about your father passing away! That was just a beautiful moment you explained , thank you.
I like the way he just simply performed the song, waved to the crowd, and walked off, without all the drama you see from performers today. Kind of like how dimaggio did his job.
When that song came out, Joe Dimaggio was angry wondering why he was mentioned that he left and gone away. Paul Simon explained to him it was a metaphor, him representing America like apple pie. He liked the song after him explaining it.
@@konstantincvetanovic5357 I think Dimmagio thought it was a dig because he retired early from foot or ankle pain. He was sensitive about retiring, back then, you stuck it out if you got injured. After Paul Simon explained to him that he was mentioning him respectfully, he was ok with it. Rock n Roll was still young. To be mentioned in a song was unheard of especially if you were still alive.
@@groowanderer Yes, however, moreso a correlation to changing times. The country was looking for something to hold onto during a difficult time wity the Vietnam War and racial tension. No more innocence of the 50s.
@@eddiel2531 I was born in 79, my families fave band growing up was creedence Clearwater. . I never understood that most of their songs were political or anti war based until I was older haha love it that I'm still learning more about it all. Cheers bud have a great night
@@groowanderer That's how I always interpreted it anyway. The song was written for the movie The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman but many believed it had a couple meanings. Take care my friend.
All the big burly men were crying behind their sunglasses I know I was one of them sitting with my two young boys! Thanks Paul Simon! Happy 80th birthday!
Amazing to me how much the crowd and players respect Paul Simon... Complete silence and undivided attention from both parties... Beautiful performance from Paul too. You gotta have a big pair of stones to perform a song with one instrument and by yourself in front of 50,000 people... You are literally naked on the stage... He nailed it.
Stupid RIch men Ruin LIVES, made the stadium to make money! Now no one can go unless you are willing to pay for $10,000 for a good seat! I mean what Yankee now is worth seeing! Should of kept the old stadium , make old men feel nostalgia when their pops took them to see the MIC
When he asked, "Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?" my eyes welled up with tears. Of the thousands of times I've heard this sing, this is by far the most moving.
Man o man...how good does the old Stadium look. Filled with baseball fans on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Unlike that pit of corporate greed that they built across the street.
Beautiful! You could feel him fighting back the tears as he sang that song. It's like he wrote that song so many years ago just to sing it on that day. God I love baseball.
Brings tears to my eyes. A longing for simpler happy times, when greats like DiMaggio roamed the field and baseball really mattered in this country. No agents, no politics, and a father could take his family to a ball game without dipping into his savings account. "A nation turns its lonely eyes to you". Never more true than it is now.
I used to go to Mets games- pre-pandemic- and it used to cost me 8-20 bucks a ticket on Stubhub and for good seats. You must be talking about the playoffs.
"Mrs. Robinson" is a song written by Simon and Garfunkel and adapted for Mike Nichols’ 1967 film "The Graduate." The popular folk duo originally intended to call the song "Mrs. Roosevelt," but when Nichols asked the duo to contribute music for the film and revealed there was a major character named Mrs. Robinson, the title was changed. It became the duo's second chart-topping song, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Mrs. Robinson" was awarded two Grammy Awards in 1969, becoming the first rock song to ever win Record of the Year.
I was 9 years at the time, went there with my parrents. Was just a normal game day out for me as a child. The sun, the wind on the way home, wendy's afters nagging for 20 min straight. Now years later this hits so hard watching it back, damm the world has changed man, it could make a grown man cry. And it does.
To be memorialized like this nearly 50 years after he hung up his cleats speaks volumes about what Joe Dimaggio was both as baseball player and as an American icon.
Went there with a great friend who was older than me. He actually saw DiMaggio play. He’s gone now but I remember looking over at him and seeing him crying while this played. Something special
Even 20 yrs ago now it seems so cool watching crowds with "No Cell Phones" in their hands. I had a cell phone back in 1995 and thought it was cool but of course there were no smart phones yet. Here's to you Joe DiMaggio! People loved you more then you will know.
I heard a story that DiMaggio didn't like his name being used in a song ('Mrs. Robinson') when it came out in 1968, and actually thought about suing the record company and/or Simon & Garfunkel. A friend dissuaded him from doing so, saying to the the Yankee Clipper, "No, Joe. This is a good thing." It certainly was.
Kool Person no generation will EVER beat the musicians and artists that were creating during the 60’s, people don’t understand how drastically it changed the course of music history
Mr. Dimaggio lived right across the street from me in his latter days in San Francisco. He was a very proud man who demanded respect. It is nice to see Yankee Stadium showing him the respect that he earned.
@@TheCooderix he wasn’t a terrible person to miss Monroe, they both loved each other, they just had very different views of what a marriage was supposed to be like, just like a lot of other people. No big deal
There’s something really special about this performance. I come back to watch this video every few months. Just the way the stadium got quiet and seeing everyone listening was just beautiful. No phones out recording, everyone just listening.
People listening, soaking it in...enjoying the moment with their own eyes and ears....NOT with an iPhone, NOT streaming it Live on any platform. Just enjoying it...PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT ANYMORE!
Joe Di'maggio was my father's idiol I'm 62 and I wish I could have seen Di 'Maggio play They say he was the greatest And Paul Simon did a great job on this day Rip Mr Di'maggio
Wow..!! What a Lucky Guy..!!! Paul Simon got to stand in Centerfield at Yankee Stadium.. The very place that "Jolten Joe" and "The Mick" roamed all, for all those years...!!!!!
I'm from Ireland and I never knew that this song was actually about Joe DiMaggio, I don't know much about him but I knew his name was in the lyrics but I thought just it was a fun line to use back then or something. Somebody came and cut onions when I heard it this time.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Actually I remember them playing a concert in Toronto in the early 80's, and Paul told the crowd that Art's favourite team was the Blue Jays.
Simon was lamenting about the loss of heroes. Later that same day, Dale Earnhardt Sr was winning the Diehard 500 in Talladega. DiMaggio was a hero of his generation, Earnhardt was a hero to mine, and he would be killed less than 2 years later.
I was there, with my dad and mom, in mom’s very pregnant belly, and would be born the following week. I remember this song from the womb. It is almost surreal but I am certain it so and it was my earliest memory.
Look at how everyone is happy, and paying attention. Listening. Soaking in the New York afternoon sun watching the likes of young Jeter and Rivera with smiles. Are the good times really over for good??
Coming from Croatia, this is the perfect example of how I imagined idealized USA in my mind (and it gives me strange throwback vibes of the childhood in the American suburbs that I've never experienced)
"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best." -- Joe DiMaggio
I've treasured that quote all my life, whatta lesson!
Class act. Absolutely a class act!
I had the by-chance pleasure of sitting next to Paul Simon at a Yankees game. I knew who he was but never let on. We talked baseball. Dude knows the game, knows the players, loves the Yankees. It was Jose Canseco’s rookie year on A’s.
What an amazing story!
Very very cool
That’s incredible! What an amazing memory that you’ll always keep with you.
Christopher Cavanaugh Respect man.
@@patrickjohngallagher CHRISTOPHER READ CANT RIDE A HORSE
Talk about a moving performance! Paul had guts to stand there all alone and pull this off so completely.
LEGEND!
Paul Simon doesn't need guts to stand there all alone and pull this off completely. For Christsakes he's Paul Simon.
One legend singing to another.
Yes. But I wished the some of the idiots in the stands would stop yelling and listen to him.
Didn't really do much for me, a bit of a snooze.
I was at this game, sitting in the RF Bleachers. 20 years later, I still get goosebumps when Paul Simon sings "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio..." and the crowd breaks out in applause.
That must have been great to see this live
I was there in right field. I didnt see you. I looked and you weren't there. Dont lie.
@@ComePoopAtMyHouse1 LOL. You sure you weren't in the LF Bleachers.
I was there first row bleachers behind me the bleacher creature crew...I use to always near the old navy sign was there for so many memories
2:27
This is just a man coming out with a guitar in from of 45k people... let's all remember how amazing that is. No band behind him. Dam... so cool. All the players are even watching. This was huge.
There's a tv presenter here in my home, 🇧🇷, that says: who knows how to do It does It live
And Mr. Paul Simon knows
If there's one man who's used to that it's Paul Simon. Back in his glorious days, he was playing in front of 500.000 people only with an acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon is amazing
It really took Joe Torre back too.
@@rabbi120348 hey coach
I was at this game with my father. Joe D was his favorite player growing up and he began to weep during this part. Me being just a 12 year old at the time, I felt a little awkward standing there next to him. But I’m sure there was plenty others in the stadium that we’re doing the same. Now many years later, my father has passed, and every time I hear this song I relive this moment and it makes me cry. Life is funny thing.
I'm so sorry man, I hope the time you passed with your father was a great time and you were a good son. He sounds like a great man. People who cry are usually the most strongest, supportive and beautiful human beings. Sorry again about your father passing away! That was just a beautiful moment you explained , thank you.
look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes homie
@M y’all got beat 7-0 by Liverpool pipe down
Beautiful moment when you look back. Time and life is precious. Thanks for sharing! God Bless
@user-gu4tv4hp6s *Get bent.*
I like the way he just simply performed the song, waved to the crowd, and walked off, without all the drama you see from performers today. Kind of like how dimaggio did his job.
Mais ou menos sem a grande mídia. Só poético e atemporal.
When that song came out, Joe Dimaggio was angry wondering why he was mentioned that he left and gone away. Paul Simon explained to him it was a metaphor, him representing America like apple pie. He liked the song after him explaining it.
So sportists were always stupid...
@@konstantincvetanovic5357
I think Dimmagio thought it was a dig because he retired early from foot or ankle pain. He was sensitive about retiring, back then, you stuck it out if you got injured. After Paul Simon explained to him that he was mentioning him respectfully, he was ok with it. Rock n Roll was still young. To be mentioned in a song was unheard of especially if you were still alive.
@@groowanderer Yes, however, moreso a correlation to changing times. The country was looking for something to hold onto during a difficult time wity the Vietnam War and racial tension. No more innocence of the 50s.
@@eddiel2531 I was born in 79, my families fave band growing up was creedence Clearwater. . I never understood that most of their songs were political or anti war based until I was older haha love it that I'm still learning more about it all. Cheers bud have a great night
@@groowanderer
That's how I always interpreted it anyway. The song was written for the movie The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman but many believed it had a couple meanings. Take care my friend.
i love the fact that when Paul Simon sings, everyone stops. Everyone Listens!
All the big burly men were crying behind their sunglasses
I know I was one of them sitting with my two young boys!
Thanks Paul Simon!
Happy 80th birthday!
Amazing to me how much the crowd and players respect Paul Simon... Complete silence and undivided attention from both parties... Beautiful performance from Paul too. You gotta have a big pair of stones to perform a song with one instrument and by yourself in front of 50,000 people... You are literally naked on the stage... He nailed it.
He was literally clothed and on the pitch.
The old Yankee Stadium... made moments like this all the more special. It’s very missed.
That echo...
It was so great. I would do anything to have it over the new one
Stupid RIch men Ruin LIVES, made the stadium to make money! Now no one can go unless you are willing to pay for $10,000 for a good seat! I mean what Yankee now is worth seeing! Should of kept the old stadium , make old men feel nostalgia when their pops took them to see the MIC
Seeing Rizzuto and Yogi as he sings the DiMaggio line will forever give me chills
@@orlandorizzo5780 youre an idiot
Paul Simon, a man with a once in a lifetime talent singing about a baseball player with a once in a lifetime talent, Joe DiMaggio. 😀
He also sang on the very poignant 10th anniversary of 9/11. A very intelligent and sentimental artist. A legend of our times.
Yeah, maybe, when he's not being a JERK.
William Anthony for what?
Don't know how I ended up here, I've never watched a baseball game and have no idea who these people are. But that was beautiful
No one on a phone. Everyone just looking at Paul Simon, taking in every word. Bliss. I want to return to them days
Really wish they could return
How many people had a phone in 1999?
There where no Smart phones in 1999.
@@THETexxStarr I didn't say there was, I said I wish we could go back to that time
When he asked, "Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?" my eyes welled up with tears. Of the thousands of times I've heard this sing, this is by far the most moving.
Rhymin' Simon, a great New Yorker.
He freaking nailed this so hard. What a legend. Goated
Rhys Watters cringe
@@lilstinker1949 yep
Who could sing like that ALONE in front of 45,000 people other than Paul Simon. A pure talent. Thank you. - NYC, 1/18/2021
I was lucky enough to see DiMaggio hit a double in an Old Timers game at old Yankee Stadium, I want to say maybe 1972.
Paul Simon..one of THE greatest singer/songwriters of all time..over a span of 60yrs..this man is a musical genuis.
Happy 80th, Paul.
Man o man...how good does the old Stadium look. Filled with baseball fans on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Unlike that pit of corporate greed that they built across the street.
Tear down the current stadium and rebuild the old one !!!!!!!!
Will NEVER visit even if power ball
ieronimo18 they def not doin that
@@tetsooo tru
Nobody can go to the baseball game in 2020.
Beautiful! You could feel him fighting back the tears as he sang that song. It's like he wrote that song so many years ago just to sing it on that day. God I love baseball.
I do too. The national past time the history the great players and moments. There is nothing like baseball
I wonder as a kid if Simon could ever imagine he’d perform in center field at Yankee Stadium?
Didn't every kid in NYC, and for that matter, the whole USA, dream of that. They all just thought they would have a glove and not a guitar.
@MANCHESTER UNITED So what ? This is about Joe DiMaggio & baseball, why the hijack ?
Or asked to pay tribute in song at World Trader Centre Memorial to victims of 9/11.
@MANCHESTER UNITED NEVER going to happen here. All leagues have failed, do research.
MANCHESTER UNITED are you a bot? I see you everywhere
Brings tears to my eyes. A longing for simpler happy times, when greats like DiMaggio roamed the field and baseball really mattered in this country. No agents, no politics, and a father could take his family to a ball game without dipping into his savings account. "A nation turns its lonely eyes to you". Never more true than it is now.
I used to go to Mets games- pre-pandemic- and it used to cost me 8-20 bucks a ticket on Stubhub and for good seats. You must be talking about the playoffs.
@@LetsDruz he's talking about the financial rape at yankee stadium
"Mrs. Robinson" is a song written by Simon and Garfunkel and adapted for Mike Nichols’ 1967 film "The Graduate." The popular folk duo originally intended to call the song "Mrs. Roosevelt," but when Nichols asked the duo to contribute music for the film and revealed there was a major character named Mrs. Robinson, the title was changed. It became the duo's second chart-topping song, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Mrs. Robinson" was awarded two Grammy Awards in 1969, becoming the first rock song to ever win Record of the Year.
Paul Simon was the sole writer of the songs. Gargunkle's angelic voice was the icing on the top.
No backing music, no autotune. Just and man and his guitar.
I was 9 years at the time, went there with my parrents. Was just a normal game day out for me as a child. The sun, the wind on the way home, wendy's afters nagging for 20 min straight. Now years later this hits so hard watching it back, damm the world has changed man, it could make a grown man cry. And it does.
To be memorialized like this nearly 50 years after he hung up his cleats speaks volumes about what Joe Dimaggio was both as baseball player and as an American icon.
Went there with a great friend who was older than me. He actually saw DiMaggio play. He’s gone now but I remember looking over at him and seeing him crying while this played. Something special
Even 20 yrs ago now it seems so cool watching crowds with "No Cell Phones" in their hands. I had a cell phone back in 1995 and thought it was cool but of course there were no smart phones yet. Here's to you Joe DiMaggio! People loved you more then you will know.
great take
There’s a lady filming on her camera in the first minute of the video
Except for the guy at 2:08 basically holding his ears against the music in order to hear his phone better. What a jabroni 😐
As a Scotsman, I know nothing about Baseball but that is beautiful and I think I like baseball.
Every Yankee hearing every word. Its a family!
What a respectful crowd And the ball players also
One man, one guitar and the sound of silence👏
I heard a story that DiMaggio didn't like his name being used in a song ('Mrs. Robinson') when it came out in 1968, and actually thought about suing the record company and/or Simon & Garfunkel. A friend dissuaded him from doing so, saying to the the Yankee Clipper, "No, Joe. This is a good thing." It certainly was.
This brings a tear to my eye... when he mentions Joe... hats off to the editor
From the best decade of music there ever has been or will be.
Preach. Yep.
Wrong. The 70s blows the 60s away , not even close.
@@GuitarMan1117a na ur wrong
I thought you meant the 90s, lol
Kool Person no generation will EVER beat the musicians and artists that were creating during the 60’s, people don’t understand how drastically it changed the course of music history
I love how the players are just as captivated as the fans.
Legit got chills...
Remembering Joltin' Joe DiMaggio on the 24th anniversary of his passing. What a great performance this was!
Epic performance by one of the most legendary songwriters in American history.
One of the best written songs of all time.
Paul Simon - one of the alltime greats along w Joltin’ Joe!
Mr. Dimaggio lived right across the street from me in his latter days in San Francisco. He was a very proud man who demanded respect. It is nice to see Yankee Stadium showing him the respect that he earned.
He was apparently quite a terrible person to Marilyn Monroe though. Shame.
@@TheCooderix he wasn’t a terrible person to miss Monroe, they both loved each other, they just had very different views of what a marriage was supposed to be like, just like a lot of other people. No big deal
@@felixtendorf4206 There was physical abuse involved, not sure one should chalk that up to "different views" but alright.
There’s something really special about this performance. I come back to watch this video every few months. Just the way the stadium got quiet and seeing everyone listening was just beautiful. No phones out recording, everyone just listening.
The guy is magic.
Delivering it like only Paul Simon can. A beautiful rendition of a timeless song.
All Paul has to do is sing the name Joe DiMaggio and the crowd "pops!"
Such an awesome moment.
the soft pause he does before singing the dimaggio part is so brilliant
Wonderful musicality.
2:28: “Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio”.
This is what a true entertainer looks like
Watching this seems so beuatiful! 1999 a year of hope for a better millennium and a world at peace. Man I was 7 at that time. What happend!!
Nerves of Steel to play by yourself in front of that crowd. Nailed it!
Absolutely respect... Paul had always the guts to do a thing like that... Mrs. Robinson unplugged 💙💙💙
I was there , it was simply an amazing moment, one of many at the REAL Yankee Stadium
Hauntingly brilliant performances. Very apt.
People listening, soaking it in...enjoying the moment with their own eyes and ears....NOT with an iPhone, NOT streaming it Live on any platform. Just enjoying it...PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT ANYMORE!
Joe Di'maggio was my father's idiol I'm 62 and I wish I could have seen Di 'Maggio play They say he was the greatest And Paul Simon did a great job on this day Rip Mr Di'maggio
God bless you please Paul Simon
Silence with calmness n a smile on all d faces while such beautiful melody song being sang by Paul Simon🌹🌸
Wow..!! What a Lucky Guy..!!!
Paul Simon got to stand in Centerfield at Yankee Stadium..
The very place that "Jolten Joe" and "The Mick" roamed all, for all those years...!!!!!
I'm from Ireland and I never knew that this song was actually about Joe DiMaggio, I don't know much about him but I knew his name was in the lyrics but I thought just it was a fun line to use back then or something. Somebody came and cut onions when I heard it this time.
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
I'm not American not a baseball fan but it's moving to hear these lyrics for a legend thats gone
Joltin Joe has left and gone away 😥
Ball of Steel. Wow. Solo, one man and his guitar.
I’ve probably watched this 100 times. Never gets old.
Art I should have been there with him. Nothing better than those two voices accompanied by an acoustic guitar
Art;s a MET fan
Sounds just fine to me dont need anything more
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Actually I remember them playing a concert in Toronto in the early 80's, and Paul told the crowd that Art's favourite team was the Blue Jays.
Yeah no matter how good they sound individually, they’re always 100x better harmonising
Bee gees should be here
2 words that describe this legend - Absolute Awesomeness.
Oh my god! The old stadium! I miss it soooooo much! And I miss that New York and that America and those Yankees! Wow!
Very nice. Anything Paul Simon does is very nice.
Just wonderful 😊 and bittersweet.
Daytime baseball at Yankey Stadium with a dugout full of legends listening to Paul Simon.
Keep in mind - he had to sing this over the PA - so there is an echo - so difficult. Wonderful performance by Paul SImon
Great musician. I really like this finger style rendition
Beautiful simple and pure.......what a genius 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Paul Simon is the greatest songwriter who ever lived
Fantastic. Takes me back to my childhood. Very talented.
What a dude, artist and gifter of songs and memories xx
Anything is possible In this beautiful country we live in United States of America
I. Love. This!
Simon was lamenting about the loss of heroes. Later that same day, Dale Earnhardt Sr was winning the Diehard 500 in Talladega. DiMaggio was a hero of his generation, Earnhardt was a hero to mine, and he would be killed less than 2 years later.
Man I would love some 1999 again.
That was freaking epic.
I was there, with my dad and mom, in mom’s very pregnant belly, and would be born the following week. I remember this song from the womb. It is almost surreal but I am certain it so and it was my earliest memory.
What a moving performance that was. To see these great baseball players sit and watch intently was a humbling sight. What a marvellous moment in time.
That takes guts and a quiet humility that is not seen these days
Solo ante un estadio lleno para ver a su equipo y Paul con su guitarra, Excelente Bravo
Paul Simon is a national treasure ❤
I like how he pronounces the name Di Maggio, even if completely wrong. ;-)
I love this man!
1999 Simon! .... So cool memories .... NYC! .... Bronx ....... Yankee's Rock!
Pretty amazing to see one guy standing alone with an acoustic guitar playing for thousands.
Look at how everyone is happy, and paying attention. Listening. Soaking in the New York afternoon sun watching the likes of young Jeter and Rivera with smiles. Are the good times really over for good??
nerves of steel
An all time great by a legend
The One and Only Paul Simon❤
Coming from Croatia, this is the perfect example of how I imagined idealized USA in my mind (and it gives me strange throwback vibes of the childhood in the American suburbs that I've never experienced)
Same brother
Paul Simon is a legend. Simon & Garfunkel 4 ever.
Baseball is more than just a sport, it’s something that inspires children and brings people together.