After a brassy, bouncy riff, Ms. Bonney starts the song by asking, “Hello, Joe, whaddaya know?” DiMaggio, voiced by clarinetist Abe Most, responds, “We need a hit, so here I go.” ...

His fame was recorded in song and prose. In the sixties, when Simon and Garfunkel wanted to express a longing for another time, they wrote in "Mrs. Robinson": "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Diamond Images/Getty Images The song starts off with Ms. Bonney asking, “Hello, Joe, whaddaya know?” to which the clarinetist Ben Most, playing the part of DiMaggio, replies, “We need a hit ...

Paul Simon pens the song "Mrs. Robinson," which is released with the movie "The Graduate." The lines, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you" become part of ...

Joe DiMaggio, the elegant Yankee Clipper whose ... His swanky swing and classy countenance inspired wistful lines in literature and song, including Paul Simon's lament to lost heroes in "Mrs ...