1969: Simon and Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson"

"Mrs. Robinson" was the first Record of the Year winner that could claim to have ties to rock music. The song and the film it accompanied, The Graduate, both powerfully capture the sense of disconnection between generations in the late 1960's. It was the first of 3 Record of the Year awards won by Paul Simon, one half of the duo Simon and Garfunkel.

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