Ed Smith
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Podcast Appearances
Oobla dee, oobla da to me.
Please, if I ever have to do a feature on this that features that song, I'm going to walk out of the studio.
But the Beatles, the greatest of all time.
So we're going to 1975 next.
Speaking of children's songs, Paul Simon would sing a little tune to his little boy at that time, Harper, and he would sing just a rhyming tune.
I think people maybe are guessing where we're going with this.
And he'd rhyme up these little things and out of that came out one of the greatest songs from one of the most incredible canons of music of all time, Mr. Paul Simons.
So we're going back to 1975.
I'm glad you like this because I think this is great.
This is wonderful because what it is, it starts, the choruses on this versus the verses are, there's a lot of poignancy and sadness and then he kicks into the kind of
into the chorus and it's very jolly and kind of like I'm Grant you're leaving this is how you leave so going 1975 of course Paul Simon's brilliant and this is very well known of course for the legendary Steve Gadd on drums here his military style drums on this which he came up with in the corridor outside the studio while he's waiting to go in I love those stories anyway this is 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Paul Simon At the risk of being cruel there must be 50 ways to leave your lover
All I could hear there was Steve's drums.
Yeah, it feels like a little march because he's marching out the door, I think.
That's what they're going for there.