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Ed Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
232 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

It's just about fine.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

Oobla dee, oobla da to me.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

Please, if I ever have to do a feature on this that features that song, I'm going to walk out of the studio.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

But the Beatles, the greatest of all time.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

So we're going to 1975 next.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

I think people maybe are guessing where we're going with this.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

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.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

So we're going back to 1975.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

I'm glad you like this because I think this is great.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

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

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

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

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

All I could hear there was Steve's drums.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

Oh, there's the drill.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

Yeah, a little military.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

Yeah, it feels like a little march because he's marching out the door, I think.

The Claire Byrne Show
The best Goodbye songs

That's what they're going for there.