50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

There's the pocket, which is right in the middle.

You listen to Steve Gadd play 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

It just sits right here.

It doesn't go forward.

Hit number 88 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

It had live versions of The Boy in the Bubble, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and Late in the Evening.

In 2015, David Gilmour released Rattle That Lock.

It was the fourth studio album from the legendary Pink Floyd master.

You're listening to WTF Radio right here on PodBean, the Old Man's Podcast.

Coming up next, Paul Simon, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

[singing] "The problem is all inside your head," she said to me.

"The answer is easy if you take it logically.

I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover." She said, "It's really not my habit to intrude.

Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued.

But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude.

We decided whether there really are 10 ways to reach base.

Next time, we'll talk about whether there really are 50 ways to leave your lover.

I think there are probably-

[laughs]

And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

50 ways to leave your lover.

You just slip out the back jet, make a new plan stand.

You don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.

Or you hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key lead.

Check, make a new plan, stand, you don't need to be quite wrong, you just listen to me Hop on the bus, girls, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key and get yourself free

Paul Simon, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Donna Summer's first top 40 hit in the U.S. Two weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

Being held off the number one spot by Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, of all songs.

So as you're listening to this, Let's fast forward and take a listen to this.

We'll go 717 into the song where things get really interesting for radio.

Yeah.

Because it sounds like something else, but it's inspired by 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, right? That's what it's called, 50 Ways

to FNL.

What does FNL

He taught me to make the drum set sound very balanced so that the rhythm, it's not just the snare drum you're hearing, it's not just the bass drum, it's part and parcel of the rhythm assigned to that particular song.

Okay? An example I would say of that might be Steve Gadd's drum part on 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Okay, sure.

Right? It's kind of a marching drum beat with a s-