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"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his fourth studio album, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), released on Columbia Records. Backing vocals on the single were performed by Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson, and Phoebe Snow.
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 17, 1975, by Columbia Records.Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the ...
"Still Crazy After All These Years" begins with the singer singing that "I met my old lover on the street last night." [2] The "old lover" has been variously interpreted to be either Simon's ex-wife Peggy Harper, from whom he was recently divorced, his former girlfriend from the 1960s Kathy Chitty, or even Simon's former musical partner Art Garfunkel, who appears on the following track, My ...
The lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek narrative where to save face, the singer claims he will say his girlfriend died in a variety of outlandish ways rather than admit she dumped him. The song had some inspiration from Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and was originally going to be titled "50 Ways to Kill Your Lover". That title was tossed ...
At AmericanaFest’s Paul Simon Tribute, Jackson Browne, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Isbell and Latin American Stars Prove There Are 50 Ways to Hail Your Hero Chris Willman February 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM
There Goes Rhymin' Simon: 3:32: 2. "Have a Good Time" Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) 3:23: 3. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" Still Crazy After All These Years: 3:31: 4. "Still Crazy After All These Years" Still Crazy After All These Years: 3:24
His albums Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), and Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) kept him in the public eye and drew acclaim, producing the hits "Mother and Child Reunion" (1972), "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (1972), and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (1975). Simon reunited with Garfunkel for several tours and ...
This is an alphabetical list of songs written or co-written by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, ... "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (1975) "The 59th Street ...