Steve Gadd on the drum kit. One of the best drummers in existence. He's the guy who killed it at the end of "Aja" by Steely Dan.

Try Slip Sliding Away... BTW, the writing was all Simon... That was a big part of their beef.

Another nice reaction BizMan and the penmanship is outstanding!!!!! Paul knows how to write a story/song!!!!! Keep on keeping on hombre!!!! So says Austin TX!!!!! 😎🍸

If you're doing Paul Simon's solo career (either solo or duet are deep rabbit holes), you might like "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes" which he did after a trip to Africa. It includes African singers/dancers. And check out "You Can Call Me Al" from the same time period.

What a fun song. The word tricks are epic.

The only bad thing about this song is how short it is. Have loved it for decades. Glad you enjoyed it.

The lyrics that Simon dropped throughout the 70s were on another level. Start to finish...records like "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" had incredible imagery on each and every track. Simon is one of the greats.

His lyrics always amazed me. Loved it the first time I heard it and sang along every time it was aired.

A remarkable songwriter. Some of my favorites are not "greatest hits". You will not regret checking out 'one trick pony' ''stranded in a limousine' 'late in the evening', storytelling at it's best. Good to see you back. I enjoy your prespective

Every fool today wishes they could be this legend. And I’m talking about Paul simon.

YEAH THEY WERE HUGE BIZ, LIKE THE BEATLES, DYLAN, THE WHO, RIGHT IN THAT ( 64-69 ) WINDOW, RIDICULOUS! 😊

Good to see you back.

And get yourself free...😎😎Paul Simon is songwriting royalty

Smooth! "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" was Paul Simon's biggest hit in the 1970's. I remember hearing it a lot on the radio when I was a kid. Simon's catalog is full of classics from the seventies and eighties -- "Mother and Child Reunion", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", "Loves Me Like a Rock", "Slip Slidin Away", "Kodachrome", "Late in the Evening", "Graceland", "You Can Call Me Al", "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", and "The Obvious Child" along with many others.

Great song!

The chord changes, all variations on a theme, are amazing. It's like a class in rhythm guitar.

THE PLOTTTTTTT THICKENS!!! 😊 I LOVE THAT!

SO PROUD OF YOU FOR DOING THIS ONE!! I highly recommend "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkle

LOVED your reaction, and that you see that she is egging him on. Still love this song; remember hearing this as a single digit kid in the 70's and thinking it was HYSTERICAL! And a drum beat that pulls you in!

Wonderful reaction. This has been a favorite of mine from the very time I heard it.

My favorite song Paul sings is “Every Living Boy in New York”

This song takes me back to when I was a kid in the 70's. It was constantly being played on the radio and rightly so. Simon had many great songs as a solo artist as well as with Garfunkel.

I remember when I was about 10 bussen to school and the bus driver jamming this song...lol...for about 3 weeks because it was a cool song.

Good to see you back !

Simon and Garfunkel break up is complicated. Toward end of 60s, Garfunkel was getting major acting roles in major motion pictures. Work on those pictures took him away from work on (what would be) their last album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Paul Simon, who wrote all their songs, even wrote a song Only Living Boy in New York, which appeared on that album. Paul Simon parted ways with Art Garfunkel after release of Bridge Over Troubled Water. Here is what Wikipedia says about the song, Only Living Boy in New York: Simon wrote this as a thinly veiled message to Art Garfunkel, referencing in the first stanza a specific incident where Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22. Simon was left alone in New York writing songs for Bridge over Troubled Water, hence the very lonely feelings of "The Only Living Boy in New York." Simon refers to Garfunkel in the song as "Tom", alluding to their early days when they were called Tom and Jerry, and encourages him to "let your honesty shine . . . like it shines on me"

Check out Paul Simon and the actor Chevy Chase doing, You Can Call Me Al.

They weren't my thing but everybody and my mother was singing this song , we were using phrases from the chorus in our everyday lives "slip out the back jack"

Some of this stuff. . . it's your parents music when you're growing up, so you sleep on it. You deep-diving on these songs makes me really pay attention for the first time. I've heard a lot of these songs thousands of times. Watching you find steak in the musical stew of my youth has me feasting on this stuff with you. Thanks for what you do, man.

Recently I had a friend, coworker… they were trying to figure out how to get out of a bad relationship. This was like within the past few years. I sent them this song! 😂😂😂

Man Biz like always you crack me up.

🤣😂🤣 I freaking can't with this one Biz!!! I was only 4 y/o when this came out, but I got the sentiment!😜 lol!! It has always made me Giggle! Btw... it goes both ways!!! Guys and girls are no different.💯💯💯💯 If it's the right person... none of this applies! Just saying! Sadly, most of us settle, not understanding that we deserve more. Anyway, great reaction as always! You rock Biz!!!!😎❤

Paul penned it all Art Garfunkel was great but Paul’s a true poet.

🤣🤣🤣Biz that was the greatest reaction I've ever seen. Love what you do!

I believe Art Garfunkel was the source of the problem as he was trying to pursue acting while Paul Simon wanted to make more music.

Good old Rhymin' Simon. :) Maybe "Graceland" next....his catalogue is endless but I thought something more uptempo would be a nice change. Some top tier African musicians and vocals on that album including this song.

i think his solo carreer is way more interesting than the duo

This is a conversation between the two in the relationship with each other. They both realize its over, but struggle on how to end it amicably. Try looking it in that light.

The most DIFFICULT drum beat to get CORRECT!!!! 💯 I'm a drummer, and we JUDGE eachother's skills by "Yeah... but can you play '50 Ways'?!?!" Steve Gaad, the MASTER of the groove, on the drums... he invented the fucking beat, and we've all been trying to figure out how he did it for the last 50 years!!! 💯😎

I swear, I never thought she was mind fucking him. I always felt like he was struggling to leave and actually, he was there cuz he wanted to be, not cuz she was tricking him. I think we've all been cheated on at some point and it ain't fun, BUT, this is an ass kickin song! I've been singing along with the shlyrics for decades and don't tell anybody but sometimes, I still get the words Ef'd up! Haha!

What I’ve liked about this song is it is about getting leaving a lover when you are not happy and start cheating. It isn’t about leaving a spouse and commitment but walking to find someone you truly want to commit to and not cheat on.

Great reaction! Have always loved this song. Clever and simple jam. Glad to see you enjoyed this and can't wait for more!

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She's just grooming him.she's telling him everything he wants to hear!

Please do Simon and Garfunkel

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It certainly not what you think when you just listen to the song casually. Simon is a great lyricist so I'm going to assume he wasn't just writing blindly as if it's a charming scenario. Not sure if his storytelling is about two terrible people or about a young man being manipulated and he never really lets on in the song that he thinks there's anything wrong here but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he was aware of it, unless he was leaving someone at the time and trying to pretend to himself that it was all right.

All my life the lyrics played out totally different in my head: Itnever accoured to me this was manipulation directed at cutting out a third party. Instead, I feel her trying to convay the message from "Hit the road Jack" in a more genyle, civilized manner. The chorus would be her, remembering what she would tell her frequently changing playthings, if she was cruel, so it plays out in fantasy only. The hevy melancholy of the verse is him geting torn apart by the realisation of her nature and the fact, he is not mattering to her by far as she is mattering to him.

1000 ways off the top of your head? Without hurting... what are some of them? Let me think. Just say we are thru, Boo. Flirt with her friend, Ken. Snitch to your Mom, Tom. That will do it 4 me. Let go the job, Bob. Start being a slob, Rob. Leave the key in the knob, Cobb. And go on and be free.

What if he's not cheating? What if it's her he's trying to leave? 🤔

This song would be a masterpiece if not for the misplaced 70s style funky chorus. It just doesn't fit imo.