Legacy
- Rosemary Clooney first performed a cover version of the song on her 1977 album Nice to be Around.
- Kid Cudi recorded a cover version of the song for his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (2008). His version was titled "50 Ways to Make a Record".
- The beat performed by Gadd used is also prevalent on Common's "Forever Begins" from his "Finding Forever" album.
- Floyd and Janice performed the song on the Paul Simon episode of The Muppet Show with Rowlf coming on to the stage to ask for Paul Simon if there were 50 ways to love your leaver.
- G. Love covered the song on his album Fixin' To Die (2011) which he recorded with the folk-rock band The Avett Brothers.
- An Eminem song titled "50 Ways", leaked which sampled the song. Eminem also sampled the song on the track "Murder, Murder" for The Slim Shady EP in 1997.
- Platinum Pied Pipers covered "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" on their 2005 release of "Triple P" on Ubiquity Records, featuring Rogiérs of Fibby Music.
- The album "Duplex Ride" from 1998 by Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft features a cover of this song.
- A Filipino band called Bamboo (band) also made a cover version of this song. It was in their 3rd studio album called We Stand Alone Together.
- A French group Pink Turtle produce a jazzy version of this song in their album "Back Again".
- Phish covered the song for the first time during their first performance at the Hollywood Bowl on August 8th, 2011.
- Pigeon John creates his own cover version of this song called "Passion (feat Tapwater)" off of his 2002 album called Is Clueless (2002).
- Brad Mehldau does an elliptical version on his album "Day is Done".
- Tok Tok Tok covered the song in their homonymous 1999 album.
- Rapper Kool Moe Dee interpolated the song and sampled Simon's vocals on the song "50 Ways" from his 1987 album How Ya Like Me Now.
- Joanna Wang (王若琳) covered the song which was published on an EP 4 Tracks (Sony Music Taiwan).
- Heike Makatsch covered the song for the soundtrack of "Die Häupter meiner Lieben" (1999).
- Ab-Soul sampled the song for his second independent album Control System (2012), on the song, "A Rebellion," featuring Alori Joh.
- The television show Recess (TV series) referenced the song in the episode, "A Green State Fair", when a character tells Gus Griswald to "hop on the bus, Gus".
- Comedian Larry the Cable Guy, referring to the song, added "a few more ways to leave your lover" in one of his stand-up routines: "Put it in the wrong crack, Jack/Tell her you're gay, Ray/Roll her over, Grover/Push her off a cliff... Cliff"
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