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"Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in the US in July 1978, it was the follow-up to his first major hit as a solo artist, "Baker Street", and reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, [3] No. 8 on Cash Box [4] and No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
His solo hits in the late 1970s included "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Night Owl". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs when he was a boy; later, he was influenced by the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
"Baker Street" is a single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released in February 1978. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically [2] and reached the top three in the UK, US and elsewhere. The song is known for its saxophone riff, written by Rafferty and performed by Raphael Ravenscroft.
Night Owl is the third studio album by Scottish musician Gerry Rafferty. [2] It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City.While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve platinum status in Canada, gold in the United Kingdom, and gold status in the U.S.
City to City is the second solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, released on 20 January 1978 by United Artists Records.It was Rafferty's first solo release in six years—and first release of any kind since 1975—due to his tenure in the band Stealers Wheel and subsequent legal proceedings which prevented Rafferty from releasing any new solo recordings for the next ...
Gerry Rafferty [A] Released: 1974; Label: Transatlantic; Formats: Digital download, CD — — The First Chapter (album) Released: 1984; Label: Cambra; Formats: Digital download, CD — — Right Down the Line: The Best of Gerry Rafferty: Released: 13 November 1989 [14] Label: EMI USA; Formats: Digital download, CD — 62 One More Dream: The ...
North and South is the sixth studio album by Gerry Rafferty.It was Rafferty's first studio album in six years and reunited him with producer Hugh Murphy. The album was released as an LP and CD in 1988.
A number of Humblebums recordings were reissued following Connolly's rise to international stardom. The Rafferty tracks from this period have been released in a variety of formats, some with just Humblebums material, others adding some or all of Can I Have My Money Back? Gerry Rafferty died on 4 January 2011, at the age of 63. [3]