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A couple of low key albums appeared in the 1980s, before Johnson received more regular live work in the 1990s, particularly in Europe. Whilst there his output included Railroad Man (1990) and Blues for Harlem (1999). Two Gun Green followed in 2002. [2] Johnson died on August 6, 2016, aged 78, in a nursing home in Harlem, New York. [3]
Baker Street is a compilation album released in 1998 by Gerry Rafferty. It features 16 of his best hits from 1978 to 1982. It features 16 of his best hits from 1978 to 1982. Track listing
"Baker Street" is a single by the British 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.
Blues Blues Blues is an album credited to the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars. [1] [2] It was released in January 1999, just over a year after Jimmy Rogers's death. [3] The album peaked at No. 1 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. [4] Mick Jagger, one of the album's many featured musicians, considered Rogers to be the originator of electric blues. [5]
It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. An edited version, omitting one verse, made the top five in the UK Singles Chart, and along with "Baker Street" is one of two solo efforts by Gerry Rafferty to accomplish this feat. [2]
A cover of "Baker Street", originally performed by Gerry Rafferty, was the first single released from the album.This reached number two in the UK singles chart [2] and the top 10 of many other countries around Europe.
The group's first single, a cover version of Gerry Rafferty's 1978 UK/US chart success "Baker Street", was their biggest hit, reaching No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1992, [2] held off from the top by another dance track, "Rhythm Is a Dancer" by Snap!. It was the 11th-biggest-selling single of 1992 in the United Kingdom and had ...
The remaining duo broke up in the early 1970s after recording two more Humblebums albums of material: The New Humblebums and Open Up the Door, the former graced by a cover by John Byrne, marking the beginning of a long working relationship between Byrne and Rafferty. In 1970, the single "Shoeshine Boy" became a small hit in the Netherlands.