This is the single version with a very abridged sax outro. The album version is almost two minutes longer. I always feel short-changed hearing this version.
The entire album is fantastic. I bought it when it was released and it's remained one of my favorite recording of all time. His life was tragic but, he left us with some great tunes. RIP, Gerry!
Gerry started off in a Scottish folk duo called the Humblebums, his partner was a certain Billy Connolly who played banjo before going on to become our most famous comedian. Gerry went on to form the band Stealers Wheel, who had a few UK hits in the early 70s, the most famous of which was Stuck In The Middle With You, which will probably be best known to most Americans as the track that featured in the famous scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr Blonde slices off the cop's ear. He went on to have a successful solo career, with Baker Street being his biggest hit. Sadly, he had a long term struggle with alcoholism and it eventually took it's toll when he passed away aged 63.
Love this song. Especially the sax solo. In 1972 Gerry Rafferty was in the Scottish folk rock band Stealers Wheel & had a big hit with "Stuck In The Middle With You". Later on, he went out on his own & then had the big hits "Baker's Street", "Right Down The Line" & "Night Owl".
I played at a gig with Gerry Rafferty then went for drink with him and his band, two days later I was still drinking. Scottish legend. Nice guy... died of booze. Big mate of Billy Connolly.
Rafferty not only wrote, arranged and sang the song, he did in fact also write the sax solos, the most famous sax solos in music history. Research it the song has been licensed by 100s of sources for 40 years because of that sax solo Rafferty wrote.
The first thing most people hear in it, is the music, however, if you're supposed to hear it, the lyrics will grab you and won't let you go. The song is very deep.
@sandsoftime1954 The whole album is a masterpiece that tells the story of surviving his post-Stealers Wheel era when he was banned from recording. The Ark is his vision of the future and is followed Baker Street telling of the moment he knew he needed to escape London for home. This followed by songs telling of how he made it thru with gratitude to his wife (Right Down the Line), train travel from Glasglow to London and back, taking time for himself, being with his daughter (Mattie's Rag), marital strife and recovery, and finally "Waiting for the Day" when the legal torture was over and he could disappear to Scotland with his family..... an amazing album.
Spot on I ❤️ Get it right next time along with Baker Street I make it his best song ❤️ it,3 absolute classic along with stuck in the middle, being Scottish and born in Paisley his home town I definitely have a soft spot and ❤️ for the man may he rest in peace having left it with some absolutely classic songs ❤️
I'm an 80++ year old Englishman who's been into music all his life. Gerry has a special section in my collection, not only for his phenomenal music but because he never sold out to "the business" / dirty con club that ran most of the music biz in the day. Take a look at a compilation Gerry Rafferty - The Very Best Of, released 1995. All he was is there - a wildly under appreciated performer outside the UK.
Actually no, Stealers Wheel was not the band playing with him on this. Maybe some of its members., but the band had broken up a few years before. This is off one of his solo albums.
This is the shortest version of Bakers Street I've ever heard. The famous group Gerry was with before going solo was Stealers Wheel whose big hit in 1972 was "Stuck in the Middle With You'. If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs you will recognize the song (it's played while one of the crooks is torturing the cop). That's why Gerry was visiting London (Lawsuit against record company when he quit Stealers Wheel). While visiting London from Scotland he would stay at a friends house on Bakers Street (famous residence of Sherlock Holmes in the books). It's his friend (another musician) that wants to give up the booze, one night stands and move to a small town.
@@Pokafalva "Radio cuts" were released by the record companies because they thought that it had to fit the same time as other pop stuff. Many many musicians famously would put in their contracts not to do that when they got big enough to actually demand it, or leave for another company that promised not to do it. Corporations now that "own" catalogs will sell 15 second cuts for tiktok.
This was Gerry Rafferty's biggest hit, no.3 in UK and no.2 for six weeks on the USA Billboard charts in 1978. One of the best Scottish singer-songwriters ever, sadly missed. I have two of his albums, and still love the stuff.
Another great reaction to a great song. Gerry Rafferty had such a smooth, calming, mellow voice. One of my all time favorites of his is "Right Down The Line".
This was such a megahit that the airwaves were utterly SATURATED with it. And even so, it took many weeks before it got old. After a few years, it kept surfacing as a classic banger.
Humblebums and Stealers Wheel. The departed Mr. Rafferty's early bands. Great talent. Ahhh....the good old days of rock (I'm 73}. Saw so many of these live.
This is a track from "City to City", one of the greatest albums in pop history. Every track is a winner. The Humblebums was a group that I believe included fellow Scot and comedian Billy Connelly, very early in their careers. Stealers Wheel was a later group that he formed with Joe Egan, and their greatest hits album, which I own, is packed with great songs.
My Mom and I came out of the grocery store after school in 1984 and a Tornado was descended on town. This played on the radio on the way home. We made it home just in time to get to the basement. We were lucky, only lost power for three days. I was 10 then and I can see the wicked sky still if I close my eyes when this plays.
Gerry sold more than 10 million albums over 3 decades. One song "" Stuck in the middle with you "" was played in the Quinten Tarantino film Resevoir Dogs .....an unforgettable scene zlways associated with that song 🫣.
Must be one of the most famous sax riffs in music history.....and a big reason this song was a massive global hit and put Rafferty on the music map. Great song.....I went straight out and bought the album.....so did so many others! A sad footnote....Gerry could not 'give up the booze' and it eventually took him way too early. RIP.
His first band included a Scottish comedian/musician called Billy Connolly who is worth checking out (I recommend 'Dwarf on a bus') His second band was Stealers Wheel whose track 'Stuck In The Middle' With You' I am positive you will have heard (in a movie). Keep up the great work guys, all the best for 2024.
I saw the Humblebums back in 1971. I could not have predicted at the time that international fame awaited them. Gerry's career was cut too short by his addiction to alcohol, but he left us some great music before he passed on. @@tannadice1000
Movie was Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino asked permission for use, Rafferty agreed, got the script later and was shocked and said he would not have agreed to it`s use had he known.
Each time i hear this reminds me of my teen years and high school, that time of my life. Im 62 now so you can imagine. For me it sounds like a pop folk music
Takes me right back to the 1970s and hearing this great record being played on the pub Jukeboxes along with other great music from that brilliant decade. Love this song - Baker Street. 🇬🇧
This has always been a favorite of mine. When it comes on the radio, it immediately makes me smile, and makes me have to sing along! Love the sax solos in any composition, but this one is timeless. So glad you both enjoyed this. I don't know whether you've gone into any music by Al Stewart, another amazing story teller, but give a listen to "Year of the Cat" or "Time Passages". These and some of his other cuts were produced by the great Alan Parsons, and include elaborate instrumental sections as well as a mesmerizing story. As an "oldie" myself, I always enjoy watching the younger generations discover the songs and performers who set the stage for future artists and remain timeless after 40-50 years.
🇨🇦 Lived in London during this time ! Yes Baker Street is the same as the fictional address of Sherlock Holmes, but it is also one of the 'gateways' into the 'City of London' ! Sam is spot on, as most go getters in London believed that the future was having a job in the City ! The Promises that this held was for amazing success ! And when this didn't pan out, they talked about getting away from the City ! Long days of pressure, followed by long nights of drinking to forget ! This song said a lot about working in the City alongside a lot of other souless people ! Gerry captures it all in a great song that will live forever ! LOL
Raphael Ravenscroft was the English saxophonist who played so brilliantly on baker street.Trevor Ravenscroft his father wrote the famous book 'The Spear of Destiny'.
Baker Street is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. It's flawless production makes this song rock from 40+ year's ago up to 2024 and beyond. Night Owl and Get it Right Next time are also well worth listening to. I salute the late Gerry Rafferty and the musicians and producer's behind the tracks.
No one ever thought of using a sax in a rock song. Once this song was released in 1978, everybody loved the sax. Many top 40 songs afterwards had sax solos. It was like a new phenomenon for that era of music. I still have the 45 at home.
That's an all time classic here in the UK - you can't give it a genre label and that doesn't matter. It's a song that just sounds so good in many ways. I think it's a great example of music dynamics that goes through light and shade
This is my favourite track of all time ❤ Every element of the music is sheer class and sophistication, set against simple yet evocative lyrics. I was just a kid when this came out, but I've never tired of it. Check out other tracks from Gerry Rafferty's album Baker Street or his next album Night Owl, like Home and Dry, Waiting for the Day, Royal Mile, and Get it Right Next Time. Sheer genius 😊
The amount of times that I've played this when having a party as the Sun rises and those that have crashed out get their 2nd wind as we sing the final words to them. Brilliant. More personally, another year/be happy/crying, the words hit home with my alcoholism hard and true. Great song.
If you like "Baker street" and the saxophone you must listen to Candy Dulfer & David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here" ... "Lily Was Here" is an instrumental duet by English musician David A. Stewart (former member of the duet Eurythmics with Annie Lennox, famous for their single hit "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" ) and Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer. It was released as a single in 1989 from the soundtrack of the same name for the Dutch movie "De Kassière", also known by the English title "Lily Was Here".
Right Down the Line by Rafferty is a must listen. I can't hear his song Stuck in the Middle With You without seeing a cop get his ear cut off in the movie Resevoir Dogs. It happens every time I hear it. Thanks Quentin Terantino.
A very very very popular song when it was released. It's a song you never forget if you heard it once. Very distinctive sax riff. Just the sax is all you need to hear to jog your memory.
This past summer..., August of 2023, I attended a Cincy Reds game one Friday and there was an unknown band... for post game. The Reds had won in 9th.... 1-0, and the crowd was crazy...but how could the post game "cover band" top it off?!? Well they did... with the song Baker Street. Incredible saxaphone player..nailed it!!!!! I want to say the band was "Yacht Rock" .... Great night in Cincy .
Everyone comments on the great saxophone solo but to me the guitar solo is just on another level - totally in sync with the vibe of the track. Glorious song and arrangement ...
Great reaction. You may have reacted to this recommendation before, but another Scottish artist I would humbly suggest is Al Stewart - "The Year Of The Cat".
back in the day, being a AC~DC to ZZ Top kinda person, this was one of the few 'slow' tunes i'd let play. you just couldn't deny the vibe this song has.
A brilliant song with perhaps the most recognizable sax solo. I've listened to this since my college days in London and theres one word that I think describes this track : Atmospheric . It reminds me of cold dark, street lightened streets with people partying behind brightly lit clubs and pubs. Another similarly memorable song from this era is Stepping out by Joe Jackson. This a song to put on as you get ready to go out to a party on Sat night, goes with the mood.
The most underrated artist of our time He had MANY great songs-Get It Right Next Time, The Royal Mile, Right Down The Line, Whatever's Written In Your Heart, Night Owl(my fav), Don't Speak Of My Heart, Home & Dry, The Light Of Love(most beautiful). After he passed, Scotland dedicated a highway in his name-Gerry Rafferty Boulevard. He ranks with William Wallace as 2 of Scotland's hero's!!!!!!!!!!!!😀😀😀😀
It's called Gerry Rafferty Drive and it's in my hometown of Paisley. It's not a highway, just a humble residential street in the same area where Gerry grew up.
@@michaelgoldberg7127 lots of question marks, as if you're upset. It's just a FYI, I can literally walk to that street in 15 minutes from where I sit. I just let you know the facts.
No Biggie! There are MANY people that LOVE to correct and make others wrong. Me, I just let people have the space to say what they may say without judgement or opinion. I don't feel the need to correct them. BTW, I LOVE Gerry and am sad he is not here to thrill us more with his wonderful songs. To me, he should be in the HOF.@@AzulinhoAzulinho
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This is the most recognized sax solo in the world.
This one, and the Careless Whisper one.
Al Stewart featured it to good use around this time in Year of the Cat, Time Passages, and Song on the Radio
Vnomits not 😂😂
Definitely
Might be the most recognised but not a patch on the one from Hazel O'Connors " Will you "
This is the single version with a very abridged sax outro. The album version is almost two minutes longer. I always feel short-changed hearing this version.
Agreed. This is the AM version.
Yeah agree
Thanks for the warning, I'm out.
The entire album is fantastic. I bought it when it was released and it's remained one of my favorite recording of all time. His life was tragic but, he left us with some great tunes. RIP, Gerry!
👍🏻👍🏻
the album has a much longer instrumental ending that just carries it to another level.
The track your listening to is the single edit
Gerry started off in a Scottish folk duo called the Humblebums, his partner was a certain Billy Connolly who played banjo before going on to become our most famous comedian.
Gerry went on to form the band Stealers Wheel, who had a few UK hits in the early 70s, the most famous of which was Stuck In The Middle With You, which will probably be best known to most Americans as the track that featured in the famous scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr Blonde slices off the cop's ear.
He went on to have a successful solo career, with Baker Street being his biggest hit. Sadly, he had a long term struggle with alcoholism and it eventually took it's toll when he passed away aged 63.
I adore Gerry Connolly and ever knew this!
Love this song. Especially the sax solo. In 1972 Gerry Rafferty was in the Scottish folk rock band Stealers Wheel & had a big hit with "Stuck In The Middle With You". Later on, he went out on his own & then had the big hits "Baker's Street", "Right Down The Line" & "Night Owl".
When my eyes scanned your comment, I read "especially the sex solo"😂😂🤪🙄
He was in a band with Billy Connolly before Stealers Wheel they were called The Humblebums or something like that.
Night owl was the little river band. 🤔
@@KevinPierce-pu4bd Gerry had an album and song called Night Owl released in 1979.
Well, you guys are really good at finding the MTV videos. But...the song is actually 6 mins long and you really missed out on the rest of the song.
I can smell the summer of '78 when I hear this!
Yes, it was the biggest selling single of that year.....
I was 16 and we moved from where I'd lived since I was 5, a hundred miles away. This song got me through my teenaged angst
YES - see my comment to the listeners.. lol
GREAT DECADE TO BE A TEEN i was there 17 in 1978
I played at a gig with Gerry Rafferty then went for drink with him and his band, two days later I was still drinking. Scottish legend. Nice guy... died of booze. Big mate of Billy Connolly.
Rafferty not only wrote, arranged and sang the song, he did in fact also write the sax solos, the most famous sax solos in music history. Research it the song has been licensed by 100s of sources for 40 years because of that sax solo Rafferty wrote.
If this doesn't blow you completely away, nothing will...the saxophone gets all the attention, but the guitar riff at the end is SPECTACULAR...
The first thing most people hear in it, is the music, however, if you're supposed to hear it, the lyrics will grab you and won't let you go. The song is very deep.
I totally agree
@sandsoftime1954
The whole album is a masterpiece that tells the story of surviving his post-Stealers Wheel era when he was banned from recording. The Ark is his vision of the future and is followed Baker Street telling of the moment he knew he needed to escape London for home. This followed by songs telling of how he made it thru with gratitude to his wife (Right Down the Line), train travel from Glasglow to London and back, taking time for himself, being with his daughter (Mattie's Rag), marital strife and recovery, and finally "Waiting for the Day" when the legal torture was over and he could disappear to Scotland with his family..... an amazing album.
Gerry Rafferty was a brilliant musician. Baker Street was incredible !! R I P Gerry.
Nobody ever mentions "Get it right next time" It's so funky!
Probably my favorite!
Spot on I ❤️ Get it right next time along with Baker Street I make it his best song ❤️ it,3 absolute classic along with stuck in the middle, being Scottish and born in Paisley his home town I definitely have a soft spot and ❤️ for the man may he rest in peace having left it with some absolutely classic songs ❤️
Yes - I love that one!
It is great. For years I dint realize he was singing it!
Dah what an idiot lol
I'm an 80++ year old Englishman who's been into music all his life. Gerry has a special section in my collection, not only for his phenomenal music but because he never sold out to "the business" / dirty con club that ran most of the music biz in the day. Take a look at a compilation Gerry Rafferty - The Very Best Of, released 1995. All he was is there - a wildly under appreciated performer outside the UK.
Steelers Wheel is the band, and they had a hit called "Stuck in the Middle With You" .
Great song also worth a reaction.
They asked which was his *first* group, which was the Humblebums with the Big Yin.
Actually no, Stealers Wheel was not the band playing with him on this. Maybe some of its members., but the band had broken up a few years before. This is off one of his solo albums.
@@montylc2001 I think th OP was saying Stealers Wheel was the answer to the quiz question.
This is the shortest version of Bakers Street I've ever heard. The famous group Gerry was with before going solo was Stealers Wheel whose big hit in 1972 was "Stuck in the Middle With You'. If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs you will recognize the song (it's played while one of the crooks is torturing the cop). That's why Gerry was visiting London (Lawsuit against record company when he quit Stealers Wheel). While visiting London from Scotland he would stay at a friends house on Bakers Street (famous residence of Sherlock Holmes in the books). It's his friend (another musician) that wants to give up the booze, one night stands and move to a small town.
This short version was the single release.
@@Pokafalva "Radio cuts" were released by the record companies because they thought that it had to fit the same time as other pop stuff. Many many musicians famously would put in their contracts not to do that when they got big enough to actually demand it, or leave for another company that promised not to do it.
Corporations now that "own" catalogs will sell 15 second cuts for tiktok.
Its Baker St no s.
@@tonyburton5706 , good catch, my mistake, I know it's Baker Street (don't know why I wrote Bakers).
I love this song and Sherlock Holmes so much that I’ve stayed in a flat on Baker Street and taken pics of the tube station. 😅
This was Gerry Rafferty's biggest hit, no.3 in UK and no.2 for six weeks on the USA Billboard charts in 1978. One of the best Scottish singer-songwriters ever, sadly missed. I have two of his albums, and still love the stuff.
There must have been two really strong songs that stopped this classic from reaching number 1.
I will always remember this song as i was courting my girlfriend ,now my wife of 45 years and this brings me back to wonderful times for us.
Another great reaction to a great song. Gerry Rafferty had such a smooth, calming, mellow voice.
One of my all time favorites of his is "Right Down The Line".
This was such a megahit that the airwaves were utterly SATURATED with it. And even so, it took many weeks before it got old.
After a few years, it kept surfacing as a classic banger.
"Right down the line" is a masterpiece.
I lived on Baker Street when this song came out.... An all time classic!
I was travelling to Baker St. station every day from Northants. The song was always in my head. Good job it’s a great one!
Humblebums and Stealers Wheel. The departed Mr. Rafferty's early bands. Great talent. Ahhh....the good old days of rock (I'm 73}. Saw so many of these live.
This is a track from "City to City", one of the greatest albums in pop history. Every track is a winner.
The Humblebums was a group that I believe included fellow Scot and comedian Billy Connelly, very early in their careers. Stealers Wheel was a later group that he formed with Joe Egan, and their greatest hits album, which I own, is packed with great songs.
Sultry sultry sultry sax!!!!
As soon as you hear that sax, you stop and say, " ohh..."
The arrangement and production on this track often gets overlooked. Its excellent as is the composing, singing, sax, guitar et al
My Mom and I came out of the grocery store after school in 1984 and a Tornado was descended on town. This played on the radio on the way home. We made it home just in time to get to the basement. We were lucky, only lost power for three days. I was 10 then and I can see the wicked sky still if I close my eyes when this plays.
Gerry sold more than 10 million albums over 3 decades. One song "" Stuck in the middle with you "" was played in the Quinten Tarantino film Resevoir Dogs .....an unforgettable scene zlways associated with that song 🫣.
Billy Connolly once told a story about smoking a page from the Bible with Gerry back in the day 😆
RIP Gerry Rafferty a great Musician😢
Must be one of the most famous sax riffs in music history.....and a big reason this song was a massive global hit and put Rafferty on the music map. Great song.....I went straight out and bought the album.....so did so many others! A sad footnote....Gerry could not 'give up the booze' and it eventually took him way too early. RIP.
His first band included a Scottish comedian/musician called Billy Connolly who is worth checking out (I recommend 'Dwarf on a bus') His second band was Stealers Wheel whose track 'Stuck In The Middle' With You' I am positive you will have heard (in a movie). Keep up the great work guys, all the best for 2024.
The Humblebums
Dwarf on a Bus got blocked!
@@barsandbarbells2022 Shame, but he has others, Lady on a bus and Colonoscopy are two good ones.
I saw the Humblebums back in 1971. I could not have predicted at the time that international fame awaited them. Gerry's career was cut too short by his addiction to alcohol, but he left us some great music before he passed on. @@tannadice1000
Movie was Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino asked permission for use, Rafferty agreed, got the script later and was shocked and said he would not have agreed to it`s use had he known.
You guys should hear: "Right Down The Line" from Gerry Rafferty, too.
Been playing this since the late 1970s never tire of hearing it.
‘Night Owl’ is another good one from Gerry👍
Each time i hear this reminds me of my teen years and high school, that time of my life. Im 62 now so you can imagine. For me it sounds like a pop folk music
I agree, my all time favorite of his is "Right Down The Line".
Gives me chills everytime I hear this been feeling this forever and I’m 68
Takes me right back to the 1970s and hearing this great record being played on the pub Jukeboxes along with other great music from that brilliant decade. Love this song - Baker Street. 🇬🇧
This has always been a favorite of mine. When it comes on the radio, it immediately makes me smile, and makes me have to sing along! Love the sax solos in any composition, but this one is timeless. So glad you both enjoyed this. I don't know whether you've gone into any music by Al Stewart, another amazing story teller, but give a listen to "Year of the Cat" or "Time Passages". These and some of his other cuts were produced by the great Alan Parsons, and include elaborate instrumental sections as well as a mesmerizing story. As an "oldie" myself, I always enjoy watching the younger generations discover the songs and performers who set the stage for future artists and remain timeless after 40-50 years.
Year of the Cat is wonderful ! I believe Al Stewart is Scottish, too.
Yes! Great songs!
@@Inglese001 yes... were there ANY actual ENGLISH around at that time? (hint: tongue firmly in cheek!)
One of the greatest songs I've ever heard. The level of instrumentation. Whoa!
Every year, the whole town of Paisley in Scotland, Gerry's birthplace, get together to perform this song!
Right down the line is as good, and a love song to boot!
🇨🇦 Lived in London during this time ! Yes Baker Street is the same as the fictional address of Sherlock Holmes, but it is also one of the 'gateways' into the 'City of London' !
Sam is spot on, as most go getters in London believed that the future was having a job in the City ! The Promises that this held was for amazing success ! And when this didn't pan out, they talked about getting away from the City ! Long days of pressure, followed by long nights of drinking to forget !
This song said a lot about working in the City alongside a lot of other souless people !
Gerry captures it all in a great song that will live forever ! LOL
That's the great Raf Ravenscroft on the sax. Another massive talent gone too soon. RIP Raf 🖤
You know who Gerry Rafferty is now! Great song.
One of the most played songs on radio stations that play hits of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, how could they not have heard this immortal classic before?!
This song brings so many memories... The lyrics are sad but true. The music is pure masterpiece. And the sax is so good!
Yes this has been used a lot in movies and such. Even the Simpsons. Massive hit.
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street!!! Great Song Great Sax !!! One of my all time favorites.
Raphael Ravenscroft was the English saxophonist who played so brilliantly on baker street.Trevor Ravenscroft his father wrote the famous book 'The Spear of Destiny'.
Raph Ravenscroft also played on a number of Gerry's tracks, although not all playing sax.
He only got paid £27 50 pence and did it in one take and gerry got £80 THOUND from the song. Ralph was a session player.
holy **** so he is - for some reason I never connected the two
£27 pounds he got paid to do that he was a session player it was hin who make that record with his saxe RIP RAVENCROFT and jerry got 80 thound pounds
The sax always gives me goose bumps. The best sax solo ever
Jerry Rafferty is one of the most underrated singer/songwriters of all time
Gerry with a G......
The message from this song is one we should take to heart ,and that is " be careful what you wish for you just might get it."
Iconic!! ❤
all time classic! Great sax & guitar solos! ♥
Humblebums with the comedian Billy Connolly
Baker Street is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. It's flawless production makes this song rock from 40+ year's ago up to 2024 and beyond. Night Owl and Get it Right Next time are also well worth listening to. I salute the late Gerry Rafferty and the musicians and producer's behind the tracks.
Still listen to his albums - it's just fine music. Really, really good. It's aged like a good wine.
@@mikedytham9996 100% agree. I bought most of them....
The Humblebums with Billy Connolly
other rafferty hits worth checking out..."right down the line", "get it right next time", " days gone down"
Not a one hit wonder!
No one ever thought of using a sax in a rock song. Once this song was released in 1978, everybody loved the sax. Many top 40 songs afterwards had sax solos. It was like a new phenomenon for that era of music. I still have the 45 at home.
1958 "Hoots Mun" Lord Rockinghams eleven No 1 uk
That's an all time classic here in the UK - you can't give it a genre label and that doesn't matter. It's a song that just sounds so good in many ways. I think it's a great example of music dynamics that goes through light and shade
This is my favourite track of all time ❤ Every element of the music is sheer class and sophistication, set against simple yet evocative lyrics. I was just a kid when this came out, but I've never tired of it. Check out other tracks from Gerry Rafferty's album Baker Street or his next album Night Owl, like Home and Dry, Waiting for the Day, Royal Mile, and Get it Right Next Time. Sheer genius 😊
His other big song was "Right Down The Line". Great song.
Never get tired of listening to this track.
Another of the greatest songs because it never gets tired and is instantly recognised after the first hearing.
One of the best lead guitar solos towards the end segueing back into the sax. Sweet!
Huge radio hit.❤
You struck right in the heart with this gem. Genius was he. So, so many wonderful childhood memories with him
Gerry was also in a band with Billy Connelly called The Humblebums. RIP Gerry - The Pride of Paisley
I think you’ll like “Right down the line” too
One of the great sax solos of all time! Great song, great reaction! I've never seen this video of this song, thanks for using it
Yes indeed, a legend... And his MFSL album is a true tribute to his great work...Nice share, of a Historical song...
The amount of times that I've played this when having a party as the Sun rises and those that have crashed out get their 2nd wind as we sing the final words to them. Brilliant.
More personally, another year/be happy/crying, the words hit home with my alcoholism hard and true.
Great song.
If you like "Baker street" and the saxophone you must listen to Candy Dulfer & David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here" ...
"Lily Was Here" is an instrumental duet by English musician David A. Stewart (former member of the duet Eurythmics with Annie Lennox, famous for their single hit "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" ) and Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer. It was released as a single in 1989 from the soundtrack of the same name for the Dutch movie "De Kassière", also known by the English title "Lily Was Here".
This Song Is a Masterpiece From Gerry Rafferty
Quite a few of his albums merit the word masterpiece too.....
I always get goosebumps from the guitar riff. I prefer it to the sax and that is iconic. Everything about this song makes you ‘feel’.
Right Down the Line by Rafferty is a must listen. I can't hear his song Stuck in the Middle With You without seeing a cop get his ear cut off in the movie Resevoir Dogs. It happens every time I hear it. Thanks Quentin Terantino.
A very very very popular song when it was released. It's a song you never forget if you heard it once. Very distinctive sax riff. Just the sax is all you need to hear to jog your memory.
One of my top 5 favorites of all time
The late great Gerry Rafferty was a troubled genius. Could not shake the alcohol habit. Gone way too young. I loved his music, cried at his loss.
This past summer..., August of 2023, I attended a Cincy Reds game one Friday and there was an unknown band... for post game. The Reds had won in 9th.... 1-0, and the crowd was crazy...but how could the post game "cover band" top it off?!? Well they did... with the song Baker Street. Incredible saxaphone player..nailed it!!!!! I want to say the band was "Yacht Rock" .... Great night in Cincy .
Everyone comments on the great saxophone solo but to me the guitar solo is just on another level - totally in sync with the vibe of the track.
Glorious song and arrangement ...
The sax solo in Baker Street is THE sax solo. Baker Street is just a great piece of music; probably top 10 all-time for me.
Great reaction. You may have reacted to this recommendation before, but another Scottish artist I would humbly suggest is Al Stewart - "The Year Of The Cat".
Pure ear candy..takes me back to being 15 yr old in the summer of 1978. Pool Parties and great tumes. One of my all time favorite songs.
both the sax and guitar solos in this are works of art truly spectacular
This is the first song on my Classic rock playlist. It’s a favorite ❤️
18 years old and the 8-track was rockin this. Those were the days. This is a short version, get the longer one , you'll love it more
I remember slow dancing to this song at middle school dances. Good memories!
As someone who remembers when this first came out , this song is epic now as it was then . 😊
This is a classic. You should check out his other solo hit Right Down the Line!
His "other" solo hit? Gerry Rafferty had quite a few solo hits.......
City To City is IMHO, the best-produced & arranged pop album of the 70s.
back in the day, being a AC~DC to ZZ Top kinda person, this was one of the few 'slow' tunes i'd let play. you just couldn't deny the vibe this song has.
A brilliant song with perhaps the most recognizable sax solo. I've listened to this since my college days in London and theres one word that I think describes this track : Atmospheric . It reminds me of cold dark, street lightened streets with people partying behind brightly lit clubs and pubs. Another similarly memorable song from this era is Stepping out by Joe Jackson. This a song to put on as you get ready to go out to a party on Sat night, goes with the mood.
Enjoy watching you guys thanks for your hard work and Good times!
this song is my alltime feel good song for decades
One of my top all time favorite songs. He had many great songs. Steelers Wheel is the group he was in..
Omg, we played this song over and over on the jukebox at the pool hall I used to hang out in at my early teens back in the 70-s!
My all time favourite song. ❤❤❤
The most underrated artist of our time He had MANY great songs-Get It Right Next Time, The Royal Mile, Right Down The Line, Whatever's Written In Your Heart, Night Owl(my fav), Don't Speak Of My Heart, Home & Dry, The Light Of Love(most beautiful). After he passed, Scotland dedicated a highway in his name-Gerry Rafferty Boulevard. He ranks with William Wallace as 2 of Scotland's hero's!!!!!!!!!!!!😀😀😀😀
Don't forget Billy Connolly..!! He was in Gerry's earlier group, The Humblebums! He would be another great comedian for you to react to!
It's called Gerry Rafferty Drive and it's in my hometown of Paisley. It's not a highway, just a humble residential street in the same area where Gerry grew up.
Feel better now??????@@AzulinhoAzulinho
@@michaelgoldberg7127 lots of question marks, as if you're upset. It's just a FYI, I can literally walk to that street in 15 minutes from where I sit. I just let you know the facts.
No Biggie! There are MANY people that LOVE to correct and make others wrong. Me, I just let people have the space to say what they may say without judgement or opinion. I don't feel the need to correct them. BTW, I LOVE Gerry and am sad he is not here to thrill us more with his wonderful songs. To me, he should be in the HOF.@@AzulinhoAzulinho
Another classic. Amazing sax.
I never thought this was much of song, but in those days, anything would do, so we listened to it. I'm glad to listen to it again.