Sadly another one bites the dust , cracking and melodic wee ditty there - gotta love that upright piano sound in that song , I have a genuine smile on my face now that even that massive Ponce Adam Ant won’t wipe off when I listen to it next ..😳 👍🏴
R. I. P Joe Egan... 🌹 Gerry Rafferty of Stealer Wheel, was, before that band, was in a band called 'The Humblebums' - the other player in that band was..... Billy Connolly, the comedian. There's a track called 'Saturday roundabout Sunday' on you tube.. to get a flavour of them. They were quite, but not always, folky. Worth a listen. .
The song was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who also produced Elvis Presley songs. Their last major hit production was "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel.Looking back on the Leiber/ Stoller /Rafferty/ Egan partnership Mike Stoller later revealed “I think he (Rafferty) viewed us as the enemy - there was something very distasteful to him about us - what we represented to him, err… crassly commercial, what have you. Gerry was difficult to work with - he was difficult from the git go! and the band in general drank a great deal, there were cases of Brown Ale and there were a few cases of Scotch Whiskey in the studio to keep things rolling, I guess. And then of course pub hours, everybody ran out around the corner to the Thistle. God I remember it well, I spent a lot of hours there. We thought that most of what Joe & Gerry were doing with the accompaniment to their songs was pretty much jingy - jingy - jingy - jangy. I’m not putting it down, that’s what it was. We thought we could enhance that with some of our ideas - cowbells and coins between the strings of the piano, which made them play at a totally different pitch than the one that you might expect. Just using some elements of that could add a flavor to it, that it didn’t have to begin with. It took a long time. But in the end it was a wonderful result.” As a footnote Stoller added “As soon as it started to become successful and became a hit, he lost interest in it and was suspicious of it and no longer really liked it - because it was ‘commercial’.”
That was probably claves rather than coconut shells. Stealers Wheel are always thought of as one-hit wonders, but they had a lot of great songs - three albums, not two! "Right or Wrong" or "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" should be your next SW hits. RIP Joe - gone to make heavenly harmonies with Gerry.
A shining moment for Joe Egan who wrote this excellent song.
Sadly another one bites the dust , cracking and melodic wee ditty there - gotta love that upright piano sound in that song , I have a genuine smile on my face now that even that massive Ponce Adam Ant won’t wipe off when I listen to it next ..😳
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The late Gerry Rafferty ( Baker Street ) was the vocalist on Stuck In The Middle With You.
Yes. We noticed, despite what the video suggested.
R. I. P Joe Egan... 🌹
Gerry Rafferty of Stealer Wheel, was, before that band, was in a band called 'The Humblebums' - the other player in that band was..... Billy Connolly, the comedian.
There's a track called 'Saturday roundabout Sunday' on you tube.. to get a flavour of them. They were quite, but not always, folky. Worth a listen.
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You got there first Mr Guts 😂😂
Gerry was the better writer, but some of Billy's like "My Apartment" are fun.
The song was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who also produced Elvis Presley songs. Their last major hit production was "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel.Looking back on the Leiber/ Stoller /Rafferty/ Egan partnership Mike Stoller later revealed “I think he (Rafferty) viewed us as the enemy - there was something very distasteful to him about us - what we represented to him, err… crassly commercial, what have you. Gerry was difficult to work with - he was difficult from the git go! and the band in general drank a great deal, there were cases of Brown Ale and there were a few cases of Scotch Whiskey in the studio to keep things rolling, I guess. And then of course pub hours, everybody ran out around the corner to the Thistle. God I remember it well, I spent a lot of hours there. We thought that most of what Joe & Gerry were doing with the accompaniment to their songs was pretty much jingy - jingy - jingy - jangy. I’m not putting it down, that’s what it was. We thought we could enhance that with some of our ideas - cowbells and coins between the strings of the piano, which made them play at a totally different pitch than the one that you might expect. Just using some elements of that could add a flavor to it, that it didn’t have to begin with. It took a long time. But in the end it was a wonderful result.” As a footnote Stoller added “As soon as it started to become successful and became a hit, he lost interest in it and was suspicious of it and no longer really liked it - because it was ‘commercial’.”
R.I.P. Joe Egan, a sad passing but a rich legacy left behind. A great track written by Joe I believe.
Egan and Rafferty were superb together
I remember hearing "star" of a mid 70s US K-Tel comp...
Gerry Rafferdy was the vocalist He did all the vocals on there records. Joe sang harmony.
Gerry Rafferty was a genius! R.I.P. to Joe Egan. its so beatlesque!
That was probably claves rather than coconut shells. Stealers Wheel are always thought of as one-hit wonders, but they had a lot of great songs - three albums, not two! "Right or Wrong" or "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" should be your next SW hits. RIP Joe - gone to make heavenly harmonies with Gerry.
RIP Joe Rogan
Joe Egan and Shelley Duvall in the same week! 😢
The Humblebums.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humblebums