My wife and I have a very special connection too this song. She's gone now, passed away December of 2020 but we had 38 fantastic years, I'll see you soon baby, on Baker Street!
19 years old in ‘78. Working in an abattoir loading containers with frozen cartons of meat starting at 1 or 2 in the morning. This song often came on the radio as I was preparing to leave home for work. God it was a long time ago but I’d give anything to go back. When I hear it I am immediately transported back to those days, oh to be young again with the world at your feet. That sax will forever evoke memories of early morning hours, not enough sleep and what could have been!
I was a junior in high school when this came out. This is one of those rare gems that takes you right back in time. Reminds me of my high school years, and the parties, and those simpler times of growing up in the 70s. I'd love to go back too.🩵
the drummer though! such a fucking ride, I can feel it in my bones, every time, it's as if I'm feeling or hearing it for the first time all over Edit: I think you'd like The Who - Tommy, the entire album
Looking at Gerry I see a really sensitive and likeable easy going guy who had a huge amount of talent. A perfect singing voice with the ability to write hit songs. It's hard to imagine him a binge drinking alcoholic that suffered from severe depression. A real tragedy. Such a waste of a great talent.
June 1978 I had family in my SUV pulling a camper to California from east Texas. I was driving through Arizona desert. Middle of the night I could only pick up a few AM stations. Baker Street seemed to be all I could pick up. All were asleep while I heard this. My oldest daughter passed away this past August. Memories.
Sorry to hear that 🙏....my own 3 girls have upped and gone, but I have those memories of 3 marvellous little tykes tearing about. I'm getting emotional just remembering these wonderful times....Dads are big softies really.
After relocating from New York to SoCal in 1977 I was canned from the job for which I'd relocated six months after arriving. I wound up making cold calls and going to appointments; meanwhile, my girl and I were having severe ups and downs. I recall driving along PCH listening to this on the radio. That melancholy sax spoke to me.
the kids like my daughter and her friends at Oxford are playing the old songs because they were better, more melodic and the product of so much talent brought on by the success of the Beatles. Everyone was at it! almost like classical music during the time of Beethoven and Mozart in Austria and Germany.
His voice is absolutely flawless. Not an easy song to nail down live, particularly in 1978. Gerry really does it justice. An enigma, a great talent and a much loved musician.
@@jonnysongs "flat" means not hitting the high vocal notes..he is not flat at all, he nails them all perfectly. Maybe you mean he doesnt sound as full as the recorded vocals? That's because he is only a single voice here whereas on the record two, possibly 4, vocal tracks at once were used.
Man... memories of the summer of 78 as a teenager. Taking trips down to Baja California, looking out the car window at the Pacific Ocean, hearing this song playing on the radio. Ah those were the days!
If there’s a better sax solo and guitar solo in the same song I’ve never heard it. What a timeless epic song from a bygone era. Love this live raw version. Imagine watching this performance live, just so uplifting despite a fairly dark lyric about trying but failing to move on from the excesses of youth.
It is now 2023 and I'm 80, and I still like this song. Gerry Rafferty (RIP) What a talent! I did just as Gerry sang. I got off the road at 53, "settled down in this quiet little town, and forgot about every little thing!"
Gerald Rafferty 16 April 1947 - 4 January 2011 age 63 Although Gerry's final years were very sad, we still love him and all the memorable music he produced for all of us to enjoy for many generations to come.. Thank you Gerald..
I've been saying this for ages. There is one radio show I listen to where the DJ plays a lot of Gerry Rafferty, but his music isn't played as much as it should be.
This is the year I met and fell in love with my husband, we were 22 & 23 when we met, this year is our 45th anniversary!! ❤ This song and Dreamweaver were always playing on the juke box, all summer of 1978 & it was awesome 👏😎✌️🎸That Sax 🎷
Isn’t it astonishing - how many of us were stopped in our tracks and transfixed by this song? People of all ages, of different walks of life. It’s almost enough to redeem your belief in humanity.
Still am, 46 years later. The whole album was fantastic. Right Down The Line, City To City, Home & Dry, and this, all the stars aligned for Gerry on that one.
I’m 61 now and have loved this song since the moment I first heard it I still play it over and over like a teenager! Gerry Rafferty is one of the most talented musicians ever
Fall of 2020, I was fortunate to travel to London with my wife and 17 year old daughter. We had a great Airbnb flat on Baker Street, two blocks from Sherlock Holmes fictitious home. Loved the neighborhood and the two pubs down the street. One evening I listened to this song while watching the double decker buses and rainy night people go by. Thank you Gerry Rafferty for making this moment more than magical.
Hopefully your daughter appreciated your experience. I and my wife’s visit to Baker Street meant so much more to us thanks to Gerry! ❤ the music of our youth.
It's sad that these days it can be "live" with all the imperfections taking out before it hits the speakers. Most of todays popular musicians are lazy fakes. They know they don't have to spend the time to perfect their voice when technology does it for them.
No it doesn't....read the reply from the dweeb who posted " horrendous guitar solo" this song is from an era when the music playing live was real, not a soundtrack behind the curtain, so let it be.....you can't expect low expectations from the society we live in today to appreciate stuff like this....this belongs to a different generation....not them....foot note, the only other iconic sax playing that holds a candle to this is Seegars "Turn the Page"
@RC-Flight I was 14 in socal. This song does take me back, too, like so many others. You would hear it play a dozen times or more per day on the AM stations, and I never tired of it. I have restored a 73 914, a car I first took notice of back in those days. I used to build and fly RC back then, too, with old Kraft radios.
Oh my God, it's about time to hear his real voice and not another lip sync clip! Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you. Release all of his clips please!
I've heard Rafferty was one hell of a good guy. I'd be willing to bet, that little smile and nod he gave the guitar player during his solo was his way of sayin "it's cool man, we all have a bad day". And then he did it again. I mean, holy moly.
Gerry Rafferty bared his soul in everything he wrote and performed. Sometimes happy and playful and at times dark and disturbing. Very original style of folk and hard blues with lyrics that always felt personal. Greatly missed.
78.i remember kiss AC/DC,BOOBIES.THE DEAD.I THOUGHT THIS WAS ON AM RADIO.LIKE THE CARPENTERS.I WAS11.NOT SURE.BUT DO KNOW MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. AND THEM LATE NITE RO K SHOWS I THINK I SAW THESE GUYS THERE
And what a GREAT saxophone-player Raphael Ravenscroft was. I can't help loving the way he put his signature on this song. Gerry and Raphael did a monumental job, as time has proven. Love it, and always will.
That's saxophone justs drives that song in. I didn't know this was a 1978 song.i was 18 teen then .now im 62. So many year's have gone by.but this song still sound good.
For me this song will always be one of the greatest. The lyrics are painful but what an absolute joy everytime you hear it. First time I've seen a proper live performance of it, top notch too . Gerry , a working class lad from Paisley. What an incredible musician. RIP Gerry , Scotlands finest.
I’m 8 years old in my dad’s office, he’s paying bills, ash tray full and smoke in air. Radio is on FM and this song is playing. I remember it like it was this morning. I’ll never forget those times
@@Roger8176 I see you lied, troll! "Ravenscroft stated that the decision to use the riff, which he said was based on "an old blues riff", was his, but earlier demo recordings for "Baker Street" contain a similar riff played by Rafferty on guitar and recorded before Ravenscroft became involved. An almost identical riff had been played ten years before on the 1968 Steve Marcus jazz track "Half a Heart", and it has been suggested that Ravenscroft's performance on "Baker Street" may have been influenced by it."
This is great because it’s live and not a lip synch! Wow! Gerry Rafferty had a fine and smooth voice! He was great! I’m so glad this live footage exists because Gerry’s gone now. This is as close as I can get to hear him live! Fantastic! And thanks for uploading this great song!
Gerry wrote it note for note for the guitar as a lead. He switched it to alto sax which unfortunately did not bring royalties to his late great sax player.
@@NYVoice Interesting... I've read that the sax player wasn't happy with the recording sounding flat..to him. So, Rafferty wrote the sax part of the song? In the same article, and a couple more, that the sax player sued or tried suing Rafferty over the sax work. That's all history now!
@@claudesclaws2009 That it is. But yes, Rafferty wrote it note for note as a guitar solo therefore nullifying any roylaties for Rafael Ravenscroft who performed the alto sax solo (perhaps the most recognized sax solo in popular music history). Would I have given a bonus for such a great job? Absolutely.
Real music, real musicians, singing and playing their socks off!!! Shivers down the spine Music, Thanks Gerry and the guys for all the wonderful music!
This takes me right back to my childhood on the farm - listening to the radio - fascinated to where this Baker Street was - I was thinking I have to get there - So I did...
Lest we remember this was just one the many hundreds of incredible tunes playing daily on the radio and our record players. It was a cornucopia of music beyond belief and so wonderful to see the actual musicians on video after all these years.
@Slick Mic Yes he was!! I remember my girlfriend telling me he had passed after I just shut the door coming home from work. No "hi" or "how was your day" just immediately told me that. I just stood there like I was frozen, and wept. I've only done that twice. But what a great and rare treat this video was. RIP Gerry
This song evokes emotion and nostalgia in almost everyone I know. It remind me of the summer of 1978, being 10 years old-it was all over the radio. In fact, Ozzy Osbourne wrote about it in his book: this song was playing when he got the news that his father had died. He said whenever he hears it now, he’s immediately taken back to that moment.
I was born in the USSR, in 1974. In childhood, on the Voice of America radio, I heard this beautiful saxophone melody. Now I can hear and see it without inhibitions. But who knows what will happen next...
@@vadve4ko248 у меня не было мафона, а когда он появился были другие интересы. Жаль что тогда многие не имели возможности слушать что хочется, да и вообще возможности были ограничены границей на замке.
I graduated from high school in ‘79 and I can tell you Gerry Rafferty was insanely popular during my high-school years. Baker Street was my favorite song back in the day and remains my all-time favorite song to this very day. I never tire of it! I will always love Gerry!! ❤️❤️
78, the year I left school and Kate Bush did Wuthering Heights. I worked in a rough pub in Shipley. Gerry was drunk and so were we, as that fabulous song played night after night on the juke box.
the lead parts are all live. the sax player rocks. same with the dude on lead guitar.. the guys probably had no say in it.. but the oboe or clarinet players along with the slide guitar guy are missing.. possibly due to production costs.. constrained by the record company budget.. the entire song should be in the rocknroll hall of fame.. and without doubt the country and western music hall of fame.. the dudes were from birmingham 🔭🐥 apparently.
If I remember correctly, Rafferty had a publisher on Baker St and he used to visit them once in a while with song ideas. This song came from that experience.
This song reminds me of the summer of ‘78 when I was carefree and had no problems. Great song. A time long ago when music was played entirely with and by humans. This guy was a genius. Good to hear the real thing instead of all the lip syncing
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I was 43 years old when this song came out iam now 85 years old and I still love it,it gives me goosebumps RIP Gerry.
Mr Bowe, I'm 43 right now and love this tune. I can picture you standing in your living room playing the air guitar to this. Rock on sir!
I was 14 and still love it too.
You got good taste in music.
I was 17... magical times John..
God bless you.
Anyone listening to this song tonight
Yes………
I'm here now❤
Yes
Ahí estoy...
Ouvindo em 12-12-24 às o1: 49 hrs...😊❤
My wife and I have a very special connection too this song. She's gone now, passed away December of 2020 but we had 38 fantastic years, I'll see you soon baby, on Baker Street!
Beautiful ❤
💔 wish you all the best my friend. R.I.P to your wife, hope you're doing well.
xx
So sorry for your loss .
You will be with her .
19 years old in ‘78. Working in an abattoir loading containers with frozen cartons of meat starting at 1 or 2 in the morning. This song often came on the radio as I was preparing to leave home for work. God it was a long time ago but I’d give anything to go back. When I hear it I am immediately transported back to those days, oh to be young again with the world at your feet. That sax will forever evoke memories of early morning hours, not enough sleep and what could have been!
Nice sentiments 😊
Sentiments that I am sure are echoed by many of us. Made me cry!
Thank you Rose 🌹
Don’t be sad, I hope life is going well for you and taking you where you want to be!
@@peterjohnson9921 thank you and the same to you.
I was a junior in high school when this came out. This is one of those rare gems that takes you right back in time. Reminds me of my high school years, and the parties, and those simpler times of growing up in the 70s. I'd love to go back too.🩵
Arguably the most iconic Saxophone part in a song of all time.
Or Harden my heart, Quarterflash.
You won’t get any argument here
Careless whisper
Dick Parry's Sax solo on Pink Floyd's song Money...
Junior Walker's (Shotgun) solo on Foreigner 's song Urgent..
It's a short list. I would add Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart, but I don't know the name of the player.
The sax, the guitar, the song and the singer. Pure poetry.
the drummer though! such a fucking ride, I can feel it in my bones, every time, it's as if I'm feeling or hearing it for the first time all over
Edit: I think you'd like The Who - Tommy, the entire album
@@music4meh he also shows that hair Is not important when you grow a beatiful beard
The guitar was hella out of tune tho
@@marcusnewman8639 Poor guitar solo. Very untidy. My guess is that this guy is not the original solo player on the record.
@@chrismcparland5274 Hugh Burns was the original player and he used a Gibson Les Paul through a Fender amp to record it.
The sax player looks exactly like you'd expect him to.
Are you saying he looks saxy?
I didn’t know Inigo Montoya played the sax 🎷😂
He played on Careless Whisper also
Kenny fucking Powers
Rip to the legendary sax player
One of the greatest songs of the 70’s. It never gets old.
Hard to argue either point on that one Syd 41. Solid gold then and now.
Lightning in a bottle
Forget the best of the 70’s....it’s top ten of ALL TIME!
@@snouter huh?
Yes, and it sounds so McCartney.
Looking at Gerry I see a really sensitive and likeable easy going guy who had a huge amount of talent. A perfect singing voice with the ability to write hit songs. It's hard to imagine him a binge drinking alcoholic that suffered from severe depression. A real tragedy. Such a waste of a great talent.
booze and drugs are the hammer and nails that the devil uses to wrest your soul
@@Thadmotor1044nah, the “devil” saved me.
Ese dolor lo volcaba en la música.
Me encanta ésta música. Me trae recuerdos...
An actual live performance of Baker Street. This is rare.
This song reminds me of the summer of ‘78 when I was carefree and had no problems. Great song.
Kimberly Ann Washington me too. Glad I grew up listening to this kind of talent. It has made me j to the musician I am today.
M. Black
Here’s a recommendation : watch some Roger Hodgson/Supertramp live videos. Another talented bunch. :-)))
Yes....the summer of '78 the Perseids in August at 8,000 ft, Vedawoo, Wyoming...thanks for the memories
Ditto. I hear the sax solo in the beginning and I’m a teenager again.
yup. the summer of ‘78 was a great one for me too. ah the memories
TH-cam is great for showing random rare stuff like this
June 1978 I had family in my SUV pulling a camper to California from east Texas. I was driving through Arizona desert. Middle of the night I could only pick up a few AM stations. Baker Street seemed to be all I could pick up. All were asleep while I heard this. My oldest daughter passed away this past August. Memories.
Life man....
Sorry about your daughter.
Sorry for your loss, may she RIP.
@@rosemariewalsh1246Think about her every day. Thank you
Sorry to hear that 🙏....my own 3 girls have upped and gone, but I have those memories of 3 marvellous little tykes tearing about. I'm getting emotional just remembering these wonderful times....Dads are big softies really.
sorry
One of my top songs of all time. I am 60 now but can’t help but smile when I hear this song. If you get it, you get it.
Also just turned 60 …… and I get it!
After relocating from New York to SoCal in 1977 I was canned from the job for which I'd relocated six months after arriving. I wound up making cold calls and going to appointments; meanwhile, my girl and I were having severe ups and downs. I recall driving along PCH listening to this on the radio. That melancholy sax spoke to me.
This song was played on most pop/ rock stations about every 5 minutes back in summer 1978..this guy had a great voice..too bad he left us so soon.
The album 'City to City' was great as well. - I still have the vinyl LP.
TOP MUSIC FOR EVER ❤
Yep, if any song defined late 70's American radio this is it.
Singers and Bands today will never have this…
the kids like my daughter and her friends at Oxford are playing the old songs because they were better, more melodic and the product of so much talent brought on by the success of the Beatles. Everyone was at it! almost like classical music during the time of Beethoven and Mozart in Austria and Germany.
I was 27 then, now 73.
Good memories.
Count my blessings
I was 14 then, now 60
His voice is absolutely flawless. Not an easy song to nail down live, particularly in 1978. Gerry really does it justice. An enigma, a great talent and a much loved musician.
why is he hard to understand?
@@wobu5361 I don't find him hard to understand. He's got quite a mellow, clear voice.
He sounds flat and nasal to me here
@@jonnysongs "flat" means not hitting the high vocal notes..he is not flat at all, he nails them all perfectly. Maybe you mean he doesnt sound as full as the recorded vocals? That's because he is only a single voice here whereas on the record two, possibly 4, vocal tracks at once were used.
@@jonnysongs Rafferty had an amazing voice. Other singers laud him. Honestly, go home, you're drunk
Gerry Rafferty’s vocal in this live performance is remarkable. Essentially, indistinguishable from the studio version.
@snakedriverhe said essentially 😐
Exactly. When an artist is the same in both locations you know they have something special.
No tricks or effects just an amazing voice
He was a criminally underrated singer
I was 21 in 78, My wife and I were married, and this was just a song that would lead us to buy the Album City to city.. and the rest is history.
City to City. Loaded with great songs. One of my all time favorite albums.
Man... memories of the summer of 78 as a teenager. Taking trips down to Baja California, looking out the car window at the Pacific Ocean, hearing this song playing on the radio. Ah those were the days!
Same memory only it was the South Jersey shore.
Mickey that must have been fantastic
Being born in New Zealand
I can only dream of the weather
Graduated high school in 78 and this song brings me right back along with specific memories of certain chemical use...love Rafferty
Wauw!!!!! Lovely!
I was there at the same time. I totally feel it.
If there’s a better sax solo and guitar solo in the same song I’ve never heard it. What a timeless epic song from a bygone era. Love this live raw version. Imagine watching this performance live, just so uplifting despite a fairly dark lyric about trying but failing to move on from the excesses of youth.
Re. guitar and sax solo, try Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen.
Fantastic synopsis, I couldn't say it better!!!!!!
@@wolfcarcass yes-beat me to it lol
A timesless whisper epic song you mean?
Stay now - Hazel O'Connor
It is now 2023 and I'm 80, and I still like this song. Gerry Rafferty (RIP) What a talent! I did just as Gerry sang. I got off the road at 53, "settled down in this quiet little town, and forgot about every little thing!"
Gerald Rafferty 16 April 1947 - 4 January 2011 age 63
Although Gerry's final years were very sad, we still love him and all the memorable music he produced for all of us to enjoy for many generations to come.. Thank you Gerald..
🤩😢😎❣️
In my opinion Gerry was wholly underrated, "Right down the line"
is one of my wife's and my favourite songs.
@BeckyBoo Good taste in music there BeckyBoo! Stay safe and rock on.
I've been saying this for ages. There is one radio show I listen to where the DJ plays a lot of Gerry Rafferty, but his music isn't played as much as it should be.
I agree. He was very unassuming but immensely talented! May he rest in peace.
I’ve just discovered “Right down the line” recently, it really is an amazing song…man, this man had talent!
As the Stones and the Beatles and Dylan and The Velvet Underground were ‘wholly underrated’ ! Real heroes never get underrated.
This is the year I met and fell in love with my husband, we were 22 & 23 when we met, this year is our 45th anniversary!! ❤ This song and Dreamweaver were always playing on the juke box, all summer of 1978 & it was awesome 👏😎✌️🎸That Sax 🎷
Isn’t it astonishing - how many of us were stopped in our tracks and transfixed by this song? People of all ages, of different walks of life. It’s almost enough to redeem your belief in humanity.
Almost...
I'm 80 and my 18 yr old grandson loves this song and "right down the line " also.
Still am, 46 years later. The whole album was fantastic. Right Down The Line, City To City, Home & Dry, and this, all the stars aligned for Gerry on that one.
The sax cuts through heart like a chainsaw but the voice soothes the pain like a goodnight kiss.
Wow! I surely hope you write poems/lyrics, at least for a hobby!
@@mdogg1604 🙂 thank you for your kind comment, I just wrote this to express how this inspiring song touches me. Best wishes to you 🙂
@@whoknowswhodoesnt TY, and same to you! And by all means, keep writing!
Man i can say the same!
@whoknowswhodoesnt Well said!
I’m 61 now and have loved this song since the moment I first heard it
I still play it over and over like a teenager!
Gerry Rafferty is one of the most talented musicians ever
Do'in it live man.............that's friggen talent.......RIP you magnificent bastard.
WOW? GREAT footage!
Fall of 2020, I was fortunate to travel to London with my wife and 17 year old daughter. We had a great Airbnb flat on Baker Street, two blocks from Sherlock Holmes fictitious home. Loved the neighborhood and the two pubs down the street. One evening I listened to this song while watching the double decker buses and rainy night people go by. Thank you Gerry Rafferty for making this moment more than magical.
Hopefully your daughter appreciated your experience. I and my wife’s visit to Baker Street meant so much more to us thanks to Gerry! ❤ the music of our youth.
Anyone gonna be listening to this song in 3 days! Happy New Year all you down to earth hippies from the 60’s 70’s ROCK ON brothers and sisters!
It's refreshing to see a drummer who doesn't beat the living hell out of everything his sticks hit
Liam Gennocky
@@PzKwVIIINow there is an underated musician.
It’s not that kind of song.
The legendary Henry Spinnetti!
Certainly his beard not taking any hits
This song has something special
One of the best sax breaks of the 20th Century!
OMG an actual live version. That sax live is bad ass. It's all so much better live even with imperfections
When he reserects from the dead ....
I love this version. I wonder if this was before the album. Lot of artists try out songs before recording. The rawness of the song makes it great.
@@RayNDeere sax appears to be in tune here it wasnt for the recording
No. No, it isn’t.
It's sad that these days it can be "live" with all the imperfections taking out before it hits the speakers. Most of todays popular musicians are lazy fakes. They know they don't have to spend the time to perfect their voice when technology does it for them.
Frankly this version deserves massive airtime on commercial radio. It is GORGEOUS.
What?? Even with that horrendous guitar solo?
No it doesn't....read the reply from the dweeb who posted " horrendous guitar solo" this song is from an era when the music playing live was real, not a soundtrack behind the curtain, so let it be.....you can't expect low expectations from the society we live in today to appreciate stuff like this....this belongs to a different generation....not them....foot note, the only other iconic sax playing that holds a candle to this is Seegars "Turn the Page"
When you wake up it’s a new morning, you’re going home❤
Man the hot Summer of 1978, going to the drive in theatre and listing to this great song as a 16 year old teen driving an orange AMC Gremlin.
Lol yup. Seeing grease and jaws 2. July 2nd 1978!! I was 5. But remember these times
@@antoniocognato5023 Don’t forget
The Exorcist, Deer Hunter, Animal House….
I had a baby blue one lol!
@ wataboutya too cool!
@RC-Flight I was 14 in socal. This song does take me back, too, like so many others. You would hear it play a dozen times or more per day on the AM stations, and I never tired of it. I have restored a 73 914, a car I first took notice of back in those days. I used to build and fly RC back then, too, with old Kraft radios.
The 70's were a great era for music. This song came out when I was in High School. Brings back so many memories.
Oh my God, it's about time to hear his real voice and not another lip sync clip! Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you. Release all of his clips please!
Did you not read the message upfront? You think they're gonna do that for FREE!!?? ha ha....sweet kid
@King Brilliant "can't hold a tune" - sorry but nah. might be nasal on the higher notes but otherwise, this is a singer with perfect pitch
@@2TUFSS Absolutely perfect.
@@2TUFSS Damn right, man! Perfect!!!
I wish I could find a live version of Right Down the Line, all of its lip singing!
Love love love that they actually performed the song instead of pretending to play over the studio version.
Why can’t I stop watching this video? It’s been on over a year and here I am again.
R.I.P. Gerry Rafferty for making such beautiful music.
I've heard Rafferty was one hell of a good guy. I'd be willing to bet, that little smile and nod he gave the guitar player during his solo was his way of sayin "it's cool man, we all have a bad day". And then he did it again. I mean, holy moly.
Great live performance of one of the top ten songs ever written.
Musical genius with a perfect voice..9 years old when i heard this in 78 and still love this and others today RIP much missed
I love the sax in this song; the vocals blend so nicely. A perfect musical mosaic.
Gerry Rafferty bared his soul in everything he wrote and performed. Sometimes happy and playful and at times dark and disturbing. Very original style of folk and hard blues with lyrics that always felt personal. Greatly missed.
Takes me right back to summer of 1978. What a memory.
This is one of those songs that can move you in time. It takes me back also.
78.i remember kiss AC/DC,BOOBIES.THE DEAD.I THOUGHT THIS WAS ON AM RADIO.LIKE THE CARPENTERS.I WAS11.NOT SURE.BUT DO KNOW MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. AND THEM LATE NITE RO K SHOWS I THINK I SAW THESE GUYS THERE
Driving around jamming to this in my 78 Black Trans Am with the T-top down.
Aaaaah, the memories.
Yup, I was seventeen.
And what a great summer that was.
And what a GREAT saxophone-player Raphael Ravenscroft was. I can't help loving the way he put his signature on this song. Gerry and Raphael did a monumental job, as time has proven. Love it, and always will.
Yes ang
I still have the original vinyl single of this from 1978, I bought it mainly for Raphael's sax playing. glad it got to #1 in the UK.
To be fair…Gerry wrote the sax part. If you listen to the demo, he plays the sax line on the guitar-he had Ravenscroft replicate it on sax.
I don't think Raphael was at his best in this performance though.
Raph sounds to me even better than on the record! Amazing.
That's saxophone justs drives that song in. I didn't know this was a 1978 song.i was 18 teen then .now im 62. So many year's have gone by.but this song still sound good.
Im 54 and have loved this song from the moment I first heard it
I am also 54 and love this song since I first heard as a teen. On my iPod for years as a must listen to.
The same for me in France
You guys were young! I was 15 and 62 now.
I was 18 in 1977 when this track was playing on the radio--takes me back.
For me this song will always be one of the greatest.
The lyrics are painful but what an absolute joy everytime you hear it.
First time I've seen a proper live performance of it, top notch too .
Gerry , a working class lad from Paisley.
What an incredible musician.
RIP Gerry , Scotlands finest.
This made me smile..
This is one of the greatest songs ever and definitely one of the best saxophone intros of all time.
I’m 8 years old in my dad’s office, he’s paying bills, ash tray full and smoke in air. Radio is on FM and this song is playing. I remember it like it was this morning. I’ll never forget those times
God, I love this song....1978, first crush, graduated high school, terrified of college...everything was shiny and new...
This was one of those songs that I heard ONCE, and went and bought the Album!
Bought the single, then the album, the songbook ; years later, the CD. Still love it. One of my heroes.
Me too, and I still have the album!
Every time I see Rafferty he looks like such a gentle soul. I guess the good do die too young. One of the greatest songs of all time.
Well, he doesn't pay his band. Ask the sax player.
He looks like the teacher from Beavis
@@Roger8176 How could he? He's dead.
@@Roger8176 I see you lied, troll! "Ravenscroft stated that the decision to use the riff, which he said was based on "an old blues riff", was his, but earlier demo recordings for "Baker Street" contain a similar riff played by Rafferty on guitar and recorded before Ravenscroft became involved. An almost identical riff had been played ten years before on the 1968 Steve Marcus jazz track "Half a Heart", and it has been suggested that Ravenscroft's performance on "Baker Street" may have been influenced by it."
This is great because it’s live and not a lip synch! Wow! Gerry Rafferty had a fine and smooth voice! He was great! I’m so glad this live footage exists because Gerry’s gone now. This is as close as I can get to hear him live! Fantastic! And thanks for uploading this great song!
This song almost doesn't need any lyrics at all. The sax tells such a beautiful story all on its own!!!!!!
landyachtfan79 You’re absolutely right, doesn’t need any lyrics at all.That sax says it all by itself. We
have lost a lot in the music world today..
I disagree. The sax sounds like a lonely vehicle driving to nowhere.
Gerry wrote it note for note for the guitar as a lead. He switched it to alto sax which unfortunately did not bring royalties to his late great sax player.
@@NYVoice Interesting... I've read that the sax player wasn't happy with the recording sounding flat..to him.
So, Rafferty wrote the sax part of the song? In the same article, and a couple more, that the sax player sued or tried suing Rafferty over the sax work.
That's all history now!
@@claudesclaws2009 That it is. But yes, Rafferty wrote it note for note as a guitar solo therefore nullifying any roylaties for Rafael Ravenscroft who performed the alto sax solo (perhaps the most recognized sax solo in popular music history). Would I have given a bonus for such a great job? Absolutely.
I’ve always loved this song. Rip Gerry Rafferty
Real music, real musicians, singing and playing their socks off!!! Shivers down the spine Music, Thanks Gerry and the guys for all the wonderful music!
Pure joy & an encapsulation of musical energy contained in a song that embraces the flavour of its era. Timeless.
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This takes me right back to my childhood on the farm - listening to the radio - fascinated to where this Baker Street was - I was thinking I have to get there - So I did...
I was 4 when this song came out.. my mom loved it.. she played it all the time… I think on an 8 track(?)…
Reminds me of her whenever I hear it….
One of classic rocks truly great songs. If the sax doesn’t get you, the guitar will.
Even the beginning flute sound got me. EVERYTHING in this song gets me!!
unless the shmoe in this vid is playing it... my gawd wtf is wrong with his amp??
@@elymolloy8333 its a Roland Jazz Chorus. lmao
Classic Gold📀📀📀📀📀My San Diego High School Days. The year 1976 Wow🎸🎹🎤🎼🎵🎶Takes me back❤✌️💥👊Bam....
Lest we remember this was just one the many hundreds of incredible tunes playing daily on the radio and our record players. It was a cornucopia of music beyond belief and so wonderful to see the actual musicians on video after all these years.
A very talented and unique musician!!! RIP GERRY RAFFERTY
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Yes he was!! I remember my girlfriend telling me he had passed after I just shut the door coming home from work. No "hi" or "how was your day" just immediately told me that. I just stood there like I was frozen, and wept. I've only done that twice. But what a great and rare treat this video was. RIP Gerry
Slick Mic I have a better voice ,,,geeez
This song evokes emotion and nostalgia in almost everyone I know. It remind me of the summer of 1978, being 10 years old-it was all over the radio.
In fact, Ozzy Osbourne wrote about it in his book: this song was playing when he got the news that his father had died. He said whenever he hears it now, he’s immediately taken back to that moment.
I was born in the USSR, in 1974. In childhood, on the Voice of America radio, I heard this beautiful saxophone melody. Now I can hear and see it without inhibitions. But who knows what will happen next...
В 1979 году эту песню крутанули по «Маяку» в музыкальной программе, посвященной зарубежной эстраде. Я записал ее на магнитофон.
@@vadve4ko248 у меня не было мафона, а когда он появился были другие интересы. Жаль что тогда многие не имели возможности слушать что хочется, да и вообще возможности были ограничены границей на замке.
Gonna be fine here man. It will.
I was 12 in 1978, and this song has lived with me since. I never get tired listening to it, timeless magical song.
I was 13 and this song has stayed with me forever
I graduated from high school in ‘79 and I can tell you Gerry Rafferty was insanely popular during my high-school years. Baker Street was my favorite song back in the day and remains my all-time favorite song to this very day. I never tire of it! I will always love Gerry!! ❤️❤️
this song has been stuck in my head for 45 years
just graduated high school in 1977. this came out in 1978. best music of all time then. still listening to it all now. 2022.
Right there !
What a great song I’ve never heard it live before
I am going to be 72 in 2 weeks and I still listen to this. GREAT SONG.
78, the year I left school and Kate Bush did Wuthering Heights. I worked in a rough pub in Shipley. Gerry was drunk and so were we, as that fabulous song played night after night on the juke box.
We are all getting old but this music will never leve us
Amazing how close this production is to the recording. And it's LIVE! Real musicians playing real music. EXCELLENT!
they are playing to a backing trek ☝️ im cool with it.. 🙈 i do the same thing.. im a solo artist though.. need some band members 🙏
the lead parts are all live. the sax player rocks. same with the dude on lead guitar.. the guys probably had no say in it.. but the oboe or clarinet players along with the slide guitar guy are missing.. possibly due to production costs.. constrained by the record company budget.. the entire song should be in the rocknroll hall of fame.. and without doubt the country and western music hall of fame.. the dudes were from birmingham 🔭🐥 apparently.
not to mention Gerry has done a live vocal here.. opus maximum 📈
i could be wrong
to be honest, the wind section could be keyboards .. so that’s cool.. nah there’s an oboe in there.. and where’s the slide guitar ..
Even today the opening bars of this melody make my hair stand on end! What a masterpiece! Timeless!
I love you Gerry. Thanks for that summer of 78 and remembering the new black Z28
His voice is even more rich live than recorded.
How cool is this performance and video? Thank you so much for sharing!
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I'm 22 years old. I just heard this song for the first time today... and it's just a masterpiece, I can't stop listening to it. ❤
If I remember correctly, Rafferty had a publisher on Baker St and he used to visit them once in a while with song ideas. This song came from that experience.
One of the few times where magic happens by real musicians.
This song reminds me of the summer of ‘78 when I was carefree and had no problems. Great song.
A time long ago when music was played entirely with and by humans.
This guy was a genius. Good to hear the real thing instead of all the lip syncing
I’m 27 and this is one of my favorite songs. Real music
This is the summer I got married and my husband and I were on our honeymoon and we blasted this song on every time we heard it!❤️
That is beautiful!
This guy was a genius. Good to hear the real thing instead of all the lip syncing
No kidding. I ve listened to the song many times but i really heard it just now. I'll be listening to City to City tomorrow.
the guitarplayer's not that good though
Couldn't agree more. I hate it when I can hear the lip-synching.
Steve Gardenhire Really? Where are the synthesizers? Some of the guys need a haircut. Baldy on the drums needs a shave.
@@thomaspick4123 pretty sure I look like that now. Still a dam good song except for the guitar solo. Must have been one his drunk mates
i was quite young when it came out but was impressed.
Brilliant & outstanding ☮️💜
Magnifique chanson, une voix unique !
J'avais 10 ans, c'est aussi un souvenir fort de cette belle époque.
this is one hell of a live performance!!
One of the best songs ever recorded.
Masterpiece.
The eternal solo sax!!
Kendra Miranda Agree most definitely. Always brings me back to youthful times doesn’t it?