In pop music, who went for a stroll down 'Baker Street' in 1978?
"Baker Street (song) ""Baker Street"" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in 1978, it reached #1 in ""Cash Box"" and #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, where it held that position for six weeks, behind Andy Gibb's smash ""Shadow Dancing"". Additionally, it hit #1 in Canada, #3 in the United Kingdom, #1 in Australia, #1 in South Africa, and the top 10 in the Netherlands. Rafferty received the 1978 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. The arrangement is known for its saxophone riff. In October 2010, the song"
"were successfully released as singles. United Artists wanted to use ""City to City"" as the lead single from the album, but Rafferty felt that ""Baker Street"" would be a better choice and eventually the latter song became the first single in most countries (see ""City to City"" single release below). Released on 3 February 1978, ""Baker Street"" peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and spent four weeks at No. 1 in Canada. It reached No. 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, spending six weeks in this position, and two weeks at No. 1 on the US"
"most successful acts associated with the movement were Adam and the Ants, Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. By about 1983, the original movement had dissolved with surviving acts dropping most of the fashion elements to pursue mainstream careers. New Romantic music often made extensive use of synthesizers, merging into synthpop, which followed electronic rock pioneers in the 1970s like Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream. Tubeway Army, a little known outfit from West London, dropped their punk rock image and topped the UK charts in 1979 with the single ""Are Friends Electric?"", prompting their singer, Gary Numan"
"of travelling between the two cities. The album ""City to City"" (1978), including ""Baker Street"", was co-produced by Rafferty and Hugh Murphy. In addition to a guitar solo, played by Hugh Burns, the song featured a prominent eight-bar saxophone riff played as a break between verses, by Raphael Ravenscroft. Rafferty claimed that he wrote the hook with the original intention that it be sung. Ravenscroft remembered things differently, saying that he was presented with a song that contained ""several gaps"". ""In fact, most of what I played was an old blues riff,"" stated Ravenscroft. ""If you're asking me: 'Did Gerry"
"was recognised by BMI for surpassing five million performances worldwide. It was awarded Gold Certification on two occasions, on 1 April 1978 and 22 July 2013 by the BPI in the UK. Named after Baker Street in London, the song was included on Rafferty's second solo album, ""City to City"" (1978), which was Rafferty's first release after the resolution of legal problems surrounding the formal break-up of his old band, Stealers Wheel, in 1975. In the intervening three years, Rafferty had been unable to release any material because of disputes about the band's remaining contractual recording obligations. Rafferty wrote the"
"""Baker Street""). The lyrics of ""Baker Street"" reflected Rafferty's disenchantment with certain elements of the music industry. This was elaborated on by music journalist Paul Gambaccini for BBC World News:. His next album, ""Night Owl"", also did well. Guitarist Richard Thompson helped by performing on the track ""Take The Money and Run"", and the title track was a UK No. 5 hit in 1979. ""Days Gone Down"" reached No. 17 in the US. The follow-up single ""Get It Right Next Time"" made the UK and US Top 40. Subsequent albums, such as ""Snakes and Ladders"" (1980), ""Sleepwalking"" (1982), and ""North"
"with ""Goodnight Tonight"" (1979), Queen with ""Another One Bites the Dust"" (1980), the Rolling Stones with ""Miss You"" (1978) and ""Emotional Rescue"" (1980), Electric Light Orchestra's ""Shine a Little Love"" and ""Last Train to London"" (both 1979), Chicago did ""Street Player"" (1979), the Kinks did ""(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"" (1979), the Grateful Dead did ""Shakedown Street"", and the J. Geils Band did ""Come Back"" (1980). Even hard rock group KISS jumped in with ""I Was Made For Lovin' You"" (1979). Ringo Starr's album ""Ringo the 4th"" (1978) features a strong disco influence. The disco sound was also adopted"
"was asked to play the saxophone on the album ""City to City"" (1978). His contribution included the sax riff on the best-known song from the album and of Rafferty's career, ""Baker Street"". The song was an international hit, charting at number 3 in the UK and number 2 in the US. ""Baker Street"" was reported in 2010 as having received 5 million air plays worldwide to date. ""City to City"" reached number 1 in the US album charts and went platinum. In the UK the album reached number 6 and went gold. Ravenscroft told the BBC's ""The One Show"" in"
"went on the road in the fall of 1977 opening for Gino Vannelli, then Boz Scaggs. They began to develop a distinctive, edgy and melodic rock style. Their biggest hit, ""Baby Come Back"", released in late 1977, rose to No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in January 1978 and was a chart success in other countries. Their follow up single, ""This Time I'm in It for Love"", also peaked at No. 10 the same year. Among several notable accolades, Player was named ""Billboard""""""'s Best New Singles Artist of 1978. Eric Clapton invited them to open for him during his"
"by ""non-pop"" artists, including the 1979 U.S. number one hit ""No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"" by Easy listening singer Barbra Streisand in a duet with Donna Summer. Country music artist Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's ""I Just Want to Be Your Everything"" in 1977, Bill Anderson did ""Double S"" in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap recorded ""Get It Up"" and covered Tommy Tucker's ""Hi-Heel Sneakers"" in 1979. Also noteworthy are John Paul Young's ""Love Is in the Air"" (1977), Patrick Hernandez's ""Born to Be Alive"" (1978), Cheryl Lynn's ""Got to Be Real"" (1978), Evelyn ""Champagne"" King's ""Shame"" (1978), Sister Sledge's"
"new wave band Talking Heads, authentic street dancers, picked by David Byrne, are featuring, including Stephen ""Skeeter Rabbit"" Nichols doing the moonwalk. It reached to 20 on the US dance charts. Another early moonwalker was popper and singer Jeffrey Daniel, who moonwalked in a performance of Shalamar's ""A Night To Remember"" on ""Top of the Pops"" in the UK in 1982 and was known to perform backslides in public performances (including weekly ""Soul Train"" episodes) as far back as 1974. Michael Jackson was a fan of Jeffrey Daniel's dancing and would eventually seek him out. Also in 1982, Debbie Allen"
"Walk This Way ""Walk This Way"" is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the album ""Toys in the Attic"" (1975). It peaked at number 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped revitalize their career in the 1980s when it was covered by rappers"
"on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart in 1981. Nick Straker Band The Nick Straker Band were an English pop music group from London, England, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker. Several members of the band were also in New Musik, and the band's line-up consisted of Straker along with Tony Mansfield, Tony Hibbert, David McShera, Pete Hammond and Phil Towner. Their song ""A Walk in the Park"" peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980, having previously been a substantial hit in Continental Europe in 1979. Their most successful song in the US, ""A Little"
"""Bob Holness and Friends"", as well as covering various weekday shows for holidaying presenters. From the late 1960s until 1998, he also presented the request programme ""Anything Goes"" on the BBC World Service. Holness was the subject of an urban myth, claimed to have been initiated in the 1980s by broadcaster Stuart Maconie who, writing for the ""New Musical Express"" in a section called 'Believe It Or Not', said that Holness had played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song, ""Baker Street"". (The actual performer was Raphael Ravenscroft.) Tommy Boyd, among others, has disputed Maconie's claim to authorship of"
"punk rock-sounding version of ""Walk on By"" (with extended organ and guitar solos) that hit No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart. The video for the Stranglers' version was based on the 1966 movie ""Blowup"" and was filmed in the same location as the movie, Maryon Park in London. The Average White Band cut a lightly disco-tinged version (featuring reggae and funk underpinnings) that charted in 1979. Though AWB is sometimes remembered as an instrumental band, their version of ""Walk On By"" was a vocal track—as were many of their other songs. In 1982, ""Walk on By"" was covered by"
"the video, featuring comical sports highlight footage in place of the busker scenes proved more popular, with the Busker version being largely dropped. Walk of Life ""Walk of Life"" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their fifth studio album ""Brothers in Arms"" (1985). It subsequently appeared on their live album ""On the Night"" (1993). It was released as a single in 1985 but had first been available as the B-side of ""So Far Away"" released in advance of ""Brothers in Arms"". The track peaked at number seven in the US charts and was their biggest"
"The song is included on Waits' compilation albums ""Bounced Checks"" (1981), ""Anthology of Tom Waits"" (1985), and ""Used Songs, 1973-1980"" (2001). Waits also included a quiet performance of it during his 1999 appearance on ""VH1 Storytellers"". The song, performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was released as the B-side of the 1984 single ""Cover Me"". Springsteen slightly rewrote it to replace a Waits line about ""whores on Eighth Avenue"" with ""the girls out on the avenue"", and added a verse about taking ""that little brat of yours and drop[ping] her off at your mom's"" (This line was"
"1978, including Johnny Cash, who put it on his album ""Gone Girl"". However, it was Kenny Rogers who finally broke the song loose, in a version produced by Larry Butler. His version was a #1 Country hit and even made its way to the Pop charts at a time when Country songs rarely crossed over. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album ""The Gambler"" which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. In 2006 Don Schlitz appeared in the Kenny Rogers career retrospective documentary ""The Journey"", where he"
"for business in Hunter Street west, near the Cambridge Hotel. That Parthenon Milk Bar did become very popular with late night revellers in Newcastle and survived in Hunter Street west into the 1990s as a local business. In 1975 the singer Maureen Elkner (performing as ""Maureen Elkner and Normie"") released the single ""Rak Off, Normie!"" which told of the encounter from the young lady's point of view and her later life of regret with the Hells Angel after spurning Norm's advances. The Newcastle Song ""The Newcastle Song"" was a 1975 hit for musician and comedian Bob Hudson. It poked fun"
"to August 1978, he was a member of Colosseum II. With that band, he also collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the composer's ""Variations"" album in 1978. In 1977, Moore re-joined Thin Lizzy, first as a temporary replacement for Brian Robertson, and on a permanent basis a year later. Between late 1977 and early 1978 while moving from Colosseum II and a future return to the ranks of Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore recorded the album Back on the Streets, featuring the hit single ""Parisienne Walkways"" which reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart in April 1979. While Back"
"UK, created in the 1980s by British writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie. As one of the spoof facts invented for the regular ""Would You Believe It?"" section in the ""NME"", Maconie falsely claimed that British radio and television presenter Bob Holness had played the saxophone part on the recording. Later, the claim was widely repeated. ""Baker Street"" reached #3 in the UK and #2 for six consecutive weeks in the US, kept out of the number-one spot by Andy Gibb's ""Shadow Dancing"". British dance group Undercover covered the song on their 1992 album ""Check Out the Groove"". This version reached"
"on guitar. They played discotheques around the country and toured the Netherlands and Sweden in early 1978. Tony Mansfield, later the lead singer and songwriter with New Musik, joined, originally as roadie, but eventually he and Straker formed a collaboration that led to the recording of a successful UK single, ""A Walk in the Park"", in 1979. A year later the track was re-recorded and released, and made number 20 in the UK Singles Chart. The Nick Straker Band released a few more singles, but none had the success of ""A Walk in the Park"" in the UK, although ""A"
"or plagiarised by Dylan before he gained fame was reported in an article in ""Newsweek"" magazine in November 1963. The plagiarism claim was eventually shown to be untrue. The first line of the song (""How many roads must a man walk down?"") is proposed as the ""Ultimate Question"" in the science fiction novel ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", by Douglas Adams. In the 1994 film ""Forrest Gump"", Jenny sings this song for a show in a strip club and is introduced as ""Bobbi Dylan"". The film's soundtrack album features Joan Baez's 1976 live recording of the song, from her"
"Street"" contained playing at even faster tempos than on their earlier album releases. Several of the tunes were composed by Powell; on one, ""Time"", Powell played celeste in addition to his usual piano. Another was ""Gertrude's Bounce"", which Powell said was named following his admiration for the way in which artist Gertrude Abercrombie walked. The third of his originals, ""Powell's Prances"", was ""a modal composition, with Brown and Rollins improvising on the scale rather than on the usual chord changes"", a form popularized three years later by Miles Davis. The band continued touring in 1956, including to Toronto. In late"
"International Pop Festival in 1969. David Bowie released a live performance of the song as a single in the UK in 1974; the recording was taken from Bowie's live album ""David Live"". (The B-side, ""Panic in Detroit"", was not on that album but was from the same concert. It was added to the 2005 release of the album.) Amii Stewart released a disco version of the song in 1979. It was Stewart's debut single and reached number one in the U.S. charts in April 1979; it also made it to the soul singles and disco charts, becoming the best-known version"
"beginning his career in music management, Brewer joined forces with artists such as David Bowie, Gene Clark of The Byrds, and Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, as well as Alvin Lee and 10 Years After. In 1978 Jon collected two Ivor Novello Awards on behalf of his company, Belfern Music. He was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for producing and publishing Gerry Rafferty's ""Baker Street"" Best Pop Song and another for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Brewer was also involved in the reformation of the band Yes with Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Alan White"
"The Walk (The Cure song) ""The Walk"" is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as a stand-alone single in July 1983. It later appeared on the compilation album ""Japanese Whispers"". It was recorded when the band was briefly reduced to the two founding members Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst following the departure of bassist Simon Gallup following the end of the band's previous tour in support of the album Pornography. in May 1982. According to Tolhurst, they chose producer Steve Nye due to his work on the album Tin Drum by Japan. One of the three B-sides"
"Would You Like to Take a Walk? ""Would You Like to Take a Walk?"" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose. It was added to the 1930 Broadway show ""Sweet and Low"" starring James Barton, Fannie Brice and George Jessel. The song was published in 1930 by Remick Music Corporation. <br> The song has become a pop standard, recorded by many artists including: It plays in the 1939 Porky Pig cartoon ""Naughty Neighbors"" and the 1942 Daffy Duck cartoon ""The Daffy Duckaroo"". It also can be heard in the background"
"Stevie Wonder, ""Going to a Go-Go"" by The Miracles, ""Dancing in the Street"" by Martha and the Vandellas, ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and later by Marvin Gaye, and most of the album ""What's Going On"" by Marvin Gaye, ""Reach Out I'll Be There"" and ""Bernadette"" by the Four Tops. According to fellow Funk Brothers in the 2002 documentary ""Standing in the Shadows of Motown"", Gaye was desperate to have Jamerson play on ""What's Going On,"" and went to several bars to find the bassist. When he did, he brought Jamerson to the"
"Parisienne Walkways ""Parisienne Walkways"" is a song by guitarist Gary Moore that reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979. The song is featured on Moore's album ""Back on the Streets"" and features a vocal from Thin Lizzy frontman, Phil Lynott, who co-wrote the song with Moore. Lynott also played bass guitar on the track, alongside Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey, thus reuniting the short-lived 1974 Thin Lizzy line-up which had recorded ""Still in Love with You"" and the single ""Little Darling"". The melody of ""Parisienne Walkways"" is based on the jazz standard ""Blue Bossa"" by Kenny"
"Parisienne Walkways ""Parisienne Walkways"" is a song by guitarist Gary Moore that reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979. The song is featured on Moore's album ""Back on the Streets"" and features a vocal from Thin Lizzy frontman, Phil Lynott, who co-wrote the song with Moore. Lynott also played bass guitar on the track, alongside Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey, thus reuniting the short-lived 1974 Thin Lizzy line-up which had recorded ""Still in Love with You"" and the single ""Little Darling"". The melody of ""Parisienne Walkways"" is based on the jazz standard ""Blue Bossa"" by Kenny"
"Nick Straker Band The Nick Straker Band were an English pop music group from London, England, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker. Several members of the band were also in New Musik, and the band's line-up consisted of Straker along with Tony Mansfield, Tony Hibbert, David McShera, Pete Hammond and Phil Towner. Their song ""A Walk in the Park"" peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980, having previously been a substantial hit in Continental Europe in 1979. Their most successful song in the US, ""A Little Bit of Jazz"", spent one week at No. 1"
"the pop audience he had attracted, and reached only #46 in the UK. Bowie performed the song during his 1987 Glass Spider Tour, a live version of which was released in 1988 (re-released in 2007) on ""Glass Spider"". The song continued to feature in Bowie's live repertoire throughout his career. Two traditional-music influenced versions of the song were included on the soundtrack to the 2012 film ""Lawless"", one by The Bootleggers featuring Mark Lanegan and one by bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley. The live version of the song from Reed's ""Rock 'n' Roll Animal"" was specially covered by Julian Casablancas for"