Gerry Rafferty City to City

Gerry Rafferty is a huge talent, but a reluctant star. Management struggles and sundry other hindrances limited his output, but couldn't avert the Scot from releasing two legendary singles – the Tarantino-ized "Stuck in the Middle With You" and the unforgettable "Baker Street," the latter included on this record.

Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter. Rafferty was best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and, with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Born into a working-class family in Paisley (Scotland), his mother taught him both Irish and Scottish folk songs as a boy; later, he was influenced by the music of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. He joined the folk-pop band The Humblebums - whose line-up included Billy Connolly - in 1969, but left in 1971 and recorded his first solo album "Can I Have My Money Back". Rafferty and Joe Egan formed the group Stealers Wheel in 1972, producing several hits. In 1978, he recorded his second solo album, "City to City", which includes "Baker Street", his most popular song and a radio mainstay…

On A Wing & A Prayer is the seventh studio album by Gerry Rafferty. This album came at a bad time in Gerry's life. Recently divorced, a sadness is evident in several of the songs (Don't Speak of My Heart, Don't Give Up on Me).
As one-half of the Humblebums, Scottish singer/songwriter Gerry Rafferty came up through the U.K. folk-rock scene of the late 1960s and early '70s before finding mainstream international success with his 1978 solo album, City to City. During the years in between, he founded the bluesy rock band Stealers Wheel, whose enduring 1973 hit, "Stuck in the Middle with You," has achieved a certain amount of classic rock luster over the years thanks in part to its continued use in film and television…

The quintessential sounds of the Seventies are here in the most wide-ranging collection of AM radio classics ever heard on a single disc! Hard to Find 45s on CD, Vol. 19: More 70s Essentials has 21 beautifully remastered stereo songs, 11 of which were Top 10 hits and five of which appear on CD for the first time ever! In a word, it’s dy-no-mite!

Worthy selection Back To The 70s and beautiful works, all of us heard at one time or another, for many years! Make It with You is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. Could It Be Im Falling in Love is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners. My Forbidden Lover is the second single from Chics album Risque. The song was written and produced by Chic's two frontmen, Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. Year of the Cat is a single by Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart. You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman is a single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label.

NOW Music is proud to present the next instalment in our ongoing ‘Yearbook’ series, NOW – Yearbook 1978; 85 tracks from a magical year in Pop!

With 100 hit tracks spanning five discs, this budget set, which has a decided British lean, has no real discernible theme, but features plenty of rock and pop classics like Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street," Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman," Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle," Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat," and the Band's "The Weight," as well as British hits from the Buzzcocks, the Ruts, and the Waterboys.