Lido Shuffle

"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees.

Scaggs would recall: "'Lido [Shuffle]' was a song that I'd been banging around. I...took the idea of the shuffle [from] a song that Fats Domino did called 'The Fat Man' that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind of singing along with it. Then I showed it to Paich and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being 'Lido Shuffle'."^[3]

Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" - including David Paich - later formed Toto.^[4]

Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached #11 US and #13 UK.^[5] In Australia the track spent 3 weeks at #2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".

References in popular culture

• It was played at Lincoln Financial Field when former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Lito Sheppard made an interception or big play.
• "Lido Shuffle" was also featured in the movie FM and on its soundtrack.
• In the RiffTrax of Missile to the Moon, the "Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh" from the song's chorus is said often when the character Ledo's name is mentioned.
• On the November 13, 2008, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, during the "Late Night Sausage Party" skit, the announcer (Brian McCann) makes phallic double entendres about every guest, and says of Boz Scaggs, "That hit singer of 'Lido'... he can sure fill a speedo!" Conan tells him that the song's name is actually "Lido Shuffle," and after the announcer is audibly trying to figure out a rhyme, he tells Conan to shut up.

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