Night Owl (song)
| "Night Owl" | ||||
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| Single by Gerry Rafferty | ||||
| from the album Night Owl | ||||
| B-side | "Why Won't You Talk To Me" | |||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1978-1979 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length |
4:24 (7" single edit) 6:09 (12"/album version) | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Writer(s) | Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Producer(s) |
Gerry Rafferty Hugh Murphy | |||
| Gerry Rafferty singles chronology | ||||
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Night Owl is a song by Gerry Rafferty. It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. The song made the Top 5 in the UK and along with "Baker Street" is one of two solo efforts by Gerry Rafferty to accomplish this feat.
Though the single was a Top 5 hit for Rafferty in his native United Kingdom, "Night Owl" was never released in this format in North America, at a time when interest in Rafferty was at its peak after the tremendous success of his single "Baker Street" and album City to City a year earlier. In the US, "Days Gone Down" was used as the lead single from Night Owl instead.
The b-side on the original "Night Owl" single was the fourth track from the same album, "Why Won't You Talk To Me".[1]
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