Lido Shuffle

"Lido Shuffle"
Single by Boz Scaggs
from the album Silk Degrees
B-side "We're All Alone"
Released March 1977
Recorded September 1975
Genre Pop rock
Length 3:40
Label CBS[1]
Writer(s) David Paich, Boz Scaggs[2]
Producer(s) Joe Wissert

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

Scaggs recalled: "'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" include David Paich, who later went on to form Toto.[4]

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

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1977) Peak
position
Australia [6] 2
Canada [7] 5
UK 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [8] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1977) Rank
Australia [9] 12
Canada [10] 66
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [11] 74
U.S. Cash Box [12] 78

References

  1. ↑ "Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. ↑ "''Lido Shuffle''". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  3. ↑ "Boz Scaggs songwriter interview". SongFacts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Silk Degrees album information". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  5. ↑ Archived January 24, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
  7. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5288a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5288a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5288a
  8. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19770514.html
  9. ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
  10. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5502a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5502a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5502a
  11. ↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm
  12. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/1977YESP.html

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