Lido Shuffle
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| Single by Boz Scaggs | ||||
| from the album Silk Degrees | ||||
| B-side | "We're All Alone" | |||
| Released | February 1977 (USA)[1] 15 April 1977 (UK) [2] | |||
| Recorded | September 1975 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | 3:40 | |||
| Label | CBS[3] | |||
| Songwriter(s) | David Paich, Boz Scaggs[4] | |||
| Producer(s) | Joe Wissert | |||
| Boz Scaggs singles chronology | ||||
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"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album, Silk Degrees. It was subsequently released as a single in 1977.
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"."[5]
Song Structure
"Lido Shuffle", written in the key of G major (as many of Scaggs' other memorable songs), uses the often used I-IV-V chord progression that is foundation of blues, pop, and rock. Unusually, however, it modulates up a minor third to the key of Bb for the chorus.
Lido Shuffle begins with an intro, followed by the first verse, the chorus, second verse, chorus again, a instrumental bridge, and chorus.
Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" include David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate who later formed Toto.[6]
Song Performance
Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached number 11 in the US and 13 on the UK Singles Chart.[7] In Australia the track spent three weeks at number 2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".
Personnel
- Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar
- Fred Tackett – guitar
- Louis Shelton – guitar
- David Hungate – bass
- Jeff Porcaro — drums
- David Paich — Hammond organ, piano, Minimoog, Moog synthesizer
- Vincent DeRosa – horns
- Jim Horn – horns
- Paul Hubinon – horns
- Dick Hyde – horns
- Plas Johnson – horns
- Tom Scott – horns
- Bud Shank – horns
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ^ "Lido Shuffle". 45cat.com.
- ^ "Lido Shuffle". 45cat.com.
- ^ "Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ^ "Lido Shuffle". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ^ "Boz Scaggs songwriter interview". SongFacts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ "Silk Degrees album information". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ^ Boz Scaggs Chart History Archived January 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 19 June 1977
- ^ "Old-Charts". Old-Charts. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending May 7, 1977". Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Cash Box magazine. - ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
- ^ "Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. December 31, 1977. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
