Right Down the Line
| "Right Down the Line" | ||||
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| Single by Gerry Rafferty | ||||
| from the album City to City | ||||
| B-side | "Waiting for the Day" | |||
| Released | August 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1977, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 3:33 | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Producer(s) | Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Gerry Rafferty singles chronology | ||||
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"Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in mid-1978, it reached #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100[1] and #8 on Cash Box.[2] It was the second release from Rafferty's City to City LP as the follow-up to his first major hit as a solo artist, "Baker Street".
"Right Down the Line" was a bigger adult contemporary hit, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at number one in the U.S.[3] In Canada, the song reached number five on both the pop singles and adult contemporary charts.
Chart performance
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Cover versions
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- Ron Sexmith covered the song on a BBC Scotland tribute to Gerry Rafferty.
- Bonnie Raitt covered the song in 2012, including it in her Slipstream album. The track reached #17 on the US Adult album alternative chart.[11]
- Lucius covers the song on their 2018 release, Nudes.
- Sam Evian covered the song in 2019.
References
- ^ a b "Billboard > Artists / Gerry Rafferty > Chart History > The Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ a b "Cash Box Top 100 10/28/78". Tropicalglen.com. 28 October 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 245. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b c Tsort. "Song artist 809 - Gerry Rafferty".
- ^ Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". Bac-lac.gc.ca.
- ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
- ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1978". Tropicalglen.com. 30 December 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ "Bonnie Raitt - Chart History - Adult Alternative Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
