Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street | REACTION

[@thefantasyreview8709]

The sax piece is generally regarded as one of the most famous sax pieces in any music.

[@robertsimms1318]

I agree 100%

[@normamcneill151]

Listen to tgat beautiful voice

[@winslow137]

And "will you" Hazell O'connor.

[@100percentSNAFU]

As a sax player I can tell you from experience this is always one of the first sax solos you teach yourself to play. Timeless classic.

[@michaelhollingworth1766]

Gerry Rafferty was in a band with the great comedian Billy Connolly,both from Glasgow Scotland

[@pmb4200]

The very first time I heard this was in July of "78. 2 am, driving through Montana, not another car in sight in, my truck with specially installed headphones. Amazing...

[@deantait8326]

Met my wife in early July 1978 … yes we’ve been around awhile

[@hereforit170]

Just WOW this song is already a vibe- hearing it the way you described is an experience ❤❤❤

[@August377]

There used to be this thing we had called music. It was great. This is a phenomenal example of it.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

should check out Band Maid sometime. Might restore yer faith in new music

[@ashyclaret]

@@Bekka_Noyb Don't be silly.

[@H0tchips]

@@ashyclaret That made me laugh out loud for real. I have not heard Band Maid so don't know the validity, just the comment - GOLD!!!!!

[@michaelpickett9828]

don't be "get off my lawn" guy . there is good music still..

[@michaelgoulding6609]

no, wonder the younger generation react like these guys do,when they here real music.compared to the shit modern day music. that they are prob used to hearing, imagine what people will be like in year.s to come..when they hear real music like this

[@scottclffrd13]

This song is an absolute masterpiece. Everything about it is fantastic. That’s all that needs to be said.

[@jonathanmol4489]

Foo fighters did a cover of it on one of their tours and changed the lyrics in the second verse of giving up the drugs and the one night stands.

[@jeffstevens4262]

...and with a sax break to end all others.

[@Tomanot9Juanma]

Can´t agree more.

[@noelmorgan2751]

Great darts

[@audreycumby1075]

Scott Clifford you are so correct!

[@michellew7105]

I love seeing young people appreciating one of the best songs of the 1970s!

[@colinjarr]

The sax player is Raphael Ravenscroft sadly passed away In 2014 pretty much unknown until he played on Bakers Street then he was sought after by the likes of Pink Floyd, Abba, and Marvin Gaye among others.

[@hereforit170]

Wow❤

[@rigelmoon9030]

You guys could spend a hundred years analyzing the songs of the 60's and 70's alone. The 2 greatest decades of music ever.

[@tracycampbell3060]

I agree❤

[@cog4life]

Truth!

[@jlewis4812179]

AMEN!!!'

[@adancem]

SURE!!! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS , YOU ARE ANALYZING THE BEST MUSIC DECADES OF CENTURY 20!!! SPECIALLY THE 70S!!!!

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

I would add the 50s and 80s to that, but the mid-late 90s is when (for me) music started to get worse. More and more "manufactured" groups started to appear and the music started to all sound the same. 50s-80s is where some REAL musical experimentation happened, and then it's like they went and immediately forgot all that work they put in and the things they discovered along the way were forgotten or purposely thrown away in favour of more artifical stuff that was simpler and had a basic "catch" to it (a LOT of repetition within the song, for instance).

[@mournblade1066]

This is one of the ten greatest rock songs ever recorded. It is the perfect example of 1970s studio wizardry.

[@Tomanot9Juanma]

Sadness, beauty and elevated music in every note. It´s definitely one of a kind. It just never ages.

[@genarogilormino2139]

It's got everything you want and need in a rock song!! Pure joy

[@dougcarson5202]

My sentiments exactly. As I was listening to this, it brought to mind another great example of 1970s studio wizardry..., Steely Dan's "Aja" album.

[@johnpidge9600]

And arguably the best saxophone solo EVER!

[@hoyageorge]

It's right up there with Al Stewart's Year of the Cat in terms of a perfectly engineered song. Both create an incredible sense of atmosphere, and are two of my favorite songs of all times. This came out my freshman year in college at Georgetown, and for so many of my classmates, this was one of our favorite songs from our time on campus.

[@rustyknyffe88]

Not a harmonica - a synth keyboard SO.........true story. I was on my way to the Old Dominion University bar in 1981 when campuses had beer bars. Had my labrador dog with me - we went everywhere together. This song came on and I cranked the volume. At the first sax break, I heard a really odd siren - OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH........I was looking around for an emergency vehicle and saw that my lab had taken up a wolf posture and was howling with the saxaphone..........good times.

[@SarahJones-i2q]

😂

[@mournblade1066]

Hardly anyone ever mentions it, but this has one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

[@ronlyster5667]

AGREED!!!

[@robertsimms1318]

This song definitely has a great combination of instruments including vocals put together very well creating an endless music masterpiece.

[@jimmagnus1200]

Hugh Burns, and it was spectacular.

[@mikemarcotte5962]

Straight up nasty.

[@williampenbeth4035]

Yes it does

[@algallego]

Rafferty wrote the song during a period when he was trying to extricate himself from his Stealers Wheel contracts; he was regularly travelling between his family home in Paisley and London, where he often stayed at a friend's flat in Baker Street. As Rafferty put it, "everybody was suing each other, so I spent a lot of time on the overnight train from Glasgow to London for meetings with lawyers. I knew a guy who lived in a little flat off Baker Street. We'd sit and chat or play guitar there through the night."[10] Privately, Rafferty also spent a lot of time drinking, which he noted he mentions in the lyrics, "Light in your head and dead on your feet / Well, another crazy day / You'll drink the night away / And forget about everything." The resolution of Rafferty's legal and financial frustrations accounted for the exhilaration of the song's last verse: "When you wake up it's a new morning/The sun is shining, it's a new morning/You're going, you're going home."[11] Rafferty's daughter Martha has said that the book that inspired the song more than any other was Colin Wilson's The Outsider (1956). Rafferty was reading the book, which explores ideas of alienation and of creativity, borne out of a longing to be connected, at this time of travelling between the two cities.[12]

[@GinMae]

Wow - thanks for the info! I really appreciate learning background and new insights to songs that I love!

[@markwilliamwardlaw4119]

WORSE NOW BIGTIME

[@D1Gr8hansGraf]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

[@maz41617B]

The Outsider is an amazing book by Albert Camois is that a different book sounds similar ?

[@ingfig1]

@@maz41617B .. Albert Camus “L’Etranger” (“the outsider”)

[@davidmcc8727]

Oh you guys get it! One of the greatest songs ever. Every Brit aged over 60 knows this classic

[@peterbartels316]

And… every Aussie 😏

[@gomogo2000]

And every 60 y.o. Yank... ...a 60 y.o. Yank

[@maureensullivan7448]

How dumb are you! Music too much for you!!?

[@stelsewhere11]

It's not a song .. It's a symphony of modern instruments. It can be equated with a Classical masterpiece.

[@heathergossett3828]

Amen !

[@brentonl2631]

Yep Gerry gave us greatness.

[@audreycumby1075]

Absolutely

[@km4844]

I tried to like this twice 🥰 Lovely.

[@Luvlacegrl]

Absolutely!

[@johnwriter8234]

Dudes, when this song hit the charts in 1978, I was in US Coast Guard Boot Camp .. we were allowed 30 minutes RADIO time after exercises.. we heard this song ... and..went...KA-RAZEEEEE ..for the Saxophone!!

[@philging]

Baker Street is one of the most important streets in London . . Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in the famous stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - fantastic song.

[@davidbeattie4198]

Yep I live in the united kingdom, baker Street is the most famous Street in the united kingdom

[@peterbutler2091]

baker street is a tube train station in london, the line is called baker st line enterance is on baker st. s in baker street.

[@1337snake888]

@@davidbeattie4198 other than abbey road haha

[@erickvermeulen9734]

I love such trivia, thanks

[@zen8032]

@@peterbutler2091 Um...the tube line is the Bakerloo Line (named by a journalist around the time it opened as a contraction of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (It ran from Baker Street to Waterloo Station)). Baker Street station is on the north east corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road; the main entrance is actually on Marylebone road but the second entrance is on Baker Street. The station is one of the oldest on the tube network having been part of the very first tube line - the Metropolitan Line. The station has more platforms than any other tube station - ten of them, across several levels - and is served by five tube lines.

[@jessethepersiankitty2377]

Its crazy but i was a six yr old kid sitting in my dads car in the 70's by myself in a suburb in Sydney, Australia and thid song came over the radio and i instantly loved it. This song always reminds me of my childhood, the 70's and the music were the best.

[@hereforit170]

Same. But I was in a red Oldsmobile convertible in Vegas

[@cgirl111]

The sax is played by Raphael Ravenscroft, a session musician.

[@mikewoodrow5878]

Fun fact: Raphael Ravenscroft’s father was the dude that sang “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch” in the old animated Grinch Xmas special. Peace from Toronto!

[@jonathanmol4489]

He played saxophone on Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon.

[@mikewoodrow5878]

@@jonathanmol4489 I believe that was Dick Parry on sax, on Dark Side and Wish

[@jonathanmol4489]

@@mikewoodrow5878 I disagree. Raphael Ravenscroft is in the studio video and he was on tour with pink Floyd on ' Momentary lapse of reason. I could be wrong.

[@mikewoodrow5878]

@@jonathanmol4489 That would make more sense for that time frame (20+ years after Dark Side), since Gilmour had him playing sax on his solo tour (before Momentary Lapse was recorded).

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Awwww man , you guys GET IT !!! I’ve seen half a dozen people react to this masterpiece and you 3 just get it … your entertaining and thoughtful and that’s what reactions are all about in my book . I’m a fellow Scot and the tragedy of this guys death still haunts our country even today , he just could not kick the booze and it killed him way too early , he was a frickin genius . RIP GERRY … guys I’m impressed by your camaraderie and knowledge and willingness to be open to new sounds . Liked , Subscribed , Notified. Nuff said. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lesliereamer144]

Yes!!! YOU get it!! I cried when I found out he was gone!! He was incredible & Baker Street is incredible!

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@lesliereamer144 let me hear an AMEN to that 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@sharonwelsh8102]

Just a brilliant song

[@garyjohnson7133]

He was one of the greatest !

[@debrafischer807]

You can never have enough of Baker’s Street and Gerry Rafferty

[@michaelt.b264]

Baker Street is a hotel street in London that a lot of musicians stayed at, and you never knew who you were going to run into. also the home of Sherlock Holmes

[@richardcramer1604]

The album is called City to City (Scottish city and London). At this time in his life he was embroiled in a lawsuit with his old record company for Stealers Wheels. As such he had to frequently travel to London to speak with his lawyers, while in London he would visit a friend (also a musician) who lived on Baker Street they would drink and Jam the night away and in the morning he would catch the train back to Scotland. Bakers street is a very famous street in London (the fictional Sherlock Homes lived at 221b Bakers St.) It's his friend that probably will not give up the booze and one night stands bc he is a rolling stone.

[@LiamE69]

He was talking about himself with giving up the booze and buying some land etc. He did buy some land in a quiet little town but never got to live there. He never gave up the booze and it killed him.

[@richardcramer1604]

@@LiamE69, No he was talking about his musician friend who lived on Baker Street who also was an alcoholic. Yes Gerry was an alcoholic and Rafferty died from liver failure in 2011. He and his friend had a lot in common they both liked to drink and play music hence they became friends. Rafferty states such in an interview (look it up on Wiki). He was regularly travelling between his Scottish family home in Paisley and London, where he recalled often staying at a friend's flat on Baker Street: "Everybody was suing each other, so I spent a lot of time on the overnight train from Glasgow to London for meetings with lawyers. I knew a guy who lived in a little flat off Baker Street. We'd sit and chat or play guitar there through the night."

[@monticlassictv]

The fantastically underrated Gerry Rafferty who’s music is absolutely fantastic and he’s from Scotland as well so what’s not to like but thanks for your appreciation of his music and hello from us all here in Scotland.

[@bigmike2464]

LOVE the music him and Billy Connolly did

[@salvador754]

Dare I say Scotland 'sgreat gift to the world apologies to the Bay City Rollers

[@karenward267]

Baker Street is in London. When I used to go to the old US embassy to process my paperwork to emigrate to the US, I’d walk down Baker Street humming this song. If you like the sax, listen to Foreigner’s Urgent Live in Dortmund, Germany 1982. This live version is better than the album track.

[@Frostrazor]

One of the single greatest musical tracks ever recorded. so much music packed into one 5 minute song. Masterpiece! You just can't hear artists make music like this anymore. And that sax riff is probably the most iconic sax riff in modern music history.

[@Imperialist440]

Beautifully crafted songs like this are timeless! One of the most memorable songs of the seventies.

[@mendyrckz76]

🦋 I 🙌 Agree! 💯%

[@MrHenryBaird]

One of the best guitar solos of all time

[@SirWrecksy]

1978 ghetto poor but bought this 8 track, 15 years old damn i had great taste in music 🎶😅

[@adamberggrun8426]

Gerry Rafferty was one of my favorite artists, great to see you young guys reacting. Also try Al Stewart Year of the Cat. Im in Cleveland, home of the RRHF. I am 60 years old and have been to over 420 concerts, i have all my stubs. First concert was Rush in cleveland 1974 when i was 12 yrs old, my cousin took me and got me very high!!

[@adrianfernandonoya5196]

RIP Gerry Rafferty We love You and We miss You. and RIP you too Raphael Ravenscroft the man on the saxophone.

[@raydoyle427]

Gerry Rafferty Baker Street. =Sherlock Holmes.=Jubilee line=LONDON. What a masterpiece. Loved it to death.

[@jojowhite9296]

Gerry Rafferty "Right Down the Line" is another classic.

[@normamcneill151]

And moonlight and gold is a beautiful song

[@kevinhothan7328]

The Jo Jo white that i know played basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks in the 1960's

[@jojowhite9296]

@@kevinhothan7328 and the Celtics also!

[@kevinhothan7328]

@@jojowhite9296 Yep

[@makeadifference4all]

What you're hearing in the beginning and later in a reprise is a synthesizer with a flute tone to get things warmed up. I miss the days when songs could have introductions like that to set a mood and get the groove going. And, yes, Rafferty had smooth, perfect-pitch vocals. Although everyone notices the famous, unforgettable sax lines, this song also has one of the all-time great, technically demanding electric guitar solos, with fantastic pitch bends. By the way, that descending growl you hear throughout the song is sliding electric guitar--a great touch.

[@nisebiggs6572]

Who played the guitar solo

[@makeadifference4all]

@@nisebiggs6572 Hugh Burns, a great studio musician and movie score composer, played the memorable guitar solo. Slash said that it influenced his famous guitar solo in "Sweet Child o' Mine."

[@daveattheholdens]

That sound you are wondering about at the beginning is not flute or recorder or synth, it is a guitar with a reverse gate and tons of compression on it. The gate filters out the string being plucked so you only hear it resonating. It blends perfectly with the soprano sax coming up underneath it. Masterful production and engineering!

[@1969JohnnyM]

Sadly like his father Rafferty became an alcoholic and despite having a liver transplant still couldn't control his alcoholism and this led to his death 10 years ago. One of the reason's Rafferty is not better known is that he famously hated the music industry and refused to do concerts or tv appearances to promote album sales for the CEO's of the record industry.

[@ssgeek4515]

John. My uncle loved this artist and he was also a alcoholic. I never knew Gerry had a drink issue.Perhaps my uncle Dave understood what was going on. This is slightly sad for me but also better knowing. Thanks John.

[@ppiechnik]

This is my first time to your channel.....I am 64 and this song came out when I was 20. The sax in this has always torn at my heart...it still does. It really does a lot for me knowing younger people can appreciate it the way I have for 44 yrs! I like you guys!

[@toddjoe123]

That's true

[@genarogilormino2139]

Absolute fire!!! Killer sax, killer guitar solo, great vocals and production

[@dannysunay4386]

My aunt was a music teacher and played bass. She introduced me to this album when i was 10. The sax on this phenomenal!!! I have been a fan of his ever since. That christmas, she gave me my own copy. Please listen to "get it right the next time" this artist is sooo underrated!

[@dennisbriggs9616]

As someone who used to travel through Baker St daily on my way to work this track means so so much to me

[@ianjohnson1920]

One of the best 1970s pop records. This was a massive hit here in Great Britain. Still played every week on our radio.

[@lokisan100]

It's so fun for me to watch young people listen to music I grew up with and appreciate it so much! Thank you.

[@scarpien]

IKR. It never gets old seeing their reaction when the verse transitions to the chorus..

[@Mikjcal]

Yes that saxophone has been used many times… from The Simpsons to countless movies and TV. It’s iconic.

[@hyacinth4368]

Dave Ramsey's theme song. Thank you, Dave; been Debt Free for years now!

[@KevinLong-jr1zv]

Go, Lisa❤

[@chrisstones1249]

Omg , what a reaction guys ,sublime, superb, stupendous ,👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@rayholstein7108]

Hey guys, I'm 70 years old, and I love the fact that you're reacting to these older songs. From the 502 myself, I'm especially grateful you've reacted to Nightwish music too. Keep it true to yourselves, as you are.

[@mimirussell6355]

This song is a classic with one of the most iconic and brilliant sax. You are missed Gerry

[@angiebervinkle1575]

This is one of the best songs ever written it makes me think of my childhood and I have no idea why

[@deennaemilio]

Gerry wrote this after being unable to put out any music for a few years because of legal disputes concerning the break up of his band "Stealers Wheel....He took many trips commuting between London and Scotland to try and resolve the matter, staying in London near or on Baker Street and would often visit a friend nearby, late at night just for a chat...Gerry suffered on and off with a drink problem for most of his life and eventually succumbed to it in the early 2000's......but he truly was an exceptional musician and songwriter..

[@nickrna]

From a time when to be in music you had to be a musician, pure class.

[@thepetehill]

I just discovered you guys and your reactions, Jerry Rafferty and Al Stewart are artists I grew up with and love. It’s amazing watching you young guys find it and find the enjoyment I have! Keep it up. You’re fun to watch

[@GinMae]

Thanks, guys - this is a great song -- takes me back to my youth - I'm 60 now - but when this song came out, I remember leaving work a little early on a Friday afternoon - spring or early summer, paycheck cashed - weekend ahead - driving down the lakefront in Milwaukee, heading home... windows down, sun shining... blasting this song... happy days! I appreciate your appreciation... lol

[@t.skoropad7503]

The look y'all had on your face when that classic piece of saxophone came on ......priceless....

[@worldwidebirthdaycelebrations]

The wind up before the guitar solo! I'm like "They really don't know what's about to hit them!" It's safe to say that this track was a masterpiece! Want more? Check out "I'm Not In Love " by 10cc. God Bless!

[@ilabelle1]

This song has a lot of meaning for me. At the time I was in rehab kicking a serious heroin habit. I felt the lyrics were written just for me. Whenever I hear it now it reminds me of where I’ve been. A sad note about Gerry Rafferty, he suffered from mental illness in his later years and was actually homeless and died penniless.

[@Coowallsky]

His biggest demon was alcohol.

[@Fanboy0707]

Every time I hear this song, I want to wrap myself up in it like a warm blanket.

[@jeffstevens4262]

So many 'Baker Streets' around the world but there'll never be another Gerry. God rest his dear soul.

[@rayeckert242]

The percussion, particularly the bongos, is the secret weapon of this song. A masterful composition in every sense. Something in the water in Scotland…

[@gerryglynn1953]

Amazing song has everything will always be one of the best songs ever. The sax and guitar are amazing

[@billschwener2283]

The 70s had the greatest music ever!

[@Dave-wt8xg]

Amen to that

[@acooksla]

Yes

[@SRGots]

If you were around in the spring/summer of 1978, you couldn't escape this song and you didn't want to. I was only four and loved this song so much.

[@edwardkim2511]

Whenever I hear this song it brings back good memories from the summer of 1978.

[@ostumbling]

I feel Gerry's song depicts the sad echoes of a man's soul clinging to faded dreams of youth as time slowly drips off the beer bottle of life.

[@lsbill27]

I remember my boss hearing this and The Year of the Cat by Al Stewart and saying 'there must be a music renaissance going on'.

[@heatherturner6955]

This is my mom's favorite song. She started watching you with this song. She also loves your Boston reactions. It is amazing how you pick up everything in the background! We take it for granted - we have heard it so many times over the years. Your faces all changed at 4:47!

[@scarpien]

Their expressions cracked me up. I've watched quite a few reactions on various YT channels to this song and at that point all the expressions are identical. LOL

[@mariachinn7136]

Sophisticated rock has always been here..Glad you discovered

[@davidelswick6660]

I think you guys hit on a lot of the meaning. I think it's a song you feel and interpret and that the lyrics leave it open enough for each person to fill in some of the blanks from their own experience. In the beginning he's talking about another lazy day, drinking and forgetting about everything, and the unfulfilled promise of the city that he thought "held everything". Instead of easy and happy, he's trying and crying. Then it speaks of his hopes and dreams - although he' isn't likely to follow up on them. "He's the rolling stone". I've known a lot of people this could relate to and, at times, I think we can all relate as we're making our way through life; regrets, chances we didn't take, etc. The song has been one of my favorites for 40 years. It has melancholy undertones, but with glimmers of hope.

[@matt.coburn]

One of my ALL TIME favorite songs.

[@corinnaf7988]

♥️🙏 i am a very big fan of Gerry Rafferty best music ever 💥

[@sergiomattos109]

One of the best rock songs of the all the times!!!! The performing is out of this world!!!!!!

[@charlotteharriet8656]

It does indeed sound like and remind us of Las Vegas, but Baker Street is in London, and was the famous address of Sherlock Holmes. Gerry Rafferty had a friend who lived there and he stayed with him a lot. The song evokes so many different emotions from people; for me it never fails to remind me of my dad, who once shared this song with me, knowing (or at least hoping) I would love it. ❤

[@dondgamer]

Genuinely one of the greatest songs of all time.

[@panda9144]

Baker Street is in London England.

[@572Btriode]

It is, and a tube (subway for the Americans) station, but there is no 221B I'm afraid. Baker Street is on the Bakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee and Metropolitan tube lines with connections to all parts of London.

[@debbiejohnson1484]

Songs like these are why I love the 70's! I also played sax in school! Love!!

[@beverlycoulston8058]

it's great to see younger people enjoy the music I grew up listening too, thanks.

[@7harrylime]

Thanks!

[@janejohnstone5795]

One of the greatest songs....ever...

[@tafftuth]

I wish I could go back to the first time I heard this song. Changed my life

[@leyahruizdeloreto6420]

Y'all are adorable; you look like kids enjoying this music; so happy, nice to see!👍🏼

[@johnnichols3184]

While I’ve heard this song from a young age(I’m 33 but my parents are in their 70s and grew up in the 60s and 70s so this is the kind of music we’d listen too when I was growing up) a lot of my friends had never heard of this song until it was featured in Grand Theft Auto 5 so it was awesome that they could experience the kind of music I grew up with. The saxophone is classic.

[@Harpo.jr70]

I love this song, and it had just the right amount of 🎷 sax. I'm 70 one of my top 5 of all time.

[@EessaTube]

Baker Street is a real street, in London, England. It is also the street where the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, was supposed to live.

[@davidwilley3609]

Who needs to have 20 hit singles the three songs that he did that we’re number one could never be outdone by anyone “stuck in the middle with you “Baker Street” down the line “brilliant masterpieces. A true musical genius

[@stankodamanko7649]

Ive been watching your videos for a while and i love your reactions. Im 62 and grew up listening to the greatest music ever, the 60s and 70s. Canada had a massive roll with an abundance of great bands, i feel sad whenever you mention that your radio stations dont play our music. I hope you keep playing and discovering Canadian bands from the 70s youll never be disappointed. One song you must listen to is GORDON LIGHTFOOTS "THE WRECK OF THE EDMOND FITZGERALD". you won't be disappointed.

[@janicecopeland817]

❤🇨🇦👍🏻

[@jimehman8547]

I think you guys got a lot of this right. Having lived in London, when this song came out, and having hung out in Baker Street in particular, it transports me to a very particular place. As far as I see it, Baker Street is not the "good" place that this person is try to escape to, but the "bad" place that he wants to escape from... but can't because he just stuck. The person is someone that found it easy to get by when he was young, but as he has gotten older is finding the world a much more difficult place to survive in. The part you thought was a flute in the beginning, is a guitar, that is played through a volume pedal, so that there is no attack. You hit the note on the guitar (ahead of the beat) and then fade in the guitar on the beat with the pedal. Instead of hearing the sharp attack at the front of the note, now all you hear is the sustained middle part, and it makes it sounds ethereal. Gerry was a guitar player and came up with the melody for the sax player to play. He originally was going to play it on the guitar, but decided it would sound better with a sax playing it. This is, by the way, a classic concept of what an arranger does (a question from another of your videos). Arrangers can have a huge impact on a song. Imagine if he had just decided to keep the guitar part and never had the sax play that part... it would be a completely different song - even though the chords and everything else was the same. Based on you liking this, my recommendation for you would be: " I'm Not in Love" by 10CC. A song that I would have thought you have heard, but if this one is new... anything is possible. The way they created that song has made it a truly one of a kind classic.

[@melodymichaelis8783]

My first husband said that the sax in this song reminded him of me. What a compliment.

[@jamesdrynan]

Great production of a fantastic song!

[@mournblade1066]

At 10:20 you ask, "What is that?" That, my friend, is a Moog synthesizer, not a harmonica.

[@donnalowe5791]

I recently started listening again to a lot of Jerry Rafferty. I remember when City To City was released n there's not a bad song on that album. I played it until I wore it out. Same with Night Owl. Jerry Rafferty was phenomenal, his music speaks to the soul. There'll never be another like him. There was something magical about his music and the time era he made those golden tunes in. Multi talented guy. Totally kick ass deeply felt song too. ❤️❤️🎶🎶 PS yes, he did those amazing guitar riffs! One helluva musician.

[@lorddaver5729]

Gerry, not Jerry.

[@pablo-b7x7l]

Okay guys, after watching your reaction to Baker Street and hearing Shizel saying anything with a great sax is what he’s looking for l’m requesting you to play “Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are - Live - Crystal Clear. My love of music is what keeps me alive and happy. I’m nearly 79 years old and started listening to music at 10. Love your reaction April Wine - Roller, one of my all time favorite bands along with Pink Floyd. You guys rock.

[@rhwinner]

Flashback to lying on my stomach on the hot sand, listening to this on a portable radio....

[@coreymoore1443]

There's no song that better captures the feeling of city streets at night, lights rolling past the windows, the stripes in the road going by.

[@wendyt7958]

this song is timeless. I loved it the first time I heard it in 1977. If you really like a great sax in a song, then listen to Al Stewarts "Year Of The Cat" and "Time Passages" if you havent heard them, you'll really enjoy them

[@poluxsaurus1454]

Yup you gota do that one guys, seriously

[@GinMae]

Yes! Thank you, Wendy -- Al Stewart is awesome - I also love "on the border" --

[@ButtonPhonics]

We all know the next song is Al Stewart (still making albums- his songs tell a story in history, now living in the US). If Baker Street is A Masterpiece, which it is, Year of the Cat is the NEXT level.

[@dianegoldeneye7363]

Yes. Great suggestions

[@terencejay8845]

Released as a single in the UK, it was Single of the Year, and one evening I was standing in his Manager's London office, just staring at the framed Gold Disc for this, three feet away on the wall - plus his album gold discs either side. Magic moment.

[@paules0099]

This song is a personal song of Gerry's life in the music industry. He wanted out and when he went on his own, he reached that point of buying some land and settling down in a quiet little town. When you listen to Stuck in the Middle withYou, he is talking about the music industry that he hated.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

just discovered the channel, enjoying it. Another Gerry Rafferty song with tasty sax: " Get It Right Next Time "

[@GraemeThomas-z2q]

Lots of people bought saxophones on the basis of Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solos on this album. Another track on the City to City album with Sax is called 'Island' and another good track is 'Waiting For the day'.

[@kf8575]

Im now 38yrs old. At the age of 4 my parents bought me a small keyboard and couple of "learn to play" books with the stickers to go on the keys lol. Went on to have private lessons in classical music, taking ABRSM exams and reached grade 5 of 8, after buying an upright piano. At around 12 i started learning to play guitar too, by listening to songs and playing along. Once turned 16 left school and started work, that work life got in the way of it all, and relationships with some real controlling women lol. Am now happily married, we're settled in our groove and my wife has recently given me a bit of encouragement to get back into my music and due to this song along with a couple of others, am now learning to play Alto sax as well as getting back into playing my piano and guitar

[@shawnthompson6145]

Whenever I think of an iconic sax line I automatically think of this song. Smooth and cool.

[@jobryan191]

Baker Street is in London, famous from Sherlock Holmes. City to City is about London to Glasgow, Scotland, as Rafferty is Scottish.

[@edison-1103]

You're great. I'm subscribed now! Nice song! I heard this song since I was a teen. Great sax performance and excellent harmonies. Thanks.

[@KRW1612]

Thanks guys. Great appreciation of amazing music.

[@paulwebster3417]

This is absolutely a GREAT song!

[@lr4428]

I remember this released around spring 1978 and was a good song as usual in the charts , right now it's a classic, glad you young guys enjoyed it

[@patchvonbraun]

I was 15 the year this song was released. I loved it then, and this morning, I it was going through my head. So, just lapping up many different treatments of it. It's heartening to see younger folks enjoying the amazing artistry of this man.

[@peteroconnor6394]

That was a WORK OF ART!

[@christiank6310]

What an amazing song!! Gerry Rafferty's got an amazing talent and voice! Baker Street is Total Fire! Great memory of my 1970s! Thank you for playing this song... Peace out guys!