WIFE FIRST TIME HEARING GERRY RAFFERTY - BAKER STREET | REACTION

[@johndbrandhorst4434]

And there's that smile, the smile that comes across the face of those people the first time they hear that sax. Actually It still happens to me every time I hear it. Timelessness in a song 🎸❤️

[@andreascala2663]

best sax riff ever

[@leglessinoz]

played by Raphael Ravenscroft

[@josephclark7814]

😂😂 100%. The reaction is always great to watch.

[@geraldjensen6831]

Yes--GREAT. GREAT saxophone--but that guitar riff at the end is just as good!

[@josephclark7814]

@@geraldjensen6831 100%

[@echopryme]

One of the BEST songs ever made!!! I CANNOT understand why the entire world doesn't WORSHIP this song! 💯 It has ALL THE THINGS!!!

[@Brian-om2hh]

Well enough people seemingly do, as Gerry's daughter still makes £75k a year from the royalties.......over 40 years since it was released.

[@Brian-om2hh]

Night Owl, Get It Right Next Time and Sleepwalking are pretty damn good too.....

[@DanielGonzaga-nl3dc]

Because it's perfect!!!!

[@YARROWS9]

Scotland and Britains finest. Gerry Rafferty. What a talent.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@mjsmcd]

From ireland originaly

[@YARROWS9]

@@mjsmcd He is Scottish.

[@mjsmcd]

Rafferty was born on 16 April 1947 into a working-class family of Irish Catholic origin in Underwood Lane

[@YARROWS9]

@mjsmcd Gerry Rafferty is not Irish. He is a Scot. You trying to claim him.

[@jamesm9995]

@@mjsmcdHe’s from Paisley, fk off.

[@johnwriter8234]

I am 63, this came out 1978, I was in US Coast Guard boot camp, very hard training. After chow we were allowed 30 minutes to hear radio..this song played a lot, it helped me get through my training .. now I hear it, makes me cry ..awesome. .

[@mse7501]

Right down the line song hit me in the 70s.

[@melod7670]

The sax is iconic but the guitar solo at the end is what makes this song.

[@raymondmanderville505]

On KZbin you can hear the sax part on a loop to listen to it till your hearts content

[@Rob-29266]

Hugh Burns and his guitar riff at the end , just magnificent.

[@seanlav8040]

Is right

[@davidchalk8883]

You really need to check out "Will You" by Hazel O'Connor - it's even better!

[@normamcneill151]

Never mind the sax listen to his voice

[@osowallman5743]

This song never gets old

[@musicloverchiefsfan5410]

Great reaction! Granted, the sax, played masterfully by Raphael Ravenscroft, is iconic, but let's not forget about that killer guitar solo! Iconic sax, killer guitar, great lyrics and sung by the wonderfully smooth voice of Gerry Rafferty all combine to make this song a musical masterpiece!

[@domenicgalata1470]

The production on this album is stellar. Absolutely perfect.

[@sherigrow6480]

One of my favorite songs ever. It's a mood.

[@michaelglenn7172]

To me, this song is a reflection on his battles with alcohol, which is what he suffered from and passed away as a result of. RIP Gerry!

[@heliotropezzz333]

I think it's more about his struggles with his record company. After the band split they would not let him record anything for a long time.

[@Brian-om2hh]

@@heliotropezzz333 Gerry always had a dislike and something of a contempt for the record industry. He eventually bought his own farm, on which he created his own recording studio and record label.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@Brian-om2hh Good to know. I think his difficulties with the record company were at the time that the band broke up and there was a disagreement.

[@Brian-om2hh]

@@heliotropezzz333 Gerry Rafferty often had big differences with record producers Helen. He did eventually find a producer he was comfortable working with - Hugh Murphy - who produced a good number of Gerry's albums before Mr Murphy himself passed away. Incidentally, the royalties from Baker Street still being played, make Gerry's daughter around £75k per year.....

[@mse7501]

Same for my son at 41

[@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 and band for Stealers Wheel. 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 because he is a rolling stone. However, Gerry also had a drinking problem, he would die from a bad liver. I've always considered this song to be jazz fusion (a fusion between rock and jazz, which became popular in the late 1970s).

[@humboldtharry4248]

One of my very favorite songs

[@alistairmcdougall9625]

Your method of not talking over or pausing during the song works, stopping the music kills the ride, the breakdown at the end for me works well👌

[@rogeroran2911]

Love this song. The sax gets me every time. Man had a damn good voice too.

[@rubicon-oh9km]

"Another year and then you'll be happy. Just one more year and then you'll be happy"...Timeless, heartbreaking lyric from the amazing Gerry.

[@Brian-om2hh]

A not dissimilar lyric is in Night Owl. " One more drink you're sailing away, one more dream and it's looking ok"....... Quite a few of Mr Rafferty's songs had powerful, deep lyrics.

[@rubicon-oh9km]

@@Brian-om2hh Absolutely Brian. You’re obviously a big Gerry fan and that’s cool to see

[@Brian-om2hh]

@@rubicon-oh9km I am....... I bought most of his albums. The only one I never managed to get was one entitled "Can I Have My Money Back?" Again, probably directed at a record producer somewhere down the line...... Gerry seemingly had little time for record producers.....The only one he was eventually happy working with was Hugh Murphy, who crafted that "big sound" so often heard on Gerry's tracks.....

[@colorado.cyclist.m.d.]

This is a song for intelligent grownups, by intelligent grownups. A thinking man's rock song. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jenniferjacobs228]

Please, please...do not change a thing..As someone who grew up with music starting in the 50's, it hurts my soul when other reactors continually pause to talk about it when they haven't heard the full song yet or else they talk while it's playing. They miss so much of the feel of the song. Some even begin sermonising about some subject that isn't even related to the song. I sometimes think they are just doing the videos so they can hear themselves talk. So very annoying to me. Your channel is so refreshing and one of a very few who respect the music enough to let it play out. Good on you! and many thanks.

[@davidlalor9464]

This Song proves you can travel the Universe on Great Sax and Great Guitar in tune . Sax and Guitar works

[@shadsullivan7817]

I was probably like 24 when you two were born, this is some good music!!!! Enjoy! Thanks!

[@citypaintersllc2874]

Your wife is gorgeous brother you two are definitely made for each other...stay together ❤.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

When this song was released, the first time I heard it I said "That song is gonna be a classic. Years from now people will still be listening to it." Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

[@mtjoy747]

It's that VERY strong sax at the beginning that "introduces" the song, for me

[@alanhogg9939]

Gerry played that saxophone piece on electric guitar long before the saxophonist played it. Billy Connolly said he heard it a long time before.

[@jenniferharper5381]

I really like her interpretation of this song!

[@edmclean5086]

RIP Jerry, one of Scotland's best x

[@susieb8661]

I love the music you choose to play for her ...Music when I was growing up was amazing and I'm very lucky to have been there "when".

[@seanlavelle103]

This song is amazing and the guitar solo is killer. This song is great all the way around

[@garyjohnson3081]

A perfectly produced song pure genius!M

[@slimpickins9124]

Look, she's swaying to the music.

[@kentmains7763]

Iconic song.

[@briancunningham594]

This song is food for the soul. 🎷

[@deking43]

One of the most heart felt songs.. I forget sometimes, but I remember

[@deking43]

That saxophone sings so good

[@hyramhackenbacker3953]

This song always takes me back to the many times I have found myself winding my way down Baker Street on a early Sunday morning. Going home after a Saturday night out in London. This song came out in 1978 I think,but reminds me of times from 1968 to 1981.

[@bryang6061]

I think you are quite right about the dates, working for British railways at the end of the steam age five of us from the north of England in 1968, transferred to a London depot, this song always reminds me of our time there. London was an incredible place in 1968, not so much now.

[@robertherring9277]

Such a great artist.

[@vonyroces7878]

Epic song! Gerry Rafferty has got one of the coolest voices in rock. this track is so ahead of its time and is superbly produced..

[@cabdriveruk]

This song was written by Gerry as he was travelling to and from Scotland to London to lawyers offices to deal with the Stealers Wheel band split, he wrote a few songs on the train journeys. There was a long standing argument about who wrote the solo that was eventually done on saxophone. The sax player Raphael Ravenscroft claimed it was his work, but this was later found to be untrue because Gerry had originally done the solo on guitar. Raphael Ravenscroft received 20 pounds for his solo but the cheque bounced. R.I.P Gerry Rafferty 1947 - 2011, Rip Rapheal Ravenscroft 1954 - 2014.

[@dcanmore]

the cheque bouncing story was another of Ravenscroft's 'imagined' situations, he got paid, then came back and worked on Rafferty's following two albums.

[@davespagnol8847]

@@dcanmore I don't think that Raphael Ravenscroft was getting much session work before this, and he wasn't first choice for this track. That all changed after this song became a major worldwide hit. I also read that the cheque bouncing story was an urban legend, not related to anyone involved in the recording.

[@shawnsparkman8472]

This is one of those rare songs where the saxophone works in beautiful with everything else in a song.

[@alexakl6445]

Yeah, this is probably the most famous sax riff ever... and his voice - so calming. It's like this calm, smooth, soothing voice and WHAM, here comes that sax! And the guitar solo - just an amazing, classic song.

[@davidthompson1069]

In the UK, in the North of England,a TV channel called Granada, used to sign off ,the night, by playing this. It was probably a good 12 months. Always stayed 2 the end, to listen to this, wow 😀😃🙂🙃

[@kennethohnemus3192]

This song was written after he broke up with his first band, Stealers Wheel . Baker Street is in London and he used to go stay with his friend when he got out of court for the day. I bought this album for my brother on his birthday and he still has it.

[@leomarshall4059]

The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived at #221B Baker Street.

[@craigmccullough7333]

Kenneth Ohnemus - Gerry Rafferty's first band was a folk group "The Humblebums"with a certain Billy Connolly - I wonder what happened to him?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

@@craigmccullough7333 Gerry, Billy and folk singer Finbar Furey drank regularly in a pub called The World at corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road.

[@lathedauphinot6820]

You do well alone, but you’re better together. What could be better than that? But it takes cojónes to risk it like that. Congratulations. It works. I’ve always liked this song. Yes; powerful sax and nostalgic. Bless y’all.

[@coinsaver]

Greatest sax riff in Rock. It's Gerry (as in Jerry) Rafferty. Second greatest = Train - Careless Whisper.

[@stevenaleman7454]

great song, great reaction, and great artist! Al Stewart's song, "Year of the Cat', is another classic that has a similar vibe.....

[@Brian-om2hh]

That iconic saxophone does it every time. It doesn't matter how many times you hear Baker Street, it still hits you......Gerry Rafferty has been described as having a liquid voice, and this track illustrates that perfectly........

[@rayhutchinson640]

Cool end of video comparisons of the mental associations that were evoked by this song!

[@robertkincaid]

Also on the album the title track City To CITY and there is the line it is 400 miles GLASGOW to LONDON Gerry s like myself being from the same city

[@timtravasos2742]

That's saxophone part was worth a Grammy!

[@strayling1]

If this song doesn't bring tears to your eyes ... gets me every time.

[@mikematusek4233]

Another mind blower is the Moody Blues: Somewhere Out There, Otherside of life, Nights In White Satin, Questions.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Gerry Rafferty has another great song with tasty sax called " Get It Right Next Time " Pronounce Gerry like Jerry

[@Gunner4Drones]

This song was in Goodwill Hunting. When Will was fighting the highschool bully and his buddies.

[@danielnovak4284]

Thanks for being sincere both of you in sharing this! God bless you both!

[@SK-lk3iu]

She's beautiful!....perfect combination of you and Dee! Very patient and cooperative too! Altho that was probably the least likely song I would have picked for a little kid!

[@anthonyblakely399]

Your wife Dee is right!!! This is one of those Reminiscent songs that takes you back to a past. And most music takes you on a journey.....but she have not really been on a journey yet until you introduce her to YES or Rush or Pink Floyd. I think she is gonna like Pink Floyd or Supertramp the most because of the Saxophone in those group. I know she will like Blood Sweat & Tears.

[@mstewart109]

Chicago is a must for horns.

[@crimsonwizard2560]

Why Rush? ELP were far more important...and so much better.

[@ronbusby4596]

How about edger winter Frankenstein!!

[@glassontherocks]

Gerry Rafferty "Right down the line" Beautiful love song.

[@timholder6825]

RAPHAEL RAVENSCROFT. You ought to hear the sax solo he plays on, The Gunners Dream, by, Pink Floyd. It's just......beyond.

[@johnlewandowski8624]

I believe in hearing the whole song uninterrupted first, too!

[@j.philiplarson2064]

I really appreciate the fact you don't stop the music to comment or talk over the music and break up the continuity of the music...your facial expressions are enough, and your comments after the song telling how it made you feel are enough!! I really hate watching reactors stopping the music to comment about what the lyrics are saying or how it makes them feel emotionaly during the song...well done!!

[@williameller7002]

Your wife is breath of fresh air to your channel ,thanks for bringing her

[@curiousman1672]

I've always loved the instrumentation going on under the sax. Brutal.

[@davidwatchesyoutube]

Wow, I love the way her mind works. I'll never hear this song the same way again, lol.

[@mikeherrmann5360]

when I was 3ft. tall this song was huge. still like it

[@seeker1432]

The Sax in the song Will you by Hazel O'Conner is great. Its like its speaking to you.

[@robbob5302]

This is my first time meeting Dee. She is cool! Very imaginative. Please make her a permanent member of the cast. Offer her the corner office. Company car. Whatever it takes. She was BORN for this music!! 😁

[@gotrhythm1]

My 4 year old grandson can educate you on Gerry Rafferty! Although he sometimes confuses him with Evel Knevil! lol

[@perthfalcon]

This song is an australian anthem. Played it around my mum and she told me about the first time she heard it on the radio back in the day, smoking a joint barreling down a dirt road in a ute. Carefree 🤘

[@karenward267]

Before emigrating to the US, I used to go to London a lot and would always try to walk down Baker Street humming this song. One of the greatest songs ever composed.

[@xetalq]

This came out in early 1978, and was the theme tune of my final terms at the University of Edinburgh and throughout the summer of that year. I was 22 and I was in a relationship with my first truly-serious girlfriend and it spoke to us both. Even now, all these decades later it is still the soundtrack of that moment in my life. And "Baker Street" still moves me now, just as it moved me then.

[@carollandrum9223]

Certain songs bring back certain memories and this one brings back good ones!

[@joelong7448]

So much better to listen to the song all the way through. Love that you do it that way Chod.

[@Dcaloosa]

This song was the soundtrack to my life when I was I. The early20s.

[@dianelockwood9282]

Love it, always have, always will...what an entrance...sax and more sax!

[@fancy39]

Wonderful song! Gerry was special.

[@anthonyblakely399]

I was hoping to catch you Chod today.....I didn't know Yes made an album in 1994....I didn't know, man.....I was in You Tube and You Tube brought up things that I might want to see or listen to.....and this album from Yes entitled, "Talk" came up....so i said let me click on this album and see and listen to Yes in 1994...right? Bro....Bro.....I was Blown AWAY!!!! Every track was GREAT!!!!! I had tears in my eyes of Joy and Ecstasy because it was sooooo good....A Masterpiece.....so I got on it and request every Reactor on You Tube who like Yes to listen and react to the album, "Talk." It has been 7 months.....since anybody has reacted...You my friends could be the second reactors to react to this album or this song "Endless Dream" on this album titled, "Talk."......sooooo underrated in the Age of Hip-Hop and Rap.....no one young or old or middle age knows about this Incredible album or this amazing song "Endless Dream,"!!!!! And that whole album is "Heavy Metal meets Ambient and Funk" Hahahaaha...lol....hahahaha...It left me "Speechless" Great Reaction from Popenyco who was the first reactor after 7 months of me requesting the song "Endless Dream" and the album "Talk" by YES.....and I Popnyco and other reactors will react to more songs on this "Talk" album from Yes released in 1994. I want you to react to the first two songs on the album "Talk." I want you to react to "The Calling" and "I'm Waiting."

[@gregpusczek4473]

She is correct about music taking you on a journey

[@monalisaganser5813]

Brings back memories! 😀🎸

[@mattroxursoul]

Good reason sax is one of the sexiest sounding instruments.

[@sealdrup]

Classic song. Masterful musically. Brings back memories as I am old enough to have been alive with this song came out.

[@debbiel.1655]

I love that ya'll don't pause the videos. watching your faces "reactions" and then hearing what ya'll thought is fantastic. Great reaction!

[@franklimper2677]

You got yourself a real live wire here brotha 🤣🤣🤣😎

[@Royal_BLT]

More SMILES per minute with this track ! This track always reminds me of my time in London England !

[@johnnyd5285]

It’s amazing, nobody seems to know what this song is about, but everybody loves the sax, and the guitar at the end.

[@loisalanoa6342]

When I whistle this song, those who know the song will start singing. Love it

[@formerIWUcoachDDD]

Certainly one of the most iconic pop songs ever written and recorded....

[@hannecatton2179]

Basically a song about how the huge size of London swallows people and their dreams , especially those who move there hoping to find fame and fortune. Still true today , and applicable to many mega cities.Lived there for 10 years when younger. Couldn´t do it now. Not enough energy.

[@fondaholland1595]

I love that y'all don't stop the music all the time..

[@carlosvasquezvasquez2845]

KUDOS CLASSIC VIBE🍒🌹💯🙏

[@V01t2]

Kudos on being able to verbalize your journey. The guitar solo back into the saxophone straight up just glopped an alligator tear unchecked from my eye down to my shirt; I've heard this a million times and its still electric to me

[@foxman1546]

You can never have enough sax.😊

[@calvingreen5202]

Great reaction...this song can paint thousands of the pictures and emotions. It's timeless, pure and simple. I'm not sure if she's ready...but maybe an introduction into Rush, might be next. Xanadu, La Villa Strangiato or YYZ. Could be an eye opener.

[@SG-ct4yn]

Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page'. Only a couple of sax sections, but played with purpose.

[@fredscott5644]

One of my favorite artists of all time. I own every album from Rafferty from the Humblebums to Stealers Wheel to his solo albums. I even sang one of his songs called The Ark at a talent show in college. The songs The Ark and The Garden of England are just a couple of my favorites. You two are cool thanks for the reaction.

[@kavousniamir2375]

You got good taste. Gerry Rafferty was great... a genius singer songwriter

[@normamcneill151]

My funeral song is the royal mile its my favourite song by my favourite singer about my favourite street in edinburgh

[@paulwheelan1106]

Gerry Rafferty....From Paisley. Scotland....Where I am just now... Paisley Pattern...Paisley Studios (Prince)

[@bobschenkel7921]

Everyone always talks about the sax solo in this song, and rightly so, but the little guitar solo Gerry, pronounced Jerry, throws in there is pretty darn slick too.

[@revaflowers3115]

Every time I hear that opening riff of the sax it makes me think of You Belong To The City by Glen Frey.

[@haydendegrow945]

Any time somebody reacts to Baker Street, I listen to it... it is one of my favourite songs of all time!

[@shanenolan8252]

My mother and i used to live on Baker street ( at different times ) and sherlock Holmes lived at 221b baker street.

[@leslie8743]

I listened to Baker Street album constantly when it came out. Jerry is so talented. ❤

[@commknightj]

Raphael Ravenscroft was a damn good sax player. Totally right about the nostalgia feel. Had this playing in my car the summer of 1978.