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, blue-eyed soul
Length 3:40
Label CBS[1]
Writer(s) David Paich, Boz Scaggs[2]
Producer(s) Joe Wissert
Boz Scaggs singles chronology
"What Can I Say"
(1976)
"Lido Shuffle"
(1977)
"Hollywood"
(1978)

"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, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate who later went on to form Toto.[4]

Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached number 1 in the US and 13 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] In Australia the track spent three weeks at number 2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1977) Peak
position
Australia[6] 2
Canada[7] 5
UK[8] 13
US Billboard Hot 100 11

Year-end charts

Chart (1977) Rank
Australia[6] 12
Canada[9] 66
UK[10] 101
US Billboard Hot 100[11] 74

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. Boz Scaggs Chart History Archived January 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  7. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  8. "Old-Charts". Old-Charts. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  9. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  10. "Old-Charts". Old-Charts. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  11. "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
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