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There used to be this thing we had called music. It was great. This is a phenomenal example of it.
should check out Band Maid sometime. Might restore yer faith in new music
@@Bekka_Noyb Don't be silly.
@@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!!!!!
don't be "get off my lawn" guy . there is good music still..
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
The sax piece is generally regarded as one of the most famous sax pieces in any music.
I agree 100%
Listen to tgat beautiful voice
And "will you" Hazell O'connor.
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.
Gerry Rafferty was in a band with the great comedian Billy Connolly,both from Glasgow Scotland
Hardly anyone ever mentions it, but this has one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.
AGREED!!!
This song definitely has a great combination of instruments including vocals put together very well creating an endless music masterpiece.
Hugh Burns, and it was spectacular.
Straight up nasty.
Yes it does
This song is an absolute masterpiece. Everything about it is fantastic. That’s all that needs to be said.
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.
...and with a sax break to end all others.
Can´t agree more.
Great darts
Scott Clifford you are so correct!
In November 2010, Rafferty was admitted to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where he was put on a life-support machine and treated for multiple organ failure. After being taken off life support, Rafferty rallied for a short time, and doctors thought that he might recover.[69] Rafferty died of liver failure at the home of his daughter Martha in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 4 January 2011, at the age of 63. Baker Street is a famous street in London. His alcoholism was out of control and this song was a cry for help. 😢
Alcohol has destroyed so many lives
I didn't know anything about that.😢
So sad, the man was crying out for help for so long! Great voice and such talented musicians! One of Scotland’s finest! RIP Gerry Rafferty, your music and legacy will live on in your memory!
He was an alcoholic but he was the best of the best 😊
Raphael Ravenscroft on the saxophone and the smooth as butter Gerry Rafferty voice just complimented each other
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.
I agree❤
Truth!
AMEN!!!'
SURE!!! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS , YOU ARE ANALYZING THE BEST MUSIC DECADES OF CENTURY 20!!! SPECIALLY THE 70S!!!!
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).
This is one of the ten greatest rock songs ever recorded. It is the perfect example of 1970s studio wizardry.
Sadness, beauty and elevated music in every note. It´s definitely one of a kind. It just never ages.
It's got everything you want and need in a rock song!! Pure joy
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.
And arguably the best saxophone solo EVER!
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.
It's not a song .. It's a symphony of modern instruments. It can be equated with a Classical masterpiece.
Amen !
Yep Gerry gave us greatness.
Absolutely
I tried to like this twice 🥰 Lovely.
Absolutely!
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.
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...
Met my wife in early July 1978 … yes we’ve been around awhile
Oh you guys get it! One of the greatest songs ever. Every Brit aged over 60 knows this classic
I didn't actually vibe with this song until I travelled to the UK. But I'm Scots Irish Welsh and English and so it kills me now. Only 57 though!
And… every Aussie 😏
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.
Yep I live in the united kingdom, baker Street is the most famous Street in the united kingdom
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.
@@davidbeattie4198 other than abbey road haha
I love such trivia, thanks
@@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.
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.
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.
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]
Wow - thanks for the info! I really appreciate learning background and new insights to songs that I love!
WORSE NOW BIGTIME
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!
The Outsider is an amazing book by Albert Camois is that a different book sounds similar ?
@@maz41617B .. Albert Camus “L’Etranger” (“the outsider”)
One of the best guitar solos of all time
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!!
You can never have enough of Baker’s Street and Gerry Rafferty
This is my childhood. Every time I hear this song, I am taken back to the late 70’s. Corduroy pants….vinyl stores….easy times. It’s really my transport to my easy life in my small town when nothing bothered me and life was just good and new. Thanks guys
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.
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. 👍🏴
Yes!!! YOU get it!! I cried when I found out he was gone!! He was incredible & Baker Street is incredible!
@@lesliereamer144 let me hear an AMEN to that 👍🏴
Just a brilliant song
He was one of the greatest !
One of the greatest songs....ever...
Gerry Rafferty "Right Down the Line" is another classic.
And moonlight and gold is a beautiful song
The Jo Jo white that i know played basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks in the 1960's
@@kevinhothan7328 and the Celtics also!
@@jojowhite9296 Yep
This is one of those songs that you just want to crank the volume up, roll the window down and just let the wind blow through your hair!! A true and very iconic masterpiece of a song by a very underrated singer/songwriter!!
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.
Gerry Rafferty Baker Street. =Sherlock Holmes.=Jubilee line=LONDON. What a masterpiece. Loved it to death.
RIP Gerry Rafferty We love You and We miss You. and RIP you too Raphael Ravenscroft the man on the saxophone.
1978 ghetto poor but bought this 8 track, 15 years old
damn i had great taste in music 🎶😅
The sax is played by Raphael Ravenscroft, a session musician.
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!
He played saxophone on Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon.
@@jonathanmol4489 I believe that was Dick Parry on sax, on Dark Side and Wish
@@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.
@@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).
The 70s had the greatest music ever!
Amen to that
Yes
This song is a classic with one of the most iconic and brilliant sax. You are missed Gerry
Yes that saxophone has been used many times… from The Simpsons to countless movies and TV. It’s iconic.
Dave Ramsey's theme song. Thank you, Dave; been Debt Free for years now!
Go, Lisa❤
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.
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!
From a time when to be in music you had to be a musician, pure class.
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.
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.
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!
That's true
That guitar - sax transition is fucking unreal
Every time I hear this song, I want to wrap myself up in it like a warm blanket.
Beautifully crafted songs like this are timeless! One of the most memorable songs of the seventies.
🦋 I 🙌 Agree! 💯%
As someone who used to travel through Baker St daily on my way to work this track means so so much to me
The look y'all had on your face when that classic piece of saxophone came on ......priceless....
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.
The very mellow intro, followed with the drum crash, then the sax kicking in smacking you in the head. WOW The surprise Guitar solo takes the song up another level. amazing.
This is one of the best songs ever written it makes me think of my childhood and I have no idea why
One of the best 1970s pop records. This was a massive hit here in Great Britain. Still played every week on our radio.
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..
VERY UNIQUE SONG. LOVED IT WHEN IT CAME OUT. REALLY DIFFERENT SOUND. SMOOTHE RHYTHM SOUND. BILLY BOY
Absolute fire!!! Killer sax, killer guitar solo, great vocals and production
Baker Street is in London England.
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.
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!
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.
LOVE the music him and Billy Connolly did
Dare I say Scotland 'sgreat gift to the world apologies to the Bay City Rollers
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.
His biggest demon was alcohol.
So many 'Baker Streets' around the world but there'll never be another Gerry. God rest his dear soul.
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.
Who played the guitar solo
@@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."
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!
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.
Whenever I hear this song it brings back good memories from the summer of 1978.
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'.
The percussion, particularly the bongos, is the secret weapon of this song. A masterful composition in every sense. Something in the water in Scotland…
The sax in this song gives me chills
What I loved about that era was that the music was so eclectic. There was room for ALL sorts of music, and an explosion of new ideas, fusions, etc. etc.
Baker Street is a real street, in London, England. It is also the street where the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, was supposed to live.
♥️🙏 i am a very big fan of Gerry Rafferty
best music ever 💥
That was a WORK OF ART!
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!
Omg , what a reaction guys ,sublime, superb, stupendous ,👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧
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'.
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
I was 23 and it became my ex husband and mine song, beautiful ❤️ l really enjoy watching young guys like you enjoy one of my favourites,!!
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
I wish I could go back to the first time I heard this song. Changed my life
It's so fun for me to watch young people listen to music I grew up with and appreciate it so much! Thank you.
IKR. It never gets old seeing their reaction when the verse transitions to the chorus..
Amazing song has everything will always be one of the best songs ever. The sax and guitar are amazing
One of the best rock songs of the all the times!!!! The performing is out of this world!!!!!!
Flashback to lying on my stomach on the hot sand, listening to this on a portable radio....
it's great to see younger people enjoy the music I grew up listening too, thanks.
one of the very best songs from the late 70s
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.
This tune is an all-time top 10
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.
One of the most underrated uk songs ever!
Underrated?
It gets played every day somewhere on this planet. It’s a wellknown classic.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 The word "underrated" is one of the most overused in these videos. I'd bet that someone would even use it to describe The Beatles.
Not here in the UK it isnt, hear it played on the radio quite often as it goes
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.
I love this song, and it had just the right amount of 🎷 sax. I'm 70 one of my top 5 of all time.
This is absolutely a GREAT song!
Sophisticated rock has always been here..Glad you discovered
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!!
My first husband said that the sax in this song reminded him of me. What a compliment.
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.
Songs like these are why I love the 70's! I also played sax in school! Love!!
This song and The year of the Cat by Al Stewart both masterpieces. Arrr the 70's the best era ever. Totally unique.
Great production of a fantastic song!
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.
A true rock classic
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
Yup you gota do that one guys, seriously
Yes! Thank you, Wendy -- Al Stewart is awesome - I also love "on the border" --
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.
Yes. Great suggestions
Just a fantastic song.🙏👍
Killer Killer Song - I used to listen to this constantly. Never fades. - Love - ❤❤
Y'all are adorable; you look like kids enjoying this music; so happy, nice to see!👍🏼
Absolute Classic...Perfection!!
One of the hits popular when dating my husband of now 44 years. Lucky us, we experienced fantastic music! ❤
Can anyone make these amazing, jaw dropping sounds now, in 2022?Nope!! Haha. Gerry was truly ahead of his time, playing multiple instruments!!! Amazing musician!! RIP Gerry
This man's voice is silk Gerry battled booze problems and unfortunately he ended up in a wheelchair I used to see him. town here in the UK called Bournemouth and Boscombe sadly he passed away rip Gerry a true legend
“Get It Right Next Time” is another worthy Gerry Rafferty song ripe for review.
You are listening to real composition music....Rafferty put his personal life into his songs. One of the greatest artists ever to Grace our presence.