Lead vocalist Gerry Rafferty later went solo and was responsible for the huge hit "Baker Street," which featured a classic saxophone riff.
@ralphfiligenzi6180
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that info, I heard both of those songs a million times and it never dawned on me.
@angelahudson5315
3 жыл бұрын
++
@delicatefleur
3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that was Gerry Rafferty!
@jameshunter7303
3 жыл бұрын
The lead vocalist is not Gerry Rafferty but Joe Egan. Gerry is the guitarist but did sing on his solo records
@Alewifes_Husband
3 жыл бұрын
And you guys reacted to Baker Street and it REALLY got to Amber! Justifiably so.
@TheAcgtrs
3 жыл бұрын
I cannot be the only person who hears this song, and instantly flashes back to ‘Reservoir Dogs’… That scene is indelibly etched in my cinematic mind.
@danielvining9529
3 жыл бұрын
Every time!
@analogblues
3 жыл бұрын
Same here. I picture Michael Madsen dancing to it everytime!
@michaellebo4262
3 жыл бұрын
💯
@fallenangelz291
3 жыл бұрын
Me! Never liked it and hated it after that scene.
@Dilirium23
3 жыл бұрын
@John Barber I can't thumbs up this sentiment enough.
@matthewlee6168
3 жыл бұрын
The lead singer was Gerry Rafferty--y'all reacted to his song 'Baker Street'. Y'all should listen to another great song by him called 'Right Down the Line'.
@karnsfan
3 жыл бұрын
Right Down the Line is awesome.
@mruplink1
3 жыл бұрын
The entire City to City album is great.
@isaiasvillarreal9359
3 жыл бұрын
That's a great song
@roger9797
3 жыл бұрын
Blows my mind that the same person performed Stuck in the Middle and Baker street. This channel reacted to Baker Street on July 27, 2021.
@markmcelligott2542
3 жыл бұрын
Home and dry!
@raymondbonington9355
2 ай бұрын
R.i.p Joe Egan who co wrote this passed away today aged 77 ,
@TheSpanishInquisition87
3 жыл бұрын
I can't hear this song without thinking about "Reservoir Dogs." He's using the bottle as a slide. It's an old Blues technique.
@metalloadedbakedpotato4382
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing.
@JohnnyPappas
3 жыл бұрын
Me too, troubling as that scene is.
@TheDivayenta
3 жыл бұрын
Bottleneck slide guitar!
@misolgit69
3 жыл бұрын
similar to steel guitar where they use a steel tube on the finger
@etc7070
3 жыл бұрын
Opposite of wholesome, lol
@ricknbacker5626
3 жыл бұрын
The singer on the record is Gerry Rafferty, but he left the band before this video was filmed. Standing in for Gerry is Steelers Wheel guitarist Joe Egan. Joe mimes the lead vocal in Gerry's absence. Great song and a terrific reaction R S R. Cheers, RNB
@TheFairyintheFishBowl
3 жыл бұрын
Joe Egan co-wrote this song too!
@paulh1679
3 жыл бұрын
Always wondered why GR wasn't fronting his own song thanks for info
@laurencemiller1594
3 жыл бұрын
Joe actually sings the harmonies.
@joeking5932
Жыл бұрын
@@paulh1679 He didn't want to do the promotion the record company told him to do...those record executives were the clowns he's singing about.
@markgallagher1621
Жыл бұрын
when you hear the song you can tell its smooth and Jerrys voice. I did wonder why jerry looked different here. because its Joe
@moanman1776
3 жыл бұрын
YES! Cool song. STILL holds up over 40 YEARS later! RIP Mr. Rafferty.
@leemcclements8889
3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know Rafferty passed....
@moanman1776
3 жыл бұрын
@@leemcclements8889 Yes, sadly. Google him.
@moanman1776
3 жыл бұрын
Great musician. Sad life.
@livingbythebaycalifornia
3 жыл бұрын
Almost 50
@tommtommkin
3 жыл бұрын
@@leemcclements8889 He died in 2011.
@roadkill7314
3 жыл бұрын
You know what I love about watching music reactions? There are not only so many great songs by people you've reacted to that you haven't gotten to yet, but there's a huge number of bands/artists that you haven't heard either! You could do this for years and not run out of material. This is the soundtrack of my life. Man, did I grow up in a great time!
@davewildermuth7519
3 жыл бұрын
"Is he playing guitar with a bottle?" Yay, new instrument time! That's actually a specific style of guitar called a lap steel. It's intended to be played flat on your lap, with a slide bar. The strings don't go all the way to the fretboard, so you have to use the slide to produce the notes. Using a beer bottle is mostly for show, but as others have pointed out, it's a reference to the old Black bluesmen to used bottles as slides. The lap steel is very similar to an acoustic instrument called the Dobro, or resophonic guitar. Alison Krauss's band, Union Station, has one of the finest Dobro players who ever lived, in Jerry Douglass. Check out a live version of their instrumental "Choctaw Hayride," to see the master at work.
@PDDSimracing
3 жыл бұрын
Alison Krauss, Union Station, Jerry Douglas. Now your talking. Could get lost for hours in her voice and their sound.
@timpafundi6321
3 жыл бұрын
And don’t forget the Pedal Steel guitar! So popular in the CW genre in the 70’s
@jefffiore7869
3 жыл бұрын
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd played it also
@douglasainsworth2448
3 жыл бұрын
And then, along with the lap steel and pedal steel you have the guit steel, which is a steel guitar merged with a six string electric, an instrument developed by country musician Junior Brown.
@rickwelch8464
3 жыл бұрын
Wait, I thought Curtis Lowe was the finest picker to ever sing the blues? Jerry who? :)
@JJM3rd
3 жыл бұрын
If you’re impressed by the guy playing the guitar in his lap, you should react to Jeff Healey. He was a guitarist that came out in the late 80s who played the guitar in his lap because he was blind and that’s how he learned to play. His biggest song (and one that Amber would probably love) is called “Angel Eyes” but the best song to show off his guitar playing is probably “See The Light.” He died of cancer in 2008, but he was a hell of a musician and didn’t let being blind stop him one bit.
@djmc3815
3 жыл бұрын
Also "See The Light" live 1988. Ridiculous Talent
@Pieman229
3 жыл бұрын
You will absolutely love Jeff Healey. See the light. I guarantee you’ll make room on the guitarists top shelf,alongside Jimi Hendrix
@leonniemandt6911
8 ай бұрын
Might as well watch Roadhouse while they are at it ;)
@blackprix
3 жыл бұрын
This is a fun song… We always used to sing while driving in the car and it was on the radio. That’s one thing about back in the day everybody singing along
@sharikraft1706
3 жыл бұрын
Especially the Plee- ee-ee-ease. Lol
@poppad331
3 жыл бұрын
because you could sing along, try getting all the family to sing along to some of today's music while driving lol.
@blackprix
3 жыл бұрын
@@poppad331 I agree, that’s so sad how times have changed. But I still sing, it keeps me young and positive.
@BillB23
3 жыл бұрын
I just love watching you two discover the tunes I grew up and aged on. This 69 year old white guy gives you two thumbs up! I'd give you more if I were issued more. I pray blessings upon all five of you.
@timneale5657
3 жыл бұрын
This is also Gerry Rafferty that you listened to before on Baker Street...and the guitar with the bottle is a slide guitar technique commonly used on a Dobro or steel resonator guitar.
@melodymcdonald2140
3 жыл бұрын
Watch an Alison Krauss video with her band Union Station. Jerry Douglas plays a dobro in the majority of her songs and you can see what it looks like being played.
@timneale5657
3 жыл бұрын
@@melodymcdonald2140 Oh you mean the best Dobro player ever?? :)
@melodymcdonald2140
3 жыл бұрын
@@timneale5657 Absolutely! Another good example is Travis Tritt’s Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde. 👍😀
@joyfulzero853
3 жыл бұрын
This song (released in 1972) got a lot of new exposure when used as background music in a somewhat gruesome scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" in 1992. One character in the scene dances to the song whilst slicing off the ear of another character with a razor! 'Bottle neck guitar' i.e. playing guitar with neck of a glass bottle to get a 'jangly' sound was a traditional blues method. Originally it would be a broken bottle neck with a player's finger inserted into it. It has commonly also been done with a metal tube or other hard object instead and usually known as 'slide guitar'.
@crzyoldmn
3 жыл бұрын
King Harvest "Dancing In The Moonlight" King Floyd "Groove Me" Boz Scaggs "Lowdown"
@dustinsdesertheirloomgarde5999
3 жыл бұрын
Love that King Harvest song!
@patrickq7489
3 жыл бұрын
The mellow vibe goes out the door if you ever watch Reservoir Dogs.
@MyRoom_is_old
3 жыл бұрын
The singer is Gerry Rafferty. He's got a very popular solo career. This song is about a mythical record executive party and makes fun of Bob Dylan and his paranoia.
@josephpowell3949
3 жыл бұрын
Baker Street!
@vickilloyd7472
3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't make fun of Bob Dylan, he's a master!
@scottwhitlock9201
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephpowell3949 They did it a while back.. the horns nailed her good
@dennishawley3090
3 жыл бұрын
That's right. Rafferty had left Stealers Wheel before this song became a hit, so the record company made a video and had Joe Egan lip-sync to Rafferty's vocals for the video. Rafferty then returned to the band, and there is a live video of the band playing this song, with vocals and bass guitar by Rafferty.
@scottstewart5784
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephpowell3949 and Right Down the Line
@famlinx
6 ай бұрын
His name is Gerry Rafferty who sang Baker St with the horns Amber loved so much
@theodoreritola7641
Ай бұрын
Released in 1978
@bellab6275
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing compares to Michael Madden dancing to this before the ear goes in Reservoir Dogs. Any time I hear this I just picture that scene
@debbiechang5781
3 жыл бұрын
I always think of that poor guy tied to that chair when I hear this song. Tarantino’s soundtracks are always great!
@snikkerr1949
3 жыл бұрын
Mr Blonde!
@barbaramiller2279
3 жыл бұрын
Driving from Chicago to Springfield, IL, for state swimming championships in a car with only an am station.... heard this song about every 30 minutes THE WHOLE ENTIRE RIDE. There and back. 4 hours there, 4 hours back. :)
@joeyrobison6629
3 жыл бұрын
The lead singer was the late Gerry Rafferty, who sang "Baker Street", his first solo hit. You both reacted to and uploaded it on July, 27.
@emmafrench7219
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. You have said exactly what I was going to say. You saved me using my painfully arthritic 3 fingers.😊 Just another bitterness information, Gerry Rafferty used to live down the road from me.
@emmafrench7219
3 жыл бұрын
Bit of useless information. Stupid predictive text!😊
@tinapatterson5022
3 жыл бұрын
"Right down the Line " was My Favorite from Gerry Rafferty !!!!!
@joeyrobison6629
3 жыл бұрын
@@tinapatterson5022 I like "Get It Right Next Time" as well.
@markharris1125
3 жыл бұрын
@@emmafrench7219 'Bitterness information' is quite a good phrase though, I'm going to hang onto it and one day I'll find the perfect moment to say it. 'As the eminent Emma French once said . . . '
@petedee123
3 жыл бұрын
Before Stealers Wheel and his solo career Jerry Rafferty was in a Scottish Folk Duo called The Humblebums with singer/comedian Billy Connelly.
@dawnd2498
3 жыл бұрын
Jackie Wilson “Your love is lifting me higher”……..or “Lonely Teardrops” (not as slow as you might think) I see you haven’t listened to Jackie before so thought I’d suggest him. You two are so fun to watch! I’ve got my kids and my best friend watching you guys now too!
@joshsmith302
3 жыл бұрын
Jackie Wilson have plenty of their type of songs. Wilson Pickett,-(Land of 1000 dances) and the Spencer Davis Group,-(Gimme some lovin).
@stofopdenaald132
3 жыл бұрын
Yesss!!! Jackie Wilson!! 👍
@michaelmacdermott6340
3 жыл бұрын
The beer bottle technique is just an adaptation of using a slide on a guitar. This is actually not a regular guitar, but what is known as a lap guitar. It's played horizontally, normally with a slide (looks like a polished piece of pipe made of metal or plastic) over the finger. When bands played in bars it was not unusual for the guitarist to just grab a beer bottle to use for the slide effect. Jay, when you learn guitar you will eventually learn slide technique.
@stephenmosack4496
3 жыл бұрын
Slide is almost all I do.... love it
3 жыл бұрын
Nope, if you play guitar you don't *have* to learn slide guitar. I'm pretty sure the majority of guitar players never do. Or slapping as a bass player. Yes, It's a useful technique to have in your repertoire, but there's no law that says you have to learn it. (If you're a pro/session musician, things change… but then again, it would be much more likely for them to call someone who specializes in slide playing than ask any guitarist they already have booked if she can play slide)
@michaelmacdermott6340
3 жыл бұрын
@ never said it was law, and I do. A lot of us do play with a slide on certain vintage rock, country, and jazz songs. I only meant that as he gets into guitar he "can" learn about it more then. Sorry I offended you enough to defensively argue a point. Seems it's becoming the norm in younger generations. It gets chilly these days and snowflakes can fall. Have a blessed evening! 🙏🏻☝🏻❤️
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmacdermott6340 If you meant that he _can_ learn, why did you write that he _will_? And I take the "younger generation" as a(n unintended) compliment. To the rest: LMAA.
@wolfmanjack3451
3 жыл бұрын
"Clowns to the left of me,Jokers to the right" That would be a great campaign slogan.. The #1 1970's song bar none..Deep Purple's "SMOKE ON THE WATER" you will be glad you reacted to the most recognizable 5 cords in rock music.
@katherinebosse5706
3 жыл бұрын
All I’ve got to say is Gerry Rafferty was/is a musical genius!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
@jftowry
3 жыл бұрын
Instead of using his fingers to depress the strings to create different, the guitarist uses a glass bootie or metal cylinder to "slide" across the strings to produce the notes. Hence, you just heard a slide guitar.
@phantomrockerr
3 жыл бұрын
Lowell George from Little Feat used a 9/16 socket. So if he lost it, he could easily replace it.
@jftowry
3 жыл бұрын
@@phantomrockerr Duane Allman used a glass Coricidin bottle
@lynnerapping7725
3 жыл бұрын
Bonnie Raitt plays a mean slide guitar!
@danlefou
3 жыл бұрын
On "Ain't That Peculiar" by Fanny, June Millington uses the bottleneck she made herself in the traditional way, heat-treating the rough edges. Beat-Club 1971 live set, unedited. kzitem.info/news/bejne/yqOQu6WhiZ6GlIY
@jftowry
3 жыл бұрын
@@lynnerapping7725 love me some Bonnie Raitt!
@mikeharris3733
3 жыл бұрын
You've done the lead singer as a solo act. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street. The guitar with the bottle is called the "slide guitar" technique. You've heard it before, just may have never seen it. It's not usually executed with a bottle, but to each his own.
@desichambers7556
3 жыл бұрын
The guy singing in the video isn't actually the voice on the recording. Gerry Rafferty was the singer but left and went solo before this video was made. His school friend Joe Egan is the guy in the video.
@kimcutts6153
3 жыл бұрын
That's why I was so shocked that it was Gerry Rafferty! He looked nothing like him when he sang Baker Street. Now I knw why! Thanks for sharing. Xx
@markallen9076
3 жыл бұрын
The bottle is used as a slide instrument over the strings to create a certain sound. Normally, musicians will use a steal rod that fits over their middle finger to create that sound. Using the bottle was very creative
@jojomart
3 жыл бұрын
The band’s best known song is also their finest, the wryly paranoid Stuck In the Middle With You. Rafferty and Egan wrote it after a frustrating meal with label executives who talked across them. Drawing lyrical inspiration from Bob Dylan - notably the clowns and jokers of the chorus - they built a memorable folk-rock masterpiece. With sly delivery and a surging pop beat, the song is full of hooks. The simple instrumentation, mostly acoustic and driven by a cowbell, adds to its charm. Have you reacted to Gerry Rafferty's BAKER STREET? I love that song!
@loriwalter6337
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@sloebone7399
3 жыл бұрын
Rafferty sounds just like Dylan in this song.
@primurph
3 жыл бұрын
And I believe Egan lip syncing Rafferty because Rafferty wasn’t available for the video.
@powoodworker1751
3 жыл бұрын
Rafferty also said in interviews, it was loosely poking fun of Dylans paranoia.
@markkauder1288
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Rafferty had left the band before the video was made.
@islandgreenstrong
3 жыл бұрын
Some really GREAT songs to try. The Moody Blues sing "Nights In White Satin" (Mellow with violins and it has a flute solo) Mouth & MacNeal sing "How Do You Do" (Man's voice is DEEP and gritty and he's totally hippy. Violins and I think harmonica is being played) Looking Glass sings "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" Roberta Flack sings "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Sammy Davis Jr. sings "The Candy Man" Bobby Vinton sings "Sealed With A Kiss" (He's a crooner) Redbone sings "The Witch Queen Of New Orleans" (You've already reacted to Redbone's song "Come And Get Your Love") Alice Cooper sings "School's Out" (Alice Cooper is a man...just in case you didn't know of him) Chicago sings "Saturday In The Park" Harry Nilsson sings "Coconut (Put The Lime In The Coconut)" (FUN song. I taught this song to my son when he was very young. He's 34 now and teaches it to his 4 year old son.) Tommy James sings "Draggin' The Line" David Dundas sings "Jeans On"
@happymethehappyone8300
3 жыл бұрын
The Song Was Written About A Music Industry Cocktail Party They Attended..The Slide Guitar Is Usually Played With A Metal Tube (Called A "Steel") On One Finger,, But Anything Can Be Used If You Like..R.I.P. Gerry 🙏 ❤
@JB-kf2hu
3 жыл бұрын
You know how sometimes you can remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard a particular song? This is one of those. Ahh good times! Thanks for reacting to it. 👍😊
@abelincoln3287
3 жыл бұрын
Jay and Amber. Check out "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter group. "Get Ready" by Rare Earth. Finally "Hocus Pocus by Focus", it will blow your mind, but you just might love it!
@ilikejohnhurt
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta do "Hocus Pocus" by Focus.
@breckrichardson390
3 жыл бұрын
Hocus Pocus . . . OMG yes!
@abelincoln3287
3 жыл бұрын
Especially the Midnight Special version where they perform a 7 minute song in 4 minutes.
@ilikejohnhurt
3 жыл бұрын
Precisely!
@glenngarza1845
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, the lead singer, Jerry Rafferty, later had a big solo hit, Baker Street.
@trenchant2
3 жыл бұрын
Gerry Rafferty sings this. You did Baker Street.
@MrAverageViewer
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, Yes, Yes -- Baker's Street is an absolute classic, with real depth of lyrics.
@kimcutts6153
3 жыл бұрын
I knew I'd heard his voice before. I loved Baker Street back in the day, when I was a teenager. X
@rayj1011
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, she would remember the great sax solo.
@notize8246
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t stop watching Seven Hunnid on KZitem bruhhh😭😭😩
@thrinaxadon
3 жыл бұрын
Its Joe Egan singing this Gerry was a member of the band but not lead vocalist on this song. check out Gerry and Joe singing Star by Stealers wheel.
@stephenscott5718
3 жыл бұрын
The slide guitar is an interesting way to play a guitar, I've seen it done at a few concerts. Jeff Healey is a master of this way of playing. You should definitely check out some Jeff Healey. 😀
@larrycallahan2135
3 жыл бұрын
One more time, Frankenstein by Edgar Winter's group , live version.
@anthonygorman7810
3 жыл бұрын
Blast from the past and still a great tune Boz Scaggs with lowdown is sweet
@BethHutter
3 жыл бұрын
The lead singer, Gerry Rafferty and one of the other members had left the band before the song became a hit. Gerry went on to have a solo career- Baker Street being probably the most famous song. It had another life when Reservoir Dogs came out.
@eugenebentley418
3 жыл бұрын
???? Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan actually recorded two more albums as Stealer Wheel AFTER their debut album which this song came off of.
@raymondbonington9355
3 жыл бұрын
And had 3 top 40 hit singles in the chart in 1973 early 74 , this one plus everything will turn out fine and the last one star sung by Joe Egan .
@OronOfMontreal
3 жыл бұрын
Gerry Rafferty sang lead vocals on this big hit. Later on in the 1970s, he had an international solo hit even bigger, called "Baker Street", which is considered by most people to contain the greatest saxophone solo of all time. The first movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs", makes very memorable use of "Stuck in the Middle with You". You will never ever forget it.
@dagmar.6954
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song. Stealers Wheel was the Scottish folk rock band Gerry Rafferty was in 1972. Later on, he went out on his own & had the big hits "Baker's Street" & "Right Down The Line".
@MusicFan1977
3 жыл бұрын
Get It Right Next Time.
@karenkat1111
3 жыл бұрын
Since they've reacted to Baker Street already, they should definitely do Right Down the Line
@larryx314
6 ай бұрын
The torture scene in reservoir dogs with Michael Madsen,everytime lol
@deelawson4551
3 жыл бұрын
You really need to check out Gerry Rafferty's Right Down The Line(it`s actually one of mine and my husband's songs)..it is a great love song! Keep On Rockin'
@philipbowry9341
2 жыл бұрын
Gerry used to bask with Billy Connolly in the London Underground stations
@CraigMcKee
3 жыл бұрын
This is Gerry Rafferty on vocals, who you heard doing Baker Street. But that is not Rafferty in the video because he had left the group before they shot it.
@primurph
3 жыл бұрын
Egan doing the lip syncing.
@teresagorden5984
3 жыл бұрын
When they use a lap steel guitar (played on lap) they use a glass or usually smooth metal tube, on or in their fingers to slide up and down the strings. Lots of bands do this including Pink Floyd David Gilmour on Great Gig and more it is basic like guitar played on you're lap or on a stand
@rhondavelasquez5521
3 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorite songs ♥️ I’m a singer and I sing this all the time thank you for doing this video ♥️♥️
@charlenewebb5893
3 жыл бұрын
Your Going To Like This One Party On !
@cyndisanimaladventures6370
3 жыл бұрын
I would really like to recommend for Female Friday Shelly Fabre, Connie Francis, Doris Day, Brenda Lee, Dionne Warwick (Say a Little Prayer for Me is my favorite) and Rosemary Clooney (George Clooney's Aunt). They are some of the greatest female singers of the 50's and 60's.
@louiseeiffel1014
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I also think they'd like Fever by Peggy Lee. And though The Fifth Dimension is a group, Marilyn McCoo usually (always?) sang the lead. Amber would like Aquarius if she wants to hear hippy music.
@Pauba1946
3 жыл бұрын
Outstanding suggestions!!!
@monikabeki6838
3 жыл бұрын
This song is played in one of the best/absurdest film scenes ever: Quentin Tarantino’s reservoir dogs! In this scene Michael Madson is cuttin the ear off of some dude! When you saw the movie and this scene you will never think of anything else but madson dancing around this tied up guy, cutting … 😉
@jamesgalimo1007
3 жыл бұрын
As much as I love this song, it's impossible for me to listen to it without thinking of "that" scene in Reservoir Dogs.
@RicoBurghFan
3 жыл бұрын
One of the iconic pop songs of the 70s. The dude in the video is Joe Egan, not the lead on this. That would be the great Gerry Rafferty of Baker Street fame who left the band before the video was recorded. Still awesome and cool 😃
@ericmorgan204
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Love Gerry Rafferty, one day someone is gonna react to his song “Get it Right next time”, one of the coolest vibe tunes ever, particularly if you like sax. Imo That bottle trick, turns an ordinary guitar into an Electric Peddle Steel guitar sound. This trick is often achieved with a steel tube on the players finger. I’m not aware of any other hits by Stealers Wheel, but Gerry Rafferty went solo, and omg, he is such a talented musician. Please react to more of him.
@joejohnson1428
3 жыл бұрын
Have you guys done "Long cool woman in a black dress" by the Hollies its got a different vibe
@jeffdetmer4681
3 жыл бұрын
The lead vocal is actually Gerry Rafferty (who you guys have reacted to). He and friend and harmony singer Joe Egan started the band in Scotland, and cowrote this song. I am sure you guys have seen or heard people play slide guitar. They usually wear a tube (could be glass, plastic or metal) on one finger of their hand and slide it up and down the strings (much like the way a steel guitar player plays). Back in the day some guitar players realized they could get the same effect from a bottle. Lord knows there were always plenty of empty beer bottles around. So loving taking this trip with y'all. Remembering so much great music and hearing stuff I haven't heard in a long time. Thank You Thank You!!!
@jeanfrancis8121
3 жыл бұрын
I saw a photo of Bonnie Raitt, where you can see clearly that she's using a bottle neck slide.
@brettkliethermes8722
3 жыл бұрын
Great song great little dance and torture scene from the movie Reservoir Dogs....
@johnmccarthy-behindtheveil
3 жыл бұрын
This was a sleeper of a song in the 70's, but got a very big revive when it was featured in the movie, "Reservoir Dogs"
@susangrimes6451
3 жыл бұрын
It was on the radio all the time in the chicagoland area in the 70s .
@marytschida5756
3 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a sleeper song! It was a big hit!
@johnmccarthy7158
3 жыл бұрын
@@marytschida5756 No, it wasnt a big hit. Dont think it broke the top 40 charts at all. It was revised because of the movie. Didnt say I never heard of it before movie. Actually liked it. Think maybe it was more of a hit in different areas. Def not NYC
@marytschida5756
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnmccarthy7158 bull. Never even knew it was a "hit" after some movie!
@stevetanner3019
3 жыл бұрын
You heard Gerry Rafferty (lead singer) before when you loved the song “Baker Street” ( lots of Sax)
@billwieland8497
3 жыл бұрын
Suggestions: Christopher Cross - ‘Sailing,’ Kayne Brown - ‘Worship You,’ Kool and The Gang - ‘Celebration,’ Luther Vandross - ‘Dance With My Father,’ and last but not least ... Roberta Flack - ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.’
@tao4mike
3 жыл бұрын
Yes to Roberta!
@billwieland8497
3 жыл бұрын
@@tao4mike Thank you!
@bethshadid2087
3 жыл бұрын
Or Roberta's "Killing Me Softly"
@mauri6137
3 жыл бұрын
A timeless classic... 😎 Lead singer Gerry Rafferty did a solo song called.. Baker Street... which is another absolute timeless classic
@dustinsdesertheirloomgarde5999
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song. Such a a good one. It was in the Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs too.
@mztweety1374
3 жыл бұрын
That boy sure can put together a soundtrack I tell you what
@tequila_mockingbird547
3 жыл бұрын
He has the best songs in his movies. Things I’ve never heard, but once I did I had to download them. The Brothers Johnson, Bobby Womack, Joe Tex and others.
@mztweety1374
3 жыл бұрын
@@tequila_mockingbird547 same. I bought the pulp fiction soundtrack as soon as I saw the movie 🎥
@dustinsdesertheirloomgarde5999
3 жыл бұрын
@@tequila_mockingbird547 The same thing happened when I watched Baby Driver. I was like, man I need this soundtrack!
@Tuesdays_Gone
3 жыл бұрын
Jerry Raffery sings, and he had a good solo career. The guitarist is playing the slide guitar using a bottle, and he’s playing it kind of like a steel guitar. My brother used an old prescription bottle when he played slide, but never across his knees.
@donaldjohnson1148
3 жыл бұрын
THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!! I love this song and I don't know why. Stealers Wheel isn't even one of my top 5 favorite bands but this song is just so awesome. Then there is the genius use of the song in the film Reservoir Dogs.
@love-vy1ry
3 жыл бұрын
Late Again... and Star are 2 other singles from this band/duo.
@rileyandmike
3 жыл бұрын
The bottle just becomes a slide, like Eddie Van Halen’s drill
@edh3709
3 жыл бұрын
Reservoir Dogs! A must see. Then this song will be stuck in your head forever!
@bwilliams463
3 жыл бұрын
Can't overlook the bass on this one; that's a groove and a HALF.
@janabraam7963
3 жыл бұрын
To get different sounds on the strings, a lot use a metal tube. Just big enough to put your finger in.
@kimcutts6153
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great song choice guys. Love his voice.
@boxerpaws55
3 жыл бұрын
Bob Seger kkkk KATMANDU like the horns. this has got em. a banger!
@FirstSuiGeneris
3 жыл бұрын
I’m sitting here at a lake, and singing this song while watching y’all action to this song! 🤙🏻
@BrixtonTone
3 жыл бұрын
Love the random stuff the Rod Squad come up with ! , If i can throw something they may not know (?) into their mix machine, Boomtown Rats (Rat trap) and Robert Palmer (addicted to love)
@joelilley6603
3 жыл бұрын
Great song and great reaction. Hey you might give this guy a reaction. He holds a Guinness World Record. He had 5 hit songs with 5 different bands during the 70s. He was a 5 time 'one hit wonder'. His name is Tony Burrows and this band is called First Class, and the song is Beach Baby. It's just like it implies, a Beach Boys type, fun in the sun and the surf song, that was a smash hit. Please react to it. Folks will love it. @ He also sang lead on "Love grows where my Rosemary goes" by Edison lighthouse; "My baby loves lovin" by White Plains; "United we stand, divided we fall" by Brotherhood of Man; and "Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins.
@richg0404
2 жыл бұрын
Tony Burrows is one of my favorite music trivia subjects
@Dudlow
3 жыл бұрын
There's a whole genre called bottleneck blues, also known as slide guitar. Check masters like Son House ('Death Letter Blues'), or Bob Brozman ('Highway 49 Blues'), or Muddy Waters ('Honey Bee'), and for an unforgettable magic out-of-world experience, listen to Blind Willie Johnson playing bottleneck on his song 'Dark Is The Night' from 1927.
@panrider6018
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the Humblebums, a band before Stealers Wheel, with Jerry Rafferty, and Comedian Billy Connolly, who also played Dain, in The Hobbit, Battle of the five armies.
@raye402
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely -. Shoeshine Boy.
@panrider6018
3 жыл бұрын
@@raye402 Steamboat Row, love it.
@tallmn1957
Жыл бұрын
Others by now have told you that the singer is Gerry Rafferty who came into his own some ten years later with Backer Street. The more you find out about these artist the more you realize what a small world the rock & roll world is. Almost incestuous at time.
@laurenhuntsinger9170
3 жыл бұрын
Fabulous, it has been a few decades since I heard this song.
@Tangerine10.
3 жыл бұрын
You would love the band Primal scream and the song Rocks.
@cmnslcf
3 жыл бұрын
This song gained a whole new popularity after it was featured in "Reservoir Dogs" - the scene is classic.
@steviemccormick3762
3 жыл бұрын
You reacted to Baker Street earlier, Gerry Rafferty is the lead singer for Stealers Wheel.
@NativeNYerChicHK
3 жыл бұрын
Just a fun song! Reminds me of my youth, hanging out in neighborhood dive bars with my best friends and all the other people I grew up with ♥️
@wlg2367
3 жыл бұрын
I think that is Jerry Rafferty who's greater fame came later as an independent with hits like Baker Street and Right Down the Line!
@adamdonovan4071
3 жыл бұрын
When I think of a song that made a movie scene, I think of this song in Reservoir Dogs. What an EPIC scene!
@quinny6920
3 жыл бұрын
Omg yes yes
@Eddie_Booth
3 жыл бұрын
👂🏻
@adamdonovan4071
3 жыл бұрын
@@Eddie_Booth I hear you there😉
@jacqueline4514
3 жыл бұрын
Horrific! And perfect.
@CCDzine
3 жыл бұрын
That pedal steel guitar, the one being played with a bottle, is derived from the lap steel guitar, which was invented in Hawaii in the early 1800s, when Hawaii was still a sovereign kingdom.
@ANNEAVES
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song. I love watching you guys. I can see your genuine love of the older music. I was in grade school when Elvis came out so I've lived through it all. I feel lucky to have been there for all of it but I'm 73 and you guys are young. Haha. Keep up the good work
@LibertyLensOfficial
3 жыл бұрын
reminds me of that unforgettable reservoir dogs scene
@elisaabolafia9542
2 жыл бұрын
What a flashback to summer in NYC when this fun jam 🎵🎵🎵 first came out.....blew up the RADIO . They played it all the time. Upbeat & catchy groove.
@geraldbryden6720
2 жыл бұрын
hard to hear this song anymore without thinking of it's use in "Reservoir Dogs".
@StevesFunhouse
3 жыл бұрын
So his voice sounded ,"Can't put my finger on it" ... how about "familiar", since you DID do a reaction to Jerry Rafferty's (the lead singer here) "Baker Street". However, although you are hearing Jerry Rafferty's lead vocals on the track and in the video, what you are seeing is actually the co-author, Joe Egan (who actually did the background vocals to the track) lip-syncing to Jerry's singing because, Jerry had already left the band by the time they did the video. It took me years to understand why he looked so different from the man who sang Baker Street and Right Down The Line (a beautiful song that I devoted to my first wife). C'mon, I only had 2 wives, and I obviously think it was ME who gave the 1st one, much too much credit 😂😒😉. Oh, and, another fun fact ... Billy Connolly, the famous Scottish stand-up comedian was once in a band with Jerry called The Humblebums . As it turned out, Jerry was getting more serious in music, and Billy was starting to add more "in-between-song" jokes in their live performances, so they eventually parted ways.
@1989NickyD
3 жыл бұрын
Gerry*
@StevesFunhouse
3 жыл бұрын
@@1989NickyD OMG, I just wasn't thinking, as Jerry is the usual spelling. Thanx for the correction. What did you think about the post though ??? That's the important thing here (since you read it).
@garyburley1960
3 жыл бұрын
you have heard his voice, Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
@batigo211
2 жыл бұрын
Although this song is old, it was immortalized when Mr. Blonde played it while sadically dancing while cutting off a policeman's head at Reservoir Dogs. A Tarantino masterpiece
@desiderious1
3 жыл бұрын
You asked who the lead singer was in this group and you actually reacted to him as a solo artist. It is Gerry Rafferty who sang Baker Street. Of note : Another member of Stealers Wheel, Walter Eagan about the same time Gerry Rafferty released Baker Street also had a big U.S. hit titled Magnet and Steel. I think you would enjoy reacting to this song too. Keep up the great reaction videos and thank you for making our days a bit brighter.
@adamdonovan4071
3 жыл бұрын
The bottle is used as a slide, it ensures all strings are contacted all the way down.
@joeryan7024
Жыл бұрын
Chicago Joe here...This should be the theme song For Election Day! 😜🤪😝🙈🙉🙊
@davescheiber5148
2 жыл бұрын
Arguably the greatest one hit wonder tune of all time.
@sabrinaevans8746
8 ай бұрын
One hit? Baker street and many others
@IisDeeps
3 жыл бұрын
Steel guitar with a bottle used as a slide
@rubeno.2013
3 жыл бұрын
Since you're doing old ass songs try listening to Sailing by Christopher Cross
@dks6714
3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs ever!! When are you gonna react to more CHICAGO??
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