Night Owl (album)

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Released June 1979 Artist Gerry Rafferty Producer Gerry Rafferty Genre Folk rock		Length 54:42 Release date June 1979 Label United Artists Records

Recorded 1978–1979; Chipping Norton Recording Studios,Lansdowne Recording Studios Night Owl(1979) Snakes and Ladders(1980) Similar Gerry Rafferty albums, Folk rock albums

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Night Owl is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in North America and the United Kingdom. The title song reached No. 5 on the UK charts. The album made the UK Top 10.

The album was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England.

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Re-releases

On 30 January 2007 Collectables Records released Night Owl and City To City as a two-disc set.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gerry Rafferty.

Personnel

Gerry Rafferty – vocals, acoustic guitar, polymoog 2, piano 9

John Kirkpatrick – accordion

Richard Thompson – guitar, mandolin

Barbara Dickson – background vocals

Richard Harvey – organ, synthesiser, recorder, penny whistle

Richard Brunton – guitar

Hugh Burns – guitar

Betsy Cook – background vocals

Tommy Eyre – synthesiser, piano

Liam Genockey – drums

Graham Preskett – violin, fiddle, mandolin, piano

Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone, lyricon

Frank Ricotti – percussion

Linda Thompson – background vocals

Pete Wingfield – organ

Gary Taylor – bass, vocals

Patrick (John Byrne) – Front cover painting

Charts

Album

Single

Songs

1Days Gone Down6:32
2Night Owl6:11
3The Way That You Do It5:09

References

Night Owl (album) Wikipedia

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