| "Right Down the Line" | ||||
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| Single by Gerry Rafferty | ||||
| from the album City to City | ||||
| B-side | "Waiting for the Day" | |||
| Released | 27 July 1978 (US) 22 September 1978 (UK)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1977, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK | |||
| Genre | Soft rock, reggae rock[2] | |||
| Length | 4:28 (album version) 3:33 (single version) | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Producer(s) | Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty | |||
| Gerry Rafferty singles chronology | ||||
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"Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in the US in July 1978, it was the follow-up to his first major hit as a solo artist, "Baker Street", and reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100,[3] No. 8 on Cash Box[4] and No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts.[5]
In Canada, the song reached No. 5 on both the Pop singles and Adult Contemporary charts.
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 63.
- ^ Fuentes, Catherine (7 February 2012). "Exclusive Premiere: Bonnie Raitt's Reggae-Inspired 'Right Down the Line'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
hot100was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Cash Box Top 100 10/28/78". Tropicalglen.com. 28 October 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard.