Lido Shuffle

"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album, Silk Degrees. It was subsequently released as a single in 1977.

"Lido Shuffle"
Single by Boz Scaggs
from the album Silk Degrees
B-side"We're All Alone"
ReleasedFebruary 1977 (USA)[1]
15 April 1977 (UK) [2]
RecordedSeptember 1975
GenrePop rock, blue-eyed soul
Length3:40
LabelCBS[3]
Songwriter(s)David Paich, Boz Scaggs[4]
Producer(s)Joe Wissert
Boz Scaggs singles chronology
"What Can I Say"
(1976)		 "Lido Shuffle"
(1977)		 "Hollywood"
(1978)

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"."[5]

Song Structure

"Lido Shuffle", written in the key of G major (as many of Scaggs' other memorable songs), uses the often used I-IV-V chord progression that is foundation of blues, pop, and rock. Unusually, however, it modulates up a minor third to the key of Bb for the chorus.

Lido Shuffle begins with an intro, followed by the first verse, the chorus, second verse, chorus again, a instrumental bridge, and chorus.

Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" include David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate who later formed Toto.[6]

Song Performance

Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached number 11 in the US and 13 on the UK Singles Chart.[7] In Australia the track spent three weeks at number 2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".

Personnel

Chart performance

References
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  5. "Boz Scaggs songwriter interview". SongFacts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
  6. "Silk Degrees album information". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  7. Boz Scaggs Chart History Archived January 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  8. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  10. Flavour of New Zealand, 19 June 1977
  11. "Old-Charts". Old-Charts. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  12. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  13. "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending May 7, 1977". Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 2018-05-05.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Cash Box magazine.
  14. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  15. "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  16. "Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. December 31, 1977. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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