City to City

City to City is a 1978 album and the second studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. It was Rafferty's first solo release in six years — and first release of any kind since 1975 — due to his tenure in the band Stealers Wheel and subsequent legal proceedings which prevented Rafferty from releasing any new solo recordings for the next three years. The album was strongly received, peaking at #1 in the US and going Platinum,[4] as well as reaching #6 in the UK and achieving Gold status. "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Home and Dry" were successfully released as singles. "Baker Street" is widely regarded as Rafferty's signature song and by October 2010 had reached 5 million plays on British radio.

Contents
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 * 1 Track listing
 * 2 Singles
 * 2.1 Baker Street
 * 2.2 Right Down the Line
 * 2.3 Home and Dry
 * 2.4 City to City
 * 2.5 The Ark
 * 2.6 Whatever's Written in Your Heart
 * 3 Personnel
 * 3.1 Additional personnel
 * 4 Charts
 * 5 Certifications
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

Track listing[edit]
All songs written and composed by Gerry Rafferty.

Baker Street[edit]
Main article: Baker Street (song)

United Artists wanted to use "City to City" as the lead single from the album, but Rafferty felt that "Baker Street" would be a better choice and eventually the latter song became the first single in most countries (see "City to City" single release below). Released on 3 February 1978, "Baker Street" became hugely popular, peaking at #3 in the UK Singles Chart and at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song greatly aided its parent album in reaching the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for one week in the summer of 1978. The b-side of "Baker Street" featured "Big Change in the Weather", a rare song that, until the album's reissue in 2011, had yet to appear on any other Rafferty recording.

Right Down the Line[edit]
"Right Down the Line" reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent four non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart in the U.S. in 1978,[5] making this the only Rafferty song to ever reach number one on any US chart.

Home and Dry[edit]
"Home and Dry" was the third single from the album in the United States, but did not have a UK release. It peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking a third consecutive Top 40 hit for Rafferty on that chart. The b-side featured the sixth track from City to City, "Mattie's Rag".

City to City[edit]
The title track had releases in Belgium (1977) and the Netherlands (1978). The b-side featured an extended version of "Mattie's Rag".[6]

The Ark[edit]
"The Ark" was released as a single in the Netherlands and Germany in 1978. The Dutch single featured "Waiting for the Day" as the b-side, while the German single used "Whatever's Written In Your Heart". Both b-sides were from the album, used as the tenth and seventh tracks respectively.[7]

Whatever's Written in Your Heart[edit]
"Whatever's Written In Your Heart" was only released on a-side as a promotional single in the United Kingdom in 1978. "Waiting for the Day" was used as the b-side.[8]

Personnel[edit]

 * Gerry Rafferty – piano, acoustic guitar, vocals, backing vocals
 * Tommy Eyre – piano, electric piano, grand piano, Moog synthesizer, organ, keyboards, brass arrangements
 * Jerry Donahue – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, electric guitar on track 1
 * Hugh Burns – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar on tracks 2-5, 8-10
 * Nigel Jenkins – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, electric guitar on tracks 2, 8
 * Andy Fairweather-Low – rhythm guitar, electric guitar on track 10
 * Micky Moody – acoustic guitar on track 5
 * Brian Cole – steel guitar, dobro on tracks 3-6, 9
 * Gary Taylor – bass, backing vocals on tracks 1-6, 8-10
 * Graham Preskett – fiddle, mandolin, synthesizer, string machine, string, bass, arrangements on tracks 1-2, 4-6, 8, 10
 * Henry Spinetti – drums on tracks 1-6, 8, 10
 * Glen LeFleur - drums, percussion, tambourine on tracks 1-3, 5, 9-10

Additional personnel[edit]

 * Barbara Dickson – backing vocals 1 7
 * Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone 2 9
 * Roger Brown – backing vocals 4
 * Vivian McAuliff – backing vocals 4
 * John McBurnie – backing vocals 4
 * Rab Noakes – backing vocals 4
 * Paul Jones – harmonica 4
 * Hugh Murphy – tambourine 4
 * Willy Ray – accordion 6 9
 * Joanna Carlin – backing vocals 7

Charts[edit]
Album Single