1977, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK
Genre
Soft rock, reggae rock[1]
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
"Baker Street" (1978)
"Right Down the Line" (1978)
"Home and Dry" (1978)
"Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in July 1978, it reached #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] and #8 on Cash Box.[3] It was the third release from Rafferty's City to City LP as the follow-up to his first major hit as a solo artist, "Baker Street".
"Right Down the Line" was a bigger adult contemporary hit, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at number one in the U.S.[4] In Canada, the song reached number five on both the pop singles and adult contemporary charts.
^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 hot100 was 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.
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