Night Owl (album) explained

Night Owl
Type:Studio Album
Artist:Gerry Rafferty
Cover:Night Owl (album).jpg
Released:May 1979 (UK) / June 1979 (US/Canada)
Recorded:1978–1979
Studio:Chipping Norton Recording Studios,
Lansdowne Recording Studios
Genre:Pop rock
Length:54:42
Label:United Artists
Producer:Hugh Murphy, Gerry Rafferty
Prev Title:City to City
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:Snakes and Ladders
Next Year:1980

Night Owl is the third studio album by Scottish musician Gerry Rafferty.[1] 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 platinum status in Canada, gold in the United Kingdom, and gold status in the U.S. 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.

"Take the Money and Run" appears on the 1980 release Free Fall as "Take the Money."

Re-releases

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

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times called the songs "concise, wry tales of love and ambition, inventively arranged and sung in a dry whine that carries just the right amount of detachment."[2]

Personnel

Production

Charts

Album

Chart (1979)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 18
Billboard Pop Albums29
Single
YearSongChartPosition
1979"Night Owl"UK Top 405
1979"Night Owl"Ireland5
1979"Days Gone Down (Still Got the Light in Your Eyes)"U.S. Billboard Pop Singles17
1979"Days Gone Down (Still Got the Light in Your Eyes)"Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[4] 8
1979"Days Gone Down (Still Got the Light in Your Eyes)"Canada RPM Top Singles[5] 19
1979"Days Gone Down (Still Got the Light in Your Eyes)"U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary17
1979"Get It Right Next Time"U.S. Billboard Pop Singles21
1979"Get It Right Next Time"U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary15
1979"Get It Right Next Time"UK Top 4030
1979"Get It Right Next Time"Ireland2
1979"Get It Right Next Time"Canada RPM Top Singles[6] 52

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gerry Rafferty Biography by Timothy Monger . AllMusic . 16 January 2024.
  2. News: Pond . Steve . Wry Tales of Love . Los Angeles Times . 15 Jul 1979 . Calendar . 97.
  3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 244.
  4. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4416&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4416.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4416 RPM Adult Contemporary, 11 August 1979
  5. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4534a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4534a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4534a RPM Top Singles, 4 August 1979
  6. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.9456b&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.9456b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.9456b RPM Top Singles, 17 November 1979