Lido Shuffle

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"Lido Shuffle"
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs.jpg
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
Genre Pop rock, blue-eyed soul
Length3:40
Label CBS [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)
Official audio
"Lido Shuffle" on YouTube

"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees . [5] It was subsequently released as a single in 1977 and was produced by Joe Wissert. [6]

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Background

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 [David] Paich and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being 'Lido Shuffle.'" [7]

Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" include David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate, who later formed Toto. [8]

Song structure

"Lido Shuffle", is written in the key of G major and later modulates up a minor third to the key of B♭ major for the chorus. After the intro, the song continues with the first verse, the chorus, a second verse, the chorus again, an instrumental bridge, and a final chorus.

Reception

Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached number 11 in the US and 13 on the UK Singles Chart. [9] In Australia the track spent three weeks at number 2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".

The song was adopted by the Philadelphia Eagles to play when cornerback Lito Sheppard would make an interception. [10]

Personnel

Chart performance

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