| "Lido Shuffle" | ||||
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| A US vinyl reissue | ||||
| Single by Boz Scaggs | ||||
| from the album Silk Degrees | ||||
| B-side | "We're All Alone" | |||
| Released | February 1977 (USA) [1] 15 April 1977 (UK) [2] | |||
| Recorded | September 1975 | |||
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| Length | 3:40 | |||
| Label | CBS [4] | |||
| Songwriters | David Paich, Boz Scaggs [5] | |||
| Producer | Joe Wissert | |||
| Boz Scaggs singles chronology | ||||
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| "Lido Shuffle" on YouTube | ||||
"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 album Silk Degrees . [6] It was released as a single in 1977 and was produced by Joe Wissert. [7]
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.'" [8]
Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" include David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate, who later formed Toto. [9]
Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached number 11 in the US and 13 on the UK Singles Chart. [10] 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. [11]
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On [Scagggs'] seventh solo album [Silk Degreees], he hit commercial paydirt with a set of mellifluous R&B, including "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle"...
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