"Lido Shuffle" | ||||
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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 | |||
Genre | Pop rock, blue-eyed soul | |||
Length | 3:40 | |||
Label | CBS[3] | |||
Songwriter(s) | David Paich, Boz Scaggs[4] | |||
Producer(s) | Joe Wissert | |||
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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 Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees.[5] It was subsequently released as a single in 1977 and was produced by Joe Wissert.[6]
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]
"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.
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]
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