"Right Down the Line"
Single by Gerry Rafferty
from the album City to City
B-side"Waiting for the Day"
Released27 July 1978
Recorded1977, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK
GenreSoft rock, reggae rock[1]
Length4:28 (album version)
3:33 (single version)
LabelUnited 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.

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[14] Silver 200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Cover versions

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References

  1. ^ Fuentes, Catherine (7 February 2012). "Exclusive Premiere: Bonnie Raitt's Reggae-Inspired 'Right Down the Line'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Billboard > Artists / Gerry Rafferty > Chart History > The Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Cash Box Top 100 10/28/78". Tropicalglen.com. 28 October 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Record World - International Best Sellers" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com. Record World. 14 July 1979. p. 61.
  6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 245. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". Bac-lac.gc.ca.
  8. ^ "Gerry Rafferty – Right Down the Line". Top 40 Singles.
  9. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Gerry Rafferty Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  12. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  13. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1978". Tropicalglen.com. 30 December 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  14. ^ "British single certifications – Gerry Rafferty – Right Down the Line". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  15. ^ "Bonnie Raitt - Chart History - Adult Alternative Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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