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Thank-you, Mark for posting this. It's from a much better time. Better music, too.

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How did you not hear that before? Shocker. It's awesome - haven't heard in decades. Thank you! Does a wounded soul good. Best to you.

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Oh, it takes me back! I was just in grade school, but it would play over the speakers at the pool I would go to during the summer....yes, does a wounded soul good. Very well said. Simpler times. Fond memories.

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The late great Gerry Rafferty - the first cassette I ever bought when I was a poor student in Glasgow, his home city I believe.☘️

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Damn, he's dead?

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Yes, he succumbed to alcoholism.

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Ahh, were you as poor as a lad from Kilbarchan?

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It's like Wallensky is singing this to me right now. I am suffused with warmth knowing the CDC loves and cares for me

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😅😅😅

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Hahahahahahahaha hahahhahaha Hahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahaha hahahhahaha hahahhahaha Hahahahahahahaha hahahhahaha

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Kellianne, Steve, you have impeccable taste. Such that I had to like my own comment upon further examination

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I grew up with it too. Even have one of his

Records. His best song “is stuck in the

Middle with You”

FYI

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"Stuck in the Middle" came out earlier, right? Because that one I do remember.

But I wasn't listening to pop radio by 1978....

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Steeler's Wheel, the tune was about Bob Dylan if I remember correctly.

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Yes earlier you can tell by the video

He looks much younger then

Cant say the year tho will look

Up for fun

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Jul 23, 2022Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Better than Kneel Young.

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Agreed. Great music, I saw Kneel with CSN and solo on ‘Rust Never Sleeps’. But at this point, to quote the immortal Lynrd Skynrd, “ I hope Kneel Young will remember, Southern Man don’t need him around, anyhow.”

But I hear you that he made some great songs.

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Seriously!!!😆🤣 Sr. are you in this planet 🌎 😬 just kidding 😉❤️love this song 👍 thanks 🙏

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Well, in 1978, I was into Elvis Costello, Blondie, the Sex Pistols. Not listening to pop radio....

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I was into all those bands, too, but likely because I listened to the radio a lot, FM mind you, this song played, and played a lot. Sometimes it happens, though, we miss a hit. But now you found it! :)

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My buddy sends me songs that I never heard either…. Sometimes you

Just tend to like what ya like.

I grew up in the 60s 70s there was

All kinds of music playing and great

Time to be alive.,

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Ohhhh ok. Wow! It was all over the radio

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That explains that 🙃

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I was born in 76 and somehow I grown up listening little bit of everything 😬 my mom & aunt listened to music that I didn’t know the singer or bands 🤣👍

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Ok, MCM, you are excused from not knowing the song.

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Excuses, excuses. Typical behavior of a 1970's Punk Rock head. Oh yeah, speaking of heads, u left out the Talking Heads ... 😎🍺

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I heard it and thought it wss garbage.... But I'm glad it's giving people comfort

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ahhh that explains it. My musical tastes are very eclectic but I've always been more of an R&B girl.

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Yacht rock. Love me some 70's. Also loved the punk

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Yacht Rock?

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Yes! Look it up on utube or spotify, Pandora.

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Always loved this song!

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I inherited a bunch of albums from my uncle and sister (who is eight years older than me) over the years - hundreds. One of them is Rafferty's 'City to City' and so I know this song. I remember recording it on a cassette tape from my turn table. He had such a smooth, soothing guitar sound. Awesome stuff.

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I too have Gerry’s album.....wonderful stuff!

P.

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Songs like this are why those like Nirvana existed:

https://youtu.be/hEMm7gxBYSc

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Several good songs on that album.

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Love it! ♥️

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I’d like to share my own labor of love... I am separated from my husband - not because we broke up - but because I had to move into my mother’s home in another state to care for her after she had a debilitating heart attack. The last few years have been filled with mishap and grief (as you have all experienced). I wrote this song for my husband just before the world turned upside down. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGepZUucDxY I miss him and this song post by Mark prompted me to share... take care everyone. Keep speaking the Truth!

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It is on the "City to City" album with "Baker Street," which has one of the top 3 saxophone solos I've ever heard. He also did the song "Stuck in the Middle With You" with his band Stealers Wheel.

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Thanks for sharing, Mark! I love Gerry Rafferty. I enjoyed punk at the time too, but even in the late 70s, soft rock could be generous and thoughtful. Did you ever listen to Al Stewart? I mean, really listen?

https://youtu.be/w2Eey8lnbmc

Keep up the great work!

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Thank you!!

The 70s..... Anaheim Convention Center. Saw Traffic - Stevie Winwood. Wish I'd also seen Blind Faith. Lord don't we need it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBoYPNhSQO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98XqT4kBWT4

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