Night Owl (album)



Night Owl is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in the U.S. and platinum in Canada and gold in the United Kingdom. The title song reached No. 5 on the UK charts. The album made the UK Top 10.

The album was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, England.

Re-releases
On 30 January 2007 Collectables Records released City To City and Night Owl as a two-disc set.

Personnel

 * Gerry Rafferty – vocals, acoustic guitar (A3,A4,A5,B1,B2,B3,B5), synthesizer (A2), piano (A2,B4), string arrangements
 * Richard Brunton - electric guitar (A1,A3,B1,B2), acoustic guitar (A3,A4,B2,B3,B4,B5), lap steel guitar (A4,B5)
 * Hugh Burns – electric guitar (A1,A2,A4,A5,B4,B5)
 * Betsy Cook – background vocals (A1,A3)
 * Barbara Dickson – background vocals (A1,A3,B2)
 * Tommy Eyre – synthesizer (A5), piano (A3), electric piano (A5)
 * Mo Foster – bass guitar (A1,A2,A4,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5)
 * Liam Genockey – drums (all tracks)
 * Richard Harvey – pipe organ (B2), synthesiser (B3,B4), recorder (B2), penny whistle (B1)
 * John Kirkpatrick – accordion (A4,B1,B2)
 * Graham Preskett – fiddle (B1,B2), mandolin (B5), piano (A1,A4,B5), electric piano (A2), synthesizer (A2), keyboards (B1,B2), string arrangements, score & conduction
 * Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone (A5,B1,B4,B5), lyricon (A2)
 * Frank Ricotti – percussion (A1,A2,A3,A5,B1,B3,B4,B5)
 * Linda Thompson – background vocals (A1,A3)
 * Richard Thompson – electric guitar (B2,B3), mandolin (A4)
 * Pete Wingfield – organ (A1,A2,A3)
 * Gary Taylor – bass guitar (A3,A5)
 * Gavin Wright - string leader


 * Technical
 * Barry Hammond, Nick Patrick - engineer
 * Patrick (John Byrne) – front cover painting

Charts
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