Right Down the Line

"Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in mid-1978, it reached #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100[1] and #8 on Cash Box.[2] 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"
Single by Gerry Rafferty
from the album City to City
B-side"Waiting for the Day"
ReleasedAugust 1978
Recorded1977, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, UK
GenreSoft rock
Length3:33
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" was a bigger adult contemporary hit, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at number one in the U.S.[3] In Canada, the song reached number five on both the pop singles and adult contemporary charts.

Chart performance

Cover versions

References
  1. "Billboard > Artists / Gerry Rafferty > Chart History > The Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  2. "Cash Box Top 100 10/28/78". Tropicalglen.com. 28 October 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  3. "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard.
  4. 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.
  5. Tsort. "Song artist 809 - Gerry Rafferty".
  6. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". Bac-lac.gc.ca.
  7. "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  9. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  10. "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1978". Tropicalglen.com. 30 December 1978. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  11. "Bonnie Raitt - Chart History - Adult Alternative Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
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