Night Owl (album)
Night Owl is the third 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 platinum status in Canada, gold in the United Kingdom,and gold status in the U.S. 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.
"Take the Money and Run" appears on the 1980 release Free Fall as "Take the Money."
Re-releases
On 30 January 2007 Collectables Records released City To City and Night Owl as a two-disc set.Track listing
Personnel
- Gerry Rafferty – vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, piano, string arrangements
- Richard Brunton - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar
- Hugh Burns – electric guitar
- Betsy Cook – background vocals
- Barbara Dickson – background vocals
- Tommy Eyre – synthesizer, piano, fender rhodes electric piano
- Mo Foster – bass guitar
- Liam Genockey – drums
- Richard Harvey – pipe organ, synthesiser, recorder, penny whistle
- John Kirkpatrick – accordion
- Graham Preskett – fiddle, mandolin, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, keyboards, string arrangements, score & conduction
- Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone, lyricon
- Frank Ricotti – percussion
- Linda Thompson – background vocals
- Richard Thompson – electric guitar, mandolin
- Pete Wingfield – organ
- Gary Taylor – bass guitar
- Gavin Wright - string leader
- Barry Hammond, Nick Patrick - engineer
- Patrick – front cover painting
Charts
| Year | Chart | Position |
| 1979 | Billboard Pop Albums | 29 |
Single
| Year | Song | Chart | Position |
| 1979 | "Night Owl" | UK Top 40 | 5 |
| 1979 | "Night Owl" | Ireland | 5 |
| 1979 | "Days Gone Down " | U.S. Billboard Pop Singles | 17 |
| 1979 | "Days Gone Down " | Canada RPM Adult Contemporary | 8 |
| 1979 | "Days Gone Down " | Canada RPM Top Singles | 19 |
| 1979 | "Days Gone Down " | U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 17 |
| 1979 | "Get It Right Next Time" | U.S. Billboard Pop Singles | 21 |
| 1979 | "Get It Right Next Time" | U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 15 |
| 1979 | "Get It Right Next Time" | UK Top 40 | 30 |
| 1979 | "Get It Right Next Time" | Ireland | 2 |
| 1979 | "Get It Right Next Time" | Canada RPM Top Singles | 52 |