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  • Voice like pure velvet:)

  • Thanks's. Searched so long for this.

  • i do believe it was 1978

  • BeGroooy....hummmm... when i was 8 and was living on food stamps and living in Edmonton... this was a song that was amazing to me. Jkalchuk.com. We should pay it forward.

  • In the days before guitar hero I played the shit out of the broom stick to this song. I was the best dog gam broom stick playa from west of the Pecos river

  • I keep wanting to sing ba ba ba boooooey over the saxophone

  • I'm in my late 40s. My kids like this song. Guess I did something right.

  • @5bunnicula Having kids is never be false. It's the most of love that can be shown to the world. Peace

  • Love it! Thanks for sharing!

  • Damn, I can remember sitting in my brother's room while he was getting ready for a date in the late 70's, and listening to this song on the FM radio.........

  • Pretty good ole tune

  • OVO JE PO MENI SMJERNICA KAK BI SE TREBALA PRAVITI DOBRA MJUZA

  • One of my all time favorite songs, "brings back great times of groing up in the 70's!

  • This song has been my theme as of late. "Another year and then you'll be happy."

    You can't not be moved by this song, it just speaks to you.

  • Masterpiece.

  • one of THE greatest tunes to date

  • I swear this magnificent man sang in two octaves-at the same time.

  • Fantastic! So nice to hear the extended version and see the clip again. One of my all time favourite songs. Thanks!

  • this song is one of the all time greatest songs. i remember when it came out. it is so sad that he never recognized what a great song this was and drank himself to death.

  • Goose bumps!

    

  • Looks like 10 people got lost on Baker Street...

  • I read somewhere that time travel was impossible due to the overwhelming cost and lack of viable technology, I dispute that, just listen to this song and it's 1979 again.

  • @mendozarick65 I wanna go back,I hate it here....music sucks,cars/trucks are ugly,movies are gay,etc,etc,etc.

  • @88seanster

    You can hear the change in the sax.

  • @mendozarick65 Try 1976, man. I was in bootcamp when this song came out - July 1976 to be exact.

  • @mendozarick65

    Indeed.

  • some guy said he hated this song. so I punched him in the cock!!!!!!!

  • @plantguy666 .

    Good job, he was asking for it

  • Love it,great song!

  • brilliant thanks gerry !

  • his very best no doubt............RIP Gerry

  • Grazie beegrooviee

  • Gerry"s "Baker Street" is one of very few songs that made my A-LIST of the greatest songs of all time. Gerry on your passing I hope you found your 'baker street' RIP.

  • it sounds Spanish/Mexican at the start like going into a bullfight. Later, it sounds like Barrio music in L.A. love the conga sound!

  • could that be Jim Bakker St., down at PTL?

  • Great memories of Dad and I cruising to this song back in the late 70's/early 80's.

  • That sax solo...

  • Chills on my spine, feel so damn alive, like a rolin' stone !

  • BBC Radio 4 has produced an awesome audio documentary on how Baker Street came to be, Gerry Rafferty's life, and the inspiration for the song's 'rolling stone.' Google search: Radio 4 Rafferty Soul Music Baker Street.

  • 8 natzis stumbled in here.

  • 70's ROCKED!

  • Blast from the past! I loved this song. Gerry Rafferty passed January 4, 2011.

  • @Monelleification What did Gerry Rafferty dies of?

  • @starlost1957 Sadly, he was a very bad alcoholic, which ultimately led to his death.

  • @shootersteve WRONG. A very GOOD alcoholic RIP Gerry your music will never die.

  • I was so happy my daughter took up sax because of this!!

  • @tamilapp Simpson's Cartoon?

  • Sax solo is so sexy! instead of being a 90's baby, I shoulda been living in the 70' s(: lol awesome song.

  • Timeless Tune!!! But How Could You Not Show One Of The Greatest Guitar Solos In History?

  • @BronzebackJack He did, unfortunately it's placed at around 4:20 during the 2nd sax solo if you look closely.

  • who would have thought a boy from Scotland could put this stuff out there for the world?Fantastic!

  • @nomiclas Oh I am so proud of my heritage....... :)

  • @609Blondebomb why wouldn't you be lass?!strong people and survevalist.my heritage is from Mayo Ireland and i'm in the USA.

  • @nomiclas My father's family is from county Down and my maternal grandfather from Halifax. May your day be blessed. :)

  • i love sax because of this song ... ;]

  • Great quality clip but....did you really need to show a still over the best part of the video...the lead break!

  • I never heard the long version,just the 45 version,so,this is a real treat for me! THANX!

  • i love the sax and bongos...and by the way...the foo fighters version SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Excellent job man. Enjoyed thoroughly.

  • This song is a trip back in time for me. It is a classic and may that never change.

  • ESTE ROLON ME PASA UN BUEN...A ESO DE LAS DOS A.M. A TODO VOLUMEN, ENTRE SEMANA Y UNA LADRADERA DE PERROS...QUE CHINGONA....

    

  • That sax solo! It should be used on all royal occasions instead of the bugle stuff.

  • fap fap fap

  • the perfect track to any occasion ........

  • love it love it

  • This is a very strongly composed song. If you listen

  • Loudest version on Youtube THUS Best version of Youtube

  • Even my dog loves this tune.

  • Still one of the most amazing songs ever made!

  • A perfect classic.

  • I do think about everything and this song makes me think about everything. It get's the tingles running down my back.

  • This song was on high rotation on my local AM radio station when I was a lad..thay still play it. It reminds me of home & the 70's. A great feel good tune, sax bite & windwood works so well with the guitar solo.. imbedded in my soul 4 life..RIP, G.R.

  • Yeah, its amazing the way all the instruments and Gerry Raffety's voice just blend so beautifully, like it was meant to be together. I just love it!

  • I love it when Maggie (Bart Simpson's young sister) plays the sax solo part of this song at her music class at school (episode).

    XD XD XD

  • @Pepiniuxx Lisa?

  • The Sax was good for me, how about you? ;D

  • I played the shit out of that. I didn't know why, it wasn't my usual style. I've since figured out it's because every single note of the instruments and vocals were placed by God. Never knew what he looked like. I still got it around here somewhere in one of these stacks under a bed somewhere.

  • I was whistling this song at work and could not believe how many other people started to whistle it throughout the day!!! The intro sax part really grabs you.....GREAT SONG!!!!!

  • This song gathers the best sound from the '70s.

    

  • @try2user.....video killed the radio star..."

  • This song takes me back to a mellower time.Two streets to the west of my parents house was Baker St.An elementary school was there.We skateboarded there & played sports. There is no doubt in my mind that the 70's was the best decade for music.So many styles that were overlapping one another.And commercialization had not yet taken over.In my opinion,MTV came along & started a trend that changed the music industry.And not for the better.

  • @try2user RIP Gerry.

  • It's summer 1978 and no small feat that the song stayed at #2 for 6 weeks and the album "City to city" knocked the Saturday Night Fever sound track out of the #1 spot, all under the teeth of the biggest Disco onslaught ever at that time!

  • I swear Gerry was singing about his own life.

  • @chrisa85

    met the guy who wrote the lyrics for this song at a pub in London. He was!

  • I was born in the 90's but i love classics like this! Songs just dont have the same feel these days

  • I have this on vinyl..love it soo very much...used to play sax myself and can never get enough of the laid back style of this song. Enjoy!

  • If you liked this song.. youtube

    IAN THOMAS - Pilot

  • Makes me think of old PI films

  • Londinium

  • prophetic

  • R I P Man!

    

  • Loved this guy since his Humblebums days w/ the Big Yin. We'll no forget ye, Gerry.

  • They don't make them like this anymore.

  • First heard this in Manchester England as a student in summer of '78 I think. Came to US as a camp counselor in NH and loved the country. Now living in PA and this is the first time I am playing the song again in about 30 yrs............wow!

  • I meant "Gerry."

  • I miss the men's hair styles of that time and all I have to do to get my "fix" is look at Jerry Rafferty.

  • Spectacular song! The sax is amazing!

    

  • @gwbarnes Yep. Played by Raphael Ravenscroft.

  • @gwbarnes The amazing part is Rafferty is set for life from that riff, meanwhile the guy who played it never got paid for it.

  • @archer49d

    He's dead

  • @bluemoonrising26 That's right, was recent and still getting used to saying "was" when referring to a lot of musicians I enjoyed.

  • @archer49d

    I know the feeling :(

  • Awesome Song! I was probably 9 or 10 years old when my older brothers and sister would listen to this and other 70's Hits. Reminds me of my childhood.

  • Wow.. what a moving classic... I love it!

  • brill song.never forget the day i 1st heard it....love it

  • c'est de la balle!

  • RIP Gerrry you were a legend

  • Two of the best solos of all time in this one, sax and guitar. Plus dynamite vocal and lyrics.  A favorite of mine since I would hear it blasting from someone's bedroom on my way walking home from school. Beautiful.

  • @kellyadmirer1 ......hey, i have the same feeling about this . Walking home from school ..... and hearing this song from a car passing by or played in someone's bedroom. That was on Aruba, an island in the Caribean.

  • One of my favorites....TY!

  • Very nice version of this great song!

  • awfool

  • was he singing this song about himself? I know the song is Baker Street, but rafferty had a drinking problem and i thought he might be talking about himself, if i am wrong, forgive me

  • The Saxophonist on this track 'Baker Street' is none other than Mr Rapahel Ravenscroft........ I Used to play this song every night while working @ Abu Dhabi in the 70's.........

  • @DiabolicalWarlock - Did you not know, the original video of this song cuts the very guitar solo off. He did not edit the video that way. The fine folks that recorded the video did that. All he did was let you hear the whole song, not the edit.

  • @joemav57 That's right, in the short version it was cut that sax part, what I had to do else? This is the long version and the original video is shorter. Glad that all other to follow.. with a few exceptions.

  • DID YOU KNOW Bob Holness played sax on this song?!

    No?

    Well he did! just ask Stuart Maconie ;-)

  • This got me through a trip to Montreal when I was 13. Loved ever since.

  • Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

    

  • I blew out my speakers in my 84 Ford Pickup listening to this song back in the late 80s...

  • i was 5 when this song came out & liked it ever since :)

  • The saxophone is just out of this world. Gerry Rafferty was quite a talent. May he RIP.

  • ....Now these WERE the GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!

  • Better sound than the other originals. Aside from sync issue,the only other thing would be to remove the text in the bottom right corner.

  • What's the dubstep crap doing in the related vids btw?

  • You're going, you're going home.

  • Up until 4:45, the music is foreplay, at 4:45 it becomes one fabulous orgasm! Hot sax, hot guitar, hot, hot, hot!!! Thanks for the quality sound BeGrooovy!

  • @CatboxDesign og all time? great song but...

  • As an amateur singer, I tried to sing and record today this great song with a good karaoke backing track. Looking for the original song on YouTube to listen carefully how Gerry Rafferty sang this, I found out that it has been exactly one year since he is deceased. What an incredible coincidence! Of course there’s only one who can sing this song the way it should be… With all my respect!

  • I love this song and I play the alto saxophone this is awesome.

  • You did a great job in just presenting this amazing song and video. Great job. Thanks!

  • Thanks, this is one of my all time favourite tunes.

  • Man, I miss the 70s! Great song!

  • @IRONMANHONDO87

    oh how i miss the 70's what a great time in life!

  • @cweber6799 I agree.

  • The sax solo is like a cold steel knife down your spine. but in a good way

  • Oh Gerry,why the hell did you ever stop recording,or am I out of the loop? Great song!!!

  • @loungerenownrecords Gerry Rafferty is no longer with us. He passed away in 2011.

  • This is and always will be my favorite song of all time. The Simpsons made me love this song when I was a little kid. I think it had a lot to do with how much a passionate person I am. That sax fucking grabs your soul and forces you to feel! Beautiful song. Extremely underrated.

  • Una de las canciones de mi vida. Me traslada a momentos mejores, a otra época feliz y sin problemas. Siempre la adoraré.

  • Memories>>>>>

  • I first heard this song on a Pizza Hut in Owensboro Ky in 1978. Didn't speak any English by then, but totally feel in love with the song. Took a very long time to learn the name and who sang. Love to this day. Thanks for uploading. It sure brings back memories....

  • @goncalvespeloya You are obviously a very intelligent guy,just learning English.

    God bless you,man.

    You have a great taste in music too !!

  • @goncalvespeloya

    I was 7 years old.. in an elevator at the holiday inn when i first heard this song!! AWESOME...

    39 years old now and song is in my top 5 fav;s of ALL TIME!!!

  • @WPGinterceptor cool how you remember where you were.

  • @goncalvespeloya Funny thing, i was working in south africa a couple of years ago, a co worker was whistling this tune, when i named that tune he said how did you know so quickly. I said i brought it with me on a CD. it made me feel close to home

  • Wow! Another great old song from my childhood days.

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  • Excellent. Thank you for uploading this video and music of Gerry Rafferty and his wonderful music

  • rip gerry you will always be remembered

  • PS Got to admit I wasn't thrilled when that other band TRIED to copy this song and changing the lyrics a bit...did not appreciate it but then again that's what makes the world go round...cheers and jeers...what can I say

  • just adore this song...thanks for uploading...and love your explanation...asynchronously..­..had to look that one up : ) love it thanks be groovy baby

  • Thanks ever so much for uploading..it all takes me back to the years before and right after I graduated in '81.

  • tqvm

  • Please lets all get together and make this Number One again for his anniversary.