Night Owl (song)

"Night Owl"
Single by Gerry Rafferty
from the album Night Owl
B-side	"Why Won't You Talk To Me"
Released	1979
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	1978-1979
Genre	Rock
Length	4:24 (7" single edit) 6:09 (12"/album version)
Label	United Artists
Writer(s)	Gerry Rafferty
Producer	Gerry Rafferty Hugh Murphy
Gerry Rafferty singles chronology
"Whatever's Written In Your Heart" (1978) "Night Owl" (1979) "Days Gone Down" (1979)

Night Owl is a song by Gerry Rafferty. It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. The song made the Top 5 in the UK and along with "Baker Street" is one of two solo efforts by Gerry Rafferty to accomplish this feat.

Though the single was a Top 5 hit for Rafferty in his native Untied Kingdom, "Night Owl" was never released in this format in North America, at a time when interest in Rafferty was at its peak after the tremendous success of his single "Baker Street" and album City to City a year earlier. In the US, "Days Gone Down" was used as the lead single from Night Owl instead.

The b-side on the original "Night Owl" single was the fourth track from the same album, "Why Won't You Talk To Me".^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.discogs.com/Gerry-Rafferty-Night-Owl/master/187262