1980 Boz Scaggs – Breakdown Dead Ahead (US:#15)
“Breakdown Dead Ahead” is a 1980 song recorded by Boz Scaggs, and composed by Scaggs and David Foster. It was the lead single of two released from Scaggs’ album Middle Man.
During May, the song reached number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song was a bigger hit in Canada, where it spent two weeks at number eight on the Pop chart.
Album
Middle Man is the ninth album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs re-hired the members of the band Toto as session musicians, and shared song-writing credits with them. He re-embraced the commercial rock appeal of Silk Degrees. The album reached #8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached […]
Musicians
| Bass | David Hungate |
| Drums | Rick Marotta |
| Guitar (solo) | Steve Lukather |
| Guitar | Ray Parker Jr |
| Keyboards | David Foster |
| Piano | Don Grolnick |
| Background Vocals | Venetta Fields |
| Background Vocals | Paulette Brown |
| Background Vocals | Bili Thedford |
| Vocals | Boz Scaggs |
Produced By
Bill Schnee
Songwriters
Boz Scaggs
Bill Schnee
Charts
US: #15
UK: –