1977 Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle (US: #11 UK: #13)

“Lido Shuffle“ is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album, Silk Degrees.

Scaggs recalled: “‘Lido [Shuffle]’ was a song that I’d been banging around. I…took the idea of the shuffle [from] a song that Fats Domino did called ‘The Fat Man’ that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind of singing along with it. Then I showed it to Paich and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being ‘Lido Shuffle’.”

Members of the backup band on “Lido Shuffle” – including David Paich – later formed Toto.

Released as the album’s fourth single, “Lido Shuffle” reached #11 US and #13 in the UK Singles Chart. In Australia the track spent three weeks at #2 as a double A-side hit with “What Can I Say”.

Album

Silk Degrees is the seventh album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1976. The album peaked at #2 and spent 115 weeks on the Billboard 200. It has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and remains Scaggs’s best selling album. Silk Degrees spawned four singles, of which “It’s Over”, “Lowdown”, and […]

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Musicians

Bass	David Hungate
Drums	Jeffrey Porcaro
Guitar	Fred Tackett
Guitar	Louie Shelton
Keyboards	David Paich
Vocals	Boz Scaggs

Produced By

Joe Wissert

Songwriters

Boz Scaggs
David Paich

Charts

US: #11
UK: #13