“Lowdown” is successful tune initially recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs for his mainstream-breakthrough album, Silk Levels. The tune was co-written by Scaggs and David Paich. Paich, together with fellow “Lowdown” session musicians David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro, would later assist kind the band Toto.
Initially, Silk Levels obtained a lukewarm business response and, equally, the primary single launched from the album, “It’s Over”, barely cracked the highest 40 on Billboard Pop Singles, peaking at #38. Sooner or later, nonetheless, a Cleveland R&B radio DJstarted taking part in “Lowdown” straight off the album; it was a time when DJs had rather more say in what was performed on their applications. Public response was very optimistic and shortly Scaggs’ document label, Columbia, despatched the tune to different R&B-oriented radio stations for airplay.
It broke huge on High 40 stations as effectively, and when it was formally launched as a single, it grew to become Scaggs’s first main hit, reaching #1 on Money Field High 100 and quantity three on Billboard Pop Singles. It was additionally profitable on the R&B and disco charts, peaking at quantity 5 on each. The tune was additionally a significant hit in Canada, peaking at quantity two. It was a minor hit within the UK, topping out at #28.
Scaggs is quoted as saying that the success of “Lowdown” was “an accident” and that, though it was their favourite from Silk Levels, he and the others concerned within the making of the tune thought there “wasn’t an opportunity in hell” that it will be launched as a single. The only was licensed gold by the RIAAfor gross sales of 1 million copies and would go on to win the Grammy Award for Greatest R&B Tune on the nineteenth Annual Grammy Awards. Wiki
