“Lowdown” is a success music initially recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs for his mainstream-breakthrough album, Silk Levels. The music was co-written by Scaggs and David Paich. Paich, together with fellow “Lowdown” session musicians David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro, would later assist type the band Toto.
Initially, Silk Levels acquired a lukewarm industrial 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. Someday, nonetheless, a Cleveland R&B radio DJstarted taking part in “Lowdown” straight off the album; it was a time when DJs had way more say in what was performed on their applications. Public response was very optimistic and shortly Scaggs’ document label, Columbia, despatched the music to different R&B-oriented radio stations for airplay.
It broke massive on High 40 stations as effectively, and when it was formally launched as a single, it turned 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 music 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 music thought there “wasn’t an opportunity in hell” that it might be launched as a single. The one was licensed gold by the RIAAfor gross sales of 1 million copies and would go on to win the Grammy Award for Finest R&B Tune on the nineteenth Annual Grammy Awards. Wiki
