Boz Scaggs

Lido Shuffle

Why what? He was kind of brief but classic for what he did.

He was no Dr John.

I had forgotten about him. His voice got on my nerves. He one time tried to give Amy Sedaris a hickey.

Love him!

Talented, cool.

Great stuff

I love Breakdown Dead Ahead. This live version is great!

No thank you

It’s over, OP

Well, he's no Slim Whitman.

Why Christopher Cross? Why Gary Wright?

Why, for that matter, Bob Welch?

I think OP meant to ask: "Why Morris Albert; just why?"

Not a great singing voice. Yacht rock.

Quintessential late 70s.

JoJo

He lives in Maryland

Exactly R7, one only need to hear lowdown to answer why. R14, yeah he kind of was yacht rock, but yacht rock is pretty good sometimes.

He does not live in Maryland. He was born in Ohio.

Why, oh why, oh why-o? Why did Boz ever leave Ohio?

My mom LOVES him! I accompanied her to one of his concerts. I still can't name a song of his, save for, Lido Shuffle and Love Look What You've Done to Me, which I believe was a pretty big AC hit back in the day.

Whenever I hear a rhapsody about “The Boss” (Springsteen), as an Ohioan I involuntarily and violently blurt out “oh, yeah? How’s about the Boz?!” I can’t tell you how many times this impulse results in my being pelted with garbage.

You're a dumpster queen?

He wrote and was the first to sing this classic sex anthem.

I will love Boz Scaggs forever, if only for "We're All Alone". Brilliant. (Also, I believe he's lived in San Diego for many many years; he sings/sang at a local pub in the Gaslamp District.

Why, Michael Bolton?

He was hot in the 70's, very attractive then.

Well, he's no Leo Sayer, that's for sure.

Why Boz Scaggs? He's awesome.

Silk Degrees is a classic album. Wall-to-wall perfection, no filler.

Miss Sun is awesome. I saw him perform it in concert a few years ago and it was a terrific show.

He was very much my type in the 70's - tall, thin, longish dark hair, blue/green eyes. Unfortunately he could be my grandpa but I can appreciate how he used to look. I love a few songs of his, for me the Silk Degrees album was his best.

There were SO many kinds of pop music in the 70s This would be considered easy listening and would be played on stations called Lite FM or whatever. In Detroit we had WNIC. Box would be played alongside the Eagles, Steely Dan, Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt..,.People listened to radio a lot and most of it was music stations.

Well he sure as hell was no Norman Greenbaum.

I agree, R12

Love my Boz. Get lost, OP.

Baby's into runnin' round Hangin' with the crowd Putting your business in the street Talkin' out loud Sayin' you bought her this and that And how much you done spent I swear she must believe It's all heaven sent Hey boy You better bring the chick around To the sad sad truth The dirty lowdown

Playful, sexy songs.

he also wrote Near You which Gayle McCormick covered on her Flesh & Blood album

he wrote Harbour Lights which is gorgeous

He's not a bad opening act.

Somebody posted on the JoJo video that he was sleeping with the black female back up singer. Maybe why he and his wife called it quits.

NOW a warning?

R41 Agreed

OP posting from a time and place where even 1% of the population knew or had heard of Boz Scaggs.

That "Silk Degrees" album was a big seller and both "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle" were radio hits.

Who was the back up singer? Clydie King?

Boz was no MTV star, that's for sure.

Y'all sure love your ELEVATOR MUSIC!

Dirty low down

... monkey with a wig on.

He has a song on the Two Of A Kind soundtrack called The Perfect One. That and Lido Shuffle are my favorites.

r49 I think you meant to post that in the tRUmp thread

I just finally watched "Two of a Kind" I love "Twist of Fate" He also had that song in "Urban Cowboy" . Whenever I hear this song I think about Bud dancing with Madolyn Smith whilst Sissy gets beaten by Scott Glenn.

He has been at it for 50 years /// stayed away from hopping on the next trend to have a hit // smart guy

His album of standards “But, Beautiful” is gorgeous.

Boz Scaggs tunes on Steve Miller Band's Children of the Future and Sailor albums are the best songs on the album for my money. Boz was better off on his own!

He’s well into his seventies and still performs live. He plays pretty regularly at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. If you click on the links in his artist’s page, you can listen to his performances.

The OP sounds like he has a mental problem. Why pick on Boz Scaggs? He had a soulful voice and made good music.

R57 I wasn't picking on him at all. I just said - why - as in, why do some of you like him, his music, etc. The responses have been very helpful.

Can someone bring me up-to-date on this?

We've reached out to Mr. Scaggs, but he has not returned our calls. He is performing tonight in Des Moines at Hoyt Sherman Place.

Silk Degrees is one of the best albums ever

It's Boss Scaggs

Did you know that during the filming of Saturday Night Fever, the disco dancing sequences were filmed to the music of Boz and Stevie Wonder? The Bee Gees music was added in post-production.

Now you know!

Boz Scuzz 👎

R64 Why did Todd Rundgren hate Boz Scaggs so much?

Bob welch kissing the girl is GROSS. I do like the song produced by Lindsey Buckingham and has Christine Mc vie on backround vocals.

R66 I don't know what you're talking about

He may not be handsome and slender now, but in a glory hole situation who’s to know? The

Late at night put on...

"Harbor Lights"

and continue with...

"We're All Alone"

This deserves to be posted again...

The fabulous, "It's Over"

Very fond memories of Boz Scaggs and his great 'Silk Degrees.'

OP: Get lost.

He was no Gino Vannelli.

Boz Scaggs two follow up albums to Silk Degrees, Down Two Then Left (1977), and Middle Man (1980) where actually both very good. Maybe not to the level of Silk Degrees, but worht owning with excellent songs. After that he took a long hiatus until the late 1980s and sort of lost his creative muse and mojo.

Come fucking on. That song "Low Down" is a great song. I love his name, too.

He's no Terry Jacks.

The producers of Saturday Night Fever wanted to use Lowdown in the movie and the soundtrack, so did the producers of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Scaggs didn’t think Fever would go anywhere so he choose Goodbar. A monumentally bad business decision. He made $50k for Goodbar. Had he said yes to Fever, he would’ve made $3 million by the end of 1979 from the soundtrack and film inclusion.

Boogie Shoes from KC and the Sunshine Band was a B side track in 1975 and when it was released as a singles after SNF it only made it to #35 on the charts but KC made a mint off of it because of Saturday Night Fever.

Sadly, this became a theme song for me later in 1976.

Was anyone here at Boz's Lincoln Center concert the night of the 1977 blackout?

R79 Wasn't that the cause of the great blackout?

I swear R77, I really thought that song " Low Down" was in Saturday Night Fever. Whenever I listen to it that's what I think of.

I like a few of his songs.

Why not?

Silk Degrees was a good album.

When I was twelve I adored Biz Skaggs, (Bud and Sissy 4-ever) Dteely Dan, Gino Vanelli, George Benson, Chuck Mangoone It was a vibe.

I will MARY! Myself with all of those fucking spell check mix ups!

Georgia!! Your daddy was high the night he dreamed of you.

Loan Me a Dime and the rest of this album still sound great / 55 years old

Foe me living in SF in the 1970s/80s Boz was part of the vibe. Cool, lean, kinda tall, and just YUM!

He high school garage band mate was Steve Miller. Not bad.

Verificatia of sizemeat?

He was from my era and I HATED him. His voice and his songs. UGH.

Some of my friends liked him and it was HELL to have to listen to him.

Just could not stand it.