“Lowdown” is a success 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 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. Sooner or later, nevertheless, a Cleveland R&B radio DJstarted enjoying “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 tune to different R&B-oriented radio stations for airplay.
It broke massive on High 40 stations as nicely, 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 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, despite the fact that 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 could 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 Greatest R&B Tune on the nineteenth Annual Grammy Awards. Wiki