Baker Street (song) 2013 it was covered by Mimi Page, who transposed the iconic saxophone into a simplistic piano line. In 2016, Emm Gryner released a version that swapped the saxophone for keyboards on her album Calmphonic. Baker Street (song) "Baker Street" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in 1978, it reached #1 in "Cash Box" and #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, where it held that position for six weeks, behind Andy Gibb's smash "Shadow Dancing". Additionally, it hit #1 in Canada, #3 in the United Kingdom, #1 in Australia, #1 in South
Singer-songwriter the underground New York art/music scene. The release of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" in 1967, featuring singer-songwriter Lou Reed and German singer and collaborator Nico was described as the "most prophetic rock album ever made" by "Rolling Stone" in 2003. In the late '60s a New Wave of female singer-songwriters broke from the confines of pop, using the urban landscape as their canvass for lyrics in the confessional style of poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. These pioneering women, appeared in a feature in "Newsweek", July 1969, "The Girls: Letting Go: 'What is common to them – to