Clowns to the Left Jokers to the Right

Gerry Rafferty | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1997)
• Original Release Date: March 25, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B000003IXE
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,598 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Please Sing a Song for Us

2. Blood & Glory

3. Rick Rack

4. Steamboat Row

5. Can I Have My Money Back?

6. New Street Blues

7. Mary Skeffington

8. Sign on the Dotted Line

9. Stuck in the Middle with You

10. Everyone's Agreed That Everything...

11. Who Cares?

12. Benediction

13. Right or Wrong

14. Baker Street

15. Right Down the Line

16. Night Owl

17. Get It Right Next Time

18. Take the Money and Run

19. Royal Mile (Sweet Darlin')

20. Bring It All Home

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

1997 collection on Raven featuring 21 tracks from the singer/ songwriter's most profitable & productive period, 1970-1982. 75 minutes of cuts from The Humblegums, Stealer'sWheel & his solo albums in the '70s. Includes 'Stuck In The Middle With You', 'Baker Street', 'Right Down The Line', 'Night Owl', 'Can I Have My Money Back?', 'Get It Right The Next Time', etc. The full title is 'Clowns To The Left, Jokers To The Right 1970-1982'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing some key songs!, September 20, 2002

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A Fan (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clowns to the Left Jokers to the Right (Audio CD)

It seems that many of these "best of" compilations always leave out one or two of an artists hits and replace them with some forgetable deep track. I don't understand what they are thinking when they do this. This collection is more guilty of this than most. They left off 3 top 40 hits - Star (Stealers Wheel), Home & Dry and Days Gone Down - and the album classic City to City! Gerry and Stealers Wheel only had a total of 7 top 40 hits and they leave off nearly half of them!?! Come on now, somebody wasn't paying attention when they put this collection together!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You have to take what's available, February 22, 2006

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J. Carroll "Jack" (Island Heights,NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clowns to the Left Jokers to the Right (Audio CD)

This is a decent representation of Rafferty's work from his early folk duo,The Humblebums (partnered with Billy Connolly, no less) to his early 80's solo work and the wonderful "Baker Street." There are a number of quality tunes here and the chatty liner notes proved to be an interesting retrospective of Rafferty's career, but as another reviewer noted, this package is lacking some key songs. At least try to collect all the singles from the time period. I am ofetn disappointed by the lack of completeness with these greatest hits sets, but sometimes you have to take what's available.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, April 15, 2009

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Marc Lynch (IE, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clowns to the Left Jokers to the Right (Audio CD)

I've heard so much about Gerry Rafferty so I went looking for more than just stuck in the middle, this is a great collection for those looking for some great 70's music that didn't get a lot of airplay. Great songwriting and singing.