Can I Have My Money Back is the first solo album by Gerry Rafferty

Gerry Rafferty

Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty was a Scottish singer songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", "Days Gone Down", "Night Owl", "Get It Right Next Time", and with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in...

. The distinctive cover design was by John Patrick Byrne and was the start of a long working relationship between Rafferty and the playwright. The LP was well received, but performed poorly in charts and sales, in part because Rafferty had just left a well known band, The Humblebums. The album also saw Joe Egan come on board, and the pair formed Stealers Wheel

Stealers Wheel

Stealers Wheel are a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan and Rafferty in 2008.-Biography:...

 shortly afterwards.

The album was subsequently re-issued on digitally remastered compact disc (CD) in an expanded version, with the same title (albeit somewhat gratuitously subtitled "The Best of Gerry Rafferty") and a different cover design, by Castle Music, Ltd. (UK) in 2000 (Serial# ESMCD-879). Released only in the United Kingdom, it features an additional 12 tracks taken from his 1974 eponymous compilation album, Gerry Rafferty

Gerry Rafferty (album)

Gerry Rafferty, released in 1974 on Transatlantic Records , is mainly a compilation of Humblebums material that Gerry Rafferty had written and performed while in that group...

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Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Gerry Rafferty; except where indicated

1. "New Street Blues"
2. "Didn't I?"
3. "Mr. Universe"
4. "Mary Skeffington"
5. "Long Way Round"
6. "Can I Have My Money Back?"
7. "Sign on the Dotted Line" (Rafferty, Joe Egan)
8. "Make You, Break You"
9. "To Each and Everyone"
10. "One Drink Down" (Rafferty, John Byrne)
11. "Don't Count Me Out"
12. "Half a Chance"
13. "Where I Belong"

Single: "Can I Have My Money Back?" b/w "So Bad Thinking"

Castle Music, Ltd. (UK, 2000) (CD) Expanded Re-Issue Bonus Tracks:


(Length: 79:29)

14. "Look Over the Hill and Far Away"


15. "Patrick"


16. "Rick Rack"


17. "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway"


18. "Please Sing a Song for Us"


19. "Blood and Glory"


20. "I Can't Stop Now"


21. "All the Best People Do It"


22. "Steamboat Row"


23. "Shoeshine Boy"


24. "Keep It to Yourself"


25. "My Singing Bird"

Personnel

• Gerry Rafferty - vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
• Joe Egan - background vocals
• Rab Noakes
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   - vocals
• Roger Brown - electric guitar, vocals
• Zed Jenkins - electric guitar
• Rod King - steel guitar
• Hugh Murphy - tambourine, vocals
• Alan Parker
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   - guitar
• Tom Parker - harmonium, harpsichord
• Henry Spinetti
  Henry Spinetti
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   - drums
• Andrew Steele - drums
• Johnny VanDerrick - fiddle, violin
• Tom Lasker - piano
• Gary Taylor - bass, vocals
• Hugh Murphy  - producer
• John Whitehead - production co-ordination
• Patrick - artwork