" Lowdown " is a song originally recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs from his album Silk Degrees. The song was co-written by Scaggs and keyboardist David Paich. Paich, along with fellow "Lowdown" session musicians bassist David Hungate and drummer Jeff Porcaro, would later go on to form the band Toto.

[Pre-Chorus] Hey son Better get on back to town Face the sad old truth The dirty lowdown [Chorus] (Oohooohooohooo) (I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who) Put those ideas in your head ...

Old English niþera, neoþera "down, downwards, lower, below, beneath," from Proto-Germanic *nitheraz (source also of Old Saxon..., which contributed to the English word, Old Frisian nither, Dutch neder, German nieder), from comparative of PIE *ni- "down..., below" (source also of Sanskrit ni "down," nitaram "downward," Greek neiothen "from ...

Turn on that old love light And turn a "maybe" to a "yes" Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess Hey son, better get back on to town Face the sad old truth, the dirty lowdown (Ooh, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who) Put those ideas in your head (Ooh, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who) Yeah Come on back down, little son

"Lowdown" is a song originally recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs for his album Silk Degrees. The song was co-written by Scaggs and keyboardist David Paich. Paich, along with...

"Lowdown" Boz Scaggs Columbia 10367 June 1976 * #3 on Billboard Charts* William "Boz" Scaggs achieved solo stardom in 1976 with the elegant, sophisticated, u...

Jan 23, 2024 · Boz Scaggs’s ‘Lowdown’ is more than just a funk-infused track with a catchy beat; it’s a reflective mirror held up to the societal norms of its time, and ironically, to the timeless human behaviors that are just as prevalent today.

"Lowdown" was the first song that Scaggs and Paich wrote together; it was Silk Degrees producer Joe Wissert who put them together. In a Songfacts interview with Boz Scaggs, he explained: "We took off for a weekend to this getaway outside of LA where there was a piano and stayed up all night banging around ideas.

The "lowdown" is the practice of currying favor by spending money on someone. Boz's character has a girl whom he has bought things for in order to get sex (the old schoolboy game) and the (sad truth behind the gifts).

Jun 2, 2020 · Its origin in the above sense is not clear, as suggested by the Phrase Finder: It could that this is just a variant of the age old saying 'to get to the bottom' of something; ie to get to the roots of the matter. and the American Heritage Dictionary suggests: The lowdown on: