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[–] COFfeebreak [OP] 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

Boz Scaggs wrote this song with David Paich, who was also his co-writer on "Lowdown." In a 2013 interview with Scaggs, he talked about how the song came about: "'Lido' was a song that I'd been banging around. And I kind of stole... well, I didn't steal anything. I just took the idea of the shuffle. There was a song that Fats Domino did called 'The Fat Man' that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind of singing along with it. Then I showed it to Paich and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being 'Lido Shuffle.'"

The song's co-writer David Paich played keyboards on the studio track. Scaggs played guitar, bass was handled by David Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro played drums. Paich, Hungate and Porcaro would soon form the band Toto, with Porcaro playing on multiple albums with many artists as one of the most requested, and respected, session musicians.

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