From 1973, please enjoy the unjustly tarred as one-hit wonder Stealers Wheel and two pop-rock masterpieces that should be even more well known than "Stuck in the Middle With You"; the gorgeously McCartney-esque "Star"...
...and the haunting psychedelically revisionist "Everyone Agrees That Everything Will Turn Out Fine."
Those two actually were hits, of course, although primarily in England, but I wore out my 45rpm copies of both of them back in the day; in any case, I think each is a better record than "Stuck." I should add that the single version of "Everyone" differs significantly from the album version, which is a grossly inferior remake, and as far as I know the hit heard above is not available on any Stealers Wheel compilation. Why? No man can say.
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Some wonder stuff there.
That line by Rafferty and Egan, "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you" is both timeless and Dylan-worthy. And yes, "Everything Will Turn Out Fine" is a great song, even on the Ferguslie Park version I have.
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