Hanging with the crowd
Putting your business in the street talking out loud
Saying you bought her this and that
And how much you done spent
I swear she must believe it's all heaven sent
Hey boy you better bring the chick around
To the sad truth the dirty lowdown

(Who I wonder who) taught her how to talk like that
(Who I wonder who) gave her that big idea

Nothing you can't handle nothing you ain't got
Put the money on the table and drive it off the lot
Turn on that ole lovelight and turn a maybe to a yes
Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess
Hey son better get back to town
Face the sad old truth the dirty lowdown

(Who I wonder who) put those ideas in your head
(Who I wonder who) yeah
Come on back down little son
Dig the low low low low lowdown

You ain't got to be so bad got to be so cold
This dog eat dog existence sure is getting old
Got to have a Jones for this Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at

You gonna come back around
To the sad sad truth the dirty lowdown

(Who I wonder who) got you thinking like that boy
(Who I wonder who)
(Who I wonder who said who I wonder who)
Oh look out for that lowdown
(Who I wonder who ohh ohh)
Got you thinking like that.








http://youtube.com/watch?v=afBdFyE7PeE



Songfact:

The producers of Saturday Night Fever asked to use this in their movie,

but Scaggs' manager turned them down and instead used it in the movie Looking For Mr. Goodbar.

I was just listening to this album yesterday!



"Lowdown" was all over the radio in the summer of 1976.That song was everywhere...pop stations,R&B stations,in discos

One of the best songs of the 70s.

funkpill said:

That's correct.Here's some more info on that:

Boz Scagg's song "Lowdown" was used in the scene where Tony and Annette are first shown practicing at the dance studio.The song was played at the same time the sequence was filmed,due to director John Badham wishing to shoot this way (a form of conduct which was not ever considered).However,Scagg's manager heard that he had used the song and forbid Badham to put it on the soundtrack.The song was removed from the film and composer David Shire composed an instrumental to be used in it's place.


Can't see why Boz's people didn't want the song in this movie.Guess they didn't realize that the soundtrack would go on to sell 22 million copies,lol.