Night Owl is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in North America and the United Kingdom. The title song reached No. 5 on the UK charts. The album made the UK Top 10.
A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends to stay up until late at night.
The opposite of a night owl is an early bird, a lark as opposed to owl, someone who tends to begin sleeping at a time that is considered early and also wakes early. In several countries, early birds are called "A-people" and night owls are called "B-people." Researchers traditionally use the terms "morningness" and "eveningness" for the two chronotypes or diurnality and nocturnality in animal behavior.
Origins of term
The term is derived from the primarily nocturnal habits of the owl. Usually, people who are night owls stay awake past midnight and extreme night owls may stay awake until just before or after dawn. Night owls tend to feel most energetic just before they go to sleep at night. Some night owls have a preference or habit for staying up late, or stay up to work the night shift. Night owls who work the day shift often have difficulties adapting to standard day-time working hours.
"Night Owl" was inspired by the Night Owl Cafe in Greenwich Village in New York City, where the Flying Machine often performed. The Flying Machine version was released as a single backed by "Brighten Your Night with My Day." Taylor and the other group members were dissatisfied with their performance on the recording, considering it "mediocre." Although it got some regional radio play in the northeast United States, the label declined to fund further recordings by the band. Author Stephen Davis described the song as "a rollicking R&B number."Tony Orlando claims to have been particularly struck by the song. Taylor later rerecorded "Night Owl," along with several other songs he wrote for the Flying Machine, such as "Knocking 'Round the Zoo," for his self-titled solo debut album on Apple Records.Allmusic critic Lindsay Planer rated it as one of the "notable inclusions" on the James Taylor album. The James Taylor album included instrumental interludes between songs, and James Taylor biographer Timothy White describes the brass instruments that were used for the interlude introducing "Night Owl" as "ungainly" and sounding like the overture to a Broadway musical. White does feel that the brass instruments were used better accompanying the song itself.
Mercury is released on their own Desk BureauRecords label with their debut album to follow next year ... I'm a night owl and used to love writing lyrics at night, but since having my second child my time is no longer my own.
The rest is history ... Throughout its eight years, Sweet Melody has partaken in local events, including collaborations with Night Owl Cookies for a Taylor Swift album release party and the comeback of the Choco Taco with CoyoTaco ... .
... each night across the river ... Last fall, rock/pop/punk duo The Dollyrots released an impossibly catchy album in “NightOwls” and this summer are hitting both coasts on the “Wrapped in Sunshine” tour.
... track of her feverish album ... For this album Jean, who has written all of the instrumentation on her last two albums Bathtub Love Killings and Night Owl, again wrote all of the musical parts herself.
Nelson was tapped to sing lead vocals on a track for 1981’s “Time Exposure,” his first album as a member ... The song, “The NightOwls,” was picked by Capitol Records as the lead single from the album.
Ames Tribune
03 Nov 2022
Ames Tribune
03 Nov 2022