Like many of us, the art & musical poetry of Gerry Rafferty has left no doubt, lasting impressions on our lives.  But being a sound, audio & radio broadcast engineer...I notice some of the many re-mastering engineers that have prepared his product for subsequent releases on CD...may have had too many beer bottles lined up near their mastering equipment!  Going way back, when this album "CITY TO CITY" was first released, the running speed on the "BAKER STREET" single (45RPM, in those days) was sped up incredibly!  Why?  Who knows.  But ironically, the video for the song (yes, there actually was one filmed for the piece) was sped DOWN incredibly!  So odd.  Then years later, in late 80's, when the "RIGHT DOWN THE LINE: THE BEST OF GERRY RAFFERTY" was released on CD, a fresh new re-mix version of "BAKER STREET" appeared...and the speed was correctly calibrated.  Then to our amazement, when the "CITY TO CITY" album was finally released a year or two later on CD...the pitch was again sped up on "BAKER STREET"!  But this time, the "original mix" was featured.  And then finally, someone got it right...when very recently the RAVEN label released "THE BEST OF 1970-1982: DAYS GONE DOWN"; the "original" speed was corrected to the "original" mix of "BAKER STREET".  Being a sound engineer myself...I don't see how these things just sort of seem to "slip-through-the-cracks" so often?  I've known for years that radio station programmers speed up singles to either make more room for commercials in a single hour, or just to plainly make the song sound "hotter, brighter & faster"...but the record company or re-mastering engineer purposely doing such a dastardly thing...?  Na...just too many shot-glasses being passed around after punching-in on the time clock...I feel is the reason!  Let's pay better attention to the details, when treating such musical classics...such as Gerry Rafferty's "BAKER STREET."