Question: What is the nationality of the singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded the hit song known for its haunting saxophone riff?

Context articles: Baker Street (song)
Stuff Like That
Gerry Rafferty
Astha Raut
Four Jacks and a Jill
Ain't Got No Home
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Take Me Back (Imperials song)
Heart Records and Tapes of Canada Ltd.
Cranken Rhyme

"Baker Street" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty.
 Released as a single in 1978, it reached #1 in "Cash Box" and #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, where it held that position for six weeks, behind Andy Gibb's smash "Shadow Dancing".
 Additionally, it hit #1 in Canada, No.3 in the United Kingdom, #1 in Australia and the top 10 in the Netherlands.
 Rafferty received the 1978 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
 The arrangement is known for its haunting saxophone riff.
"Stuff Like That" is a hit song with music and lyrics written by Quincy Jones, Ashford & Simpson, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Ralph MacDonald and Richard Tee.
 The song was originally an instrumental rhythm track.
 Jones worked on the track with Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan and studio musicians Gadd, Gale, MacDonald and Tee to turn it into a single.
 Ashford & Simpson and Khan featured as vocalists while George Young was playing alto saxophone.
 The song was included on Jones' 1978 album "Sounds...And Stuff Like That!
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 The single spent one week at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number twenty-one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart.
Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011) was a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Night Owl", as well as "Stuck in the Middle with You" recorded with the band Stealers Wheel.
Astha Raut (Nepali: आस्था राउत ) is singer-songwriter from Nepal.
 Her first Hit song is a remix song "Saal Ko Paata Tapari (सालकाे पात तपरी)" song of her "Addiction 2" album.
 She received the Hits FM music Best Female Pop Vocal Award in 2014.
 Her second Hit song is from the movie Maya's Bar and it's the title track "Maya yo Maya (माया याे माया)" Movie "(movie) Maya's Bar" movie.
 Her latest hit song "Chaubandi ma Patuki and "Jhumke Bulaki" from her album "Aadhar" released 17th Aasad 2070.
 she has sung many playback songs on Nepali movies, different collection albums and lately came up with her own album Aadhar which Became a Big Hit.
Four Jacks and a Jill is a South African folk rock ensemble.
 They originally formed in 1964 without a "Jill" under the name "The Nevadas".
 Subsequently, they became the first group in South Africa to wear their hair long and they changed their name to "The Zombies" (different from the well-known British group).
 Later they added lead singer Glenys Lynne and changed the group's name to "Four Jacks and A Jill".
 The group included Clive Harding (bass guitar), Till Hanamann (rhythm guitar, trumpet and organ), Bruce Bark (lead guitar, harmonica and saxophone), Tony Hughes (drums) and Glenys Lynne (lead vocal and organ).
 In South Africa, they had a hit song, "Timothy".
 In 1968 they cracked the American charts with the song "Master Jack", hitting the "Billboard" Hot 100 at no. 18 and reaching no. 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
 The song also reached no. 10 on Cashbox and went to no. 1 in South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
 The follow-up single, "Mr. Nico", peaked at no. 98 in the United States.
 That was their last hit in the U.S., but the group continued to score hits in their native country.
"Ain't Got No Home" is a song made popular by Woody Guthrie in which the singer laments the difficulties that life presents him.
 It was based on the old gospel song known variously as "Can't Feel at Home" or "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore," a version of which was recorded by the Carter Family in 1931.
"(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet" is a song by the American rock band Blues Magoos, released in October 1966.
 It was a chart hit in the United States in February 1967.
 It was written by Ron Gilbert, Ralph Scala, and Mike Esposito.
 The Vox Continental organ riff was closely based on guitarist James Burton's riff to Ricky Nelson's 1962 rock recording of the old George Gershwin standard "Summertime".
 The Blues Magoos' psychedelic song had also inspired Deep Purple's 1970 hit song "Black Night".
"Take Me Back," a ballad about a plea for forgiveness, was a 1965 hit song by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
 It was a "Billboard" Top 20 Pop Hit, peaking at #16, and was a Top 20 R&B Hit as well, peaking at # 15.
 The song was one of 5 hit singles taken from their 1964 hit album, "Goin' Out of My Head", and was composed by songwriter Teddy Randazzo, who also wrote several previous Imperials hit singles, including Goin' Out Of My Head and Hurt So Bad, and was produced by Randazzo and Don Costa for Randazzo's DCP Records label in 1964, released as a single in 1965, and later re-released in 1966 on United Artists' Veep Records subsidiary.
 The Imperials (Little Anthony Gourdine, Sammy Strain, Clarence Collins & Ernest Wright) performed the song in 2003, almost 40 years after they originally recorded it, on the PBS special, "Soul Spectacular: 40 Years of R&B".
Heart Records and Tapes of Canada Ltd. was a Canadian Independent record label based in Calgary.
 It was started in 1978 by owners Ron Mahonin and Val Mahonin.
 The first single, ""A Hit Song"" was written by Ron Mahonin and recorded at One Step Up in Los Angeles under the direction of manager Marc Gordon, who added Mahonin to his artist roster.
 The song (also known as "Trying To Write A Hit Song") had previously won semi-finalist in the American Song Festival and was covered by the pop group Player on their debut album of the same name.
The "Cranken Rhyme" is a Cornish-language song known by farmer John Davey (1812–1891), who was one of the last people with some knowledge of the tongue.
 It was recorded by J. Hobson Matthews in his "History of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack, and Zennor", and is probably the latest known traditional Cornish verse.