Very disco beat. Doesn’t hit a grove like Time Out of Mind or have a riff like Gaucho, but has the foundation for Glamour Profession. Love this album ❤
Totally agree. You could play this as background on a Rockford Files Gandy episode and it would be right at home. Thus I'm mixed on this - it's got lyric potential but the music is overly repetitive and ultimately unresolved. It's a B on an album with mostly A material and Glamour Profession is a much better example of this type.
Guys. This song is well documented. It was supposed to be the first single from Gaucho, but an assistant engineer accidentally put the multitrack master on a bulk eraser. It devastated Becker & Fagen. Great tune; I named my boat after it!
@sdmartintn To be fair to the tape operator, Becker and Raven always played with fire with how they used the studio. They were so concerned with sound quality they never made safety copies, and only worked with masters. They were worried about generational loss hurting sound quality. The tape operator was just following SOP by getting it ready. In 1967 Jimi Hendrix and someone else left the master tape of side 2 of _Axis: Bold as Love_ in a cab on the way to the record company. They had to go back and create a completely new mix in just that afternoon. Like the expression Forrest Gump made famous, shit happens.
The original version was recorded by a producer, Roger Nichols but then forgotten about. Nichols died in 2011, six years before Walter Becker did. His daughter found the tape during the pandemic and eventually after de-noising, was finally cleaned up and uploaded.
Appreciate your effort but I don’t think this was a great loss to the album because Gaucho, and particularly this track, was when SD really went middle of the road (and I say that as a life long SD fan).
@@justphil2394 Agreed, not to mention the that loping along sound would honestly fit the sound of gaucho, it's mostly groove based even in more complex songs like glamour profession
We all respect your honesty here. It’s a serious affair. I must disagree as I do not hear Night Fever at all. And if I don’t have it in my Jedi archives it doesn’t exist !
Wow, Gaucho is such a fantastic album, but add this tune to it and it becomes perfection ! Love it
I will never forgive that audio engineer that deleted this
Low key one of the best lost songs I’ve ever heard from a band/artist
Interesting, it’s got some Aja and Royal Scam hooks in there! Never been a Steely Dan tune did not catch my ear!
I'm with you! Can never get enough!
2:07 christ that guitar line is so good. and the hits going into it. so glad youtube showed me this lol
Also, I like how your version sounds more than alot of the other ones I’ve found on here.
Sounds like a Nightfly outtake.
Very disco beat. Doesn’t hit a grove like Time Out of Mind or have a riff like Gaucho, but has the foundation for Glamour Profession. Love this album ❤
have to disagree. i hated disco but love Steely Dan
Totally agree. You could play this as background on a Rockford Files Gandy episode and it would be right at home. Thus I'm mixed on this - it's got lyric potential but the music is overly repetitive and ultimately unresolved. It's a B on an album with mostly A material and Glamour Profession is a much better example of this type.
Donalds unique in that he can sing off key brilliantly but he doesnt have a particularly good voice but its unique and endearing enough.
Guys. This song is well documented. It was supposed to be the first single from Gaucho, but an assistant engineer accidentally put the multitrack master on a bulk eraser. It devastated Becker & Fagen. Great tune; I named my boat after it!
@sdmartintn To be fair to the tape operator, Becker and Raven always played with fire with how they used the studio. They were so concerned with sound quality they never made safety copies, and only worked with masters. They were worried about generational loss hurting sound quality. The tape operator was just following SOP by getting it ready.
In 1967 Jimi Hendrix and someone else left the master tape of side 2 of _Axis: Bold as Love_ in a cab on the way to the record company. They had to go back and create a completely new mix in just that afternoon. Like the expression Forrest Gump made famous, shit happens.
Very nice, thank you
Brilliant, well done. It’s a shame it went belly up originally. Thanks.
They take they wanted got accentually erased...
🏃♂️ Engineer 🤬Donald 😤 Walter
👍👍👍👍
thank you...by the way, are you related to the infamous jeffrey lebowski?
Was this their attempt to re-record it after it was lost?
The original version was recorded by a producer, Roger Nichols but then forgotten about. Nichols died in 2011, six years before Walter Becker did. His daughter found the tape during the pandemic and eventually after de-noising, was finally cleaned up and uploaded.
Dan Lite
Sweeeet!
Should've been on Nightfly instead of Ruby.
Appreciate your effort but I don’t think this was a great loss to the album because Gaucho, and particularly this track, was when SD really went middle of the road (and I say that as a life long SD fan).
The first song I really heard from Steely Dan was Peg.
No way it’s just a windup they are just messing around for god sake they gave you the perfect record
It just never catches fire, kind of lopes along…I see why they left it off of gaucho.
it got deleted, not a conscious decision to leave it off
@@justphil2394 Agreed, not to mention the that loping along sound would honestly fit the sound of gaucho, it's mostly groove based even in more complex songs like glamour profession
It’s literally missing half the lyrics and horns, it got deleted
I never really considered this, and I kinda have to agree but I still feel like the song is just perfection throughout which makes up for it.
Most of Gaucho lopes along, where's the energy?
I hear a lot of tape hiss ,, never heard this on the original record 🤷♂️
Cause it's not on the original record!
So you didn’t bother to read the description.
It was lost during the sessions for Gaucho, and seemingly believed to be lost forever.
All I can hear in the guitar is The BeeGees Night Fever. Sorry.
At least you tried. I'm sure if you keep working at it, you'll improve. Your apology is accepted in the same good faith it was expressed.
We all respect your honesty here. It’s a serious affair. I must disagree as I do not hear Night Fever at all. And if I don’t have it in my Jedi archives it doesn’t exist !
Good not great song..
Goucho, better without it.
Nah.