Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number | REACTION
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I've listened to this song a thousand times and I still pick up on subtle things I've never heard before. The compositions of steely dan are just on another level.
Like peeling an Onion.👏👏👏
The opening bass line was a homage to jazz master, Horace Silver's "Song For My Father"
Exactly 😊
I love how they add a voice to each Chorus. Sometimes it's a harmony, sometimes just an additional voice, (doubling, if you will). Little tricks like this I find to be genius level.
BTW, Ryan will like "The Gaucho." The sax baby!
Steely Dan are musicians' musicians. So glad I grew up with this music. One of my fav bands. Walter Becker, the guitarist, recently passed, but, man, was he talented. So many more songs from this band.
The instrument in question is a flapamba, a variant of the marimba.
Thank you 👍..
The Rikki in the song is Rikki Ducornet, an older classmate of Fagen's at Bard College. Not only was she an older woman, she was already married. He saw her at a party, tried some lines on her, which she ignored for obvious reasons. She was later amused by the song immortalizing her. She became a published novelist later in life and probably didn't recall their meeting until people kept asking her about the song.
I thought she was the wife of a professor at the college
It just warms my heart how the younger generation with ears on get how great they were.
Great to see the younger generations keeping this music alive❤
this is my favorite steely dan song
That's what is so great about Steely Dan. Every song is different and amazing!
Not the first time I heard Steely Dan, but this song started my love affair with them. That hasn’t changed❤️
PLEASE play "Don't Take Me Alive," and "Kid Charlemagne."
Yes and yes!
Two of their best!!
Yes do!
The music of my youth. So good… thanks guys
This is Steely Dan's highest charting single, peaking at #4 in 1974.
More hooky than a fishing tackle shop.
Don’t tease us with Steely Dan this far in advance!😂❤
Great song, definitely on the radio all the time back in the day
I heard these songs on the radio as a pre teen and they blew my mind now I appreciate the musicianship
My favortite Steely Dan song!
They are completely original and so versatile ! All their songs sound like Steely Dan but none of their songs sound like the others
A really fun and overlooked song by Steely Dan is Show Biz Kids. So great. Haitian Divorce too. But Steely Dan’s catalog is truly amazing.
The instrument in the beginning that’s sounds like bubbles 🫧 is a “flapamba”. It looks like a xylophone with wooden key heads, and the sound is resonated via wooden bases, or tubes, the mallets are usually tipped soft mallets, or even finger tips. It’s a very rare instrument, and recent in its creation, dating back to only 1960.
That intro always makes me think I' 'cleaning my palette", like when tasting wines or whiskeys.
The incomparable studio drummer, Jim Gordon. R.I.P. July 14, 1945 - March 13, 2023.
Huge hit in the summer of '74.
It the harmonizing in the chorus for me
Back in '74, my dad had gotten a very good job after having retired from the military. About ten years ago, I found a shoe box that had every check receipt he had gotten from that job. The very first check he got had his base pay listed. It was a bit over $5 an hour. In the '70s 15 cents didn't come easily...
I've heard this song a thousand times and never knew what it was about. Thanks for the lesson.
I feel like another common thread in Steely Dan songs is lyrics that demonstrate a high degree of confidence. Or something like that. 😂
Steely Dan is a third of my top three band catalogues while stranded on an island.
Great great song , one of the best guitar solos
Skunk Baxter
This song was it😊. I was 10 years of age
Smooth perfection.
Crunchy "Pretzel Logic"...😂
I need you to listen to the Bee Gee's. TO MUCH HEAVEN this music is from my times.
I'd like to see a future episode where you each share your top 5 songs that you have found since doing this.
Fagen and Becker were great songwriters and as many do, they "borrowed" ideas from others. Listen to the opening to Horace Silver's Song for My Father then listen to this opening. Something similar happened with their song Gaucho from the album of the same name. Listen to the opening to Keith Jarret's song "Long As You Know You are Living Yours" from his album Belonging, then listen to the opening to Gaucho. Jarrett did, took them to court and won and is now credited with co-writing Gaucho. This song was a big radio hit for them.
On the same album the track Night by night masterpiece. CAPOLAVORO 🔝🔝ciao 🇮🇹
"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
I grew up, listening to Steely Dan. I fucking love this band so much and I mean so much. I love every song they’ve done, but this is my absolute favorite, the musicality lyrics. Everything about this song is genius.
This is country blues and Jazz. There's no one better than Steely Dan I am 64 and grew up with them first hand..The band plays all the genres' of music. It's hard to pin them down..
I'm 64 too!!
I would dispute country.
The opening rhythms of the song was lovingly taken from jazz musician Horace Silver's Song For My Father.
This was my favorite by them.
You guys always keep it real, you allow one another the freedom of differing opinions. I respect you guys for being open to so many genres of music, especially music that for the most part was probably before you were born. You are keeping the music alive!
Another great guitar solo from Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. I think this was his last album with Steely Dan. He went on to join the Doobie Brothers after this.
The Doobies are awesome too
That one of more from Steeley Dan went to the Doobies makes total sense. The two groups have a lot of similarities and cross over.
The flapamba (a variant of the marimba) is the instrument in intro
Looking forward to this one! Love you guys
I love hearing stuff fresh from your ears. I was a teenager when this came out; music like this was all around, just in the air. It was a wonderful time for music 🎶.
I'm sure he thought this song would be fast because of Phil Collins' "Billy, Don't Lose My Number".
From the request box. Still waiting on Billy Squire. Every song on his first album were a huge hit.
A HUGE hit in the summer of 1974. Almost banned from the radio because people thought it was about a joint. This song made me a SD fan for life..
Steely Dan is so deep - you will find at least 20 great songs in their catalog. Most reactors love "Peg", so I guess I'll suggest that one for your next Dan Dive.
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THEE GREAT JIM GORDON on DRUMS !!! He was in a league by himself.
Wow.....I never knew Chevy Chase played in a band. And to learn he played with great musicians like Donald Fagen and Walter Becker is even more cool. Another reason to like this channel.
Lettah, numbah, bettah.... this is how I knew it was Steely Dan when I was a little kid. As an adult I cannot live without them!!!
You guys got me at big crunchy pretzel - I'm all in now 😄
New sub! Thanks for the stroll down memory lane! Love from Texas🤠🤠🤠
THIS HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE STEELY SONG FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS NOW YOU GUYS 😊 JUST SOMETHINGGGG ABOUT THE WHOLE THING! 😊STEELY SONGS ARE UNIQUE AND JUST THEIR OWN SOUND, UNBELIEVABLE! R.I.P.😟TO ( WALTER BECKER ) GONE 10 YEARS THIS YEAR YOU GUYS! ( THE TITLE TRACK IS GREAT TOO ) MUSIACAL MUAHHHHH! ( 71-77 ) YA JUST CAN'T GO WRONG!
The album cover was “old photo” when they used it
This band is the epitome of what great musicians can do. They come and go, but every musician contributed something great to the collective. My love of Steely Dan keeps growing year by year.
So love Steely Dan ❤
Please keep going with the Dan, you will not regret a moment of it.
Steely Dan. .... Your favorite bands favorite band.
You guys rock, oh man watching these videos, always makes me laugh. :)
Night by Night from this same album is pretty darn funky. Great guitar work by Skunk Baxter.
This song brings me back to being 17yrs old. I can smell it, taste it.
I used to have the refrain as my ring tone.
Big condolences and love out to the 502 today. Thanks for making us smile a bit with some Dan. ♥️
Condolences?May i ask what for?
@@clairejohnson6522 Mass shooting in Louisville (502 area code) on the day that this video was posted.
The way you all are moving & grooving, heads bopping, is just the way we were doing it back in the day. Classic song.
Yes, indeed 😊
The late, great, Wreaking Crew drummer, Jim Gordon.
Sadly, most people have never heard of or know who the Wrecking Crew are and how THEY created 90% of the music we all know and love. Every big hit, be it rock n roll, R&B, pop, country, television theme songs, commercial jingles, they did all them.
It didn't matter how talented a band was, record labels and producers wouldn't let the band members play on the recordings. They hired the Wrecking Crew to come in and make the songs hits.
"You tell yourself you're not my kind
But you don't even know your mind"
My favorite line. Not my fav SD song, heard way too many times as a kid but that line always stuck with me.
I'm a gigging bassist, been doing it for five bands over 30 years, a big portion of set lists in two of them from the SD catalog. Point being that I want to highlight that the bassist for "Ricki" was (RIP) Walter Becker. His "signature" bass playing is marked with innovative and complex bass lines. Not difficult in themselves, but the bass lines are so unique that I think most bassists, including top-notch hired guns (greats like Chuck Rainey, Marcus Miller, and Anthony Jackson), as superb as they played, wouldn't have ever put together a groove/bass line like Walter's. It's difficult to describe how/why his style was so different, but when learning his bass lines--the most iconic being the mysterious (?) bass in "Deacon Blues"--only then could I appreciate his style, his thought process for creating a unique, yet perfectly suited bass line. He carried on with his unique playing when he transitioned to electric six-string guitar: mysterious, sensual, distinctive smooth soloing is Walter's trademark.
I bet if Ryan heard this as a small child he'd of loved it. That was the case with me, I was hooked. It wasn't until years later that I learned it was Steely Dan, as my first boyfriend brought the album Aja for us to listen to. It was like a light bulb moment when I realized that that was the group from my childhood that I'd loved so much. Gentleman, please continue to react to Steely Dan. They're such an intellectual band with a huge catalogue. IMO they don't have a bad or even mediocre song.
Reeling in the Years got me hooked at 9 years now old! Blew my head apart❤😂
Don't matter how you spell it, a pretzle is a pretzel is a pretzel is a pretzle .... pretzel logic!
I'm supposed to be doing dishes, but I'm dancing in the kitchen instead. Arguably my favorite Dan song, love the piano and the guitar solo.😊🥰
The cover is from New York.
They still have these guys
This song is a Time Machine, It's like a stomach punch, then I'm back there.
Marimba is the instrument you’re looking for
Maybe a vibraphone?
@@jasonremy1627 It is a flapamba.
You don't know how many people were late to work because this song was on the car radio while in the parking lot.
That repeating 4 note bit is kind of a nod to a jazz song, "song for my father".
I was lucky enough to see them on this tour and they did play this. The title track from this album, Preetzel Logic is one of my very favorite tracks by the Dan.
Steely is Dan good !!
This is one of those songs where we tell the hosts ...
get ready !
Love Steely Dan… my favorite is Hey Nineteen. Donald Fagan also had a popular solo song called I.G.Y. What a beautiful world… I absolutely love that song!
master musicians... composers maxxxx 💥🎸💯
Steely Dan is best know as Your Favorite Band's Favorite Band.
People didn't really know t hem, but knew the music, but ask any musician in the 70s - 2000 and that was it.
I have always loved this song. Great reaction guys.
Love you guys!!
Fagan and Becker used different great musicians on almost every song.
Flashbacks 😂❤
Way back when, SD listeners were called bougie, wine and cheese snobs. 😲😎
A Flapamba - wooden xylophone/vibraphone instrument.
That opening sound is a Marimba
Peg peg peg peg........
Elton John warned Queen about this point; "When you record a song, ask yourself this; are you prepared to perform this every night for the rest of your life?"
Steely Dan was so unique!! Loved all of their music. I was 14 when this song was a huge hit on the radio. This started a wonderful ride for us 70’s teens!!❤️
For me, this was Summer or even end of Summer music. I think of driving near the beach or on vacation. My first day at college someone was blasting Steely Dan out of their dorm room window. You could hear across the whole campus.
That is the sound of the 70”s. 1974 I was 10yrs old
Biggest surprise of this reaction was that none of you had heard it before. If you want excellent guitar soloing check out "Kid Charlemagne." BTW... Ryan's fired! But I heard Chevy Chase might be available for reactions if the pay is right. LOL
Don't take me alive Haitian Divorce and Home At Last are three songs are different and unique in their sound their best deep cuts imho
Always loved this song 😊
This is a great song. Period.
Sigh, you know how many times I had that song sang to me. 😂
"Dirty Work", "Don't Take Me Alive", "The Caves of Altamira"!!!!!