DONALD FAGEN COUPLE REACTION to THE GOODBYE LOOK | The Dan Club Selection
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This song, according to Donald, is a story told from the point of view of an American expat in Cuba at the moment of the Cuban Revolution in 1958 when all the American colonial influences were thrown out of the country. The lyrics make a lot more sense when you listen to them from that perspective. Another one of Donald's wonderfully cryptic short stories. Such a great record.
A great description of the song! I wonder what that “reception just for me, behind the casino by the sea” will lead to? Something tells me it won’t be good. Yikes!
I was wondering if it might be about Cuba. I was born there and lived through the revolution. That was my childhood; it was like a movie! Thanks for the explanation.
As someone else pointed out, depicted vividly in The Godfather Part 2.
Beautifully explained. So many people get it wrong.
@@esdel1955 It is about Cuba.
Mel Tormé, the "Velvet Fog," covered "Walk Between The Raindrops" and "The Goodbye Look," backed by Marty Paich's Dektette, and would often claim Donald Fagen as "one of America's greatest living composers." For your own enjoyment, you should check Mel's versions out.
This just makes me happy to know.
I discovered Torme's rendition recently and was amazed at how wonderful it was. Torme doing Fagan? Who knew!
"Jimmy's getting Mad!"
That’s fabulous
I really like Mel Torme’s version of this song!
Larry Carlton deserves a shout out for his incredible and very tasty guitar work on this song and the whole album for that matter. He is outstanding. Let's call DF 'Donald the Great' lol..
"Won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen?" Love, love LOVE this song! Greg Phillinganes' synth is the vibraphone (or steel drum) sound on this song. Can't wait for you to finish this album so you can listen to it in all its splendiferous-ness! Thanks to JK for this great one, an obvious pleasure for our friends to react to!
🎵❤️🎵 Debbie
Greg Phiilinganes' marimba-sounding synthesiser creates that 'steel-drum' sound and together with Jeff Porcaro's drum rhythm a very latin beat is created. Larry Carlton's guitar work is as always spot on and then you have what you called, Donald's sinister-sounding lyrics. Fagen loves writing these little epithets about life, be it a revolution, communist threats, a lost love or death. A similar song, 'Mary Shut the Garden Door' off 'Morph the Cat' , has lyrics that also talk about a revolution and paints a picture of desperation and fear. Thanks for playing.
"Mary Shut The Garden Door", my daughter, had me repeat several times.😁
And the vibraphone sound
‘Won’t you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen’
One of Fagen’s best lines ever
synthesizers from Donald and Greg Phillinganes, the Great Jeff Porcaro on drums. Can't wait for "Morph the Cat" LP
I heard the "NightFly" when it came out in 82. It is an amazing record, every single track is golden! The video for New Frontier was popular on MTV (starring Rick Moranis). It is a perfect record in every way in production, engineering and it's songs. It is considered a "Concept" album centering on the world of the 1950's (starting with the space race, civil rights, American Cutlure, Multi Cultural relationships, late night Jazz, Cuban missle crisis/cold war etc.) and you can hear these themes in every track in the lyrics. The Sinister mood they are mentioning are the Fagan lyrics - the social commentary about the exodus from Cuba as the tensions start to rise. So well written, so many levels of meanings, the cadence and rhythm are a master class in songwriting. This is one of my Desert Island Albums
I.G.Y is an all time top ten favourite,
You got a preview listen. Gaucho was released in 1983. The Nightfly is the first of DF's 'trilogy', and represents 'the dreams of youth'.
@@thomassicard3733 gaucho came out in november 1980.
Great album, and a great video for a great song, but Rick Moranis isn't in the video.
The Goodbye Look"
Donald Fagen - lead vocals, organ, synthesizers, background vocals
Larry Carlton - lead guitar
Steve Khan - acoustic guitar
Marcus Miller - bass
Dean Parks - guitar
Greg Phillinganes - synthesizer, electric piano
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Valerie Simpson - background vocals
Starz Vanderlocket - percussion
Greenflower St and Walk Between Raindrops are excellent. Still got some goodies from that record.
The first time I heard this song I had to do a double take. The steel drums threw me off. So creative! This album is probably responsible for my love for Bossa Nova music, and my love for the chill music of Michael Franks.
I've been a huge fan of SD since I first heard "Do It Again" in 1972. Michael Franks, I came across in a video in the 80's of his "The Camera Never Lies" tune and like Steely Dan, I went all in!! I have every recording Michael Franks has ever done and seen him in concert twice. I just think he is such a prolific song writer, just genius. It's like Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, both of whom I absolutely respect as musicians and songwriters like Michael.
"Would you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen?" and "the embassys' been hard to reach"..... Absolutely brilliant and the key lines to this simple two verse tune.
yeah its just brilliant lyric songwriting
Fagen's album Morph The Cat has a tribute to Ray Charles called 'THAT'S WHAT I Do' that you really should hear. Fagen is a big fan of Ray's music, and it's such a cool song, with chill lyrics, and vocals.
Hi NicknLex, one of my favourite tracks from a great Donald Fagen album. Think i need a Cuban Breeze after every listen!
Da crazy thing about me listening to Donald Fagen & Steely Dan is dat I am an American African born n raised most ppl in my culture don't even like him,but me I LUV BOTH OF THEM🎉🎉🎉 CANT LIVE WITH OUT THEIR MUSIC❤❤❤
I always forget how good this record is. 👍
Terrific reaction by Nick and Lex 🥰 Great pick JK another Dantastic 😉 song by Donald is Snowbound 👌🏽
Snowbound! Yes please!
Donald Fagen is so talented. You need to try the other cuts on that album.
They've done "IGY," "Maxine,"and "The Nightfly" and, off camera, listened to "New Frontier."🙂
Did "Ruby Baby" as well!
THANK YOU FROM CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK.
"I know man with a motor lodge for higher, a skinny man with 2 toned shoes" DA base in da chorus is life❤❤❤
Vibraphone - it's a massive xylophone-like instrument with tubes instead of plates. Also a marimba is the Spanish/Latin percussive instrument. This song is about the end of the Cuban Revolution.
Two Dan/Don videos within 3 days?!!!! Fuck yeah!!! Enjoying your ELP and Spanish music reactions too :) You are my favorite reactors 😀
You will love 'Ruby Baby'.....so smooth.
Yes it was done by Dion and later by the Four Freshmen. Lends itself to jazz very nicely even though it was a Rock and Soul song initially.
Ray Charles had a great ballad named Ruby. Marty Robbins did Ruby Ann. And then Kenny Rogers did Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town.
Ruby, apparently, is magic!
Do the name Ruby Begonia ring a bell?
And welcome back, Lex
I think this whole album sounds very much like Steely Dan. Just super mellow. It was produced by Gary Katz, who produced all their albums. It's also chock full of amazing musicians who played on various SD albums over the years. Larry Carlton, Jeff Porcaro, Brecker Brothers and the list goes on and on. This was solid gold for me. Thanks for revisiting it! Enjoy!
In the movie Glass Onion, there are a few nods to Steely Dan, including ‘fix me a Cuban Breeze’.
Think they’re playing a marimba
It's actually a synth, sounding like a vibraphone or steel drums.🙂
As soon as I had heard that in the movie , Steely Dan strikes again
The back up vocals are always so good!
A musical aphrodisiac! AMBROSIA
Excited for you to do Greenflower Street.
Great album. Every song is fantastic. Can't believe that no one has given Ruby Baby any love. It's a cover of an old Drifters song (the only cover that SD/DF ever did, I believe) that has just an incredible arrangement, incredible rhythm track, (Jeff Porcaro from Toto on drums) a tasty guitar solo by Larry Carleton and a perfect piano solo by Greg Phillinganes. Musicians that I know marvel at how DF took a simple song and totally made it something much more complex and groovy.
I think Dion did the definitive version of "Ruby Baby," IMO. And on Pretzel Logic they covered Duke Ellington's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo."
Yeah ,SD did the cover of the Duke Ellington tune East St Louis….
The Nightfly might just be the most perfect record album ever. I've owned it in every venue possible. Except 8 track. This and George Shearings Sunny Side of the Strip are my go- to albums when I'm feeling down or up, thank y'all for doing it.
"It's the end of a perfect day, distant lights from across the bay" oh wait that's a different song, just slightly different!
"Won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen."
Actually the Second Arrangement is Gaucho part two so this is part 3.
I love that you have a Jean Luc Ponty album on your wall!
Enigmatic Ocean 👏👏👏
I’m so glad that I recently found a used CD of the Nightfly. Something you don’t always see in recordi stores. This album is one of the best of the 80’s
One of my fav Dan songs.. I'm always saying while watching a movie "He/She just got the goodbye look " Great reaction NickNLex
I know this isn't IGY reaction, but I found this whole album to be his homage to his childhood growing up in the 50s and early 60s.
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The music video for IGY is hilarious!
Love it! An Ernest Hemingway short story in a grooving song. Of course this album is a homage to the late fifties, early sixties.
Like post modern furniture, it instantly transports me to that era. Gretchen's golden hair glistens in the Cuban moonlight.
Hard to believe those two men created so much beautiful, insightful music.
Hi Guys, This is such a great album by Donald and I love the fact that members of Steely Dan come along to help him. Love Larry Carlton, and his solo albums are wonderful with the smoothest jazz relaxing music, if you checkout albums like "Fingerprints" and "The Gift" are among my favourites. Another great reaction, thankyou. Byeee Jim X
Mel Torme does an excellent cover of this
I absolutely LOVE this track. I love the entire "Nightfly" album but this song is simply " DANTASTIC ". Who writes lyrics like... "Won't You Pour Me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen" ? BTW....Greg Phillinganes’ synth simulates a marimba nearly perfectly. Larry Carlton performed some great guitar work on this track as well.
The Nightfly is a concept album about growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s,. Fagen's second album, Kamakiriad, and his third, Morph the Cat, form what's called "The Nightfly Trilogy", which made sense until he released his fourth solo album (Sunken Condos) a few years later. All are fine albums, as are Steely Dan's Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go.
Love that track so much,the Nightfly is in my top 5 albums of all time and I'm delighted you've reacted to it.
I'm very interested in becoming a Dan member, what's your email address please?.
All the best from Scotland 🏴
Masterpiece. That's all that is needed to be said.
just a GREAT album
Not a good song on this album! They are all fantastic if not epic!❤️ The Good news is that soon you will have listened to everything on this record and that’ll be wonderful for you because you deserve it. The bad news is Steely Dan is a finite resource and when that day comes we will all have a tears in our eyes 😥when you’ve heard it all and we can’t watch you respond anymore. But that’s not really true because I still go back and watch you respond to the ones I’ve already went to respond to I still enjoy the hell out of it. Maybe there’s not such a thing as a goodbye look since We can always rewatch it. Great reaction, always exciting to see another Steely Dan song enter your ears. 👍👍👍
Won't you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen, as I listen to the slick musical stylings of grumpy ol' Don! Nice choice JK!
My favorite lyric in any song ever.
Ahhhhh...day made by two of my favorites and a great song as well..much love...Kent
"Won't you poor me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen", one of my favorite Fagen lines. Anyone who is a history buff or has seen Godfather II knows Castro toppled the Batista government New Year's Eve and by January 1, 1959, was in total control. There became an instant clamor, especially by Americans with murky ties to Batista, to get the hell off the island as quickly as possible. That's what Donald is trying to do here because he got the goodbye look meaning you better leave quickly, or you will be planted in Cuban soil forever.
Every song on the album is a gem, but this is my favorite.
I believe the instrument you're hearing is a steel drum which is a popular in the Carribean. Of course, it could be some synthesized version of the actual instrument, but I think the steel drum is the sound they're going for here. "I know the story, I read the book. I believe I just got the goodbye look". Another great Fagan lyric.
Vibraphone.
Won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen?
"Won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen."
"I know a fella with a motor launch for hire
A skinny man with two-tone shoes
'Cause tonight, their planning a small reception just for me
Behind the big casino on the sea"
Fagen has this amazing talent of evoking things without naming them. The Cuban Revolution, dealing cocaine, getting busted for pot, dealing LSD... on and on. What a master. Thanks, and all the best!
Bonus: the lyrics, from the SteelyDan website.
The surf was easy on the day I came to stay
On this quiet island in the bay
I remember a line of women all in white
The laughter and the steel bands at night
Now the Americans are gone except for two
The embassy's been hard to reach
There's been talk and lately a bit of action after dark
Behind the big casino on the beach
The rules are changed
It's not the same
It's all new players in a whole new ball game
Last night I dreamed of an old lover dressed in gray
I've had this fever now since yesterday
Wake up darling they're knocking the Colonel's standing in the sun
With his stupid face the glasses and the gun
I know what happens
I read the book
I believe I just got the goodbye look
Won't you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen?
I know a fellow with a motor launch for hire
skinny man with two-tone shoes
Cause tonight they're arranging a small reception just for me
Behind the big casino by the sea
I know what happens
I read the book
I believe I just got the goodbye look
My favourite track from the album. The lyrics could have been written by Raymond Chandler.
Perfect! Chandler is perfect. Hemingway is also perfect. I get the 'sinister' thing.
"A bit of action after dark!"
Maybe the goodbye look is right before you are made to expire, I don't know.
Happy to share this with all the viewers, Nick and especially Lex! We all miss seeing her!
One of my favorite songs off of Donald's Nightfly album. Just so unexpected to have a Xylophone and it sounds so great with the piano. I always thought that it would have been cool for them to add Steel Drums to the song Walk Between the Raindrops. Wonderful reaction as always.
It's actually a synth, sounding like a vibraphone or steel drums!🙂
On the Dunes from Kamakiriad please
You want to hear the version of this the DF Band did on DF’s 2006 solo tour. The ending is extended into a full-on jam of at least a couple of minutes.
A CD of this album, usually a reference master type disk has been used for years by concert sound engineers setting up the PA systems. The dynamics and production are so flawless that if you tune a sound system with this record, it will sound its best. Another truly stunning Donald Fagen effort.
I still need to buy this album! I have' Kamakiriad' but somehow missed 'The Nightfly'. Anyway, here's another reminder of what I am missing. Thanks JK, being Dan member #1 brings with it a certain responsibility, high quality requests are required and you've set the bar nice and high!
Ha! With power comes great responsibility, I guess!
Time to RUN if you sense that you've just gotten the Goodbye Look. It may be your last chance to beat feet and get out of there!. Another smoothie from what is now the past...
Listening to the entire album is the way.
Can't wait till you get to Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat.... You will also love Ruby Ruby as mentioned! Nothing makes you two smile like the Fagen genius. Which means you know "wot's wot", as the British say. Maxine remains the lushest, smoothest most beautiful thing Donald was involved with. Still so glad you got to hear it.
When you finally finish this album, you will see the entire album is must play. And how about that Larry Carlton solo, just so smooth.
Donald Fagen = musical genius
Great reaction to a great song. I think the tuned percussion instrument is a marimba.
I love you two.... you get it.
Thank you Doctor🙏
As I’ve gotten older, my favorites on this album keep changing. I appreciate Maxine more than when this came out.
I think that's a marimba, not a xylophone, but I could be wrong.
It's a synth, sounding just like a vibraphone (or maybe steel drums?)🙂
@@debrabrabenec - OK, I just know that it's a much warmer, deeper sound than a xylophone.
This album is perfection! My second favorite all time.
It is perfect. What's you number one?
@@theivory1 my number one is Kiko from Los Lobos.
@@adamp2029 Love Kiko!
The whole damn album is perfection
I agree with the comment about Larry Carlton’s album Footprints. My favorite track is Slave Song
it's got that Brazilian double-kick going on
👏👏👏 no doubt
Cuban change of government as earlier mentioned. He had to get out of Cuba. Castro was taking over. Had a boat for hire. Read up on what was said about the making of this album. It reflects on things from his younger days. What was going on in the world and socially.
When I bought this "cassette" in 1983 - it was the only thing I listened to for a whole week. Every song - over and over. Loved it then - and love it now.
Well 'The Nightfly' is simply the only solo album that truly can stand tall with the Steely Dan albums. 'Morph The Cat' is also really excellent.
Woot !! Enjoy the Dan !!
Some of the best Carlton here. And percussion is crazy good. No wonder Donald has always wanted to record a bossa album.
Sounds like the story is from the fall of Cuba thing!
When you do a list of the best songs of the Eighties, you have to start at #9. The first eight spots are taken by the songs of The Nightly.
Could be a marimba, the wooden slatted cousin of the xylophone 😍
It's a synth, doing a great imitation of a vibraphone or steel drums!🙂
@@debrabrabenec okay thanks 😊
59.4k!
Nick please show Lex Superfly
Was so looking forward to her response. I understand if you can't
Perhaps the most valuable human sense of the senses is awareness of danger that is coming for you
My favorite tune off "The Nightfly".
I’d enjoy watching you guys react to something from Walter’s Circus Money album. All tracks are top notch!
Reminds me off Africa by Toto.
The Nightfly Album was purported to be the first 100% digitally recorded album - no analog involved.
Michael Franks like too.
That was either a xylophone (vibes) or steel drums.
Check out the Mel Torme version of this song...YES, I said Mel effin Torme. "The Velvet Fog" recorded Donald Fagan...a match made in...errr...LSD?
Heard this song in a elevator and by the time I was at my floor, I had to start doing my Mexican jig on the elevator
We have a similar tastes in music, try listening to Brian Culbertsons “ City Lights featuring Lee Rittenour, and the song right after City Lights featuring Chuck Loeb
The instrument might be a Central American marimba or a balafon from West Africa.
Actually a synth- amazing, right?
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@NicknLex You can still do a reaction to the 'New Frontier' video.
Great idea!
The percussion tones are from the marimba.
Actually a synth, doing an impersonation of vibraphone or steel drums!🙂
The instrument is referred to as a marimba.
Sounds more Gaucho to me. The Nightfly was released in 1983. Gaucho was released in 1980. Aja was released in 1977.
banger
Yes….the whole album!
The 3 big history making events in the 1960's : The Cuban Revolution. The civil rights movt. The anti Vietnam War movt