Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972-1980

by Steely Dan

Overview

There is an audience for the double-disc set Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972-1980, although it may be a small one -- it's a set for listeners who want something a little more extensive than A Decade of Steely Dan or Gold yet don't want to invest in full albums. On that level, it works quite well, since it does have all the chart and radio hits, plus a terrific sampling of classic album tracks from "Only a Fool Would Say That" through "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" to "Time Out of Mind." So Showbiz Kids winds up being useful for neophytes -- although it's hard not to imagine anyone who gets this set, believing that this will be all the Steely Dan they'll ever need, eventually succumbing and buying all the studio albums. If that's the case, at least they'll already have "Here at the Western World" and "FM," and won't have to purchase one of the two multi-disc sets that contain these non-LP songs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/17/2005
Label:	Island / Universal Music Tv
UPC:	0602498117415
Rank:	36618

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Do It Again
2. Dirty Work
3. Reeling In The Years
4. Only A Fool Would Say That
5. Change Of Guard
6. Bodhisattva
7. Boston Rag
8. Showbiz Kids
9. My Old School
10. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
11. Night By Night
12. Pretzel Logic
13. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
14. Black Friday
15. Bad Sneakers
16. Doctor Wu
17. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
18. Chain Lightning

Disc 2

19. Kid Charlemagne
20. Don't Take Me Alive
21. Haitian Divorce
22. Fez
23. Here In The Western World
24. Black Crow
25. Aja
26. Deacon Blues
27. Peg
28. Josie
29. FM
30. Babylon Sisters
31. Hey Nineteen
32. Time Out Of Mind
33. Third World Man

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Steely Dan   Primary Artist
Michael McDonald   Guest Artist
Joe Sample   Guest Artist
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie   Guest Artist
Wayne Shorter   Guest Artist
Larry Carlton   Guest Artist,Guitar
Victor Feldman   Guest Artist
Wilton Felder   Guest Artist,Bass
Rick Derringer   Guest Artist,Guitar
Chuck Rainey   Bass
Donald Fagen   Piano,Vocals,Keyboards
Elliott Randall   Guitar
Ernie Watts   Saxophone
Myrna Matthews   Vocals (Background)
John Rotella   Saxophone
Hugh McCracken   Guitar
Sherlie Matthews   Vocals (Background)
Hal Blaine   Drums
Jim Hodder   Drums,Percussion
Jeff Baxter   Guitar
Michael Omartian   Piano
Lanny Morgan   Saxophone
Denny Dias   Guitar
Snooky Young   Flugelhorn
Walter Becker   Guitar,Bass
Jeff Porcaro   Dorophone,Drums
Dean Parks   Guitar
Patricia Hall   Vocals (Background)
Royce Jones   Vocals (Background),Saxophone

Technical Credits

Gary Katz   Producer
Donald Fagen   Composer,Liner Notes
Timothy B. Schmit   Orchestration
Paul Griffin   Composer
Roger Nichols   Engineer
Walter Becker   Liner Notes,Composer