In 1972 when this album came out “Steel Dan” where (the nucleus of the group even then was “Walter Becker and “Donald Fagen” because they wrote all the songs) a new group, and hadn’t yet decided on their sound.
So in the form of an experiment they tried various members of the band in the role of lead vocalist.
First up as the lead singer “Donald Fagen” on the outstanding track “Do it Again”, this song begins with percussion and drums along with marimba and vibes giving the overall rhythm track a “Latin” flavour, the memorable chorus of “You go back Jack do it again, Wheel turin’ ‘round and round’ You go back Jack do it again”.
Then on the next track “Dirty Work” a singer with the name of “David Palmer” takes on the job of singing, and in my opinion his voice in not in the same league as “Donald Fagen” and the track suffers. The cut “Midnight Cruiser” has yet another vocalist in the form of the drummer “Jim Hodder” he should have stuck too drumming. In fact all the tracks that “Donald Fagen” doesn’t sing are pretty forgettable.
“Donald Fagen” next superb singing performance is the exceptional “Reeling in the Years” which gave them their big hit from this album.
This re-mastered version came out in 1998 and was the beginning of a re-release program that was re-mastered by the original engineer from the recording sessions “Roger Nichols”. He did the re-mastering job under the supervision of both “Becker and Fagen”; these men I don’t think would trust anyone else to do the process but him.
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