Wednesday, January 12, 2011

In case there are any big Steely Dan fans out there that have never heard the great song called "Dallas" that was left off their brilliant debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill (from 1972), here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFM-xKKb6pw&playnext=1&list=PLF2E659FEDDFC2A23&index=12. Sung by the late Jim Hodder, who also sang "Midnight Cruiser", it brings this big Steely Dan fan back to the sense of astonishment that I felt in hearing them, and the above-mentioned album, for the first time. It takes a heck of a good album to exclude a song like this one, don't you think? Anyway, Poco, the excellent country-rockers originally formed by ex-Buffalo Springfield members, did a very good cover of it on their 1975 Head Over Heels album, but I can't find it on YouTube. But you might also want to check out "Sail the Waterway", if you like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8TAxYE-x-E&feature=related).

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