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STEELY DAN’S EPIC ‘CAN’T BUY A THRILL’

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 6, 2019…STEELY DAN RELEASED THE ALBUM ‘CAN’T BUY A THRILL’ AND THE SINGLE ‘DO IT AGAIN’ ON THIS DATE IN 1972. THIS WAS STEELY DAN’S DEBUT ALBUM AND IT FEATURED THREE GREAT SINGLES ‘DO IT AGAIN’ DIRTY WORK’ AND REELIN’ IN THE YEARS’ THAT DOMINATED THE AIRWAVES IN LATE 1972 AND LATER IN 1973. BTW THE FIRST SINGLE ‘DO IT AGAIN’ WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE VERSION ON THE ALBUM. THE SINGLE FEATURED A SHORTER INTRO AND EXTRO AND OMITTED THE ORGAN SOLO. TO DATE WHEN YOU INCLUDE STREAMING AND DOWNLOADS, ‘CAN’T BUY A THRILL’ HAS SOLD OVER 2.3 MILLION COPIES AND COUNTING.

HERE’S STEELY DAN PERFORMING ‘DO IT AGAIN’ ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL