The Royal Scam

Tracklist

• Hybrid SACD (CD layer) 1
• 1
  Kid Charlemagne
  4:34
  4.0 ★
• 2
  The Caves of Altamira
  3:31
• 3
  Don’t Take Me Alive
  4:13
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Sign In Stranger
  4:21
• 5
  The Fez
  3:59
• 6
  Green Earrings
  4:06
  2.0 ★
• 7
  Haitian Divorce
  5:46
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Everything You Did
  3:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  The Royal Scam
  6:32
  3.5 ★
• Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels) 2
• 1
  Kid Charlemagne
  4:34
  4.0 ★
• 2
  The Caves of Altamira
  3:31
• 3
  Don’t Take Me Alive
  4:13
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Sign In Stranger
  4:21
• 5
  The Fez
  3:59
• 6
  Green Earrings
  4:06
  2.0 ★
• 7
  Haitian Divorce
  5:46
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Everything You Did
  3:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  The Royal Scam
  6:32
  3.5 ★

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Release credits

• Barney Perkins
  mix
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9, 1.1-2, 1.4-7, 1.9]
• Bob Findley
  horn
• Chuck Findley
  horn, trumpet
• Chuck Rainey
  bass
• Clydie King
  background vocals [2.1, 1.1]
• Dean Parks
  guitar [1.7, 2.7], solo [2.7, 1.7]
• Denny Dias
  guitar [2.2, 2.6, 1.2, 1.6], solo [2.6, 1.6]
• Dick Hyde
  horn, trombone
• Don Grolnick
  keyboard [1.1, 2.1]
• Donald Fagen
  background vocals, horn, keyboard, lead vocals, vocal [1.1, 2.1]
• Elliot Scheiner
  engineer
• Elliott Randall
  guitar [2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6], solo [1.6, 2.6]
• Gary Coleman
  percussion
• Gary Katz
  producer [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7]
• Jim Horn
  saxophone
• John Klemmer
  saxophone [1.1, 1.3-9, 2.1, 2.3-9], solo [1.2, 2.2], tenor saxophone [2.2, 1.2]
• Larry Carlton
  guitar, solo [1.1, 1.3, 1.8-9, 2.1, 2.3, 2.8-9]
• Michael McDonald
  background vocals [1.1, 2.1]
• Paul Griffin
  keyboard [2.1-3, 2.5-9, 1.1-3, 1.5-9], piano [2.4, 1.4]
• Plas Johnson
  saxophone
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [1.3, 1.8, 2.3, 2.8]
• Roger Nichols
  engineer, mix
• Sherlie Matthews
  background vocals [2.1, 1.1]
• Venetta Fields
  background vocals [2.1, 1.1]
• Walter Becker
  bass, guitar [1.1-5, 1.5-9, 2.1-5, 2.5-9], horn, solo [2.5, 1.5]
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  May 1976
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  1976
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  1980
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  1985
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  1987
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  The Royal Scam

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  23 November 1999
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  The Royal Scam

  CD
  24 April 2000
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  2000
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  2008
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  20 June 2018
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  Digital Media (2025 remaster)
  6 June 2025
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  2x 12" Vinyl
  6 June 2025
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  18 July 2025
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