The Very Best of Steely Dan

Tracklist

• 1
  Do It Again
  4.1 ★
• 2
  Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Pretzel Logic
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Deacon Blues
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Reelin’ In the Years
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Peg
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Black Friday
  4.5 ★
• 8
  The Fez
• 9
  Show Biz Kids
  4.0 ★
• 10
  My Old School
  4.2 ★
• 11
  Josie
  3.5 ★

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Release credits

• Barney Perkins
  mix [8]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [4, 8]
• Bill Perkins
  saxophone [10]
• Bob Findley
  horn [8]
• Chuck Findley
  horn [8], trumpet [8]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass [7-8], bass guitar [6, 11]
• Clydie King
  background vocals [4]
• David Paich
  keyboard [7]
• David Palmer
  background vocals [5]
• Dean Parks
  acoustic guitar [2], guitar [11]
• Denny Dias
  electric guitar [5], electric sitar [1], guitar [3, 10], solo [1]
• Dick Hyde
  horn [8], trombone [8]
• Don Grolnick
  clavinet [6]
• Donald Fagen
  arranger [7], background vocals [2, 5, 8, 11], electric piano [1], horn [8], keyboard [1, 3, 7-8], lead vocals [1-2, 4-8, 10-11], piano [5, 7, 10], synthesizer [4, 11], vocal [3]
• Elliot Scheiner
  engineer [8]
• Elliott Randall
  electric guitar [5], solo [5]
• Ernie Watts
  saxophone [10]
• Gary Coleman
  percussion [6, 8]
• Gary Katz
  producer
• Jay Graydon
  guitar [6], solo [6]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
  electric guitar [1, 5], guitar [2-3, 10], pedal steel guitar [3], solo [2, 10]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [2-3]
• Jim Hodder
  drums (drum set) [1, 5, 10]
• Jim Horn
  saxophone [8]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [11], percussion [11]
• Jimmie Haskell
  horn [10]
• John Klemmer
  saxophone [8]
• Johnny Rotella
  saxophone [10]
• Lanny Morgan
  saxophone [10]
• Larry Carlton
  guitar [4, 11]
• Lee Ritenour
  guitar [4]
• Michael McDonald
  background vocals [6]
• Michael Omartian
  keyboard [7], piano [2]
• Miss Natalie
  assistant [9-10]
• Myrna Matthews
  background vocals [10]
• Patricia Hall
  background vocals [10]
• Paul Griffin
  Rhodes piano [6], background vocals [6], electric piano [6], keyboard [8]
• Pete Christlieb
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Plas Johnson
  saxophone [8]
• Rick Derringer
  slide guitar [9]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Roger Nichols
  engineer [1-3, 5, 7-10], executive [4, 6, 11], mix [8]
• Sherlie Matthews
  background vocals [4, 10]
• Steve Kahn
  guitar [6]
• Steve Khan
  guitar [6]
• Tim Weston
  assistant [1, 5]
• Timothy B. Schmit
  background vocals [2, 11]
• Tom Scott
  Lyricon [6], horn [4]
• Venetta Fields
  background vocals [4]
• Victor Feldman
  Rhodes piano [4, 11], electric piano [4], percussion [1-2, 6-7], vibraphone [7]
• Walter Becker
  arranger [7], bass [2-4, 7-8, 10], electric bass guitar [1, 5], guitar [3, 7, 7-8, 8, 11], horn [8], solo [7-8, 11]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Steely Dan

  12" Vinyl
  1979