In the modern day, Steely Dan has become almost synonymous with the classic rock genre. So it’s not all that surprising that Amazon Music included one of the band’s biggest hits on the streaming service’s curated list, “100 Greatest Classic Rock Songs.”
Amazon Music put Steely Dan’s 1972 hit “Do It Again,” off the band’s first album, Can’t Buy a Thrill, at the list’s 88th spot. The song, written by singer and keyboardist Donald Fagen, was almost immediately popular, securing the number 6 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1973, just three months after Can’t Buy a Thrill was released.
In a 2022 interview with Rock History Music, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, the guitarist on Can’t Buy a Thrill and Steely Dan’s 1973 album, Countdown to Ecstasy, and 1974’s Pretzel Logic, discussed the popularity of “Do It Again.”
Baxter said while the 5-minute-and-57-second track “was ostensibly the first single from Steely Dan,” the song “Dallas,” which was eventually released in 1978, was supposed to be the first single. The musician explained that Walter Becker, who died in 2017 at the age of 67, and Fagen “were afraid that, between the way the song, the genre of the song, plus the name Steely Dan, people would think it was a country band, so they pulled the single.”
He then said that he believed “Do It Again” became a hit because of when it was released.
“‘Do It Again’ was very interesting to me because it’s one of those songs where I think timing is everything. If we had released that a year before or a year after, it was like minute by minute, if we’d released that song a year before, a year after, nobody would have cared,” said Baxter, now 77, in the 2022 interview. “So I’m not quite sure. I guess it’s all about the stars aligning in whatever way they do to permit the entrance of something new into the universe, you know, my place in this, that portal would have closed.”
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