ALOHA! PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WHAT I'M DOING 👍🏾 I APPRECIATE YOU!THIS PODCAST SPOTLIGHTS THE MUSIC OF STEELY DAN, AND SPECIFICALLY, THE ALBUM THAT’S #10 ON MY LIST OF THE 50 GREATEST ALBUMS AND RECORDS OF MY LIFETIME. ITS HARD FOR ME TO PIN POINT EXACTLY WHEN I “HEARD” THE FIRST STEELY DAN SONG BUT I CAN SAY FOR SURE THAT WHENEVER IT WAS…IT WAS WHEN I HEARD “RIKKI DONT LOSE THAT NUMBER”, AND FROM THERE I BECAME A FAN. I JUST KEPT LISTENING TO THEM. I WOULD HEAR SONGS LIKE “DO IT AGAIN”, UH, “PLEASE DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE” …ON THE RADIO. BUT IN 1978, I’M A JUST A SHORTY IN HIGH SCHOOL AND AS ALWAYS IM LISTENING TO THE RADIO ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, THE DJ FROM WQMG PLAYS A SONG. AND THE NAME OF THE SONG IS ‘AJA’. THE SONG BEGINS WITH A SIMPLE CHORD CHANGE THAT’S ACCOMPANIED BY A SLOW, LAZY, DREAMY KEY JINGLE AND FROM THERE IT TRANSFORMS INTO ONE OF THE MOST…ROLLER COASTER-EQUSE, BEAUTIFUL, MESEMERIZING SONGS EVER MADE, HELD STRONG AND TIGHT WITH THE DRUM TRACK FROM THE LEGENDARY STEVE GADD. ONCE I HEARD THAT SONG THEN, I COULDN’T WAIT TO HEAR IT AGAIN. DURING THAT TIME, MY DAD BORROWED SOME RECORDS FROM HIS NEPHEW, MY COUSIN, BOBBY. COUSIN BOBBY (WHO’S NOW KNOWN AS ‘YISHAI’) WAS A COOL ASS MUSIC FAN AND HE HAD LOTS OF GREAT JAZZ FUSION, ALONG WITH SOME ROCK AND FUNK. AJA WAS ONE OF THE ALBUMS AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT I LISTENED TO THAT ALBUM MAYBE 100,000 TIMES DURING THAT PERIOD WHEN DAD HAD THOSE RECORDS. AND THAT’S WHY IM A HUGE STEELY DAN FAN AND AN ABSOLUTE FAN OF AJA. SO WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY, I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, THE MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ARTIST THAT HOLDS THE #10 SPOT ON MY LIST OF THE 50TH GREATEST ALBUMS AND RECORDS OF MY LIFETIME, MY TRIBUTE TO STEELY DAN AND ‘AJA’ “DO IT AGAIN - 1972, CAN’T BUY A THRILL“NIGHT BY NIGHT” - 1974, PRETZEL LOGIC“RIKKI DON’T LOSE THAT NUMBER” - 1974, PRETZEL LOGIC“DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE” - 1976, THE ROYAL SCAM“THE CAVES OF ALTIMARA” - 1976, THE ROYAL SCAM“HOME AT LAST” - 1977, AJA“DEACON BLUES” - 1977, AJA“BLACK COW” - 1977, AJA“PEG” - 1977, AJA“AJA” - 1977, AJA“BABYLON SISTERS” - GAUCHO, 1980 “GAUCHO” - 1980. “I.G.Y.” - 1982, DONALD FAGEN’S FIRST SOLO RELEASE.Call my studio hotline: 808-343-1943, leave me a message!Please give me your thoughts, ideas, comments & questions: IG: @cjaaybeats; X: @djceejaay; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carl.r.johnsonjr1; You Tube: @djceejaay

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