Ten Favorite Number Songs: Hey Nineteen (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (61094)
United States
June 25, 2017 6:44pm CST
Having added up all the digits, @teamfreak16 and I are following up on his idea of songs with numbers in the title....this time with the words, not the digits. Kudos to him for a great idea (and especially a great song today). We can play "six degrees" with his song and mine today, so here's the next song on my list.
#9: Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Scott's song today is "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck. On his first solo album, The Nightfly, Donald Fagen sang Brubeck's praises in the song "The New Frontier:" "I hear you're mad about Brubeck, I like your eyes and I like him too, he's an artist, a pioneer."
But before that album came Steely Dan's swan song in their original run, the 1980 album Gaucho. The album had a lot of themes of debauchery (like that was new for Steely Dan....). This one's relatively tame (although there's some of that "illegal fun under the sun" mentioned in "Glamour Profession": "the Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian make tonight a wonderful thing" [note: drinking age was 18 in many states when this song came out, so the booze is not the unlawful substance ]): a 30-something guy who was "the dandy of Gamma Chi" in the 60s ("way back when, in '67") is dating a 19-year-old who has no clue who Aretha Franklin is ("she don't remember the Queen of Soul"). About the only thing they have in common is sex and drugs and tequila.
Hey, that was the late 70s for you.
Hey Nineteen
Written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
Recorded by Steely Dan
From Gaucho, 1980
I'm just growing old:
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@teamfreak16 (43451)
• Denver, Colorado
26 Jun 17
As you might have expected, we have a match. I think this will be the first time I've used Steely Dan before.
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@FourWalls (61094)
• United States
26 Jun 17
Yes, I had this one circled. We're slipping!!! Of course, how can you ignore this one??
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@teamfreak16 (43451)
• Denver, Colorado
26 Jun 17
@FourWalls - You can't. I wanted to use it on the # series, until I remembered that "19" is spelled out.
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@FourWalls (61094)
• United States
11 Jul 17
@JolietJake -- glad you didn't wait until Black Friday to put on your bad sneakers.....
@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Jun 17
How can that be 1980? Wasn't it yesterday?
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@FourWalls (61094)
• United States
26 Jun 17
No, three days ago. I was stationed in Jacksonville when this came out, and that was three days ago.
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