Couldn't resist the original Desperate Dan promo for this album 🙂 Their highest charting single (#4 Aug 1974). That still amazes me because it simply broke the mold. But that's what made the seventies like no other era. I am not monetized on YT. Please like & subscribe. Enjoy the full Pretzel Logic playlist here: [ Ссылка ] (Lyrics & trivia below in description)
Lyrics:
We hear you're leaving, that's okay
I thought our little wild time had just begun
I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run
But if you have a change of heart
Rikki don't lose that number
You don't want to call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself
Rikki don't lose that number
It's the only one you own
You might use it if you feel better
When you get home
I have a friend in town, he's heard your name
We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row
We could stay inside and play games, I don't know
And you could have a change of heart
Rikki don't lose that number
You don't want to call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself
Rikki don't lose that number
It's the only one you own
You might use it if you feel better
When you get home
You tell yourself you're not my kind
But you don't even know your mind
And you could have a change of heart
Rikki don't lose that number
You don't want to call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself
Rikki don't lose that number
It's the only one you own
You might use it if you feel better
When you get home
"Despite their attempts to jazz it up, ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’ would be the song that brought Steely Dan to a new level of pop success. The song reached as high as number four on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 3, 1974. The top five that week included ‘The Night Chicago Died’ by Paper Lace at number five, ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’ at number four, ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’ by Roberta Flack at number three, ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ by Elton John at two, and ‘Annie’s Song’ by John Denver in the first place. Just the most bizarre and appropriately ’70s top five. ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ is down there in the eleventh spot....
...By the time the band reached 1974’s Pretzel Logic, Fagen and Becker made it clear in no uncertain terms that they were Steely Dan and that the rest of the members would be joined, or in most cases replaced, by studio musicians. Dias would be retained for the future, but the other members were largely phased out by the time recording sessions for Pretzel Logic began. Baxter would later join the Doobie Brothers, with his solo on ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’ being one of his final contributions to the band." ~ Tyler Golsen, FAR OUT Magazine (2021).
