This week we're going to check out the music of Steely Dan. - well not exactly them but cover versions of their music and a surprise at the end. But first let's hear from one of our sponsors, Vytautas Mineral Water, it's just that good.
For this first set, let go way back into the vault to hear some cover versions of Early Dan. First up (hold onto your socks) Barbra Streisand and an early composition of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's I Meant to Shine
(After Barbra and her producers got their hands on the song, the boys have all but disowned this song.)
Here's an incredibly funky version of Do It Again by Charles Mann -
This is an interesting cover version of Dirty Work by the Pointer Sisters
This is where cool intersects with cool, Deodato covers Do It Again
And don't think we don't go all the way back in the vault to find the obscure, here's a Bossa Nova version of Barrytown (in Portugiese) by Mara Amaral
We'll take a break before we fall into a too mellow mood
Welcome back to Eagle Brand Soaps Mohammed's Radio Music Hour - the soap to use when you need to get your eagle's hands clean. For this section, I thought we listen to some major artists cover some of Steely Dan's tunes. First up is Wilco doing Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
A bunch of the songs we're listening to tonight are off of the song track album of Me, Myself and Irene. Who know the Farrelly Bros. were such major Danfan heads.
Joe Jackson does a cover of King of the World on his 2000 CD, Summer in the City
listening to this, you almost can imagine that Joe wrote this himself
Not a great stretch for Grover Washington Jr. to give a jazzy interpretation of Time Out of Mind
This is another cover of Barrytown but this time by Ben Folds Five
Let's take a break here and when we come back, we'll listen to some ladies covering the band.
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Welcome back to Eagle Brand Soaps Mohammed's Radio Hour. Your talons would smell too if you spent the day eating raw fish. The soap more undertakers in Minneapolis use.
First up in this section is the Tori Amos' cover of Do It Again from her album of covers, Sparks -
While working on this show, I found this new album, Fire in the Hole (well, new to me) by this duo, Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Tornqvist. The entire album are covers of Steely Dan songs (how convenient.)
Go out and buy the album (or download it or whatever you kids do today.)
The next choice was easy, who better to cover a Steely Dan song than the multi-nominationed grammy performer, Rikki Lee Jones
Probably the best Steely Dan cover of the bunch!
Let take a break here and then come back with some songs that sample Steely Dan
Kanye West sampled Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne on the cut Champion in his 2007 album Graduation.
Del La Soul, the original masters of the sly sample, included Peg in Eye Know from their classic album 3 Feet and Rising.
Interesting aside: both this album, 3 Feet and Rising and Aja were included in the 2010 National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.
Listen carefully and you can hear Green Earrings sampled inside Walk Into the Sun by Organized Konfusion.
Follow along on this one, Beyonce's song Me, Myself and I was remixed to include a sample of Black Cow
Alright when we come back we have two more tunes before we hit the road
Please don't show Rick Santorum this video
I'm not sure his heart could take it
Here are the last two cover versions, the first is a cover version of the Donald Fagen Song Walk Between the Raindrops from his album, The Nightfly
And our last song for the night is the Duke Ellington playing his East St. Louis Toodle-oo. Steely Dan covered the song on their 1974 album Pretzel Logic.
So that's it for tonight's Eagle Brand Soap's Mohammed's Radio Hour. Remember to use Eagle Brand Soap and keep looking for Mohammed's lamp.
Goodnight folks.
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