The Royal Scam
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| Studio album by Steely Dan | ||||
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Publication |
1976 |
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| Label (s) | ABC Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
41:11 |
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Gary Katz |
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The Royal Scam is Steely Dan's fifth album . It was released in May 1976.
The album went gold and reached number 15 on the charts. The album is relatively guitar-oriented, with Larry Carlton , Denny Dias , Elliott Randall , Walter Becker and Dean Parks playing.
In a 2000 BBC interview, Becker and Fagen said the title Kid Charlemagne was inspired by Owsley Stanley's life story.
Record cover
The album cover shows a man in a suit sleeping on a bench under skyscrapers with animal heads. The cover was designed by Larry Zox. In the liner notes of the 1999 album remaster, Fagen and Becker described the cover as "the ugliest album cover of the seventies, with the possible exception of Can't Buy a Thrill ".
reception
The Rolling Stone was in his Hall of Fame the album the maximum score.
Track list
All songs are by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, unless otherwise stated.
page 1
- Kid Charlemagne , 4:38, guitar solo by Larry Carlton
- The Caves of Altamira , 3:33, tenor saxophone solo by John Klemmer
- Don't Take Me Alive , 4:16, guitar solo by Larry Carlton
- Sign in Stranger , 4:23, piano solo by Paul Griffin, guitar solo by Elliott Randall
- The Fez (Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin), 4:01, guitar solo by Walter Becker
Page 2
- Green Earrings , 4:05, guitar solos by Denny Dias (1st) and Elliott Randall (2nd)
- Haitian Divorce , 5:51, guitar solo by Dean Parks, talk box by Walter Becker added
- Everything You Did , 3:55, guitar solo by Larry Carlton
- The Royal Scam , 6:30 am, guitar solo by Larry Carlton
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Owsley Stanley ( Memento April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rolling Stone ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )