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"Josie" is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and first released by Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja.It was also released as the third single from the album and performed modestly well, reaching number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 44 on the Easy Listening chart that year. [2]
Aja (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə /, pronounced "Asia") is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records.For the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated ...
Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a full band lineup, Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live by the end of 1974 and continued Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilizing a ...
Although Fagen, whose Steely Dan partner, Walter Becker, died in 2017, declined Price's invitation, a number of yacht rock practitioners pop up in the documentary to reminisce about the music that ...
Steely Dan isn't known as a New Jersey band. But the band's songs and its worldview are undeniable products of the Garden State. Here's why.
They had a musical number about "When Josie comes home". A few dozen people were on the stage singing about how much they loved Josie and how wonderful it will be to see her again. They were all wearing pastel yellows, pinks, and orange costumes. This went on for a minute or two, then Josie appears. She's the only one wearing any shade of blue.
Keltner is the drummer on the Steely Dan tune "Josie" (released in 1977). In the DVD Steely Dan - Classic Albums: Aja, Donald Fagen states that in the bridge of the tune, Keltner overdubbed a 16th note based pattern played on a metal trash can lid. Keltner appeared in the 1979 film "Old Boyfriends" playing drums as a 'Bloodshot Band' member.
Jazz keyboardist Jim Beard, who played with Steely Dan for more than a decade, has died. The rock band confirmed Beard's death on its website. Jim Beard, longtime keyboardist for Steely Dan, dies ...