1973 Steely Dan – My Old School (US:#63)
“My Old School” is a single drawn from Steely Dan‘s 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy. It reached number 63 on the Billboard charts.
The song’s lyrics tell the story of a drug bust at Bard College (named “Annandale” in the lyrics after its location) while both Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were students there, and how a female acquaintance had inadvertently betrayed them to “Daddy Gee” (G. Gordon Liddy, then the local prosecutor). The upshot is that the singer vows he is “never going back” to the college until “California tumbles into the sea.”
Album
Countdown to Ecstasy is the second studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in July 1973 by ABC Records. It was recorded at Caribou Ranch in Nederland, Colorado and at The Village Recorder in West Los Angeles, California. After the departure of vocalist David Palmer, the group recorded the album with Donald […]
Musicians
| Bass | Walter Becker |
| Drums | Jim Hodder |
| Guitar | Jeff Baxter |
| Guitar | Denny Dias |
| Piano | Donald Fagen |
| Sax | Bill Perkins |
| Sax | Ernie Watts |
| Sax | John Rotella |
| Sax | Lanny Morgan |
| Percussion | Jim Hodder |
| Background Vocals | Sherlie Matthews |
| Background Vocals | Myrna Matthews |
| Background Vocals | Patrica Hall |
| Vocals | Donald Fagen |
Produced By
Gary Katz
Songwiters
Donald Fagen
Walter Becker
Charts
US:#63
UK:# –