Steely Dan - Do It Again - 1972 - (Album Version)

Do It Again" is a 1972 song composed and performed by American rock group Steely Dan, who released it as a single from their debut album Can't Buy a Thrill. The single version differed from the album version, shortening the intro and outro and omitting the organ solo

B-side"Fire in the Hole"ReleasedNovember 1972Recorded

August 1972

at the Village Recorder, Santa Monica

Genre

Soft rock[1]

funk rock[2]

Latin jazz[3]

Length

4:14 (7" version)

5:56 (album version)

Label

ABC (US)

EMI (Europe)

Songwriter(s)

Walter Becker

Donald Fagen

Producer(s)Gary Katz


Released in 1972, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 18, 1972, and reached number 6 on the US charts in 1973, making it Steely Dan's second highest-charting single.

Song

"Do It Again" features an electric sitar solo by Denny Dias. The "plastic organ" solo by Donald Fagen was performed on a Yamaha YC-30 with a sliding pitch-bending control.[5] The song is written in the key of G minor and has a tempo of 125 beats per minute. It follows a chord progression of Cm-Dm-Eb-Dm7-Gm-Cm-Dm-Eb-Dm.

David Palmer fronted the band during their live show, and sang "Do It Again" when the group played The Midnight Special in February 1973. Donald Fagen sang the vocal on the album version.

Cash Box described it as a "fine commercial effort with plenty of potential as a hit record," going on to say that it "is highlighted by some fine vocal harmony and superb arrangement."