Show Biz Kids

"Show Biz Kids" is a song composed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and performed by Steely Dan with Rick Derringer on slide guitar. It was the first single from Steely Dan's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy, and reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1]

"Show Biz Kids"
Single by Steely Dan
from the album Countdown to Ecstasy
B-side"Razor Boy"
Released1973
GenreRock, jazz fusion
Length3:59
LabelABC
Songwriter(s)Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
Producer(s)Gary Katz
Steely Dan singles chronology
"Reelin' In the Years"
(1972)
"Show Biz Kids"
(1973)
"My Old School"
(1973)

Personnel

Covers

The song was sampled by Super Furry Animals on their 1996 single "The Man Don't Give a Fuck".

The song was also covered by Rickie Lee Jones on her 2000 album It's Like This.

gollark: Last I heard, solar-powered planes didn't really work due to solar panel efficiency limits and solar irradiance not being that high.
gollark: That's the parents being bees, really.
gollark: I would say the real problem here is the incentive structures making it better to plant "useless crops" than ones which are better.
gollark: Really, leaving the EU has been an excellent decision for us all, especially since the NHS gets 350 million per week, which is totally something which happened.
gollark: Oh. The issue I was worried about was that apparently there aren't enough HGV drivers because something something brexit so now lots of places are missing food.

References

  1. Steely Dan USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.