Donald Fagen
American retired singer-songwriter and musicianWikipedia
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Oct 29, 2026
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This was his fourth studio album, hit number 25 on the Billboard Top R&B Hip Hop Albums chart.
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It had guest spots from Q-Tip and also Busta Rhymes, and it had songs like Groove With It and Raw 91. in 1991 the new york rock and soul review released live at the beacon this was organized by donald fagan and this live album documented the collaborative concert series that had michael mcdonald donald fagan phoebe snow boz skaggs and charles brown it also had an on-stage reunion with steely dan bandmate walter becker on the song chain lightning In 1991, Paul McCartney released Choba BCCCP.
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This was the U.S. release, which was originally put out in the Soviet Union back in 1988.
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It was a collection of classic 1950s rock and roll cover versions of songs that actually got released over in the Soviet Union first.
John HansenHOST
Anyway, shout out to Steely Dan.
John HansenHOST
By the way, you know, the main guy from Steely Dan is, Donald Fagan attended the same college that my son currently is enrolled at, at Berkeley College of Music in Boston.
John HansenHOST
So it's kind of funny real quick not to go off on a tangent.
John HansenHOST
Get him on the pod.
Jake SorensenHOST
Oh.
Jake SorensenHOST
He says, Donald Fagan, RIP, is a genius.
Jake SorensenHOST
So you said they were smart.
Jake SorensenHOST
God dang.
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
No, that would be
Joe SoucherayHOST
Donald Fagan
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
from Steely Dad.
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
New frontier.
Concert BuddieHOST
it's like black
ArnaldoPANELIST
to black color still? Yeah, the Donald Fagan.
ArnaldoPANELIST
But is it see-through? No, it's not.
ArnaldoPANELIST
It's no longer see-through.
Seth FordHOST
Here's looking at you.
Seth FordHOST
kids just like donald fagan was saying about starbucks kids um if you could please go out there and tell a couple of people in line at starbucks about this podcast that you listen to featuring these two guys and their friend from cape coral in cape coral talking about lyrics sometimes it gets really creepy sometimes it's uh enlightening oftentimes it should be uh enriching and telling you uh which direction you want to go in in this case away from alice cooper Please leave us any suggestions that you can for songs at lyricstogopod at gmail.com. Leave a review on a podcast server of your choice.
Seth FordHOST
And as always, we love you.
Seth FordHOST
Mark?
Mike SlaterHOST
Yeah, he likes to say a lot.
Mike SlaterHOST
Donald Fagan said he would come into the sessions with two signs and he'd put them up by his drum kit.
Mike SlaterHOST
The first sign said, you done it.
Mike SlaterHOST
And then he'd go into his suitcase, get the other sign and put it up.
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Mike SlaterHOST
I think
Donovan SummersGUEST
we only did three.
Donovan SummersGUEST
Yeah, which is, I mean, Donald Fagan and Walter Becker would have a stroke if they heard that.
Donovan SummersGUEST
And we just, we had a lot of fun.
Vic PorcelliHOST
Doobie Brothers.
Vic PorcelliHOST
So my favorite things that he did was the Rock and Soul Review with Donald Fagan and Bob Skaggs.
Vic PorcelliHOST
Yeah.
Vic PorcelliHOST
And that was at the Beacon Theater.
Vic PorcelliHOST
And I was, when I worked in New Jersey, I was so privileged that I have to apologize for it sometimes.
Vic PorcelliHOST
But I saw these guys at the Beacon Theater in New York City, your dad, and Donald Fagan, Boss Gag, Charles Brown, you know, and Phoebe Snow, I think was there too.
Vic PorcelliHOST
And it was just so amazing to see these guys coming from different places.
Vic PorcelliHOST
Do you guys talk about music, you and your
ScottHOST
That guitar solo in the middle.
ScottHOST
so as it says here uh walter and we talked about this we talked about this last last time we were together uh becker and donald fagan were notorious perfectionists who cycled through dozens of top tier session guitarists for a single solo remember we talked about that like how do you how do you play in front of those guys How do you get up in front of them? And they're just like, you better fucking impress me.
Mark SmithGUEST
But
ScottHOST
this guy.
DaveGUEST
1994.
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Automatic for the People by R.E.M. Kamakiriad by Donald Fagan.
DaveGUEST
River of Dreams by Billy Joel.
DaveGUEST
Ten Summoners Tales by Sting.
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