Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

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Label:	ABC Records – ABCD #808
Format:	Vinyl , LP, Album, Stereo , Gatefold
Country:	US
Released:	1974
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Pop Rock

Tracklist

A1	Rikki Don't Lose That Number	4:30
A2	Night By Night	3:36
A3	Any Major Dude Will Tell You	3:05
A4	Barrytown	3:17
A5	East St. Louis Toodle-oo Written-By – Duke Ellington	2:45
B1	Parker's Band	2:36
B2	Through With Buzz	1:30
B3	Pretzel Logic	4:28
B4	With A Gun	2:15
B5	Charlie Freak	2:41
B6	Monkey In Your Soul	2:31

Companies, etc.

Engineered At – The Village Recorder
Mixed At – Cherokee Studios
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABC Records, Inc.
Copyright © – ABC Records, Inc.
Published By – American Broadcasting Music, Inc.
Published By – Mills Music, Inc.
Published By – Red Giant Music, Inc.

Credits

Art Direction, Photography By [Inside Photo] – Ed Caraeff
Bass – Wilton Felder
Bass, Guitar – Walter Becker
Design – David Larkham
Drums – Jim Hodder
Engineer – Roger (The Immortal) Nichols*
Guitar – Jeff Baxter
Guitar, Banjo – Dean Parks
Keyboards – Michael Omartian
Keyboards, Percussion – Victor Feldman
Lacquer Cut By – Az*
Management [Personal] – Kudo III
Orchestrated By – Jimmie Haskell
Other [Security] – Karen Stanley
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Raenne Rubenstein*
Producer – Gary Katz
Saxophone – Plas Johnson
Trumpet – Ollie Mitchell
Vocals, Keyboards – Donald Fagen
Written-By – W. Becker* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B6)

Notes

Gatefold Packaging.
Fuzz box — Courtesy of Valley Sound
Tim Schmit — Courtesy of Epic Records
Engineered at the Village Recorder, West Los Angeles. Overdub and mixdown at Cherokee Sound, Chatsworth, Calif.

All songs pub. by American Broadcasting Music, Inc. (ASCAP) unless otherwise indicated.
American Broadcasting Music, Inc./Red Giant Music, Inc. [A4]
Mills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) [A5]
American Broadcasting Music, Inc./Red Giant Music, Inc. (ASCAP) [B1, B5]
℗ 1974

There are two different labels both came out the same year.
1st Pressing : Black ABC Label (this entry and Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic)
Label variation: this release has text on labels formatted differently and slightly different color array in box around ABC Records)
2nd Pressing : Multi-colored concentric circles ABC label

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Runout A etching, variant 1): ABCD 808-A RE2 Az 1A
Matrix / Runout (Runout B etching, variant 1): ABCD 808-B RE2 Az A2
Matrix / Runout (Runout A etching, variant 2): 2 ABCD 808-A RE2 Az 1A D1
Matrix / Runout (Runout B etching, variant 2): 1 ABCD 808-B RE2 Az 1B C1

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Pretzel Logic (LP, Album, Reissue, Black Label, Gatefold)	ABC Records	ABCL 5045, ABCX 808	UK	1974
Recently Edited	Pretzel Logic (LP, Album, Santa Maria Pressing, Gatefold)	ABC Records	ABCD-808	US	1974
Recently Edited	Pretzel Logic (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold)	Probe	SPBA 6282, 0C 064 ◦ 95272	UK	1974
Recently Edited	Pretzel Logic (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold)	Probe	1C 062-95 272		1974
Recently Edited	Pretzel Logic (LP, Album, Quadraphonic, Santa Maria Pressing)	Command Quadraphonic	CQD-40015	US	1974