{"id":6470,"date":"2022-04-06T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:37:14","slug":"rikki-dont-lose-that-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"Rikki Don&#8217;t Lose That Number"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is my cover of a single released in 1974 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steely_Dan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steely Dan<\/a>\u00a0and the opening track of their third album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pretzel_Logic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pretzel Logic<\/a><\/em>. It was the most successful single of the group&#8217;s career, peaking at number 4 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0in the summer of 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guitar solo on the original is by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Baxter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff &#8220;Skunk&#8221; Baxter<\/a>\u00a0who would soon go on to join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doobie_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Doobie Brothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Fagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Fagen<\/a>\u00a0revealed that the &#8220;Rikki&#8221; in question was simply a woman he&#8217;d had a crush on in college [writer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rikki_Ducornet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rikki Ducornet<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This version performed, recorded and produced at Baselines Designs Studio by Steve Keith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Cover_Story_2\/Rikki_Dont_Lose_That_Number.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1013\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rikki-1013x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rikki-1013x815.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rikki-900x724.jpg 900w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rikki-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rikki-640x515.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my cover of a single released in 1974 by Steely Dan\u00a0and the opening track of their third album\u00a0Pretzel Logic. It was the most successful single of the group&#8217;s career, peaking at number 4 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100\u00a0in the summer of 1974. The guitar solo on the original is by\u00a0Jeff &#8220;Skunk&#8221; Baxter\u00a0who would soon go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[276,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bandlab","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}