Steely Dan’s Walter Becker was obsessed with a tiny sound glitch on the album Katy Lied and flew to a 3M factory in Minnesota to find out the cause. It turned out to be a blot of dried mustard on the tape. Duh!
The late Walter Becker was born on this date in 1950. Lots of Steely Dan on today’s playlist.
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Released as a single in 1971, Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” tanked. She rerecorded the song. The new version was released as a single the following year, debuting on the Hot 100 at number 99. Two weeks later it was number 97. Then it fell off the chart. Lots of television appearances and many phone calls from Reddy’s husband to radio stations across the US led to the song re-entering the Hot 100, eventually becoming the first of three US number one singles for Reddy and winning her the very first American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Vocalist.
The late Helen Reddy was born on this date in 1941. Several of her recordings are included on today’s playlist.
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Today’s playlist celebrates the August 13 birthdays of The Undertones’ Feargal Sharkey, MØ, Outlaws’ Hughie Thomasson, Tal Bachman, and Dan Fogelberg; the August 14 birthdays of Crosby Stills & Nash’s David Crosby, Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic, Seals & Crofts’ Dash Crofts, Utah Saints’ Jez Willis, Steve Martin, and Graham Central Station’s Larry Graham; and the August 15 birthdays of Deee-Lite’s Lady Miss Kier, The The’s Matt Johnson, Jon Hopkins, The Doobie Brothers’ Tom Johnston, Bobby Caldwell, Diamond Head’s Sean Harris, The Fabulous Wailers’ Mark Marush, Buster Brown, Bobby Helms, and Nipsey Hussle.
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Inspired by the August 14 birthdays of The Byrds’ David Crosby, Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic, Steve Martin, Utah Saints’ Jez Willis, Dash Crofts, and Larry Graham; and the August 13 birthdays of Dan Fogelberg and The Undertones’ Feargal Sharkey.