{"id":28815,"date":"2024-02-20T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-20-1974-steely-dan-releases-pretzel-logic\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:00:09","slug":"on-this-day-february-20-1974-steely-dan-releases-pretzel-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-20-1974-steely-dan-releases-pretzel-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, February 20, 1974: Steely Dan releases &#8216;Pretzel Logic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-20\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, February 20, 1974\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> released their third studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pretzel Logic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was the last to feature the full lineup of <strong>Donald Fagen<\/strong>, <strong>Walter Becker<\/strong>, <strong>Denny Dias<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Hodder<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff \u201cSkunk\u201d Baxter<\/strong>. Future albums would be recorded by Becker, Fagen and hired studio musicians.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s2\">Pretzel Logic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"> was a top 10 hit for Steely Dan, peaking at #8 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"> 200.\u00a0\u00a0It<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0featured the hit single \u201cRicki Don\u2019t Lose That Number,\u201d which was the highest charting single of the band\u2019s career, hitting #4 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The album\u00a0went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Steely Dan, which these days\u00a0consists of Fagen and a group of touring musicians, is still out on the road. They are currently opening for the <strong>Eagles<\/strong> on their Long Goodbye Tour, which hits Hollywood, Florida, on March 1 and 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, February 20, 1974\u2026 Steely Dan released their third studio album, Pretzel Logic, which was the last to feature the full lineup of Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder and Jeff \u201cSkunk\u201d Baxter. Future albums would be recorded by Becker, Fagen and hired studio musicians.\u00a0 Pretzel<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-20-1974-steely-dan-releases-pretzel-logic\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}