{"id":31489,"date":"2025-02-20T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-20-1974-steely-dan-released-pretzel-logic\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:02:30","slug":"on-this-day-feb-20-1974-steely-dan-released-pretzel-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-20-1974-steely-dan-released-pretzel-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 20, 1974: Steely Dan released &#8216;Pretzel Logic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-20\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 20, 1974 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> released their third studio album, <em>Pretzel Logic<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pretzel Logic<\/em> was a top-10 hit for Steely Dan, peaking at #8 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200. It featured the hit single \u201cRikki Don\u2019t Lose That Number,\u201d which was the highest-charting single of the band\u2019s career, hitting #4 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>The album went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 20, 1974 &#8230; 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.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-20-1974-steely-dan-released-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\/31489"}],"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=31489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}