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David Palmer is an American vocalist, songwriter and photographer best known as a former member of Steely Dan and as the lyricist of "Jazzman", a No. 2 hit for Carole King. Musical career [ edit ]
Two songs recorded during the Can't Buy a Thrill sessions were left off the album and released as a single: "Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway". [6] This is the only Steely Dan album to include David Palmer as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after Donald Fagen expressed concerns over singing live.
Steely Dan is an American jazz rock group founded by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). The band's first lineup also included guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.
After the departure of vocalist David Palmer from Steely Dan, the group recorded the album with Donald Fagen singing lead on every track. [ 7 ] Although the album was a critical success, it failed to generate a hit single in the United States, and consequently only charted at number 35 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, though it was ...
The song was included on the band's 1972 debut album Can't Buy a Thrill.The same year it was released as a single on the Probe label in the Netherlands. [6]AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes "Dirty Work" as a "terrific pop song that subvert[s] traditional conventions" and is one of the best songs on Can't Buy a Thrill, [7] while MusicHound author Gary Graff refers to it as being ...
Although some of these songs ("Caves of Altamira", "Brooklyn", "Barrytown") were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums, most were never officially released. [9] In 1970, Gary Katz produced an album by singer Linda Hoover, I Mean to Shine, featuring Fagen, Becker, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, and including five Becker/Fagen songs. The album was shelved ...
David Crosby, who died Wednesday (Jan. 18) at the age of 81, leaves behind six decades of music in a career that included founding folk-rock trailblazers the Byrds and uniting with Stephen Stills ...
The band's classic formation featured Martin Fry as the lead vocalist, Mark White on guitar and keyboards, Stephen Singleton playing the saxophone, and David Palmer behind the drums. [5] ABC achieved ten UK and five US top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990, and their 1982 debut studio album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK number one