By Steely Dan, Rikki Don't Lose that Number propelled the album Pretzel Logic to #4 on the Billboard charts in 1974.
Want to know who Rikki is, and why that number is important? Well, per Wikipedia:
In the March 24, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly, in an article titled "Back to Annandale", it was revealed that Rikki Ducornet was the apparent inspiration for the song due to a friendship songwriter Donald Fagen had with Ducornet while he attended Bard College. Ducornet was pregnant and married at the time, but recalls Fagen did give her his phone number at a college party while attending Bard and said that she believed she was the subject of the song. Fagen would not confirm the story.
Cell phones and such have ruined this song in a sense. Now it would be, Ricky don't forget to backup your contacts. Sad.
ReplyDeleteYeah...'Send it off in a letter to yourself'? What's a letter?!? Never heard of it.
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