Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters - (Reaction)

[@ronnie6613]

Love this Album. Especially, Hey Nineteen. Keep Rockin' RONNIE Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎸

[@danielmccann8325]

So glad you picked this album. This song has such a great vibe and The background singers were just outstanding.

[@masapell]

This album was a “who’s who” of sax players. Tom Scott (think soprano sax on the McCarney/Wings song “Listen to what the man says”), David Sanborn (Bowie’s “American Girl”, Carly Simon’s “You Belong to Me”) and the late Michael Brecker (Brecker Brothers, Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After These Years”). They played on many, many albums with some of the most distinct solos. This is a wonderful album that you will enjoy!

[@danielmccann8325]

Yes Michael Brecker is later featured on one of the great pop sax solos, ever Maxine, on Donald 's solo album.

[@masapell]

@@danielmccann8325 and a great solo that is!!

[@MichaelTrogdon1990]

Here are the full credits for Babylon Sisters. I think it's safe to say everyone did their thing on this one. Donald Fagen - lead vocals Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn Tom Scott - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet Walter Kane - clarinet George Marge - clarinet Rob Mounsey - horn arrangement Don Grolnick - electric piano, clavinet Steve Khan - guitar Chuck Rainey - bass Bernard Purdie - drums Errol "Crusher" Bennett - percussion Patti Austin, Diva Gray, Lani Groves, Lesley Miller, Toni Wine, Gordon Grody - backing vocals

[@totallyradreactions5006]

thank you amazing to me how many musicians are involved with each song from them...big names too from what i understand

[@realbser1956]

Babylon Sisters always sounded to me like it belonged on the Aja album. It’s got that feel. Same with Hey Nineteen which is up next. Roger Nichols was the recording engineer for almost every Steely Dan album. His nickname was “The Immortal”. I won’t list it here but he won various Grammy awards for his work with SD and worked with many, many other musicians over the years. He is the genius, along with Becker and Fagen responsible for that perfection in your headphones. ✌️

[@steelyd2]

And don’t forget Nichols built the first drum sequencer ever to use on this record to get those perfect exact drum tracks. You can really hear the drum machine on “glamour profession” and “time out of mind”.

[@totallyradreactions5006]

i was just telling a buddy of mine that i started on this album and i thought just from this song it surpassed aja in the mixing and overall sound category. so i totally agree this could have been on that album

[@kellydelay18]

One of my favorites

[@Sander12348]

Donald and Walter was always heavily involved in the mixing of their albums. Requiring sometimes dozens of takes until they got What they envisioned in their heads.

[@savariaxa]

They made 270 mixes of Babylon Sisters 🙈 then Donald Fagen was satisfied !

[@asiaparks7158]

New Subscriber This Is My Shit lol😅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🙌🏾🙏🏾😇

[@darrylhinko5568]

If you have Chuck Rainey no need for another bass player.

[@paul-Ess]

Mark who?lol

[@totallyradreactions5006]

LMAO! did I butcher his last name?

[@paul-Ess]

@@totallyradreactions5006 give you a clue,Dire Straits!