Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic [ABC Records / AB-808]

■US盤／マルチラベル／GFジャケット。
■盤質：B／薄い擦れ程度で致命的な深いキズ無し。
■ジャケット：B／シミ汚れあるが抜け裂け割れ無し。

ウォルターベッカーとドナルドフェイゲンによるユニット、スティーリーダン。
本作は、3rdアルバムとなる1974年発表作品。シングル「Rikki Don't Lose That Number(リキの電話番号)」はバンド最大のヒット曲となり、ジャズピアニストのホレスシルヴァーの曲から、あるいはブラジル音楽からアイデアを得たと言われる。ファンキーな「Night By Night」、デュークエリントンのカバー「East St. Louis Toodle-oo」、チャーリーパーカーに捧げた「Parker's Band」、得意とするスローブギ調のタイトル曲「Pretzel Logic」など、バラエティに富んだ内容。初期から中期のスティーリーダンを代表する傑作。

A1 Rikki Don't Lose That Number
A2 Night By Night
A3 Any Major Dude Will Tell You
A4 Barrytown
A5 East St. Louis Toodle-oo
B1 Parker's Band
B2 Through With Buzz
B3 Pretzel Logic
B4 With A Gun
B5 Charlie Freak
B6 Monkey In Your Soul

Donald Fagen – keyboards, alto saxophone, lead and backing vocals[1]
Walter Becker – electric bass guitar, guitars, backing vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar,[1] hand drums[5]
Denny Dias – guitar
Jim Hodder – backing vocals on "Parker's Band"
Additional musicians
Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals on tracks 1, 4 and 8[1]
Michael Omartian – piano, keyboards
David Paich – piano, keyboards
Ben Benay – guitar
Dean Parks – guitar, banjo
Wilton Felder – bass
Chuck Rainey – bass
Plas Johnson, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Watts – saxophone
Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
Lew McCreary – trombone
Jim Gordon – drums on all tracks except "Night by Night"
Jeff Porcaro – drums on "Night by Night", additional drums on "Parker's Band"
Victor Feldman – percussion, flapamba intro to "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"[1]
Roger Nichols – gong on "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
etc.