Happy new year!
This video subverted my expectations while still being exactly what I expected.
Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson 1971
Abandoned by his father at 3 Nilsson went on to be a small-time criminal and a banker. He broke into demo singing and song writing while working nights a a banking computer guy way back in the early 60s. And the moral of the story is if you do well at your computer work you too can hobnob with the Beatles, Randy Newman, and all kinds of famous people
Will pick up another one soon - The Point (Me and My Arrow)
Steely Dan The Royal Scam 1976
‘Guitarists on the recording include Walter Becker, Denny Dias, Larry Carlton, Elliott Randall and Dean Parks’ if you recognize any of them
'Fagen and Becker claim it to be “the most hideous album cover of the seventies, bar none (excepting perhaps Can’t Buy a Thrill)” ’
Alan parsons Project The Turn of a Friendly Card 1980
Not a new song, but has been stuck in my head since hearing it on the hotel’s sound system yesterday.