Kid Charlemagne, the Glossary
"Kid Charlemagne" is a song by the rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1976 album The Royal Scam as its opening track and reached number 82 in the ''Billboard'' charts.[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: ABC Records, Adrian Belew, Bad Sneakers, Bernard Purdie, Billboard Hot 100, Cashbox (magazine), Champion (Kanye West song), Chuck Rainey, Clavinet, Clydie King, Don Grolnick, Donald Fagen, Eddie Van Halen, Far Out (website), Funk, Furthur (bus), Gary Katz, Gothamist, Graduation (album), Guitar World, HP Newquist, Illegal drug trade, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Kanye West, Larry Carlton, LSD, Merry Pranksters, Michael McDonald (musician), Motorhome, Musical ensemble, Nick Hornby, Owsley Stanley, Paul Griffin (musician), Pete Prown, Psychedelia, Rhodes piano, Rob Fetters, Rock and roll, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, Sherlie Matthews, Songbook (Nick Hornby book), Steely Dan, Tapping, Technicolor, The Royal Scam, Venetta Fields, Walter Becker, West Coast of the United States.
- Song recordings produced by Gary Katz
- Songs written by Donald Fagen
- Songs written by Walter Becker
- Steely Dan songs
ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.
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Adrian Belew
Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Bad Sneakers
"Bad Sneakers" is a song by jazz rock band Steely Dan. Kid Charlemagne and bad Sneakers are ABC Records singles, song recordings produced by Gary Katz, songs written by Donald Fagen, songs written by Walter Becker and Steely Dan songs.
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Bernard Purdie
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Cashbox (magazine)
Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.
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Champion (Kanye West song)
"Champion" is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his third studio album, Graduation (2007). Kid Charlemagne and Champion (Kanye West song) are songs written by Donald Fagen and songs written by Walter Becker.
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Chuck Rainey
Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones.
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Clavinet
The Clavinet is an electric clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982.
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Clydie King
Clydie Mae King (August 21, 1943 – January 7, 2019) was an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist.
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Don Grolnick
Don Grolnick (September 23, 1947 – June 1, 1996) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and record producer.
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Donald Fagen
Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician who was the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker.
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Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician.
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Far Out (website)
Far Out is a British online culture website, headquartered in London and founded in 2010.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Furthur (bus)
Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his "Merry Band of Pranksters" cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went.
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Gary Katz
Gary Katz is an American record producer, best known for his work on albums by Steely Dan.
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Gothamist
Gothamist is a New York City centric blog website operated by New York Public Radio.
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Graduation (album)
Graduation is the third studio album by the American rapper Kanye West released on September 11, 2007, through Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records.
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Guitar World
Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.
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HP Newquist
HP Newquist is an American author whose books cover topics from medicine and music to technology and terror.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
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Kanye West
Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
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Larry Carlton
Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell.
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LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.
Merry Pranksters
The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey.
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Michael McDonald (musician)
Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of Steely Dan (1973–1974), and the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present).
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Motorhome
A motorhome (or coach) is a type of self-propelled recreational vehicle (RV) which is as the name suggests, like a home on wheels.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist.
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Owsley Stanley
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist.
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Paul Griffin (musician)
Paul Griffin (August 6, 1937 – June 14, 2000) was an American pianist and session musician who recorded with hundreds of musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Pete Prown
Pete Prown (born 1963) is an American writer and magazine editor, painter, guitarist, and music journalist.
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Psychedelia
Psychedelia usually refers to a style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances.
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Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s.
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Rob Fetters
Rob Fetters is an American musician, songwriter, and commercial music composer.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Sherlie Matthews
Sherlie Mae Matthews (born November 10, 1934) is an American singer, songwriter and former Motown Records producer, best known as a backing vocalist for pop, R&B and rock groups from the mid-1960s to the present.
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Songbook (Nick Hornby book)
Songbook (published in the United Kingdom as 31 Songs) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by English writer Nick Hornby about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him.
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Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).
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Tapping
Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar.
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Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
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The Royal Scam
The Royal Scam is the fifth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in 1976; reissues have been released by MCA Records since ABC Records was acquired by MCA in 1979.
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Venetta Fields
Venetta Lee Fields (born 1941) is an American-born Australian singer and musical theater actress, and vocal coach.
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Walter Becker
Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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See also
Song recordings produced by Gary Katz
- Aja (song)
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You
- Bad Sneakers
- Deacon Blues
- Dirty Work (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again (Steely Dan song)
- Halleluiah Man
- Hey Nineteen
- I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)
- Jocelyn Square
- Josie (Steely Dan song)
- Kid Charlemagne
- My Old School (song)
- New Frontier (song)
- Peg (song)
- Pieces of Ice
- Pretzel Logic (song)
- Reelin' In the Years
- Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Show Biz Kids
- Strange Kind of Love (song)
- Time Out of Mind (Steely Dan song)
- Up Escalator
Songs written by Donald Fagen
- Aja (song)
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You
- Bad Sneakers
- Champion (Kanye West song)
- Cousin Dupree
- Dallas (Steely Dan song)
- Daydreamin' (Tatyana Ali song)
- Deacon Blues
- Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)
- Dirty Work (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean
- FM (No Static at All)
- Hey Nineteen
- I Know Where It's At
- I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)
- Josie (Steely Dan song)
- Kid Charlemagne
- Missin U
- Mr. Wendal
- My Old School (song)
- New Frontier (song)
- Peg (song)
- Pretzel Logic (song)
- Reelin' In the Years
- Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Show Biz Kids
- Slinky Thing
- Snowbound (song)
- The Man Don't Give a Fuck
- Time Out of Mind (Steely Dan song)
Songs written by Walter Becker
- Aja (song)
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You
- Bad Sneakers
- Champion (Kanye West song)
- Cousin Dupree
- Dallas (Steely Dan song)
- Daydreamin' (Tatyana Ali song)
- Deacon Blues
- Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)
- Dirty Work (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean
- FM (No Static at All)
- Hey Nineteen
- I Know Where It's At
- I'm All Right
- Josie (Steely Dan song)
- Kid Charlemagne
- Missin U
- Mr. Wendal
- My Old School (song)
- Peg (song)
- Pretzel Logic (song)
- Reelin' In the Years
- Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Show Biz Kids
- Snowbound (song)
- The Horses
- The Man Don't Give a Fuck
- Time Out of Mind (Steely Dan song)
- You Can't Do Me
Steely Dan songs
- Aja (song)
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You
- Bad Sneakers
- Cousin Dupree
- Dallas (Steely Dan song)
- Deacon Blues
- Dirty Work (Steely Dan song)
- Do It Again (Steely Dan song)
- East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
- FM (No Static at All)
- Hey Nineteen
- Josie (Steely Dan song)
- Kid Charlemagne
- My Old School (song)
- Peg (song)
- Pretzel Logic (song)
- Reelin' In the Years
- Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Show Biz Kids
- Time Out of Mind (Steely Dan song)