Steely Dan "Brooklyn" RARE DEMO TRACK

Brooklyn demo recording with Donald on vocals.

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[RobAzula]

You can find this track on "Becker and Fagen: The Early Years" and "Steely Dan: Old Regime". I personally prefer this old demo version to the finished product on Can't Buy a Thrill. This version also features an extra stanza:

My sentry trembles, he feels the end is coming

His face is scowling; inside, he's on his knees

If looks and dreams could surely kill

He'd long be gone from here

Brooklyn owes the charmer under me

Brooklyn owes the charmer under me

Viva the Dan!

[lagoamemo]

@RobAzula Yeahhhh...thanks for comment. Viva Dan!

[reciprokal]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you....never heard this before, love yhr original but this is so raw and amazing!

[lagoamemo]

@reciprokal Hey, I´m glad you enjoy. Wellcome, wellcome, wellcome. Or how we say in Brazil, "por nada".

[troubadour1985]

Sooooo slooowww.

Im not sure which version i prefer.

Whichever one im listening to i guess :)

[lagoamemo]

@troubadour1985 I think Fagen´s voice makes the diference here. And I´m craky about the Hammond organ in this song.

[brainsparkles]

Wow, I just wrote elsewhere that I wondered what this song would've sounded like if Fagen had sung it on the album.  Now I know. But it's soooooo slow that it sounds like a dirge. I (heart)Steely Dan!!!

[GuiitarBilly]

Fave early SD tune! I much prefer Don singing it but like the tempo of the CBAT version. Thanks for posting. Fwiw, if it even matters anymore- the rights for these demos were signed over to a guy (kenny vance?) in order to get Becker and Fagen released from a contract-so they could go to LA and write/become Steely Dan. They've never made a penny off them and their 'unauthorized' release was sore point for decades for the SD perfectionists - to have these roughs out there. But Dan fans love em:)

[jonnytatn15]

@RobAzula I prefer this version as well. It's a natural anthem! Thanks for posting.

[fentleyboa1]

Na Na @ 4:32 makes it Godlike!

[deadhardy]

@ihrescue

well the dylan influence makes sense....because the melody of this song is basically a remake of Dylan's song Queen Jane Approximately...intentional or not

[mugwamp4]

@MisterIanPickering glad you hear it too..cheers 

[bobtis]

David Palmer did this one much better. Fagan was not ready yet.

[alexriesenbeck]

@RobAzula awesome catch!

[MisterIanPickering]

@mugwamp4 Hey, you're right , I've noticed that before when listening to Queen Jane; and of course, "Can't Buy A Thrill" is lifted from Dylan's song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"..."Well, I ride on a mail train, mama, can't buy no thrill."

[gi624]

This is interesting and more in the spirit of what Fagen would typically do but I don't like it as much as the original....drags too much and doesn't do Fagen's voice any favors.

[ihrescue]

Someone said a Dylan influence, I was thinking a The Band w/ the Hammond B3. Its a less pop sound. Good post.