Hey Nineteen

"Hey Nineteen" is a song by American jazz rock band Steely Dan, written by members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and released on their 1980 album Gaucho.

Background

According to one reviewer's interpretation, the song "was about a middle-aged man's disappointment with a young lover ("Hey Nineteen, that's 'Retha Franklin / She don't remember the Queen of Soul / It's hard times befallen the Soul Survivors / She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old")."^[1] Donald Fagen once said in an interview that his hope was that "songs like 'Hey Nineteen' would be enjoyed by soccer moms in dentist chairs bobbing their heads unaware of the filthy lyrics".

Charts

"Hey Nineteen" peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1981,^[2] and #68 on the R&B Singles chart.^[3]

Personnel

Donald Fagen – electric piano, synthesizer, vocals
Walter Becker – bass, guitar
Hugh McCracken – guitars
Rick Marotta – drums
Victor Feldman, Steve Gadd – percussion
Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders – backup vocals

Notes

↑ Layman, Will. Jazz Today: The Strange, Mixed Fate of Steely Dan (April 10, 2006). Accessed July 31, 2006. Archived June 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Steely Dan USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
↑ Allmusic. (((Gaucho > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles))). Accessed July 31, 2006.

External links

"Hey Nineteen" lyrics at SteelyDan.com
Rashida Jones talks about this song with NPR in the article "How Rashida Jones Found Her Inner Music Nerd"

Steely Dan

Walter Becker Donald Fagen Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Denny Dias Jim Hodder David Palmer Royce Jones Michael McDonald Jeff Porcaro

Studio albums	Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Pretzel Logic (1974) Katy Lied (1975) The Royal Scam (1976) Aja (1977) Gaucho (1980) Two Against Nature (2000) Everything Must Go (2003)

Live albums	Alive in America (1995) Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party (2000)

Singles	"Dallas" "Do It Again" "Reelin' In the Years" "Show Biz Kids" "My Old School" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "Pretzel Logic" "Black Friday" "Bad Sneakers" "Kid Charlemagne" "The Fez" "Haitian Divorce" "Peg" "Deacon Blues" "FM (No Static at All)" "Josie" "Hey Nineteen" "Babylon Sisters" "Cousin Dupree" "Janie Runaway"

Album tracks	"Aja" "Dirty Work"

Compilations	Greatest Hits (1978) Steely Dan (1978) Gold (1982/91) A Decade of Steely Dan (1985) Reelin' In the Years (1987) Do It Again (1987) Citizen Steely Dan (1993) Then and Now (1993) Showbiz Kids (2000) The Definitive Collection (2006)

Related articles	Discography Gary Katz Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan Roger Nichols

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