May 11, 1974 –
ABC Records released Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose that Number, on this date, (Any Major Dude Will Tell You was the B-side.)
The Rikki of the title is Rikki Ducornet, a New York writer and artist. Steely Dan co-front Donald Fagen met her while both were attending Bard College, a small liberal arts school located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Ducornet said they met at a college party, and even though she was both pregnant and married at the time, he gave her his number, although not in the same context as the song. Ducornet was intrigued by Fagen and tempted to call him, but she decided against it.
And so it goes.
The Haus of Dcaligari 