Rikki Don't Lose That Number

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is a single released in 1974 by rock/jazz rock group Steely Dan and the opening track of their third album Pretzel Logic. It was the most successful single of the group's career, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1974.

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
Side A of the Australian single
Single by Steely Dan
from the album Pretzel Logic
B-side"Any Major Dude Will Tell You"
ReleasedApril 25, 1974
Recorded1973
Genre
Length3:58 (Single version)
4:30 (Album version)
LabelABC
Songwriter(s)Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
Producer(s)Gary Katz
Steely Dan singles chronology
"My Old School"
(1973)
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
(1974)
"Pretzel Logic"
(1974)
Official audio
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" on YouTube

The song features Jim Gordon on drums, as does the bulk of the Pretzel Logic album. The guitar solo is by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter who soon after joined The Doobie Brothers.

Victor Feldman's flapamba introduction to the song, which opens the album, is cut from the original ABC single version. The MCA single reissue (backed with "Pretzel Logic") includes the flapamba intro but fades out just before the actual end of the track. The introductory riff is an almost direct copy of the intro of Horace Silver's jazz classic "Song for My Father".

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