| "Show Biz Kids" | ||||
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| Single bySteely Dan | ||||
| from the albumCountdown to Ecstasy | ||||
| B-side | "Razor Boy" | |||
| Released | July 1973[1] | |||
| Genre | Rock,jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 3:59 | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Donald Fagen,Walter Becker | |||
| Producer(s) | Gary Katz | |||
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"Show Biz Kids" is a song composed byWalter Becker andDonald Fagen and performed bySteely Dan withRick Derringer onslide guitar. It was the first single from Steely Dan's 1973 albumCountdown to Ecstasy, and reached number 61 on theBillboard Hot 100.[2] It was edited for the single release.
Cash Box said that the song has "an infectiouschorus delivered a laNilsson's "Coconut" hit."[3]
The song satirizes contemporary Los Angeles lifestyles.[4] Critic Tom Hull described the album lyrics as "a running paste together joke [...] sufraintelligent, witty and slyly devious", citing as an example the following lyrics from "Show Biz Kids": "They got the booze they need / All that money can buy / They got the shapely bods / They got the Steely Dan T-shirt / And for the coup de grâce / They're outrageous."[5]
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