Do It Again
by Steely Dan
- 123
- BPM
- G minor
- Key
- 6A
- Camelot
- 69
- Danceability
- 25
- Acousticness
Steely Dan composed and performed "Do It Again" in 1972, and it opened their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill. Two instruments carry the solos. Denny Dias played an electric sitar, and Donald Fagen played what was called a plastic organ solo on a Yamaha YC-30, using its sliding pitch-bending control.
Fagen sang the lead vocal on the album version. David Palmer also sang lead on a few songs from that first album and was the frontman in concert. Palmer sang "Do It Again" when the group played The Midnight Special in February 1973. Gary Katz produced.
The single version cut the intro and outro short and left out the organ solo. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 18, 1972, and reached number 6 in 1973. It was Steely Dan's second highest-charting single. Walter Becker and Fagen had formed the band in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971.
Do It Again runs at 123 BPM, the tempo of house, disco and most club dance music. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.95 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 488 ms. It is in G minor, Camelot 6A, which shares its notes with Bb major and mixes cleanly with C minor and D minor.
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