From Record World, written by Pat Baird
Back in 1969, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (then under the wing of Jay & The Americans' JATA Productions) wrote the score for a "youth" film entitled "You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lose That Beat)." The film, produced by Peter Locke, had an even less than limited run in the theaters but Southern Music, the co-publisher of the score, put the original soundtrack out on their Spark label. Although the record did about as well as the film, Southern's Mario Conti purchased the master several years later.
Now that Fagen and Becker have gone on to so much greater things, the publishing company is again making the disc available as a "collector's item" through mail order ads in such publications as Rolling Stone and Melody Maker for $6 per. The record, produced by Kenny Vance, contains seven songs with such Steely-esque titles as "Flotsam & Jetsam" and "Dog Eat Dog" and, unlike so many artists" "catalogue" works, is an excellent representation of Fagen and Becker's early development.
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