Editing Can't Buy a Thrill (section)

==Recording==
Steely Dan recorded the album in August 1972<ref>{{cite web |title=Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan |url=https://www.classicrockreview.com/2012/11/1972-steely-dan-cbat/ |publisher=classicrockreview.com |date=November 7, 2012 |access-date=July 14, 2020}}</ref> at [[the Village Recorder]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rakuten.com/prod/can-t-buy-a-thrill/60140955.html|title=Can't Buy A Thrill CD|publisher=[[Rakuten.com]]|access-date=September 1, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130015/http://www.rakuten.com/prod/can-t-buy-a-thrill/60140955.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two songs recorded during the ''Can't Buy a Thrill'' sessions were left off the album and released as a single: "[[Dallas (Steely Dan song)|Dallas]]" [[b/w]] "Sail the Waterway".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/pro562|title = Steely Dan - Dallas}}</ref> This is the only Steely Dan album to include [[David Palmer (vocalist)|David Palmer]] as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after [[Donald Fagen]] expressed concerns over singing live.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} Drummer [[Jim Hodder (musician)|Jim Hodder]] contributes lead vocals on one song, "Midnite Cruiser" (sometimes spelled "Midnight Cruiser"); he also sang "Dallas". By the time recording of the next album began, the band and producer [[Gary Katz]] had convinced Fagen to assume the full lead vocalist role.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}