Poco Does Dallas ;)

[Cedric]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the group Poco, it was a Loggins &
Messina thing. I'm sure that many of you are also familiar with the Steely
Dan tune Dallas. Now, have any of you ever heard Poco do a cover of Dallas?
I recently ran across a piece of vinyl with Poco doing this tune. It's
pretty good.

Comments?

Cedric

[Rdten1]

Which Poco LP is it on?

Scott
RDT...@aol.com

[DrJ]

>>>>>I'm sure many of you are familiar with the group Poco, it was a
Loggins &
Messina thing.

ouch! no, Kenny not involved. Rusty Young [amazing pedal steel],
Timothy B. Schmidt [who links to SD], Richie Furray [Buffalo
Springfield], Jim Messina... yes, but a very different thing.

Rdten1 wrote:

Head over Heels

ciao 4 now
David

[Hans Verlouw]

And there's another connection to Poco.
On their 1977 release 'Indian summer' Donald Fagen plays synthesizer on two
tracks.
For details see the newly updated complete discography at
http://members.home.nl/hans.verlouw/SteelyDanDatabase/index.htm

Hans

[Cedric]

As I recall... the album was called Steely Dan "Plus Four"... it had Dallas,
Sail The Water Way, Do It Again, and Hatian Divorce on it. It's was a single
of sorts. I don't own a copy of the original vinyl, just a copy on CD, it
was a UK ONLY release from what I've read. I bet that piece of vinyl is a
hard find.

Cedric

"John Misrahi" <lmoukhi...@sprint.ca> wrote in message
news:XF_z9.1631$PC4....@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
> Dallas? What SD album was that on? I thought i own all of them and i dont
> know that tune
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> John
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> Hans Verlouw wrote in message ...

[John Misrahi]

Dallas? What SD album was that on? I thought i own all of them and i dont
know that tune

John

Hans Verlouw wrote in message ...

[Jon Stone]

"Dallas" shows up on Poco's 1975 release, "Head Over Heels" and I believe Donald
appears playing synth on one cut too. Pretty good SoCal country-rock
interpretation IMO. These guys were the Eagles before there was an Eagles and
many contend they did it better.

"Dallas" also first showed up in the States on a Gem import EP LP entitled
"+Fours+" which I snagged when it first arrived. Long out of print, it featured
a line art rendering of a photo of Walt and Don--the one in which Don is
flashing a peace sign and wearing that cheesy sweater.

Jon

[Graeme]

I have that piece of vinyl from the UK

[TheElSupremo]

>> Dallas? What SD album was that on? I thought i own all of them and i dont
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>> >And there's another connection to Poco.
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I answered this question for antoher newsgroup a couple of years ago so I'll
cut and paste it here:

These tracks were
released by Steely Dan in the U.S. about 5 months prior to the release of Can't
Buy
a Thrill. Two seperate singles were released. Version one featured Dallas on
Side A and Sail the Waterway on Side B. Both tracks were in mono. The
other version featured Dallas on both sides. However, one side was in
stereo and the other was in mono. The 45's were given out a promos and
were recalled within 2 weeks. The reason was that the song "Dallas"
featured a slide guitar and has a very country-ish feel to it. The
management did not want the public to get the wrong impression about
what type of band Steely Dan was. The song was later covered by the
band Poco. When the band went back into the studio, these tracks were
forgotten and the rest is history. At least two other tracks from
those "first" recording sessions exist: Everyone's Gone to the Movies
(featured as a bonus track on the Citizen Steely Dan Box Set) and a
tune titled "Runnin' Child" that was eventually covered by Christopher
Kearney on his 1975 release Sweetwater. The stereo version of Dallas
is nearly impossible to find (I came across one for $0.50 in a sale
once - lucky!). Dallas has only appeared on the afforementioned
singles, the +four EP, a Japanese Steely Dan best of, and an
interesting compilation entitled "Tanks for the Mammaries". All versions,
except Side - A of the original promo single, are in mono. Why it
wasn't included on the box set is beyond me especially when a picture
of a flyer advertising it appears in the booklet.

I really, really like the Poco version. That song is a perfect fit for their
style. Jim Hodder does a good job of vocals on the Steely Dan version.

Hope this helps,

El Sup