Pretzel Logic

1974 Classic Rock Jazz-Rock Pop Rock

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Tracklist

A1 Rikki Don’t Lose That Number 4:30
A2 Night By Night 3:36
A3 Any Major Dude Will Tell You 3:05
A4 Barrytown 3:17
A5 East St. Louis Toodle-ooMiley, Ellington 2:45
B1 Parker’s Band 2:36
B2 Through With Buzz 1:30
B3 Pretzel Logic 4:28
B4 With A Gun 2:15
B5 Charlie Freak 2:41
B6 Monkey In Your Soul 2:31

Musicians

Production

Also credited. Written-By: Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington. Art Direction: Ed Caraeff. Photography By (Inside): Ed Caraeff. Design: David Larkham. Engineer: Roger Nichols. Lacquer Cut By: Allen Zentz. Management (Personal): Kudo III. Other (Security): Karen Stanley. Photography By (Cover): Raeanne Rubenstein.

Release notes

Faint sideways “S” (squiggle) in runouts indicates pressing from

There are two different labels both came out the same year.
1st Pressing: This version with black labels, where all tracks (including credits) have two lines of text (excluding B5 which has three). This is different than or, both black labels where multiple tracks have three lines of text on both sides.
2nd Pressing: See for Santa Maria pressing with with same text layout, but having the multi-colored concentric circles ABC label.

Gatefold Packaging.

Fuzz box — Courtesy of Valley Sound
Tim Schmit — Courtesy of Epic Records
Engineered at the Village Recorder, West Los Angeles. Overdub and mixdown at Cherokee Sound, Chatsworth, Calif.

All songs pub. by American Broadcasting Music, Inc. (ASCAP) unless otherwise indicated.
American Broadcasting Music, Inc./Red Giant Music, Inc. [A4]
Mills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) [A5]
American Broadcasting Music, Inc./Red Giant Music, Inc. (ASCAP) [B1, B5]
℗ 1974
Special thanks to Michael Omartian, Jim Gordon, Jeff Porcaro, David Paich, Chuck Rainey, Ben Benay, Dean Parks, Tim Schmit, Victor Feldman, Plas Johnson, Ollie Mitchell, Jerome Richardson, Lew McCreary, Ernie Watts, Wilton Felder, Tubby, Bruce, Dee, etc.

Runouts are etched