| "Peg" | ||||
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Peg_single.jpg) Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Steely Dan | ||||
| from the album Aja | ||||
| B-side | "I Got the News" | |||
| Released | November 1977[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
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| Length | 3:58 | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Gary Katz | |||
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| Official Audio | ||||
| "Peg" on YouTube | ||||
"Peg" is a song by the American rock group Steely Dan, first released on the band's 1977 album Aja. The track was released as a single in 1977 and reached number 11 on the US Billboard chart in 1978 and number eight on the Cash Box chart.[4] With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Peg" is tied with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Hey Nineteen" for being Steely Dan's longest-running chart hit. In Canada, "Peg" spent three weeks at number seven in March 1978.[5]
- ^ "Steely Dan singles".
- ^ Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
By the time they released Aja in 1977, Steely Dan were situated between fusion and oddball, glamour-obsessed art-pop, comparable to Weather Report and Roxy Music in equal measure.
- ^ Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
And with "Peg," they again landed the kind of pop-rock triple axel that they invented.
- ^ Steely Dan USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2016-10-12.