Hey Nineteen

"Hey Nineteen"
Single by Steely Dan
from the album Gaucho
B-side "Bodhisattva (Live)"
Released November 1980
Recorded 1978
Genre Jazz fusion, soft rock
Length 5:10
4:44 (7" version)
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
Producer(s) Gary Katz
Steely Dan singles chronology
"Josie"
(1978)		 "Hey Nineteen"
(1980)		 "Time Out of Mind"
(1981)

"Josie"
(1978)		 "Hey Nineteen"
(1980)		 "Time Out of Mind"
(1981)

"Hey Nineteen" is a song by the band Steely Dan from their album Gaucho (1980).

Background

According to one reviewer's interpretation, the song "was about a middle-aged man's disappointment with a young lover ("Hey Nineteen, that's 'Retha Franklin / She don't remember the Queen of Soul / It's hard times befallen the Soul Survivors / She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old")."[1]

Charts

"Hey Nineteen" peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1981,[2] #11 Adult Contemporary,[3] and #68 on the R&B Singles chart.[4] With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Hey Nineteen" is tied with "Peg" and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" for being their longest-running chart hit.

Chart history

Personnel

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Layman, Will. Jazz Today: The Strange, Mixed Fate of Steely Dan (April 10, 2006). Accessed July 31, 2006. Archived June 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Steely Dan USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 228.
  4. 1 2 Allmusic. (((Gaucho > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles))). Accessed July 31, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1981-02-14. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  7. ↑ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, February 14, 1981
  8. ↑ The 1981 Top 100 Singles chart is identified by the RPM Year-End article "Top 100 Singles (1981)". RPM. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  9. ↑ Musicoutfitters.com
  10. ↑ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1981
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