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Met dank aan de originele posters indien het niet door mij geript is...
Thanks to the original posters if not ripped by myself...

01 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Kid Charlemagne +.flac 
02 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - The Caves Of Altamira.flac 
03 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Don't Take Me Alive.flac 
04 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Sign In Stranger.flac 
05 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - The Fez +.flac 
06 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Green Earrings.flac 
07 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Haitian Divorce +.flac 
08 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - Everything You Did.flac 
09 - Steely Dan - Royal Scam - The Royal Scam +.flac 
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991 - Lossless Audio Checker.log 
992 - AccurateRipNotCorrectGaplessRip.log 
994 - Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (SHM-CD).log 
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999 - Steely Dan Royal Scam Back.jpg 
999 - Steely Dan Royal Scam CD.jpg 
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Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive.lrc 
Steely Dan - Everything You Did.lrc 
Steely Dan - Green Earrings.lrc 
Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce.lrc 
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne.lrc 
Steely Dan - Sign In Stranger.lrc 
Steely Dan - The Caves Of Altamira.lrc 
Steely Dan - The Fez.lrc 
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam.lrc 


This scam went off without a hitch, reaching #15 in 1976 and hitting the charts with Kid Charlemagne and The Fez .

The Dan are at their wry, sardonic best here, with gems like Green Earrings and Haitian Divorce -and this reissue has complete lyrics and
original artwork for the first time since the album's original release!

Exystence Review ---------------
Steely Dan – Royal Scam (1976, Remastered 2025)
Filed Under: remastered, soft rock by driX — 6 Comments
June 5, 2025

Are you gonna do it without the fez on? 1976’s The Royal Scam, Steely Dan’s fifth album, is returning on June 6 in a variety of formats to conclude the band’s reissue
campaign which began in November 2022 with Can’t Buy a Thrill.
Like the past titles in this series encompassing the Dan’s ABC/MCA discography, The Royal Scam reissued on 180-gram vinyl from Geffen/UMe while an audiophile-aimed UHQR 45 RPM,
200-gram vinyl edition and a hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) will arrive from Analogue Productions.
All formats have been newly remastered; Bernie Grundman has mastered the UHQR and SACD iterations from the original tapes while Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound handles the standard 180-gram LP.
The latter has been sourced from high-resolution digital transfers of the tapes, and pressed at Precision.
Nino-Hernes’ remaster will also be released digitally.
The Royal Scam was housed in a jacket adorned with artwork once described by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen as “the most hideous album cover of the seventies,
bar none (excepting perhaps Can’t Buy a Thrill).” Yet the cryptic cover – depicting a man sleeping as giant skyscrapers with monstrous heads surround him –
was somewhat appropriate for the dark if alluring sounds within.
Expectedly, Becker and Fagen surrounded themselves with the era’s finest musicians to bring their jazz-flecked fantasias and musical noirs to life.
These included drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie (in his first appearance on a Dan album); keyboardists Paul Griffin and Don Grolnick; guitarists Larry Carlton, Dean Parks, and Denny Dias;
bassist Chuck Rainey; percussionists Gary Coleman and Victor Feldman; horn players Chuck Findley, Dick Hyde, Jim Horn, and Plas Johnson; and singers Venetta Fields,
Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews, Michael McDonald, and Timothy B.Schmit, among others.
With Gary Katz producing and Roger Nichols and Elliot Scheiner engineering, it was assured that every sonic detail laid down by the band would be heard on The Royal Scam.

Becker and Fagen’s songs were typically sharp and observational, from the double entendre-laden “The Fez” to the lead single “Kid Charlemagne,” inspired by LSD chemist, Grateful Dead pal,
and counterculture hero Owsley Stanley.
The title track, the longest on the album, illuminated the sad underbelly of the so-called American Dream as did “Don’t Take Me Alive,” sung from the perspective of an outlaw on the brink.
“Sign In Stranger” conjures a sinister world while the reggae-tinged “Haitian Divorce” told its relationship story on a more personal level.
With generous soloing (Larry Carlton on “Kid Charlemagne,” “Everything You Did,” “Don’t Take Me Alive,” and “The Royal Scam;” Paul Griffin on “Sign In Stranger;”
Walter Becker on “The Fez,” Dean Parks on “Haitian Divorce”) and brass arrangements by Garry Sherman, The Royal Scam set the stage for the following year’s jazz-rock breakthrough, Aja.
It reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and yielded charted singles with “Kid Charlemagne” and “The Fez” in the U.S., and “Haitian Divorce” on the U.K. Singles Chart.