They asked their producer, Gary Katz, to arrange for Pete Christlieb to record the part. At the time, neither Becker nor Fagen knew Christlieb by name, only by his reputation as a musician on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
They requested their producer, Gary Katz, to have Pete Christlieb record the part. At that time, neither Becker nor Fagen were acquainted with Christlieb by name, but they knew of him through his work as a musician on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.