It’s what we’ve always wanted: Steely Dan covered Donny and Marie Osmond. And it doesn’t disappoint. By which I mean it’s every bit as terrible as you would imagine.

This was the first song I ever heard by the Dan: the second single from their debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill.

It’s got an irresistible momentum, with that earworm riff, Donald Fagen’s snarky lyric, and of course that searing guitar solo – once rated by Jimmy Page as his favourite of all time.

I always thought it was by Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter but I now learn that he was unable to play the solo to his (or, presumably, Fagen and Becker)’s satisfaction, so he asked session guitarist Elliott Randall to play it – which he did in a single take.

Of course, you get none of that in Donny and Marie’s version, which turns that sardonic lyric into a bouncy upbeat number, and leaves the guitar solo out altogether.

But it does have a rather fab breakdown towards the end, if you can make it that far, with a genuinely funky bass, some waka-waka guitar, and a Busby Berkley-style chorus line.

You never got that with the Dan.