Black Friday by Steely Dan from the album, Katy Lied. The album was released in 1975. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are very talented writers. I briefly met Donald in the early '90s working on a TV commercial recording session. I was stunned to see him there on an ad date. I later find out, he did quite a few of these types of sessions.
Black Friday: The term is often used to designate a dark financial day. September 24, 1869, is sometimes referred to as Black Friday in the United States. On this day a syndicate of New York bankers advanced the price of gold to 162 1/2, causing a panic. It sold at 143 1/8 the previous evening. The Grant Administration dumped $4,000,000 in gold on the market, the price falls in fifteen minutes from 162 to 133, and many investors were ruined. Fortunes were lost. Wall Street brokerage houses failed. Railway stocks shrank. The nation's business was paralyzed.
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