Songfacts®:

• The most Steely Dan-sounding song on Nightfly, the title track is a jazz-influenced slice of pop/rock that finds Donald Fagen recalling his adolescent dream of being a late-night radio DJ.
  
  I'm Lester the Nightfly
  Hello Baton Rouge
  Won't you turn your radio down
  Respect the seven second delay we use
• The Nightfly was the first solo album by the Steely Dan co-founder. Unlike most of Donald Fagen's previous work, the songs are all autobiographical. "I was compelled to make this," he told Uncut in 2016. "I'd reached a certain age where I could feel some kind of internal dissonance compelling me to examine where I came from, who I was, that kind of thing."
  
  "t was essentially an identity crisis – a little late-coming identity crisis," Fagen continued. "But it was that all the same. Musicians being a kind of perpetual adolescent, I was able to postpone my appointment with the reality principle. It just happened."