Bile: Not to be swirled around your mouth

To elaborate on what I posted elsewhere: there's no music more better suited to dressing for dinner and going to hang out with good friends than Donald Fagen's cover of Leiber-Stoller's "Ruby Baby" (found on his great 1981 solo album The Nightfly). This is what so much of the studio-rock of the period was aiming for; the Doobie Brothers didn't spend the better part of the seventies recording increasingly curdled ruminations on their own (or perceived?) decadence. In other words, Fagen needed a decade's worth of swirling bile around in his mouth before recording a record like this. Back to "Ruby Baby": has he ever sung with such empathy? Dig the electronic delay on his own harmony vocals as they wheeze, "When will you be m-i-i-i-i-i-i-ne?"