Captain Fingers

"Captain Fingers" was written by Ritenour and opens the 1977 album, 7:06. Wikipedia lists Ritenour, Grusin on keyboards and arrangement, George Duke under the pseudonym Dawilli Gonga and Patrice Rushen on keys, Ian Underwood, Jay Graydon on guitar, Anthony Jackson and Alphonso Johnson on bass and Harvey Mason on drums for the track. Ritenour told Ralph Burnett of My Sonic Island that roadies carrying his trunk of about 20 guitars complained about the weight and called him Captain, that Captain Fingers stuck, and that he then wrote a tune and named an album after it. An NPR transcript, seen as a search summary, says fans and friends called him it for the speed and chops, and Encyclopedia.com ties it to his 3,000-session era.

Setlist.fm ranks it first among his most played songs with 22 performances. He played it at Ronnie Scott's in London on March 14, 2026 (fourth of five songs), Blue Note Milan on March 20 and the Sala Petrassi in Rome on March 23. We found no chart history of its own, no video, no covers or samples, and the upload may be the studio take or a live version; the title does not say.