American Woman (Album)
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| Studio album by The Guess Who | |||||
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1970 |
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| Label (s) | RCA Victor | ||||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
36:57 |
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Jack Richardson |
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Studio (s) |
RCA Mid-America Recording Center, Studio B, Chicago , Illinois |
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American Woman is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who . It was released in January 1970 under the label RCA Victor and was produced by Jack Richardson. American Woman is the band's most successful album and was ranked ahead of the Beatles in singles sales this year in the USA thanks to the extracts No Sugar Tonight , No Time , Hand me Down World and, above all, American Woman .
History of origin
After Jack Richardson joined The Guess Who in 1967, he masked the average compositional and instrumental talent by adding engaging refrains to expressive riffs. The Guess Who came from a time when it was the top priority of rock bands to make people dance. Of course, they had higher ambitions that would allow them to play their own material. Before a band was granted that, they had to play at the local events, which meant adding their own songs between covers, sticking to a riff when it worked, and most importantly, paying attention to the audience's reaction.
American Woman came about by chance during an event when Randy Bachman tore a string on his guitar. He started playing a few notes on the piano to tune his new string as it became the song's famous riff. The dance floor filled and the band jammed on the reef as long as the mood lasted. A few weeks later, American Woman was a complete song and an integral part of their live sets.
The recordings for this album lasted from August 12 to November 16, 1969.
Track list
All tracks were written and composed by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, except for American Woman and Humpty's Blues, which the whole band was involved in, and 969, which was entirely by Randy Bachman.
- American Woman - 5:02
- No Time - 3:45
- Talisman - 5:05
- No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature - 4:52
- 969 (Oldest Man) - 2:58
- When Friends Fall Out - 2:58
- 8:15 - 3:26
- Proper Stranger - 4:00
- Humpty's Blues / American Woman (Epilogue) - 6:11
Bonus tracks
2000 Buddha Records reissue bonus track
- Got to Find Another Way
2017 Iconoclassic Records Deluxe 2-CD reissue bonus tracks
- American Woman (Single Version) - 3:50
- No Sugar Tonight (Single Version) - 2:04
- Got To Find Another Way - 2:51
- Close Up The Honky Tonks (Session Outake) - 3:33
- Not To Return (takes 1 & 2) - 3:30
- Talisman (Take 1) - 4:30
- Talisman (Session Chatter) - 2:05
- No Sugar Tonight (Takes 1 & 2) - 6:59
- American Woman (Take 1) - 4:44
Disc 2 - The Way They Were
- Silver Bird - 2:41
- Species Hawk - 3:29
- Runnin 'Down The Street - 4:16
- Miss Frizzy - 5:08
- Palmyra - 5:50
- The Answer - 3:54
- Take the Long Way Home - 5:43
Chart successes
album
1970: # 9 on the US charts (10 weeks)
Singles
1970: American Woman / No Sugar Tonight - # 6 in the German singles charts (15 weeks), # 4 in the Swiss hit parade (9 weeks), # 1 in the US charts (3 weeks) and # 19 in the UK charts (1 - 3 weeks)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Graves, Barry, Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried and Halbscheffel, Das neue Rock-Lexikon2 , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, p. 384, ISBN 3-499-16353-5
- ↑ http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/ryza9j/retrospective-reviews-the-guess-who-american-woman
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f [0] = ts_chart_artistname% 3Aguess% 20who & f [1] = itm_field_chart_id% 3A- & f [2] = ss_bb_type% 3Achart_item & type = 2 & artist = guess% 20who
- ↑ http://charts-surfer.de/musiksuche.php
- ↑ http://hitparade.ch/search.asp?cat=s&from=&to=&search=guess+who
- ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/american%20woman/