American Express (WI)

45: You’re Going to be the One/You And Me (Teen Town 111) 1969

From Milwaukee, Wisconsin this single is pop with horns, on the same label as The Sidewalk Skipper Band. (SR)

American Express (CA)

Personnel incl: MANI ? FOURNIER ?

45: Peggy Sue/When The City Sleeps (Vault V-950) 1969

Probably from and unconnected to the Milwaukee bunch on Teen Town, this single features a fuzzed-up rock version of the Buddy Holly hit with some neat drumming. When The City Sleeps is more interesting - a dynamic post-Hendrix fuzz-rocker with the sneering vocalist doing a fine impression of Sky Saxon. (MW)

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Self Titled LP.

The American Four (CA) American Peddlers (TX)

Personnel incl: JOHN ECHOLS ld gtr A ALBUM: 1 ONCE UPON A ROCK (Amped AP-1003) 1977 R1 ARTHUR LEE vcls, gtr A This long-lived Texas rural-rock/AOR outfit issued three albums. Once 45: Lucy Baines/Soul Food (Selma 2001) 1964 Upon A Rock was their first and featured Eric Johnson (of Mariani and Electromagnets) on one cut. They split in 1988. (VJ) This was a short-lived 1964 Los Angeles band of Lee’s which recorded just the one rather commercial single, with Lucy Baines being the better track. The band soon evolved into The Grassroots and later still into the seminal Love. The American Revolution (CA)

Compilation appearances have so far included: Lucy Baines and Soul Food Personnel: RICHARD BARCELONA gtr, vcls A on A Journey To Tyme, Vol. 5 (LP); and Lucy Baines on Magic Carpet DANIEL DERDA drms A Ride (LP), California Acid Folk (LP) and Love: ‘Black Beauty & Rarities’ EBBIE HADDAD keyb’ds, vcls A (CD), which also features Soul Food and It’s The Marlin, Baby. (VJ) JOHN KEITH bs, vcls A

ALBUM: 1(A) THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Flick-Disc FLS 45,002) 1968 SC NB: (1) promo-only mono copies exist. American Legend (IA)

45: Back In The U.S.S.R./Sunshine Morning (D.J. 101) 1969 45: Cold Wisconsin Nights/ Come On And Get It (Flick Disc 902) 1968 From Mason City, Iowa American Legend’s single was a good hard-rockin’ Beatles cover backed by a light poppy number with way too many The American Revolution was a late sixties Hollywood hippie type rock bah-bah-bah’s. (MW) band. Barcelona and Keith later played in Edge, who issued an album in 1970. The American Revolution album, produced by Harley Hatcher, is quite heavily orchestrated with pleasant vocal harmonies, particularly on In The Late Afternoon, Rainbow In The Rain and Love Has Got Me Down. Some of the songs have a psychedelic taint, but it’s predominantly rather good psych-pop.

Producer Harley Hatcher was an exploitation film composer, member of Mike Curb’s gang and as an army buddy of Elvis he sang in ad-hoc groups with the King. The single couples the cosy orchestrated pop of Mike Lloyd’s Cold Wisconsin Nights, with a brassy soul dirge.

They also have a cut, Opus #1 on Incredible Sound Show Stories 14 (LP). (VJ/JFr/DJe/MW)

The American Standard (NY)

ALBUM: 1 THE AMERICAN STANDARD (2-LP) (No label #DANS 1001-2-3-4) 1970 R1

This was a Staten Island, New York college project which blended various musical styles (//rock) with spoken word segments. It’s an interesting period piece but like most school albums not wholly successful. (VJ) AMERICAN EAGLE - Self Titled LP. 29