The Guess Who American Woman The Midnight Special Reaction
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The singers name is Randy Bachman who became famous for co lead singer for tbe band Bachmann Truner overdrive also known as BTO
Summer of 70 I was crusin around in my mom's sky blue Riviera listening to this song green eyed lady, spill the wine and all right now. What a great summer for music!! It was too bad this summer ended sadly with Jimi and Janis dying! I also totaled out my mom's Riviera that September!
Funny. My mom had a brown Riviera in '78 when I saw The Guess Who in concert.
Guess Who did a song --- Clap for the Wolfman --- which was terrific fun and very catchy. You might enjoy it.
I'm 63 yrs old and it is so nice to people discover real music and people that can play too... people , if you never saw the midnight special shows , or in concert , or don kirisner rock concerts.. you miss so much , we also had American bandstand .. i'll take my childhood over the mtv generations any day.. peace and love and real music... ok , bring on the haters... god bless every one
I grew in on this music, 60s, and 70s my teen years' awsome reaction'
You should listen to These Eyes by The Guess Who. Great song
I agree!!
He should listen to the entire Best of The Guess Who album, one of the greatest.
@@lendir1 *ANY* Guess Who song. No song sounded like any other, but all instantly recognizable as a Guess Who song.
Pretty good for a bunch kids from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Ck out the 1970 video of this one. Burton Cummings/lead singer has lonnng hair & looks like a rocker. He has an awesome voice & they hav other big hits. U hav 2 hear "These Eyes" by them...
I do agree.
Greatest voice to come out of Canada.
I luv it when you start scratching your head. I always know when you like them. Now listen to these eyes. They are rockers but mellow to.
LOL! that TV crowd was well rehearsed to be "good" little boys and girls for the camera. The Who, on TV back then is a jewel of a memory. :)
The midnight special show we did not miss....all the big names ( bands, groups, singers etc) came and performed live... No autotune machines.... You heard the acts as if they were in a concert.
Yes this and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert really made the 70's something else.
I remember midnight special too, on right after the original cast SNL....I remember seeing Queen on it doing we are the champions vividly
Burton Cummings has one of the greatest voices in rock.
yep
@Judy Hinterlong That is why I said one of the greatest. I saw Paul Rodgers this past August with Bad Company. I will say that he has not lost any of his vocal abilities; he still has a very powerful voice. If you take into consideration the current crop of outstanding rock vocalists Jay Buchanan of Rival Sons is arguably one of the best.
HAD. Absolutely blew his voice out with cocaine use (his admission) and has sounded like Ethel Merman for decades.
Paul Rodgers has the perfect rock and roll voice! He can do it all!
The Guess Who wrote it. Huge Number One hit in 1970 in the USA and Canada. Back when it was done the lead singer Burton Cummings had hair down to his shoulders and he definitely looked like a rocker. He had Even more powerful vocals back in late 60s and early 70s. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin once said he considered Burton Cummings one of the best rock singers there is.
American Woman was written by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings ( the vocalist) of the guess who. It was later done by Lenny Kravitz.
1 OF D BEST SONGS OF CLASSIC ROCK. ✌😎
Used to LOVE watching the Midnight Special! It was the best rock show on TV during its time.
One show you made sure you were home for.
A lot of great groups appeared on that show.
I preferred Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
You are so right rockers..... we didn't have UA-cam that we could just...
"Click-on" for every song in the world.... we had to hunt,look and plan for these mini concerts !
( The good ole TV Guide )
& us older folk couldn't even hit a record button till the 80's 😉
( That is if you could figure how to program the damn thing 😅😃😂) flashing " 12:00 " 😊
So we took what we could get.... 5,10 minutes of rock & loved it !
don kirschners rock concert was better
I so agree with you about the way lead singer looked!!!!!
Ah, the 70s with Midnight Special and Don Kirshners Rock Concert. Couldn't wait for friday nights to watch these amazing shows..
My older brother bought this song as an 45-RPM record in 1970. I was six years old when I first heard this song. I thought that it was a song by Led Zeppelin, because it sounded a lot like their song, "Whole Lotta Love" (my older brother bought a 45-RPM record with that song on it, too). I found out years later, that the song was recorded by The Guess Who.
The band formed in Winnipeg Manitoba.
From The Midnight Special, find Rick Derringer's "Rock and roll hootchie koo". Now that's a live performance.
They ARE straight rockers, some of the best. No Sugar Tonight is a good one, very inventive.
Another great song demonstrating Burton Cummings' vocal range was his solo hit "Stand Tall."
so many good songs No Sugar Tonight,No Time,Undun,Laughing all great tunes.
There was definately a renaissance happening back then and I was there in the middle of it all (in different groups). I spent all day yesterday, checking out documentaries, from all the great bands, back in the 70's. I was blown away. I'm glad I was there to see it!
Peace & Love
Lenny Kravitz made a cover of this song a few years back, which is why you heard it before. Burt Cummings, the lead singer of this band, The Guess Who are all Canadians. This song is a protest song regarding the Vietnam war and other atrocities during the 60's, American Woman is addressing America and their problems. Yes, he does kind of look like Burt Reynolds at the time; handsome man.
Great band, song and singer.
Heard this song, and band on the radio all my life But this is the first time I've ever seen them, (Im 51),took me by surprise, Never expected the front man to look like a businessman.
My favorite The Guess Who is ''No Sugar Tonight''..that is a rocking song..
3rd concert I ever went to in 1977.
There's an interesting story behind this song. The Guess Who was playing a show in the USA, and Burton Cummings (the lead singer) was late getting to the stage. The audience was getting restless, so Randy Bachman (the guitarist) started riffing. The band picked it up, and Burton finally made it to the stage and as he stepped up to the mic and decided to ad lib some lyrics. The song would have been lost as a one off jam, but there was a guy in the audience with a shoebox cassette recorder who happened to record it and played it back for them after the show, and they decided to polish it up and make it a real song. The song was covered by Lenny Kravitz in 1999 and was featured on the soundtrack to Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Mostly true but they were performing at a club in Ontario.
The Guess Who were a Canadian group, one of President Nixon's daughters wanted them to play at the White House for her birthday, the band were told they could play the White House but they could not play American Woman. I believe they did play and left out American Woman.
The lead singer is Burton Cummings, "The Voice" and lead guitarist is Randy Bachman. Ready Bachman left the band to form Bachman Turner Overdrive, who were a major band of this era also.
Some other songs to check out are: "These Eyes" and "No Time".
The Midnight Special was how we got are Roll and Roll every week back in the day. Also the bands played live.
You may have heard this song from the movie Cable Guy, when Jim Carrey provides a karaoke jam session. I'm sure that scene is on UA-cam, somewhere. This song is really good and enjoyable to listen to. And I think it's perfectly fine to express that you expected certain singers to sing a certain way based on their appearance. It's just a natural honest instinctive thing we humans do all the time based on our prior exposure and experiences.
I enjoy "The Voice" for the shocked look the judges get on their faces sometimes. Actually I close my eyes on occasion and play along.
You may have heard the Lenny Kravitz cover of this song that came out in the 90s.
Proud Canadian here, who loves The Guess Who 💚💚💚 So glad you enjoyed this song, and hope you search out & react to some more of their masterpieces !!!
I aw these guys at the Anaheim convention center, many years ago. The warm-up act was John Kaye of Steppenwolf fame. We snuck in some wine in a leather wine sack.
This clip is dated January 1970. That suit, and the brown one behind it is kind of crossover fashion from the 60s, when suits were considered everyday-wear. At this point, there was the hippy look and the clean cut look (the 60s suit but a hipper 70s version, because of the wide lapels, along with shorter hair that was still longer (at the collar) than short hair in the 60s, and the bigger moustaches.). After the 70s, the suit as everyday-wear was dead.
The Guess Who were definitely rock, and the best version of any 70's song (other than "Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook) is the studio version.
"Burton Cummings (the song's lyricist) said; "What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous," Cummings told the Toronto Star in 2014. "When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident."
Thanks for the enlightenment. I'm almost 70 and had never heard about it!
Burton was a dangerous man on the hockey rink. He once castrated a friend of mine with his stick in a Winnipeg minus -30 degree outdoor game. My friend thanked him years later as he went on to have a very successful music career singing castrato. His name is Neil Young!
The most underrated and greatest vocalist of his time.
I've heard this song on a TV commercial a while back. Probably where you heard it before.
This song came about due to a border crossing by the band. They were stopped and had to go through a bunch of crap to enter the US from Canada. The woman in question is symbolic of the Statue of Liberty.
The midnight special came on Saturday nights. you would get 6 or 7 cuts like this per show. It ran from1972- 1981 The artists you would see in one show amazing!!!!!!! Mr Burton Cummings.....This song came out 1970. You have heard it.
Canadians putting down America basically. Guitarist was a founding member of Bachman Turner Overdrive, who played Taking Care Of Business.
Same guy does These Eyes and Laughing...The Guess Who. One of my favorite bands. Burton Cummings is one of best rock singers of our time
Why in the *HELL* isn't *The Guess Who* in The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
Right!! them and Thin Lizzy...how the hell did ABBA make it in RHF I will never understand
I think Randy said in an interview that Jann Wenner doesn't like him.
Also, Three Dog Night should have been in there at least twenty years ago.
Because the Hall is a joke
maybe bcz they're canadian - don't know if hat makes a difference
I love this guys voice!
I knew a gal in High-School who spoke like that; her voice-box was wonky and she could sing two notes at once!
Weird hearing one voice making sounds a full two octaves apart!
Tested on oscilloscope!
The Guess who's sound was ahead of their time, and they would have fit in with the big hair rock bands of the80's.
Canadian group tried to get U.S. working permit to perform in U.S., immigration dept tried to have them drafted into U.S. Army to fight in Vietnam war for seeking extended permit to stay in U.S.
Another fantastic Canadian rock band.👍👍👍🇨🇦🤠
Midnight Special was THE show for teenagers in the 1970's. We even made it in before curfew to watch all the great rocker bands!
Heard this song 1000 times and always liked it. I had NEVER seen who was singing it, this was a shocker for me to, Wasn't expecting his look lol. Thanks TY!
Yes, wow, I had thought biker jacket not a freekin' suit...a white suit at THAT
A true classic Rock-n-Roll song...😎🎙
That was his TV outfit 🙄 For concerts it's back to some rock threads
Yes this song...Their song,as been sampled 100's of times !
Lenny Kravitz did a remake of this 1998. He slowed it down a little as he said he could not learn some of Randy Bauchman’s guitar riffs.
This was a Canadian band that was telling us Americans to take our militarism of the Vietnam War and "F-off". The band downplayed that meaning when it caught on here in the USA, but that was what it was about. I am old enough to remember. (btw: I am a dual Canadian and American citizen baby-boomer and was very aware of the feelings at that time.) Whether you like the meaning or not, it is a cool song.
The American woman is reference to the Statue of Liberty. A song of protest and opposition to the Vietnam War
Someone probably already mentioned this but the reason it sounded familiar might be because Lenny Kravitz covered it in 1999! One of my favorite songs by The Guess Who is “No Sugar Tonight”! I absolutely love that song! “These Eyes” is also good!
Did you know Randy Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive was in this video as well. He was one of the founding members of the Guess Who.
Randy Bachman wasn't in this video he'd already moved on
Burton Cummings is one of the most under rated vocalists in Rock history. Check out more Guess Who !!!
Telling my age here, but the Guess Who put on some of the best concerts that I ever attended! Love them! Loved 'The Midnight Special' too! Back when music was real and music was GREAT!
This song was about Vietnam as a protest song
@Modern Renaissance Man - One of the very best black rockstars is the singer for the band Thin Lizzy. Please listen to "The Boys are Back in Town". The best version is the 1976 UK live TV show TOTP (which means Top of the Pops). His name was Phil Lynott.
I stayed up waiting for the Midnight Special and Wolfman Jack,looking forward to all the rock singers to come on 😁I was a teenager back then...Love The Guess Who 👍💚
I would watch this with my mom as a kid.
@E HANS ha,ha!!!ahhh 😊the good old days 👍💚
@E HANS Stripped the fabric off an old umbrella for our antenna...our prototype "satellite dish"...LOL
@brenda griffith-ahsan My sentiments exactly! 😢 I want to go back to the 70s 😭
@@brendapaddlety2413 We truly live in a different world these days in every way. It’s meaner and way more cynical now. Saddens me too. You can just feel it in the air how off everything is. I miss the 70s and 80s as well 😔
Yup they played LIVE at ‘Dogpatch USA’ amusement park lol lol. It’s so ironic that so many old movies and songs are being remade as opposed to creating new works. Many younger people hearing these and seeing these for the first time in the remade versions as if a new work. Heck sometimes I don’t even realize. It’s important to acknowledge, however, those original artists are the true talent. Covers still require talent to execute at a high level, true. But when you are the originator the majority of credit goes to u.
Great story about this was that while playing live, the guitarist broke a string so that crazy solo was accidental... (and the singer just riffed on the lyrics....) and after the concert, guitarist couldn't even remember what he did - but luckily another band member did... also: when Nixon was in, they were invited to perform, but Nancy specifically requested they NOT do this song...
Actually a boy in the audience brought his new tape recorder to the gig and meet them afterwards and played the tape and Burton took the tape from him
The story I heard them tell is that American Woman was about the Statue of Liberty and it was a reaction to the Viet Nam experience. Not many guys have had multiple hits with 3 different bands. Randy Bachman is an underrated genius on guitar and writing. But it takes a great singer to interpret his songs and help them become hits. What were the chances that they would find each other.
If you watched the Austen Powers movies maybe that's were you heard it. It was playing in the background on Austen Powers car radio.
I was a huge Guess Who fan back in the day! Still am.
Takes a lot of guts for a Canadian band to go in and plays this in América. I saw the lead singer (Burton Cummings)play live in Detroit a couple of years ago and he sounded great! He wasn’t wearing a white suit - more blue jeans.
This was an anti Vietnam war and anti racism song from the late 60's. The American woman he is singing about is not a flesh and blood woman but the country of America evidenced by the line "I don't need your war machine, I don't need your ghetto scene".
This Brings back Such Good Memories! I'd Stay Up late to Watch This On Channel 4 In NYC. Thank You!
In the 1960s the singer, Burton Cummings, had long hair very much like a hippie. Looks like he cleaned up at the point. Btw, he's known as one of the best singers in rock.
I've never noticed before, but there is a little Robert Plant in Burton Cummings' voice.
You really need to check out their live epic version . Original band members. Incredible
Burton Cummings is like straight up old school rock voice. Love everything he does. Saw The Guess Who in the 70s. Kenny Kratz is crazy too! I just thought it is about Vietnam war.
burton cummings one of the best vocalists ever-hes still performing -he doesn't have that "scratch" in his voice anymore but still-in his 70s and can still sing awesome
High School lunchroom PA system radio I first heard it but didn’t believe it was by the (very familiar) The Guess Who. One day somebody turned the sound way up high right before playing “American Woman” no one knew how to turn it down so when they unplugged it the tube amp malfunctioned creating a howl so loud and high pitched slowly lowering in both pitch and volume, a week later a new PA but never heard “American Woman” again . The sound of that amp frying was unforgettable, smoked a little as it died
Please check out Break It To Them Gently by Burton Cummings - from the solo career of the lead singer of The Guess Who for an awesome display of his vocal abilities. I think he puts everyone to shame.
the guess who, what a great band!!!!!!!
you heard lenny kravitz who covered it. also the American women he sings about is the statue of liberty.
The Guess Who are rockers! In this day and age there was great censorship and propriety. To be on television you were required to be respectable and the use of offensive words was basically illegal. Many artist pushed the envelope such as Jim Morrison on the Ed Sullivan Show. The band agreed to use the lyrics "girl we could get much better" but Jim sang the original line "girl we couldn't get much higher" and was banned from the show forever. The Counter Culture Of The 60's.
This song is about what Canadians think of the USA.
the guess who were a canadian band. this was in the '60's and this was a viet nam war protest song. draft dodgers were fleeing to canada. american women or the statue of liberty referring to america is talking about how they wanted nothing to do with the american experience (and they had just recently come back to canada from a concert tour in america). the only reason i know is that i recently saw something about the song's history lol.
Thanks!
"American Woman" was symbolic.
Absolutely. Please listen to These Eyes by Guess Who.
Wow, it's been too many decades since I thought about Wolfman Jack and the Midnight Special. Lord, we used to live for that every weekend. Now for how he was dressed - this was still back in the late 60s or early 70s and you couldn't get on national tv dressed like a rocker. There were really strict rules back in the day.
Great song! Nice reaction!
This is one of those original rock bands that many of the bleach blonde groups of the 80's tried but failed to replicate.
The lead singer is Burton Cummings. You should listen to his solo tune, Stand Tall....The reason the song sounds familiar to you is that Lenny Kravitz covered American Woman not that long ago...
I know this song as another I told you about as a child of the 60's. I think the lead singer said in an interview he wrote it, as a Canadian. During the Vietnam War draft dodgers from America would sneak across our northern border. Canada actually didn't like the "invasion". So he wrote it against illigal aliens from America. May not be exactly right. As i said before. I'm getting up in age, maybe faulty memory.
I first heard about it in a news prgm in the 60's about the wildness going on in Woodstock!
So many anti war songs of the era. The Guess Who had a great following. Beautiful songs. A Canadian band with an anti Vietnam war song. BTW. We all loved The Midnight Special a d Wolfmsn Jack back in the day. The only way to SEE our favorite bands. No VCRs, No UA-cam or internet, no cable. . Two channels on telly at the most. ✌ check out other videos of The Guess Who. 🎶 check out UA-cam "The Midnight Special " back in the day. Love our 70s music forever.
They had some great songs.
No sugar to night... The Guess Who
The Guess Who have some great tunes. My favorite is "Undun". It's got some really jazz based acoustic guitar in it the makes it stand out to me. My research showed that it was Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive fame playing that guitar.
Lenny Kravitz did a cover of American Woman you might know from Austin Powers. No Sugar Tonight , No Time, Laughing, These Eyes, or Undun are all good Guess Who songs.
I know the song very well. I had no idea they looked like this,
Ck out the 1970 vid of this song: lead singer has lonnng hair & looks like a real rocker. Hope u ck out: "These Eyes" by this band also...
I was thinking about Charlie Pride the other day. Ken Burns has a great mini-series on right now on PBS and you can really learn the roots of country. However, when I thought of Charlie Pride, I was thinking that it would throw you off, my dear, if it weren't for the internet. Everyone thought he was white back in the day. Then he was on a TV show and it blew people's minds.
What the difference is is that we only had radio. We never saw the people unless we got a magazine or bought the LP (not single) and saw a picture. We had to judge only with our ears. There was a great episode of Taxi in which Bobby was an actor and his agent's secretary had the greatest voice. Everyone in the garage talked to her. She was a good listener and gave great advice. But, mostly, they loved her voice. Finally, one of the drivers got up the nerve to ask her on a date. She refused. He tried several times and she finally agreed to meet him in a public place. So, this really fat woman walks up to Alex and says, "Hi, here I am. Now you can leave and no one will be embarrassed." My generation spent our lives on the phone and I want you to know, my dear, that NO ONE ever looked the way I imagined them to look from their voice! And that included the DJs on the radio. They were much older than their listening audience and it was a shock to meet them.
As to the Guess Who. Burton finally admitted that they crossed the border to play a club in Kansas and they were almost drafted into Nam. Yes, they are one of Canada's finest. However, they said that the song came from the way American women acted. This was not new. All the British bands couldn't believe how 'forward' the girls were here. Sure, in other countries the bands all got screamed at and girls tried to touch them, but it was mob mentality. Then the girls were polite and waited to asked out. It was like teen girls in the USA were woman and very open and forward. We would ask the guy on a date. Like the Union Gap sang about 'Young girl get out of my life.' Young teens (underage) were already openly sexual by the late 60s. So, Burton Cummings said it was scary because Canada was a few decades back where women were polite and demur and not offering themselves as a one night stand.
So, you can take whichever meaning you like, but it was a big hit in the USA as well as Canada.
And, yes, way back in the stone age, we called them concerts. This was a TV show and I watched it. Some lucky people got tickets to see there, but not many.
saw charlie pride at the porter wagnor concert in 1968 along with dolly pardon.charlie had to adress his race back then i guess. he said, " people you dont sound like you look"....
@@prussianmillionaire5055 Great line-up!
There are a couple of better versions of this, but those are from when they are older. You Tube has several. Just search it out and count your blessings when you find them. I’m 62 years old, and they were on the radio when I was a kid. Oh, the guitar player in this video is Randy Bachman, of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. The Guess Who was his first band.
You should react to The Guess Who's 'Undun' a very unique record.
If you have ever watched any of the CSI shows all of them have one of The Who's songs as their themes.