The Guess Who - American Woman (Official Audio)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Music video by The Guess Who performing American Woman (audio). Originally released 1970. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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One of the most meaningful song of that era. Masterpiece. Burton Cummins voice is a jewel.
And this era to ? KH
This Song automatically brings up images of my Deceased husband. This was one of his favorit songs. I miss him dearly after 45 yrs of being married it's hard not to.
I am so very sorry for your loss. You are in my prayers.
Me too,mine
I'm sorry. I hope you're holding up OK.
🫂💗💗💗💗Sip to your husband you're 😢 In my prayers 🙏🏿
My condolences texas6060. I lost my beloved wife of 30 years ten years ago. Miss her profoundly to this day! This song indeed brings cherished memories of that awesome time of our generations youth and the changes it brought about!
One of the best rock songs in music history.
This kind of music made the 60s&70s worth living.
I feel so blessed to have grown up in the 60's and had this fantastic music to listen to.
Living?
The Vietnam war was LIVING?
This was my song ,too young to know the lyrics. I just loved everything about this song it speaks to me is that too corny to say?
@@TropicayaNot everyone went, remember that.
Could not say better
They, the Guess Who, were one of the most prolific and awesomely unique bands in the late 60's. American Woman, is one of the best rock songs ever written, especially the long version for you oldies like me
Amen and Amen 🙏. Great song yo! Love it. I guess I'm an oldie. Turn 58 today. Thank you Jesus!!
You do know how that song was written huh? They were playing two shows one night and in between the shows the lead singer went outside to buy some albums and he was late. Coming back for the second show and the band started jamming without him and when he came in he just made the words up as they were playing, not bad at all
"unique" really. They basically play the exact same thing black folks played in the 4O's. They called it blues, but when white kids play it it's called rock.
Im no oldie(only 24) but this is the best type of music. Got my little sisters into 60s rock cuz thats alll i played when they were babies/toddlers😂
@tdb517
Can you name a single artist that wasn’t inspired by or learned from any who came before?
Imitation, the most sincere form of flattery, to you is division. That’s sad, you’re probably sad, I’m sorry for ya.
Real music, real lyrics with meaning and an oh so pleasant beat. Sometimes 70's music was the complete package.
A lot of folks don't know the meaning to these lyrics. BTW, I have a brother named John in the Army.
@@mattersofthekingdomofyehov8287 It’s really about American women per the song writer
@@ashleyallen8094 NO, it is not!!!! It is about the U.S. government's war machine. Your really need to read the lyrics, and know the timing of when this song was done.
@@ashleyallen8094 Randy Bachman called this "an antiwar protest song," explaining that when they came up with it on stage, but the band and the audience had a problem with the Vietnam War. Said Bachman: "We had been touring the States. This was the late '60s, they tried to draft us, send us to Vietnam. We were back in Canada, playing in the safety of Canada where the dance is full of draft dodgers who've all left the States."
The lines where the anti-Vietnam sentiment are most apparent are "I don't want your war machines, I don't want your ghetto scenes."
@@mattersofthekingdomofyehov8287 While that may have been Bachman’s take on the song, Cummings, who composed the lyrics, said in 2013 that they had nothing to do with politics. "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. When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident."[12]
I was in Vietnam when this come out, Armed Forces Radio played it a few times but had to wait until I got home and got the tape.. wore it out, under rated Canadian band...
Thank you your service...Bless you
Much respect to you sir for being a Vietnam vet you are Awesome!
Thanks for sharing that man! Hope you're doing well to this day. Also such a classic
Thanks for You service Is truth Is the most underrated band of Canadá maybe only under Rush.....grettins
My hat off to you. Thank you for your service. I was 15 when Saigon fell. My uncle was a river ratt. And I had to sign up when I graduated not like today.
This is the original this is the best version
Hell yeah, it is!
Agreed
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If this was a cover, everyone would just say that Lenny dudes version is better. Even though it's not, lol. This is one of the best songs I've ever heard.
👍👍👍
I had to come listen to this classic, after just reading about Randy Bachman recovering his long lost guitar, stolen in 1977, and recently recovered and returned to him. It was the first expensive instrument that he ever bought, and he said that he used it to help write American Woman. This classic song is better than ever now!!!
same!
Cool story, thanks!
@@crotalusatrox7931 It was pure luck that I stumbled across that story. 😀
As a 60 something who loved the music of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s I feel like I lived in a golden time. Today’s world seems much harsher and certainly more expensive. Universal health care is off the table as we fund wars overseas. Sad and tragic.
This is the consequence of large corporations being able to effectively buy their own laws in Congress using their power, money and influence as leverage. And this is happening across the board, Big Pharma is just one of many actors involved.
This song alone should have The Guess Who in the Hall of Fame. They have many others to back this song up.
These Eyes is beautiful.
The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame needs to induct these guys.
Rock and roll hall of fame is a joke so many greats that should be in while there are rappers in like wtf rap is not rock and roll
yeah songs like no surgar tonight/new mother nature, these eyes, and no time
1000% agree. Along with Steppenwolf.
Burton Cummings is one of the greatest rock and roll singers ever.
My ears cry every night for him.
You ain't lyin' man! I had this song stuck in my head today and was like damn it i need to look this up and listen immediately.
He should be in a rock and roll hall of fame
Absolutely 💯
Right there with robert plant
Love the anger his voice and the lines with war machines and ghetto scenes. American woman = US Society. Lot of people think he sings about his pain after break up
Yes. Written when American women were burning their bras with feminist books to blow you away
US government, not society
Funny story. It was about how the composer thought Canadian women were hotter than American women.
I've only loved this song, and band, for over 50 YEARS!! Blessed to have lived during 60s & 70s (some 80s) which made the best music EVER
Leave out the '80s
I agree.
I'm old, but wasn't that lil band called the Eagles in the 80s!! My husband, God bless his soul that Glenn Frye was... da bomb! 😀
I'm there with you sherry I was born in 58 been listening to rock music since I was 6
Amen to that! We'll take the 80s too
2023 and still loving The Guess Who . They ARE classic rock.
Amen..🇨🇦
Very under rated and under appreciated band. Almost wanted to fight Lenny Kravitz for making a cover of it... as much as I love Lenny too.
May 2024
@@lorrainebartenbach8854 August 2924
Sept 2024
I was 10 years old when this album came out. I loved it then and still love it now at almost 64.
Amazing how music takes you back to that time and place.
Me too and almost 64!
Me3 @75yo. Gud ol'times!
"I dont need your ghetto scenes, I dont need your war machines" . The words are still relevant and that riff is so simple but completely classic !
roger ferns it’s backwards but we get it...war machines, ghetto scenes 3:58
Damned right 😂
@@leahdorothy No one is making these subversive agents stay here
@@leahdorothy It's really really dumb not to have those amendment rights.
Seems like " I don't need your multi-culturalism crossed with opulent wealth that are taxed into oblivion" since it sucks and doesn't really help anyone that needs it
64 years old probably two or three hundred concerts including Elvis Presley and led Zeppelin never a big fan of The Guess who went to the Royal oak music theater in Michigan absolutely mind-blowing he was so good one of my top three concerts ever in my lifetime
HOW THE HELL ARE THEY NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME?????
Reality Hurts
That’s a shame there not in the RRHF in the end, I just listen to there great tunes always will , there in my heart
Cause they’re from maple 🍁 land
@@skinnytothefeet3531 sad but probably true...when they are letting "questionable" musicians in, but these guys aren't in, I give up wondering how they choose.
Bard of the Sand they don’t care about talent sadly 😪 cause these guys are great
As a drummer who has studied all the greats, this groove is absolutely filthy. 10/10.
😂
I know man, before I learned to play drums I didn‘t really listen to the drums on this song. Now it‘s practically all I listen to. With pure stank face 😂
Not a drummer, but this groove has the best possible stank all over it.
All I hear is ride 🔔 bell ding, ding, ding😊❤
So much talent. No remake can do it justice. Ain’t nothin like the real thing baby! Rock on!👍🎸🥁🎼❤️
The Guess Who...what more needs to be said. One of their best songs. "These Eyes" was a monster hit, also.
My Thai wife loves ❤ this song.
Song is still relevant and also sounds as good as it did in the early 70's. Bachman's tasteful guitar and Cumming's emotive voice are timeless.
More relevant than ever, lol. American women in 2020 are toxic, entitled brats.
Overdrive
Overdrive
@@greyk610 but it's not about women...it's about America :)
@@annemarie7254 According to them it is about American vs. Canadian girls as well as their disdain for the US war machine.
American Woman was blasting all day on the radio at a huge anti-war rally in front of the White House, five days after Kent State. May 9th, 1970. We don’t need your war machine !
I was part of that war"machine" at 18 years , on my 19 I was taking a piss and mortars and rockets went over my head , I said happy birthday Tom ! I was already there for 2 months so I had gotten "use" to it ! I saw a lot of blood shed and the loss of many brothers while you were in the streets being the cowards that you were, so you could "protest" , while you were too much of cowards you done everything in your power to pretended to be anti anything you could come up with cower in your drug induced zombie state, while we were being life flighted with lost limbs and death . So keep blasting and partying, but I would do it again even for you "people" !
Vietnam Vet Tom
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Another song that never gets old
I feel for you my lady I lost my wife to breast cancer it's been 6 years miss her everyday we use to listen to the gue alot I still play thier music for her imsurr shed smilekng in hrsven listening to hdr song by by play one fkr yoir husbsnd i know he will love it
My spelling is crazy not me it's my stupid fingers lol
The lead guitar tone on this song sounds so good.
And the band didn't have all the goods we have now for recording
That's Randy Bachman at his best. A great song!
VERY typical '60s psychedelic sound; look up Strawberry Alarm Clock :)
@@alkholos Randy Bachman is sorely underrated as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. The guy could rock with the best of them.
Heavy sound for its time...
This song makes so much sense nowadays with what's going on in relationship's
We used to have a little joke , when it came on , we would say guess who is playing this song , answer ,who , then Guess Who , they would say who , it was funny at the time ,.had to be there , then shipped off to Vietnam!
I'm an American woman and I love the crap out of this song. I don't need our war machines or ghetto scenes, either!
It's about AMERICA!!!
me too.class of 1973 here.
@@dalewentworth4660 true
@@dalewentworth4660 Yes, they are really talking about America, not any particular people, let alone women. The "woman" is code for the issues, and how the band prefers Canadian issues to the American ones any day.
@@michellegouin3007 That's very creative and inoffensive.
They're such a great band. Burton Cummings is just an awesome singer.
The opening of this song is deceptively sweet, great guitar riffs. Hard to believe this song was helped made by a person's taping it in a crowd when it was performed live on a whim by the group.
IIRC the main guitar lick was a warmup rhythm that the guitarist liked to play after having new strings out on so they would get "played in".
Hard to shake a stick at a singer who can go from sounding like Paul McCartney to Robert Plant in the same song.
Pretty good writer too!
No it’s not meet him and shake a stick in his direction
i did think it was robert plant at first lol
@NNNNNNNGGGG I've seen him a few times. great show, great guy. he's still out there performing!! 🤩
Classic Burton Cummings always stood tall.
love the guitar on this song...overall mood of this song is trippy...perfect 60s..
Yeah! I had one relationship with an American woman, one was enough for me.
,This is one of the best groups ever with so many great songs. Right up there with the Grass Roots & the Three Dog Night.
As a young girl at age 8 listening to this on Canadian Station CKLW, on a farm in West Salem, Ohio. I felt a sense of empowerment and it’s made the strong woman I am today 😎
Слава богу хоть не сильным мужчиной. У вас на Западе люди пол меняют, а это противоречит ЗАПОВЕДЯМ БОЖЬИМ, а - не от Бога, Иисуса Христа, это противоестественно.
Salem Ohio is a good distance from Windsor Ontario. 😊
@@khourymg it’s West Salem, Ohio
@@drivingmusic5923 I stand corrected, still a bit of a distance by way the crow flies.
Message of this song still rings true 60 years later...haven't we learned anything? Have we changed our ways?
Pussy!right. Ha
Yeah, Mexican women are ☝️☝️🙌🙌
Puerto Rican women, including American born ones are probably the best lol but are the most craziest of the Latinas.
Steppenwolf , also from Canada , reached #2 on the American Hot Billboard 100 charts with “ Born to be Wild “ in 1969 ( released in ‘68 ) and they reached #3 with “ Magic Carpet Ride “ later that year .
Then in 1970 the Guess Who released this song “ American Woman “ . It peaked at #1 on the American Hot Billboard 100 chart for 3 weeks until May 9th . That made the Guess Who the first Canadian rock band to reach #1 on the American charts at the time and ironically , they did it with an Anti - American song .
Steppenwolf came painfully close though ~
I agree they were one of the greatest rock bands ever ❤️
Didn't these guys get a Grammy.. Or no🙃??? Pretty sure👍👌.. Idk𓆩😝𓆪
Lyrics are more relevant now than ever, American Woman.
More like any woman and man.
@patrick m Yes it is and Canada didn't want to annex Bermuda because they didn't want the blacks in their country.
@patrick m they are also referencing "American Women" as the US's war machine and lust for war
War protest song but they say 'woman' to let the groupies know what's up.
American geezer😂
The 70's era brought me here! My era and the best music on the planet!
Cool that the 70s did bring you
I was a teen in the 60’s. So it was Motown, Gene Pitney and Bobby Vee who made the most important memories for me. The 70’s were not that significant. A rather shity period in my life. By then I grew up and realized that life is one big disappointment after another.
I just saw these guys live for the first time last Sunday...one of the best nights of my life.
Burton Cummings made up the lyrics on stage during a concert totally unrehearsed and on the spot. The band was just randomly jamming out a tune waiting for Burton to get on stage, and he ran out and just started singing rhyming phrases into the mic. A bootlegger just happened to record that improv version from the audience, and the band later got word of that bootlegged tape and got a hold of it. They then fine-tuned American Woman into what you hear today. True story!
That is not entirely true. Here is the story as told by Randy th-cam.com/video/4m9-WNFiOvo/w-d-xo.html
Amazing story, Wondering what their thoughts really were?
Since they were from the UK
There are towns in the UK that are getto as well
They were from Canada not The UK@@MarleneJones-qj2br
This song has meaning to me. I was married to an American woman for 10 months. She left me with a note on the table. I was broken. Now I have been happily married for 35 years - to a lovely and kind woman from Central America!
Canadians are people, too. Hats off to Burton and Randy.
I saw a story today about this song. If true it's really cool. They said the band was up just playing while they waited for the lead singer to return to the stage. When he came, he freelanced the lyrics to this live. The crowd loved it so the band was able to catch a kid bootlegging the concert and preserved this song. That's a totally amazing background story if true.
It is true. It was improvised and they had to catch the kid to get the lyrics.
Yeah, I just saw a video from Professor of Rock about it. Fascinating story about the origins of the song. The entire thing was just an impromptu jam in between sets while the guitarist was tuning new strings on his guitar. The other guys liked what they were hearing and joined in. The lead vocalist was in the parking lot and heard the jamming, so he rushed back in, thinking his bandmates had started the next set without him. When he got on stage, he just adlibbed the entire song off the top of his head. LOLOL. That's such a cool story.
@@ktkat1949 and pay him
Fuck yeah. This song was light years ahead of its time.
One of the greatest rock vocal performances of all time. Just sayin'.
Lenny Kravitz is better
@@jadedstar3682 You're joking, right?
@@ChristopherDavis-uh1gq no, it's much better
@@jadedstar3682 Clueless
@r33mote why does it matter?
One of my favorite songs! I love the singer's voice
Burton Cummings is the lead singer. He was so tall, dark & handsome. Look him up on Google. He has it all. He's a gentleman, humble & very intelligent 🎹🎼😎❤
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@@lonidelahuerta3439 He's also quite generous. Pretty damn Canadian, I'd say.
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What a voice!
Yes, he sounds a lot like Robert Plant.
I thought Share the land was his best.
He must've gotten laid millions of times
Thank you!
You are a big time beautiful woman
I know every lyric to most every song by The Guess Who b/c it was my dad's favorite band ...he passed away 3 weeks ago, and I'm going through every song just thinking about my dad & cherishing those rides we had where he blasted them in the car ❤❤
Thanks for posting this!!
Music is a great healing tool because it helps us connect so well with memories. I hope you always carry great memories of your dad when you hear these songs. So sorry for your loss!
@@pianoandkpop thank you so much for your kind comment, I definitely will!!
Hang in there.
Sorry for your loss.🙏
Your Dad is always with you. He's singing with The Guess Who music with you! Rockin'!🙏🎸🎶 Cruisin' in the car🙏✌️
Garry Peterson is a brilliant drummer. Such interesting rhythms and riffs in all of the Guess Who songs. Just realized this listening to this song. All their songs great musicianship and fantastic writing. Kurt Winter contributed so much to this great band. I saw them in 1983 on the CNE grounds in June in Toronto outdoors in the evening. What a concert it was!!
The drums on New Mother Nature/No Sugar tonight are incredible. Always building into the next verse.
I wish more people mentioned Kurt's contributions!
Amazing pocket ❤
This song kicks major ass through the decades!! The mark of a true classic!!
Was a totally awesome jam back in the day........STILL IS TODAY IN 2021!!! Still groovin' on these kats!!! EVERYONE, please stay safe!!! PEACE & LOVE
Very significant Hippy album from the Band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that showed some innovations and lyrics that Rocked the world. The great guitar, base drums and vocals of the Guess who come through in this album with number one hits American Woman and top ten hits No Sugar Tonight and No Time. They were anthems of the era. 5 out of 5 for American Woman.
bass drums
Dont you love listening to all of the songs from the 60s and 70s
I grew up in the 60s and 70s what a great time.
Yep so did I
Another under rated band
Damn good instrumentalists with unforgettable lyrics, and the right voices for it all.
First Concert I ever went to. My ears still ring
I saw them at the Mccormick place in Chicago in the 70s
Lucky
Saw the Guess Who live in Raleigh's Dorton Arena..1971? I was 13. This song ruled the airwaves for what seemed like a year or 2.. I still love them. Im David Hare. Anyone out there at that same show?
Still love listening to this tune after all these years. Just as good today as it was when it was first released.
This is Rock n Roll at its finest. Its just sounds so 70's.
Hey! Hey! I was 8 years old when this came out. I loved it then and I love even more today.
I remember when this was a hit, but had never heard the full version with intro. Then one day maybe around '94 Imus played the intro as bumper music and I'm like "What have we here?" Put a whole new spin on it.
Burton Cummings, awesome vocalist! Even played the flute solo on "Undun", another stellar track.
Lenny who??? Guess Who! THIS is epic!! Burton Cummings, one of the strongest voices of the 70's and wildly underrated!!! This song changed my life in 1970.
Perfect voice for such a great protest song. Randy Bachman's guitar is fantastic!
Kravitz made his version, but this is another planet..Rage, energy, passion from a typical 70's song..So cool...
150% Badass song period
What a great song and what a great band
Great song by a great Group!!
I remember when this song went number 1 in the states, being Canadian we were happy about that! Must have been about 72, real music back then!
I saw them in Cleveland in 1970!
Man, what memories. Back when everybody loved everybody else. ✌❤🤘
Don't hear the acoustic intro on the radio...Randy Bachman makes that Les Paul sing every note!
Yea....I have known of this song way before Mr Kravitz covered it and never managed to hear the intro.
B. Rod Clark do you know the chords to the intro
@@christinecataldo4059 it sounds like an open G chord... I haven't heard the intro for so long that is merely vague to me simply because I'm used to it being omitted from the radio; are you on FB?
@@christinecataldo4059 it seems to me that the song starts with a natural E major harmonic made in the 12th fret on a standard tuned guitar and then a blues progression in G
Very applicable these days
4-1-2020 coronavirus pandemic lockdown ~ on this day - this song #3 1970 Thank you!
Stay Safe
back in the 70's, apx 1975ish or so, my step brother had this on an 8 track tape, along with lots of other artists, but I loooved this song, and wanted to hear it over and over again. so glad to hear it. going to download it asap.
I love this song, a classic
The Guess Who is a great band originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA. Still going strong.
He sounds exactly like Robert Plant in some parts - it's uncanny!!!
Where?
@@maximumoccupancy 2:30 for example. Not "exactly like" but pretty much simmilar.
I believe Burton Cummings had known songs on radio before Robert Plant.
Yup. So much so that when i download this song from Ares back in the day it was named "Led Zeppelin - American Woman.mp3"
Isn't that funny...I'm reading that comment A LOT, while Greta Van Fleet got all this criticism for sounding like Led Zeppelin because the lead singer sounded like Robert Plant...go figure :)
That is one dirty solo! And Burton's vocals as always were some of the best rock had to offer.
Guess who is awesome!!
Great song
Man do I remember this tune. I was in high school. I love it!!!
Top 10 all time Songs That Define Rock Music.
McCartny and Plant, like having a simply wonderful love for the lead with the highway, and the coming of the night time
I have my Dad's 33 Album of this and rock this with his record player as much as possible. Love ya Dad!
I just stumbled upon this, and thought.... wtf 1974?? I need to ask my bro about this!! *dying* Gotta be kidding me Dad had a copy of this!
Sry, wrong vid... here you go. th-cam.com/video/EQfidTOTsLo/w-d-xo.html
Another song where the "long" version is infinitely better than the single!!!
Yes, Kevin - Absolutely 'right on'!!
One of the best groups EVER!! 😎
This is a song to remember we were young, and want to stay that way
Simply put I love this song!!!! But they had many!!! Also love These Eyes!!! Share The Land was also a good song!!!! Burton Cummings had a great song with Stand Tall!!!! All great songs!!! Who in the world wouldn't like 60 70s and 80''s and Classic Rock Music!!!!! My TV will only go so loud! Lol. I personally trust Bose systems for my music!!!! But there are many great home and car audio systems out there !! Too each their own!!!!
Agreed,anything was way better than 90's music.
Great band
much better than the remake. just hearing this version for the first time ever.
Finally someone who sees the truth.
A Whole Lot Than Krokus Version
Talk about a song that's prophetic says everything about the American woman today
It's the MGTOW national anthem, change my mind.
🥀Amazing song I love it! My sister's use to play this album all the time so I was raised right🥀✌
A so 'right-on' tribute, Denise, have to give you and your sister a big Thumbs-up.
In my opinion, this is one of the few “Stop the car! I need to listen to this!”-songs.
Stop the car??? PEDAL DOWN BABY!!!
Loved this record as a kid. My grandmother (God rest her soul) was horrified when I pointed out to her that at the end of the song the line goes "Goodby American Woman, Goodbye American Sh*t. You hear it better on the 45 but if you turn up the volume at the end of this recording you can hear it quite plain. I'm amazed that they got away with that when they released this excellent single. #3 for the year back in 1970.
DJs were blabbing way before they got to that bit, or, at the very least, they utilized a quick fade into the next cut.
If you listen closely he said 'goodbye American woman, goodbye American chick'
@@shadoknight323 Wow, I never knew that before! I did listen closely with the volume turned all the way up and it does indeed say the word "Chick". Just think, for over 50 years I always thought that it was that other word. Thanks for the correction.☺
I'll admit, I found this song on Guitar Hero. That's how I grew up with it. Kinda embarrassing, but it was the beginning of my path to finding more music like this. Now that I'm 20, I can't get enough.
Still sounding awesome in Feb 2022 , yeah !!! ❤️🔥
The ORIGINAL is always the best and worth waiting for
Hard forget a song like this
Love how this starts out soft and sweet and then really kicks a$$.
One of the best Canadian band 4 ever.
Back in the day this was the REAL everyman rock.