May 9, 1970 –
The Guess Who started a three-week run at No.1 on the Billboard Charts with their single American Woman. on this date.
Fortunately for The Guess Who, American radio stations either didn’t hear this as a protest song or didn’t care. With a monster riff and the word “American” in the title, it was embraced and quickly added to playlists. By this time, the band were proven hitmakers, having scored with These Eyes, Laughing and No Time, so this single was widely anticipated. “Radio just played it automatically without even thinking we were saying antiwar words in there,” Randy Bachman, lead guitarist, was quoted as saying.
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