Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
American Woman 1970
The song's origins took the form of a live jam that emerged during a curling rink concert in Southern Ontario, Burton Cummings, the lead singer, recalls the curling rink was "The Broom and Stone"
When Randy Bachman {Bachman Turner Overdrive} broke a string he unknowingly played the riff to American Woman when tuning the replacement string.
In an interview Randy Bachman said it was an anti Vietnam war protest song, "This was the late '60s, we were back in Canada, where the dance is full of draft dodgers who've all left the States".
Shortly after its release, The Guess Who were invited to play at the White House. Because of its supposed anti-American lyrics, Pat Nixon asked that they not play "American Woman".
No, I am not a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. I was living in Portland when I sold my first, "Nursery Crime," starring Veritable Quandary and a short time later the restaurant opened their doors.
I do, however, hold the rights to KLOD Radio, Gyro Screwloose, Widget Outawhak, Shadow Jay, Oddball McStrangeperson, The Daily Yack `N Babble, The First Church Of The Big Bucks And Tax Deductible House Of Worship, Soap Enders, The Necromancer, Creature Of The Night, City Of Nuclear Waste, Huxter, Shyster and Finagle, Attorneys At Last and Slipshod And Fast Buck Industries.
If you are a subscriber to the V.Q. and, like me, you can't stand that disgusting 30 second promo YouTube puts after almost every song on every play list, tell me and I'll turn KLOD Radio into 1 single file to end that issue.
As always I look forward to your comments and feedback and if you have any ideas send them to me.
KLOD Radio is a parody of the AM radio stations I listened to while growing up in the PNW. Before you ask why didn't I listen to FM the answer is, IT DID NOT EXIST YET!
Here you will find spoken word, novelty music, cartoon music, parody advertising, humor and some original work all inside the framework of an AM radio station circa 1965.
One segment of KLOD Radio is, "Then And Now." which is based on a simple idea.
Start with a hit song performed by the original artist and about half way through the song shifts to the same song, same artist on about the same note but at least 35 years later. 35 years is the minimum. I prefer to have the time between, "Then," and "Now" to be fifty (50) years.
American Woman 1970
The song's origins took the form of a live jam that emerged during a curling rink concert in Southern Ontario, Burton Cummings, the lead singer, recalls the curling rink was "The Broom and Stone"
When Randy Bachman {Bachman Turner Overdrive} broke a string he unknowingly played the riff to American Woman when tuning the replacement string.
In an interview Randy Bachman said it was an anti Vietnam war protest song, "This was the late '60s, we were back in Canada, where the dance is full of draft dodgers who've all left the States".
Shortly after its release, The Guess Who were invited to play at the White House. Because of its supposed anti-American lyrics, Pat Nixon asked that they not play "American Woman".
No, I am not a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. I was living in Portland when I sold my first, "Nursery Crime," starring Veritable Quandary and a short time later the restaurant opened their doors.
I do, however, hold the rights to KLOD Radio, Gyro Screwloose, Widget Outawhak, Shadow Jay, Oddball McStrangeperson, The Daily Yack `N Babble, The First Church Of The Big Bucks And Tax Deductible House Of Worship, Soap Enders, The Necromancer, Creature Of The Night, City Of Nuclear Waste, Huxter, Shyster and Finagle, Attorneys At Last and Slipshod And Fast Buck Industries.
If you are a subscriber to the V.Q. and, like me, you can't stand that disgusting 30 second promo YouTube puts after almost every song on every play list, tell me and I'll turn KLOD Radio into 1 single file to end that issue.
As always I look forward to your comments and feedback and if you have any ideas send them to me.
KLOD Radio is a parody of the AM radio stations I listened to while growing up in the PNW. Before you ask why didn't I listen to FM the answer is, IT DID NOT EXIST YET!
Here you will find spoken word, novelty music, cartoon music, parody advertising, humor and some original work all inside the framework of an AM radio station circa 1965.
One segment of KLOD Radio is, "Then And Now." which is based on a simple idea.
Start with a hit song performed by the original artist and about half way through the song shifts to the same song, same artist on about the same note but at least 35 years later. 35 years is the minimum. I prefer to have the time between, "Then," and "Now" to be fifty (50) years.
