who is the song "American Woman" originally by?

Question

i know the name, it's on the tip of my tongue, it just wont come to mind. it's annoying. help please?

THANK YOU! i was getting annoyed...

Answer 1

The Guess Who

Answer 2

Guess Who-American Woman was written as a taunt to the US where the band wasn't having much success supposedly the american woman was the statue of liberty and to kit kat i saw the band in Toronto on July 30 2003 at the sars stock concert with the stones ac/dc and a multitude of other bands

Answer 3

The Guess Who
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The Guess Who

The Guess Who. Garry Peterson , Burton Cummings, Domenic Troiano, Bill Wallace.
Origin Winnipeg, Manitoba
Years active 1962 – present
Genres Rock
Labels RCA
Members Carl Dixon
Jim Kale
Laurie MacKenzie
Garry Peterson
Leonard Shaw

The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Produced by the legendary Jack Richardson,C.M., they were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit in the United States (see 1970 in music).
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Early years

The Guess Who started out as a local Winnipeg band in 1960 called Chad Allan and the Reflections (later changed to Chad Allan and the Expressions). Each of the members of the band was born in Winnipeg.

Chad Allan and the Expressions signed with Quality Records in 1962 and released several flop singles before releasing their first hit, a 1964 cover of Johnny Kidd's "Shakin' All Over" which reached No. 1 in Canada and No. 22 in the U.S. However, in an attempt to build a mystique around the record, Quality Records credited the single only to "Guess Who?" It was hoped that some listeners might assume the "Guess Who?" identity was deliberately masking several famous performers working under a pseudonym -- given the "beat group" nature of the record, perhaps even members of The Beatles.

It's debatable as to whether anyone was really fooled by this ruse, or if whether the record would have been a hit regardless of the artist credit. But what did end up happening was that, even after Quality Records revealed the band was 'really' Chad Allen and the Expressions, disc jockeys still anounced the group as "Guess Who?", effectively forcing the band to rename themselves. So on their first two albums the band was credited as both "Guess Who?" and "Chad Allen and The Expressions".
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Success

The immediate follow-ups to "Shakin' All Over" met with major success in Canada, but very little success elsewhere. Subsequently, Burton Cummings joined the band as keyboardist and co-lead vocalist (with Chad Allen) in late 1965. This line-up only lasted for a few months before Allen left, making Cummings the new full-time lead singer. At this point, the band's name became "The Guess Who?" (The question mark would finally be dropped in 1968.)

As the group's lineup changed, so did their sound. Bachman and Cummings were now the band's main composers, and they moved away from Merseybeat-inspired rock to a sound that mixed rock, blues, and jazz. The 1969 ballad "These Eyes" was the group's first Top 10 US hit for their new label RCA Records. By the beginning of the 1970s, they had moved toward an edgier hard-rock sound with the album American Woman, the title track for which, "American Woman" was their only No. 1 hit in the U.S. The Top 10 US hit "No Time" also dates from this time.

Lifestyle differences led Randy Bachman to leave the group during their unfinished 1970 album The Way They Were, return to Winnipeg, and form Brave Belt, which eventually evolved into the supergroup Bachman Turner Overdrive. Bachman was replaced by two guitarists, fellow Winnipeggers Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw. Winter became the main songwriting collaborator with Cummings, and The Guess Who continued with more hit singles such as "Share The Land".

In 1972, they recorded their highly acclaimed album "Live at the Paramount" which was recorded at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. This preceded an overseas tour in November-December 1972 to Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

Leskiw left the band in 1972, and Winter left in 1974. Domenic Troiano would then become the new lead guiarist for the band, and Cummings' chief songwriting collaborator. This duo co-wrote The Guess Who's last big hit, "Clap For The Wolfman", an homage to disc jockey Wolfman Jack, who incidentally, lent his own voice to the recording.

The Guess Who broke up in 1975. Cummings then went on to forge a successful solo career.

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The Guess Who

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The Guess Who

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wager Who-American lady became written as a taunt to the U. S. the place the band wasn't having lots fulfillment supposedly the yankee lady became the statue of liberty and to kit kat i observed the band in Toronto on July 30 2003 on the sars inventory stay overall performance with the stones ac/dc and a great variety of different bands

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The Guess Who (1970)

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Guess Who

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It was The Guess Who...they also had big hits with "No Sugar Tonight", "These Eyes", "Undone", and "Share The Land"....a great band in the late 60s-early70s

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the Guess Who