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THE GUESS WHO

45 RPM

RCA RECORDS
1943

IMPORT
ENGLAND

 

A-SIDE

AMERICAN WOMAN

PEAK  # 1  BILLBOARD HOT 100  15  WEEKS ON CHART

B-SIDE

NO SUGAR TONIGHT

PEAK  # ?  BILLBOARD HOT 100  13  WEEKS ON CHART

CONDITION:  VINYL  MINT  "UN-PLAYED"

CONDITION:  LABEL  MINT

COMES  with  COMPANY SLEEVE  EXCELLENT  and  PLASTIC COVER

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ARTIST:

  THE GUESS WHO

TITLE:

A-SIDE

B-SIDE

  AMERICAN WOMAN         
    /  NO SUGAR TONIGHT

LABEL:

  RCA  1943

YEAR:

  1970

FORMAT:

  45 RPM  PUNCH OUT CENTER

CONDITION:

  MINT  "UN-PLAYED"       

COMMENTS:

  COMPANY SLEEVE  EXCELLENT
  IMPORT  ENGLAND                    

COLORED VINYL:

  BLACK

ADDITION NOTES:

ADDITION INFO:   

  NEW BUY  

 

   
   The Guess Who are a   band from , 

  Initially gaining recognition in , the group also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "",
  "", "" and "".

The Guess Who The Guess Who in 1970 Background informationAlso known asAllan and the Silvertones
Chad Allan and the Reflections
Chad Allan & the Expressions (Guess Who?)Origin, , , , ,, , Years active1965–1975, 1977–present, , , , Paradiso, Associated actsBachman & Cummings, 
Members
Will Evankovich


Past members
Bob Ashley


Bruce Decker






Dale Russell
Terry Hatty
Terry Read

Several former members of The Guess Who, notably  and  (of ), have found considerable success outside the band.

The band was inducted into The  in 1987.

History Early years (1958–1965)

The Guess Who started out as a local Winnipeg band formed by singer/guitarist  in 1958 and initially called Allan and the Silvertones. This was changed to Chad Allan and the Reflections by 1962, by which point the band consisted of Chad Allan (lead vocals/guitar), Bob Ashley (keyboards),  (guitars), (bass), and  (drums). The Reflections name was chosen since it was similar to the British group , which was one of the band's biggest influences. All the band members were born in Winnipeg.

The band's debut single ("Tribute To Buddy Holly") was released on Canadian-American Records in 1962. Chad Allan and the Reflections then signed with Quality Records and released several singles in 1963/64, which were regional hits but did not make much of a mark across Canada. Quality even released an instrumental single (on their RIO subsidiary) deliberately mis-credited to Bob Ashley & The Reflections. By 1965, the group was forced to change its name to Chad Allan & the Expressions after a U.S. group called  had scored a hit with "Just Like Romeo & Juliet".

It was at this point that the band scored their first hit, a 1965 rendition of ' "". This track reached #1 in Canada, #22 in the U.S (where Quality had licensed the track to the American  label for release in the U.S.), and #27 in Australia. 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  – given the "" nature of the record, perhaps even members of  and/or other popular  bands. In concealing the identity of the band in this fashion,  may have been influenced by a similar ploy made the previous year by ", an American outfit whose -ish 1964 single "" had peaked at #43 in the US and at #21 in Canada. Later in 1965  attempted a similar masking by recording under the similar nom de disque The Wonder Who?

It is debatable as to whether anyone was really fooled by the "Guess Who?" ruse, or if the record would have been a hit regardless of the artist credit. But the upshot was that, even after Quality Records revealed the band was "really" Chad Allan & The Expressions, disc jockeys still announced the group as Guess Who?, effectively forcing the band to rename themselves.

Transitional years and Let's Go (1966–1968)

The immediate follow-ups to "Shakin' All Over" met with major success in Canada but very little success elsewhere. After Bob Ashley left the group in late 1965, joined the band as keyboardist and co-lead vocalist (with Chad Allan) in early January 1966. This line-up only lasted for a few months before Chad Allan left, making Cummings the new full-time lead singer. By this point, the band's name had become "The Guess Who?" (the question mark would finally be dropped in 1968) and with Chad Allan gone, the "Chad Allan & The Expressions" subtitle was dropped once and for all. Feeling that they'd "played out" all the venues in Winnipeg, the band began playing in , in 1966. While there, they crossed paths with a young  and , who played in many of the same venues as the group.

The group continued to release top 40 singles in Canada, like "Clock on the Wall" and even had one single "His Girl" scrape the lower reaches of the UK charts in 1967. However, a trip to the UK to promote this single proved to be a financial disaster as the single dropped off the charts after only one week, and The Guess Who found themselves unable to get airplay or to book any paying gigs without work visas. They returned to Canada within a matter of weeks, thousands of dollars in debt.

The band's fortunes were saved when, later in 1967, they landed a gig as the house band on the  show, The Swingers and as the house band on  television show Let's Go, a music show oriented toward teenagers. The show aired 39 weeks a year and the pay cheques from it allowed The Guess Who to pay off their debts and it also gave them further exposure in Canada. Although the band was initially hired only to perform the chart hits of the day on the show (in arrangements as close as possible to the actual hit records), after a time, the show's producer encouraged the group to write and perform their own material as well. The Guess Who stayed with Let's Go for two years; a compilation of some of their Let's Go performances was released on CD in 2004.

Among those who noticed The Guess Who during their run on Let's Go was record producer/sales executive . He contacted the band about participating in an advertising project for ; this turned out to be the recording of a split  with Ottawa band The Staccatos (soon to rename themselves ). The resulting album was called A Wild Pair, and featured The Guess Who on one side and The Staccatos on the other. The album was only available for purchase through mail-order for the price of 10 Coca Cola bottle cap liners and $1 (to cover shipping expenses). Guitarist Randy Bachman has stated in interviews that he believes A Wild Pair sold enough copies in Canada to qualify for gold record status; however, because the album was not sold through normal retail channels, no certified sales figures are available.

Singles

Note that almost all of the band's early tracks, originally issued as by "Chad Allan and the Reflections", were later re-issued on albums that were jointly credited to "Chad Allan & the Expressions"/"Guess Who?" (i.e. both group names appeared on the album cover.)

YearTitleChart positionsAlbumCanadaAustralia1962Chad Allan and the Reflections:
""
()----Non-LP single1963Chad Allan and the Reflections:
"Shy Guy"
(Chad Allan)----Shakin' All OverChad Allan and the Reflections:
"Inside Out"
(Allan)----Hey Ho, What You Do to Me1964Chad Allan and the Reflections:
"Stop Teasing Me"
()----Shakin' All Over /
Hey Ho, What You Do to Me1965""
()127-22Shakin' All Over""
(Richie Adams/Malou Rene)3---""
(Jo Armstead//)3--125Hey Ho, What You Do to Me1966""
(Gary Geld/Peter Udell)19---""
(Bachman)10---It's Time""
(Bachman)16---""
(Bachman)32---1967""
(Johnny Cowell)19-45-Non-LP singles,
later collected on
numerous compilations""
(/Robert Wilding)48---""
(Jerry Langley/Jimmy Stewart)30---""
()36---1968""
(Bachman/)75---""
(Bachman/Cummings)97---Canned Wheat1969""
(Bachman/Cummings)7100-6""
(Bachman/Cummings)1--10Canned Wheat""
(Bachman)
(B-side to "Laughing")2173-221970""
(Bachman/Cummings)143-5""
(Bachman/Cummings/Garry Peterson/Jim Kale)143191""
(Bachman)
(B-side to "American Woman")1-191""
()1065-17Share the Land""
(Cummings)263-101971""
(Winter)
(B-side to "Share the Land")-63--""
(Cummings/Winter)5--43""
(Bachman/Cummings)
(Australian release only)-85--American Woman""
(Cummings)
(A-Side)1328-29Non-LP single""
(Cummings/Winter)
(B-Side)15--55"Rain Dance"
(Cummings/Winter)355-19So Long, Bannatyne""
(Cummings)12--501972""
(Cummings/Winter)39---""
(Cummings/Winter)1283-47Rockin'""
(Cummings)58--70""
(Cummings/Winter)9--96Live At The Paramount1973""
(Cummings//Peterson//Winter)20--61Artificial Paradise""
(Cummings)21---""
(Cummings)14---#101974""
(Cummings)995-39Road Food""
(Cummings/Wallace/Winter)439-61975"Dancin' Fool"
(Cummings/)1485-28Flavours""
(Cummings/Troiano)21---""
(Cummings/Troiano)81---""
(Cummings/Troiano)58--105Power in the Music""
(Cummings/Troiano)---1021976""
(Bachman/Cummings)63---The Way They Were1979"Sweet Young Thing"
(Kale/Vince Masters/McDougall/Winter)----Guess Who's Back/
All This For A Song"C'mon Little Mama"
(Kale/Masters/McDougall/Winter)----1981"Magic"
(writer not listed)----Now and Not Then

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