They’d been defying the sniffy U.S. rock media for years, with their million-selling albums and frequent visits to the singles chart. However as of September 29, 1973, nobody might deny that Grand Funk actually have been the individuals’s group. It was all there within the title of the track that grew to become the best-selling single within the land on that date, “We’re An American Band.”
The usually rollicking 45 by the newly-restyled outfit, who misplaced the “Railroad” from their title as of this single and album of the identical title, hit the highest 4 years to the week after their Sizzling 100 debut. That had been with “Time Machine,” which climbed as excessive as No.48, one in all ten singles to peak under the High 20 for Grand Funk over the following three years.
“We’re An American Band” was written by drummer Don Brewer and produced, like all of the eponymous album, by Todd Rundgren. The LP itself had made its debut six weeks earlier, and was now sitting at No.2, second solely to the Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters.
Triumph with Todd
Rundgren, the Pennsylvanian artist-producer, was himself stepping past his album rock consolation zone. He was transferring into the world of High 40 radio, with the earlier 12 months’s hit single “I Saw The Light” and one other on the way in which quickly after Grand Funk’s triumph, with “Hello It’s Me.” Now he watched with delight as “We’re An American Band” made its regular ascent of the Billboard chart.
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In its tenth week, the only climbed 2-1 to interchange Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” on the summit for every week, earlier than Cher’s “Half-Breed” took over. Much more impressively, Grand Funk could be again in that place little greater than seven months later, with their remake of Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion.”
Purchase or stream “We’re An American Band” on the album of the identical title.
