The United States of America
Studio album by The United States of America
Released	March 6, 1968
Recorded	December 7 to 23, 1967
Genre	Experimental Rock Pop Psychedelic
Length	37:07
Label	Columbia Sundazed Edsel
Producer	David Rubinson
Professional reviews
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The United States of America chronology
The United States of America (1968)

The United States of America is a 1968 album by The United States of America. It was originally packaged in a brown envelope with "The United States of America" stamped on the front; this envelope is pictured on the back of the CD booklet on the Sundazed rerelease. Although it was a critical success and stayed on the bottom of the Billboard charts for two months, the band broke up due to interband tension soon after its release. The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... Dusted Magazine is an online music magazine which was founded by Otis Hart and Sam Hunt in January 2002. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... This article is not about the 90s alternative group, The Presidents of the United States of America. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... This article is not about the 90s alternative group, The Presidents of the United States of America. ...

Track listing

1. "The American Metaphysical Circus" (Joseph Byrd) – 4:56
2. "Hard Coming Love" (Byrd, Dorothy Moskowitz) – 4:41
3. "Cloud Song" (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 3:18
4. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 2:39
5. "I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar" (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 3:51
6. "Where Is Yesterday" (Gordon Marron, Ed Bogas, Moskowitz) – 3:08
7. "Coming Down" (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 2:37
8. "Love Song for the Dead Ché" (Byrd) – 3:25
9. "Stranded in Time" (Marron, Bogas) – 1:49
10. "The American Way of Love" (Byrd) – 6:38
    1. -Metaphor for an Older Man (Byrd)
    2. -California Good time Music (Byrd)
    3. -Love Is All (Byrd, Moskowitz, Rand Forbes, Craig Woodson, Marron)

Joseph Byrd (born Kentucky, raised Tucson, Arizona) was the leader of The United States of America, a notable rock band from the 1960s and 1970s. ... Born Edgar Noel Bogas, Ed Bogas is a musicians whose contributions span four decades and several genres. ...

1992 reissue

The album was reissued by Columbia Records on CD in 1992 with two bonus tracks. Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ...

1. "Osamu's Birthday" (Byrd) – 2:59
2. "No Love to Give" (Moskowitz) – 2:36

2004 reissue

The album was remastered and reissued on Sundazed Records in 2004 with ten bonus tracks. Sundazed Records is a record label based in Coxsackie, in the Catskills of New York. ...

The songs "Perry Pier", "Tailor Man" and "Do You Follow Me" feature an entirely different band with only Dorothy Moskowitz remaining as a member from the original lineup. This marked an attempt at a less experimental, "L.A. rock" sound that rejected the intellectual experimentalism of their earlier work.

The last three are from their original demo tape sent to Columbia Records and features a slightly different lineup from the final album.

The vinyl re-issue doesn't include the bonus tracks. A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...

Bonus tracks

1. "Osamu's Birthday" (Byrd) – 2:59
2. "No Love to Give" (Moskowitz) – 2:36
3. "I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar" (alternate version with Moskowitz singing lead) (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 3:45
4. "You Can Never Come Down" (Byrd) – 2:32
5. "Perry Pier" (Moskowitz) – 2:37
6. "Tailor Man" (Moskowitz) – 3:06
7. "Do You Follow Me" (Kenneth Edwards) – 2:34
8. "The American Metaphysical Circus" (demo version) (Byrd) – 4:01
9. "Mouse (The Garden of Earthly Delights)" (demo version) (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 2:39
10. "Heresy (Coming Down)" (demo version) (Byrd, Moskowitz) – 2:32

Personnel

Original Envelope Cover

The Band

• Joseph Byrd – electronic music, electric harpsichord, organ, calliope, piano
• Dorothy Moskowitz – lead vocals
• Gordon Marron – electric violin, ring modulator
• Rand Forbes – electric bass
• Craig Woodson – electric drums, percussion

Joseph Byrd (born Kentucky, raised Tucson, Arizona) was the leader of The United States of America, a notable rock band from the 1960s and 1970s. ... Harpsichord in the Flemish style A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet. ... This article or section should be merged with Pipe organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by... Circus calliope, lithograph by Gibson & Co. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This electric violin, made by Leo Fender in the late 1950s, has a non-traditional design. ... Ring modulation is an audio effect performed by multiplying two audio signals, where one is typically a sine-wave or another simple waveform. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ...

Additional musicians

• Ed Bogas – occasional organ, piano, calliope

Born Edgar Noel Bogas, Ed Bogas is a musicians whose contributions span four decades and several genres. ...

Technical staff

• Glen Kolotkin, Arthur Kendy – remixer
• Richard Durrett – instrument design engineer
• David Diller – engineer

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ... An Audio Engineer is a person recording, editing, manipulating, mixing and mastering sound by technical means. ...

Charts

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ...

Miscellanea

• This album is rated #1 Greatest Underrated Rock Album of all time at the website DigitalDreamDoor.com [1]
• On the album, "Cloud Song" is labeled to be inspired by Pooh and "California Good-time Music" is said to be inspired by Tom Nolan.
• "Love Song For The Dead Ché" was covered in 1993 by the band Northern Picture Library and released as a single.
• "You Can Never Come Down" is a demo of a track that eventually appeared in a much different version on The American Metaphysical Circus as "You Can't Ever Come Down".

Poo or Pooh may refer to: Winnie the Pooh, the nickname of Pooh, a character in the books by A. A. Milne Poo (EarthBound), a playable character from the Super Nintendo game EarthBound Poo (or poop), a slang term for feces. ... Northern Picture Library was a British Dream Pop group formed in 1993 by Bobby Wratten and Annemari Davies, both former members of The Field Mice. ... The American Metaphysical Circus is a landmark psychedelic recording of the late 1960s, largely unique in having remained in print for nearly 20 years. ...

External links

• The United States of America at All Music Guide
• 1968 Review from Rolling Stone Magazine