DAVID BOWIE Young Americans; 1975 RCA APL1-0998; Orig 1st U.S Tan; Lyrics Inner
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DAVID BOWIE
(Jan. 8, 1947 - Jan. 10, 2016)
YOUNG AMERICANS
Label: RCA VICTOR– APL-4353
1ST U.S. Release.
Released on March 7, 1975
NO BARCODE
Track listing
All songs written by David Bowie, except where noted.
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Young Americans" 5:10 2. "Win" 4:44 3. "Fascination" Bowie, Luther Vandross 5:43 4. "Right" 4:13Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length 5. "Somebody Up There Likes Me" 6:30 6. "Across the Universe" John Lennon, Paul McCartney 4:30 7. "Can You Hear Me?" 5:04 8. "Fame" Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon 4:12Personnel
Musicians
David Bowie – vocals, guitar, piano
Carlos Alomar – guitar
Mike Garson – piano
David Sanborn – saxophone
Willie Weeks – bass guitar (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame")
Andy Newmark – drums (except on "Across the Universe" and "Fame")
Additional musicians
Larry Washington – conga
Pablo Rosario – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ava Cherry, Robin Clark, Luther Vandross – backing vocals
John Lennon – vocals, guitar, backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Earl Slick – guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Emir Ksasan – bass guitar on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Dennis Davis – drums on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Fineberg – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
Jean Millington – backing vocals on "Across the Universe" and "Fame"
During the American tour promoting the dystopian art rock of 1974's Diamond Dogs, David Bowie fell hard for the gloriously smooth sound of Philly soul.
So he went right to the source to make Young Americans, with a backing group featuring Luther Vandross.
It’s a slick, tuneful pop-R&B record given extra depth by some of Bowie's most pointed lyrics.
The gospel-tinged title track and the needling funk of "Fame" (with lyrics and vocals by John Lennon) are among Bowie's most exciting, impassioned performances.
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in 1975.
For the record, which showed off his 1970s "obsession" with soul music, he let go of the influences he had drawn from in the past, replacing them with sounds from "local dance halls", which, at the time, were blaring with "lush strings, sliding hi-hat whispers, and swanky R&B rhythms of Philadelphia Soul".
Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey".
Because of the strong influence of black music on the album, Bowie used the term "plastic soul" (originally coined by an unknown black musician in the 1960s) to describe the sound of Young Americans.
Although Bowie was an English musician bringing up touchy American issues, the album was still very successful in the US; the album itself reached the top ten in that country, with the song "Fame" hitting the No. 1 spot the same year the album was released.
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