The Guess Who ( Rus. Hess hu [1] ; literally - Guess who ) is the first Canadian star rock band formed in Winnipeg in 1962 and remained in history thanks to the hit " American Woman " (1970), the first Canadian single, topped the American charts.
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| Genre | Rock , blues rock , hard rock |
| Years | 1965 - 1975 , since 1977 |
| A country |  Canada |
| Where from | Winnipeg , Manitoba |
| Other names | The silvertones The reflections Chad allan and the expressions |
| Label | Quality , Scepter , Buddah , RCA , Paradiso, Sundazed |
| Composition | Jim Cale Laurie Mackenzie Harry Peterson Leonard Shaw Derek Sharp |
| Former the participants | Ched allan Bob ashley Randy Bachmann Burton cummings Bruce Decker Karl Dixon Greg Leskio Donny McDougle Domenic Troiano Bill wallace Kurt Winter Dale russell Terry Hattie Terry Reed |
| Other projects | Bachman & Cummings, Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
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Group History
The creators of the band, Chad Allan and Randy Bachman, were members of Chad Allan and the Expressions, a group that suddenly became famous in 1965 when its cover version of Shakin 'All Over, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, became a hit in Canada and entered the American Top 40. After Expressions recorded the album under their own name, Quality label jokingly released it with the inscription: “Guess Who?” On the cover, hoping with the help of this hoax to make the buyer believe that the record belongs to a certain a well-known group that decided to sign up incognito [2] .
In 1970, The Guess Who became the first Canadian group to reach the pinnacle of the U.S. sales chart, the Billboard Hot 100 . Ironically, such a success fell to the lot of the anti-war (and anti-American , as it seemed to many at that time) [3] song “ American Woman ” (according to Randy Bachmann, the Statue of Liberty was meant by “American Woman”) [2] . In 1970, The Guess Who was invited to the White House by Richard Nixon , but the president’s wife personally asked the group not to perform “American Woman” [4] .
One of the music critics noted that the Canadian vocalist in this song sounds like Jim Morrison after a long binge and several smoked packs of cigarettes [5] .
Soon after, the band left guitarist Randy Bachmann (later the founder of the successful Bachman-Turner Overdrive supergroup ): he turned to Mormonism and found the rock and roll lifestyle inappropriate to his religious beliefs [6] . Other members followed, so in 1975, The Guess Who ceased to exist.
Guess Who in the Cinema
- The song “Shakin 'All Over” was included in the soundtrack for the film “Factory Girl” (at the Russian box office “ I Seduced Andy Warhol ”) and became one of the titles: Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick was dancing to it under the famous “Factory”.
- The song "American Woman" sounds in the film " American Beauty ." The protagonist Lester Burnham ( Kevin Spacey ) listens to her in the car and sings along energetically immediately after he left work and began a “new life”.
- The song “No Time” sounds in the movie “ Silicon Valley Pirates ” when Steve Jobs was looking for investment in banks after Hewlett-Packard representatives thought the idea of personal computers was meaningless.
Discography
Studio albums :
- Shakin 'All Over (1965)
- Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) (1965)
- It's Time (1966)
- Wheatfield Soul (1969)
- Canned Wheat (1969)
- American Woman (1970)
- Share the Land (1970)
- So Long, Bannatyne (1971)
- Rockin ' (1972)
- Artificial Paradise (1973)
- # 10 (1973)
- Road Food (1974)
- Flavors (1974)
- Power in the Music (1975)
- The Way They Were (1976)
- Guess who's back (1978)
- All This for a Song (1979)
- Now and Not Then (1981)
- Lonely One (1995)
Notes
- ↑ Hess hu / Guess Who // Universal Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius
- ↑ 1 2 www.allmusic.com
- ↑ American Woman // superseventies.com
- ↑ American Woman - Guess Who on songfacts.com
- ↑ MC Strong, The Great Rock Discography, 1998, p. 322.
- ↑ The Guess Who // classicbands.com