I Can’t Believe It’s Not On Spotify! #2: Byron MacGregor, “The Americans”
As proven by Casey Kasem at the end of the Youtube, in 1974 enough people bought this recording of a Canadian newscaster condemning foreign countries for not appreciating the US over “America The Beautiful” to put the track in the Top 5 (“When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.”). Gordon Sinclair, the actual author of the editorial, released his own version soon after. It only went Top 30.
The proceeds went to the Red Cross but this is still bananas. As is the fact that it was released by Westbound, a label best known for early Funkadelic albums that ironically are on Spotify.
