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"American Woman," a song on the Guess Who's American Woman album, was released as a single, in truncated form, with "No Sugar Tonight" on the flip side. Purportedly written during a concert jam at a curling rink in Kitchener and often maligned for being misogynist, the lyrics have a decidedly political bent, decrying the "coloured lights," "ghetto scenes" and "war machines" of the United States.
"American Woman" is frequently cited as the best Canadian song of all-time (for example, in Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Singles and Chart Magazine polls in 2000 and 2005), was nominated for the Best Produced Single at the 1971 Juno awards, and has been used in movie soundtracks and covered by various artists.
| Hometown: | Winnipeg |
| Canadian Content: | propensity for defining ourselves as being other than American |
| Release Date: | January 1970 (album), March 1970 (single) |
| Composer: | Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson |
| Album: | American Woman |
| Style: | Rock |
| Charts: | #1 Canadian Singles Chart; #1 US Billboard Hot 100; #19 UK Singles |
| Mar*Star 125: | 8 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 48 |
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