Thursday, February 14, 2008

Mention of Little Rock in Grand Funk Railroad's "We are an American Band"

OK, I know this is a bit off-track, but Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band” was played a LOT on KAAY. Here’s a web link to a commentrary by Don Brewer, Grand Funk drummer, explaining some of the lyrics in the song, including the verse about “sweet sweet Connie” - - for those of you who may be curious about the mention of Little Rock in the song - Be sure to scroll down to the “comments” section about Connie and KAAY. My memory is dim about this point, but I believe KAAY was one of the major local promoters of the Grand Funk concert that may have eventually inspired the Connie lyric.



http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1756



The gold record picture with Sonny Martin reminded me of “We’re an American Band”. According to the website, the song was pressed using “gold” colored vinyl as part of the marketing of the song. Gold colored vinyl was more pure than black vinyl, more expensive, but the record company (Capital) decided this was a good move for publicity. Later, other records were pressed using colored vinyl as a promotional tool.



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Regards,



Dave Montgomery

Right on track Dave. I have tried to find some kind of list of concerts at Barton but to no avail. I couldn't even find a list of Elvis live concert dates. (I was looking for the date of the Elvis concert in Pine Bluff.) You would think that with all there is on the web, concert dates would be significant.

There is a project for some computer buff.

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