Young Americans - The Single

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The Italian cover

The Japanese cover

Songs (Time)

UK release

1. Young Americans (Bowie)
2. Suffragette City (Bowie)

Release Details

Released by RCA in the UK, February 21, 1975

Catalogue number: 2523 (UK)

US release

1. Young Americans (Bowie)
2. Knock On Wood (Floyd, Cropper)

Release Details

Released by RCA in the US, February 1975

Catalogue number: PB 10152 (US)

Released in picture sleeve

Producer

Tony Visconti (1974)

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals

Mike Garson: piano

David Sanborn: sax

Willie Weeks: bass

Andy Newmark: drums

Pablo Rosario: percussion

Larry Washington: conga

Ava Cherry, Robin Clark and Luther Vandross: backing vocals

Trivia

• Lifted straight from the album in all its 5-minute live glory, Young Americans was too involved to make sense on British dance floors, although in the US, a shorter 3-minute edited version gave David his first Top Thirty entry in two years.
• Chart Performance:

  Country	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	18	7
  US	28	?

This document last updated Sunday, 13-Jun-1999 22:25:59 EDT