Blondie
Autoamerican (LP)
FormatLPLabelChrysalisGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): EX- (marks not affecting play) / VG (creasing + heavy edges wear + general wear - innersleeve partly split)
With original innersleeve. The album was a radical departure for the band, with the opening track "Europa" setting the pace. The track is a dramatic instrumental overture featuring orchestral arrangements and ending with vocalist Debbie Harry declaiming a passage about automobile culture over an electronic soundtrack. Besides rock and pop tracks, the band explored a wide range of other musical genres: "Here's Looking at You" and "Faces" show jazz and blues influences, "The Tide Is High" was a cover of the Paragons' 1967 Jamaican rocksteady song, whereas "Rapture" combined funk, rock, jazz, and even saw them embracing the then-emerging genre of rap.
The closing track, "Follow Me", was a cover of a torch song from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1960 Broadway musical Camelot.
Release notes
[l447694] pressing denoted by "P" faintly stamped in runouts. ℗ © 1980 Inner sleeve with credits printed on it. Credits Sleeve designed to appear like an new automobile sales slip. Publishing: Rare Blue Music Inc./Monster Island Music Corp. (ASCAP): tracks A1 to A3, A5 to B3, B5 B&C Music, Inc. (ASCAP): track A4 Chappelle & Co. Inc. (ASCAP): track B6 Red Admiral Music Inc. (BMI): track B4 Runouts are stamped (side A: variants 4, 5, 8,12; side B: variants 1, 4 to 7, 8, 10,12) and etched…
| A1 | Europa | 3:32 | |
| A2 | Live It Up | 4:10 | |
| A3 | Here's Looking At You | 2:58 | |
| A4 | The Tide Is High | 4:42 | |
| A5 | Angels On The Balcony | 3:36 | |
| A6 | Go Through It | 2:40 | |
| B1 | Do The Dark | 3:53 | |
| B2 | Rapture | 6:33 | |
| B3 | Faces | 3:51 | |
| B4 | T-Birds | 3:58 | |
| B5 | Walk Like Me | 3:46 | |
| B6 | Follow Me | 3:00 |
- Jimmy Haskell
- Arranged By [String & Horn] (A1, A3, A4, A6)
- Billy Bass
- Art Direction
- Karen Knecht
- Artwork [Peach]
- Nigel Harrison
- Bass
- John Van Hamersveld
- Design
- Clem Burke
- Drums
- Lenise Bent
- Engineer
- Doug Schwartz
- Engineer [Assistant]
- Gary Boatner
- Engineer [Assistant]
- Frank Infante
- Guitar
- Chris Stein
- Guitar, Timpani [Tympani]
- Jimmy Destri
- Keyboards [Electric]
- Alive Enterprises, Inc.
- Management [Direction]
- Bob Emmer
- Management [Direction]
- Denny Vosburgh
- Management [Direction]
- Shep Gordon
- Management [Direction]
- Bruce Patron
- Management [Road Manager]
- Martin Hoffman
- Painting
- Mike Chapman
- Producer
- Merwin Belin
- Producer [Production Trouble Shooter]
- Scott Lesser
- Stage Manager
- Deborah Harry
- Vocals
