Discography

Top 40 Hits by The Five Americans

Note: A very comprehensive and accurate album and single discography is provided below courtesy of Michael Thom. Thanks Mike!

FIVE AMERICANS DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES (* indicates not on an LP or CD; PS indicates issued with picture sleeve;
DJ copies of most of the Abnak singles were pressed on gold or orange vinyl):

1965 Jetstar 104 It's You Girl/I'm Gonna Leave Ya* ('65)

•104 I'm Gonna Leave Ya (alt. version)*/Say That You Love Me

(Note: Master number on original Jetstar)

104; B-side is SO:2066; this version is #SO-2119

•105 I'm Feeling O.K./Slippin' and Slidin'

•Abnak 106 Without You*/Say That You Love Me

•109 I See the Light/The Outcast

•HBR 454 I See the Light/The Outcast

•1966 468 Evol-Not Love/Don't You Dare

•Blame Me (PS)

(Note: B-side is the same song that appears on the HBR LP under the title
"Don't Blame Me")

•483 Good Times/The Losing Game

(Note: Alternate version of "Good Times" appears on the Sundazed
"I See the Light" release)

•ABC 10686 Show Me*/Love, Love, Love*

(Note: A-side by Rabon-Ezell-Durrill; B-side by David-McRae -Wyche;
produced by Dale Hawkins, an Abnak Music Production;
Abnak logo does not appear on label)

•Abnak 114 Reality/Sympathy

•116 If I Could/Now That It's Over

•1967 118 Western Union/Now That It's Over

•120 Sound of Love/Sympathy

•123 Zip Code/Sweet Bird of Youth

(Note: A-side was edited; two longer versions exist, on the Sundazed
"Western Union" release and the "WCFL Winter Gold" LP)

•125 Stop Light/Tell Ann I Love Her (PS)

•1968 126 7:30 Guided Tour/See-Saw Man (PS)

•128 No Communication/The Rain Maker

•131 Lovin' Is Livin'*/Con Man

•132 Generation Gap/The Source*

•1969 134 Virginia Girl/Call On Me*

•137 Ignert Woman/Scrooge

•139 I See the Light-'69/Red Cape

•142 She's Too Good to Me/Molly Black

ALBUMS:

•1965 HBR 8503 I See the Light

(I See the Light; The Losing Game; Goodbye; I Know They Lie;
Twist and Shout; She's-a My Own; The Train; It's a Crying Shame;
I'm So Glad; Don't Blame Me; The Outcast; What'd I Say)

•1967 Abnak 2067 Western Union/Sound of Love

(Western Union; Gimme Some Lovin'; Husbands and Wives; If I Could;
Sympathy; Big Cities; Sound of Love; I Put a Spell on You; Tell Ann I Love Her;
Reality; Now That It's Over; See-Saw Man) (Reissued on French Eva 12050
[LP, all mono], with additional tracks: The Train; I See the Light;
Don't You Dare Blame Me; I'm So Glad)
- (Note: Abnak stereo issue of this LP is out of phase)

•2069 The Five Americans' Progressions
- (Stop Light; Con Man; Black Is White-Day Is Night; (But Not) Today;
  Come On Up; Zip Code; Rain Maker; Sweet Bird of Youth; Evol-Not Love;
  Somebody Help Me)
•1969 2071 Now and Then [double LP] (First LP ("Now"):
- •I See the Light-'69;
  - A Taste of Livin'; Molly Black; Medusa; A Change on You; Jondel;
    Ignert Woman; Amavi; Big Sur; Red Cape; 8 to 5 Man.
- •Second LP ("Then"):
  - Virginia Girl; 7:30 Guided Tour; Pink Lemonade; Peace and Love;
    You're in Love; She's Too Good to Me; Generation Gap;
    God Didn't Smile on Me; Disneyland; Scrooge)

LATER COMPILATIONS:
- •1989 Sundazed 11004 Western Union [CD/cassette]
  - (Western Union; Good Times*; Zip Code (longer version, different than the
    one on "WCFL Winter Gold"); I'm Feeling O.K.*; It's a Cryin' Shame; The Train;
    Evol-Not Love (m); Slippin' and Slidin'*; Reality; Tell Ann I Love Her;
    Sound of Love; No Communication* (m); Say That You Love Me* (m);
    It's You Girl* (m); I See the Light (stereo remix, with bass drum beat
    at end of song); Don't Blame Me; Big Cities; Stop Light; Virginia Girl;
    7:30 Guided Tour)
    - (Note: Many songs appear in first-time stereo or first-time in-phase
      stereo; (m) indicates mono; * indicates songs previously only on singles)
- •1994 Sundazed 6018 I See the Light [CD/cassette]
  - (Reissue of HBR LP, with the true stereo remix of "I See the Light"
    [also on Sundazed 11004], plus alternate versions of "The Train" and
    "Good Times"; all songs in stereo)
- RADIO STATION DISC:
  - • WCFL Winter Gold (Late '60s hits collection;
    - includes longer, unedited version of "Zip Code," but in different form
      than it appears on Sundazed 11004; no label or number; label has
      WCFL logo; master numbers for the two LP sides are XCSV 142391/92)
- RADIO SHOW:
  - •US Army "The In Sound," week of June 26, 1967 (promotional LP; USA-IS 49);
    - includes five-minute program with "Sound of Love" and a short interview
      with Mike Rabon about "Western Union."
- RE-RECORDINGS:
  - •"Western Union" appears in re-recorded form on several various artists
    compilations, including "Hit Parade Rock" (Impact LP BC237) and
    "The Fabulous '60s" (Exact EX224)
- RELATED RECORDINGS:
  - •MICHAEL RABON & CHOCTAW (post-Five Americans; issues on Uni label
    with Abnak logo):
    - •ALBUM:
      - 1970 Uni 73102 Michael Rabon and Choctaw
    - •SINGLES:
      - •1970 Uni 55289 Mary Miles/California, Hollywood 55305
        Texas Sparrow/Let Your Light Shine On
        
        (Note: B-side is not on the LP.)
  - •MICHAEL RABON:
    - •ALBUM:
      - •1975 Knife Wing 441 Texas Till I Die)
        
        (Note: Five Americans bass player Jim Grant plays on this LP)
    - •SINGLES:
      - •1975 Knife Wing 443 Texas (Till I Die)/Just for a Memory
      - •1976 Zodiac 1012 Love Is Just a Song/Two in One
      - •1978 Record Dist. Service 1007 Love Is Just a Song/Two in One
        
        (Note: These are different recordings than those on Zodiac 1012)
  - •JOHN DURRILL:
    - •ALBUM:
      - •1978 UA 1141 Just for the Record
    - •SINGLE:
      - •1978 UA ? I Think I'm Gonna Stay/?