American Top Ten: Breakfast in America (#9)

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No relation to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40; rather, it’s the hillbilly’s top ten songs that feature “America” (or “American”) in the title! And I just noticed that a few of these “America” songs aren’t by Americans at all! What gives! Here’s today’s song for you. #9: Breakfast in America - Supertramp Case in point: England’s Supertramp (the name of the band, not a reference to a woman of loose morals with extraordinary powers ). The title song from their mega album (which I gleefully purchased as soon as I got out of boot camp) is a stereotypical look at the U.S. (“they’ve gotta have ‘em in Texas ‘cause everyone’s a millionaire”) from the perspective of someone who’s never been here (“take a jumbo ‘cross the water, I’d like to see America”). We obviously enjoyed the joke, as this was Supertramp’s biggest album in the U.S. Breakfast in America Written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson Recorded by Supertramp From Breakfast in America, 1979 Don’t you look at my girlfriend: