gordon sinclair "the american’s"

the song "the americans (a canadian's opinion)" issued on avco 4628 states the run time as 4:40 but actually runs 4:49 and is identical to the version from the "music power" cd........this should be noted in the db.......edtop40

mine's in stereo.....

I have had a private message that is questioning whether the one cd this appears on (K-Tel 3626 Music Power) is really stereo or simply mono. After listening again I feel it is very narrow stereo but I have temporarily changed the listing to mono so can anyone else chime in with an opinion?

I just purchased a used copy of that K-Tel disc earlier this month and yes it is mono.

The original radio broadcast would have been without the music.

Gordon Sinclair was a newscaster at CFRB in Toronto, who regularly gave editorials (perhaps even daily). Sinclair was well known across Canada as a panelist on a long-running CBC television show. "The Americans" was simply one of those CFRB editorials and was AFAIK aired live.

Byron MacGregor was a broacaster at CKLW, which considers itself a Detroit station even though it is actually located across the river in Windsor, Ontario. (Because its audience is mostly in Michigan, CKLW is exempt from Canadian Content requirements.) One day MacGregor read on the air a transcript of Sinclair's editorial. Reaction was so strong that he went into a recording studio and a record was released. This led to Sinclair's original editorial also being issued with overdubbed music (Sinclair did not re-record it. The record is his original editorial.) Sinclair had no interest in making any money off any of this and arranged for all his rights to be transferred to a charity. This left MacGregor with little choice but to announce that he would also donate all his royalties. The mistake MacGregor made was that (unlike Sinclair) he only donated his royalties to the charity after receiving them. When he failed to report the income, he ran into some difficulties with the tax authorities.