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America The Beautiful (An Account of Its Disappearance) - By Gary McFarland / Skye Records LP 1979

6.24 452 AT

Label:	Skye Records – 6.24 452 AT
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	Germany
Released:	1979
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Soul-Jazz, Big Band

Tracklist:

A1	1st Movement – On This Site Shall Be Erected…	4:36
A2	2nd Movement – 80 Miles An Hour Through Beer-Can Country	9:09
A3	3rd Movement – Suburbia: Two Poodles And A Plastic Jesus	6:21
B1	1st Movement – “If I Am Elected…”	4:41
B2	2nd Movement – Last Rites For The Promised Land	4:42
B3	3rd Movement – Due To A Lack Of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled	8:36

Bass Guitar – Chuck Rainey (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3), Jerry Jemmott (tracks: A1, B1)
Cello – George Ricci (tracks: A1, A2, B1-B3), Harvey Shapiro (tracks: B3)
Composed By – Gary McFarland
Conductor – Gary McFarland
Drums – Bernard Purdie (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3), Bill Lavorgna (tracks: A1, B1)
French Horn – Earl Chapin (tracks: A3, B3), Jim Buffington (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2), Ray Alonge
Guitar – Eric Gayle
Liner Notes – Norman Schwartz
Mastered By – RL
Percussion – Warren Smith
Piano – Warren Bernhardt
Reeds – Danny Bank (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3), Hubert Laws (tracks: A2, B2), Jerome Richardson, Joe Farrell (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3), Ray Beckenstein (tracks: A2, B2), Romeo Penque, Wally Caine*
Trombone – Garnett Brown
Trumpet – Bernie Glow (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2), Ernie Royal (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2), Marvin Stamm, Randy Brecker (tracks: A3, B3), Richard Williams (tracks: A3, B3), Snooky Young
Tuba – Harvey Phillips
Viola – Al Brown (tracks: A2, B2)
Violin – Aaron Rosand (tracks: A2, B2), David Nadien (tracks: B2), Gene Orloff (tracks: A2)