American Tune

"American Tune"
"American Tune"
Single by Paul Simon
from the album There Goes Rhymin' Simon
B-side	"One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor"
Released	November 9, 1973
Recorded	1972
Studio	Morgan Studios, London
Genre	Soft rock; folk;
Length	3:45
Label	Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Paul Simon; Hans Leo Hassler (melody);
Producer(s)	Paul Simon; Paul Samwell-Smith (co-producer);
Paul Simon singles chronology

"American Tune" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the third single from his third studio album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), released on Columbia Records. The song, a meditation on the American experience, is based on the melody of the hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" and bears a striking resemblance to JS Bach’s “Erkenne mich, mein Hüter“. The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "200 greatest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songs of the 1970s". Cleveland. February 4, 2020.
^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications).

[auto-1] "200 greatest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songs of the 1970s". Cleveland. February 4, 2020.

[Whitburn-2] Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications).

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