LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 7, 2019…IT WAS 1975 AND ON THIS DATE DAVID BOWIE LANDED A HUGE ALBUM WITH THE RELEASE OF ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’. IT WAS BOWIE’S 9TH STUDIO RELEASE, AND IT MARKED HIS DEPARTURE FROM “GLAM-ROCK.” THE ALBUM FEATURED A STRING OF SESSION PLAYERS THAT INCLUDED LUTHER VANDROSS AND ANDY NEWMARK, THE DRUMMER OF ‘SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE’. THE RECORD REACHED # 9 ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS, AND IT PRODUCED THE NUMBER ONE SINGLE ‘FAME’. BOWIE RECORDED FAME WITH JOHN LENNON. BOWIE AND LENNON CO-WROTE THE SONG, ALONG WITH PRODUCER CARLOS ALOMAR
HERE’S BOWIE PERFORMING THE TITLE TRACK ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ ON THE DICK CAVETT SHOW
HE WAS DOING THE CIRCUIT IN SUPPORT OF THIS ALBUM, BECAUSE HE ALSO APPEARED ON ‘THE CHER SHOW’ TO PERFORM ‘FAME’
