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	4th Movement – “If I Am Elected…”	4:41
B2	5th Movement – Last Rites For The Promised Land	4:42
B3	6th Movement – Due To A Lack Of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled	8:36

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.

Credits

• 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*
• 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), Snooky Young*, Marvin Stamm, Randy Brecker (tracks: A3, B3), Richard Williams (tracks: A3, B3)
• Tuba – Harvey Phillips
• Viola – Al Brown* (tracks: A2, B2)
• Violin – Aaron Rosand (tracks: A2, B2), David Nadien (tracks: B2), Gene Orloff (tracks: A2)

Notes

with OBI & insert.

Full title: “America The Beautiful: An Account Of Its Disappearance”.
Recorded 16, 18, 21, 22 October 1968 at A&R Recording Studios, New York.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SK-8	Gary McFarland	America The Beautiful ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Skye Records	SK-8	US	1969
SK-8	Gary McFarland	America The Beautiful ‎(LP, Album)	Skye Records	SK-8	Canada	1969
DJZ-615	Gary McFarland	America The Beautiful ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	DCC Jazz	DJZ-615	US	1991
G-909	Gary McFarland	America The Beautiful ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Gryphon	G-909	US	1979
SK 1004	Gary McFarland	America The Beautiful ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Blue Moon , Skye Records	SK 1004	Spain	2007

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