America Live Recording Audio Tape: The Charles Lewis Collection

The Charles Lewis Tape collection features countless professional live raw recordings of some of the biggest names in music. This one tape includes audio of a live concert by the popular band America. Complete and unedited from this performance, the audio was taken off the board by the sound engineer Charles Lewis c.1960's. Tape measures 7.5" in diameter and box measures 11.75".

Tape audio runs for approximately 45 minutes and includes the songs:
1. I Need You
2. Venture Highway

Chuck Lewis started his career in sound in the late fifties at Otto K. Olsen in Hollywood. While working there, he was the soundman/sound mixer for red carpet premiers at Grauman's Theater.In the sixties, Chuck was in charge of working at and overseeing performances at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Music Center.Chuck did sound for all types of performances; rock, jazz, classical, stand up, and theater. He worked with everyone from the Beatles to Baryshnikov. Chuck did have his favorites some of which were Robert Goulet, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, and Florence Henderson. In his later years, he worked solely for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as sound director and overseeing the Center Theater Group.

Several years after Chuck's passing his children started to clear out his garage. Chuck had a sound rental business for a few years after he retired and his children were selling the sound equipment. They came across several boxes of reel to reel tapes that they had no idea existed. Among these tapes there was everything from rock, jazz, stand up, classical, and plays. These tapes feature live recordings that have gone untouched and unheard for 45 years or more.

America is a rock band formed in England in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley. The trio met as sons of U.S. Air Force personnel stationed in London, where they began performing live.

America achieved significant popularity in the 1970s and was famous for the trio's close vocal harmonies and light acoustic folk-rock sound. The band released a string of hit albums and singles, many of which found airplay on pop/soft rock stations. Their 1974's Holiday featured the hits "Tin Man" and "Lonely People"; and 1975's Hearts generated the number one single "Sister Golden Hair" alongside "Daisy Jane."

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