Tracklist
| A1 | Europa | 3:32 | |
| A2 | Live It Up | 4:10 | |
| A3 | Here's Looking At You | 2:58 | |
| A4 | The Tide Is High | 4:42 | |
| A5 | Angels On The Balcony | 3:36 | |
| A6 | Go Through It | 2:40 | |
| B1 | Do The Dark | 3:53 | |
| B2 | Rapture | 6:33 | |
| B3 | Faces | 3:51 | |
| B4 | T-Birds | 3:58 | |
| B5 | Walk Like Me | 3:46 | |
| B6 | Follow Me | 3:00 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – United Western Studios
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Chrysalis Records
- Copyright © – Chrysalis Records
- Copyright © – Rare Blue Music, Inc.
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
- Published By – Rare Blue Music, Inc.
- Published By – Monster Island Music Corp.
- Published By – B&C Music Inc.
- Published By – Chappell & Co., Inc.
- Published By – Red iral Music, Inc.
Credits
- Arranged By [String & Horn] – Jimmy Haskell* (tracks: A1, A3, A4, A6)
- Art Direction – Billy Bass
- Artwork [Peach] – Karen Knecht
- Bass – Nigel Harrison
- Design – John Van Hamersveld
- Drums – Clem Burke
- Engineer – Lenise Bent
- Engineer [Assistant] – Gary Boatner
- Guitar – Frank Infante
- Guitar, Timpani [Tympani] – Chris Stein
- Keyboards [Electric] – Jimmy Destri
- Management [Direction] – Shep Gordon
- Management [Road Manager] – Bruce Patron
- Painting – Martin Hoffman (3)
- Producer – Mike Chapman
- Producer [Production Trouble Shooter] – Merwin Belin
- Stage Manager – Scott Lesser
- Vocals – Deborah Harry
Notes
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman pressing denoted by "P" faintly stamped in runouts.
℗ © 1980
Inner sleeve with credits printed on it.
Credits Sleeve designed to appear like an new automobile sales slip.
Publishing:
Rare Blue Music Inc./Monster Island Music Corp. (ASCAP): tracks A1 to A3, A5 to B3, B5
B&C Music, Inc. (ASCAP): track A4
Chappelle & Co. Inc. (ASCAP): track B6
Red iral Music Inc. (BMI): track B4
Runouts are stamped (side A: variants 4, 5, 8,12; side B: variants 1, 4 to 7, 8, 10,12) and etched (side A: variants 1 to 3, 6, 7, 10; side B: variants 2 and 3). Pitman "P" and some plating characters are stamped.
Track A4 credits Arthur "Duke" Reid (D. Reid) as the writer, but it was actually written by John Holt.
℗ © 1980
Inner sleeve with credits printed on it.
Credits Sleeve designed to appear like an new automobile sales slip.
Publishing:
Rare Blue Music Inc./Monster Island Music Corp. (ASCAP): tracks A1 to A3, A5 to B3, B5
B&C Music, Inc. (ASCAP): track A4
Chappelle & Co. Inc. (ASCAP): track B6
Red iral Music Inc. (BMI): track B4
Runouts are stamped (side A: variants 4, 5, 8,12; side B: variants 1, 4 to 7, 8, 10,12) and etched (side A: variants 1 to 3, 6, 7, 10; side B: variants 2 and 3). Pitman "P" and some plating characters are stamped.
Track A4 credits Arthur "Duke" Reid (D. Reid) as the writer, but it was actually written by John Holt.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 0 7558-51290-1
- Pressing Plant ID (Stamped in runouts): P
- Rights Society (A1 to B6): ASCAP
- Rights Society (B4): BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): CHE-1290-AS
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): CHE-1290-BS
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): CHE-1290-AS-1C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): CHE 1290BS-1K
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): CHE 1290AS-1A P V
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): CHE 1290BS-1B P E
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): CHE-1290AS-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): CHE-1290BS-1B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): P CHE 1290AS-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): P CHE 1290BS-1B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): P CHE 1290AS-1A C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): P CHE 1290BS-1B C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): CHE-1290AS-1B C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): CHE-1290BS-1B C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): P CHE-1290AS-1B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): P CHE-1290BS-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): P CHE 1290AS-1A I A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 8): P CHE 1290BS-1B D
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 9): CHE 1290 AS-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 9): CHE 1290 BS-B̶1̶ 1H S1 SX P
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 10): P CHE-1290AS-1B B̷C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 10): P CHE-1290BS-1B H
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 11): P CHE-1290AS-1B A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 11): P CHE-1290BS-1A A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 12): P CHE-1290AS-1A C
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 12): P CHE-1290BS-1B A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 13): CHE-1290-AS-1B B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 13): CHE 1290BS-1F MCA sh[cursive] XS \ 5
Other Versions (5 of 200)
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AutoAmerican (LP, Album, Stereo) | Chrysalis | 202 987, 202 987-320 | 1980 | |||
| Autoamerican (LP, Album, Stereo) | Chrysalis | CHE 1290, CHR-1290 | Sweden | 1980 | |||
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AutoAmerican (LP, Album) | Chrysalis | CDL 1290 | Norway | 1980 | ||
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Autoamerican (LP, Album) | Chrysalis | CDL 1290 | Italy | 1980 | ||
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AutoAmerican (LP, Album) | Chrysalis | L 37335 | Australia | 1980 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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That's a mistake to write that the design have been made by "Progam A" (See 1000 Record Covers from Michael Ochs and Phonographiques published by Alexander Mosley in 1982). "Program A" is like A-Side (and "Program B" like B-Side) write on the back cover.Cover design made by John Van Hamersveld.
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Just got a copy of this pressing, sounds pretty good..nice to have the full album version of Rapture again..I bought this album on 8-track when it came out, I was 11 and it was the first album I bought on my own -
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Autoamerican came out when I was 12. It was the first serious album I bought. I had three colorful disco lights in my room and this music was the soundtrack to my entrance into teenagedom.
More than that, the album exhibits different genres of muisc... calypso (Tide is High), rap (Rapture), jazz (Faces and Here's Looking at You), new age (Europa, Follow Me), disco (Do the Dark), and country-rock (T-birds). It is a world tour of music genres set into one album.
Still brings back memories of those disco lights...
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