Share the Land (1970) 8/3/20

In late 1970, Randy Bachman had enough of fighting with Burton Cummings about almost everything related to The Guess Who, and left to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

This did not deter Cummings in the least. He brought in TWO guitarists to replace Bachman (Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw) and started work on the Guess Who's 7th album, “Share the Land.”

RCA Records was so impressed with the new material, they released it using the latest technology. #1: Dynaflex vinyl: records so pliant, you could bend them in half and they'd snap back on their original shape without any damage. (Remember those? I had a few in my collection.) #2: Quadrophonic 8-track tapes. (They were a rarity back then...and now they're impossible to find, much less a player to play them!)

Critics were amazed at the quality of music on “Share the Land,” which spawned a number of singles that did extremely well...including the title cut: a hopeful song about a Utopian future where land would be given away and people would live together in peace. In Canada, the song went to #2 on the Top 40. In the US, the song reached #10 on Billboard's Hot 100.

“Share the Land:” A “Great Song of 1970!”