All American Boy (Rick Derringer album)

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All American Boy
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Studio album by
Rick Derringer
ReleasedOctober 1973
Recorded1973
Studio Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado
Genre Rock, hard rock, blues rock
Length40:09
Label Blue Sky
Producer Bill Szymczyk, Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer chronology
All American Boy
(1973)		Spring Fever
(1975)
Audio
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Džuboks (favorable) [2]
Tom Hull B [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

All American Boy is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Rick Derringer, released in October 1973 by Blue Sky Records. "Joy Ride" and "Time Warp" (not to be confused with The Rocky Horror Picture Show song) are instrumentals.

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Cub Koda wrote of the album "this is simply Rick Derringer's most focused and cohesive album, a marvelous blend of rockers, ballads, and atmospheric instrumentals", adding it was "one of the great albums of the '70s that fell between the cracks." [5]

Release history

In addition to the conventional two channel stereo version the album was also released in a four channel quadraphonic edition on LP record and 8-track tape in 1974. The quad LP release was encoded in the SQ matrix system.

The album was reissued in the UK on the Super Audio CD format in 2018 by Dutton Vocalion. This release is a two albums on one disc compilation which also contains Derringer's 1975 album Spring Fever. The Dutton Vocalion disc contains the complete stereo and quad versions of both albums.

The album itself would not have nearly the same level of success as its song Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo did when it was released as a single. [6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rick Derringer; except where indicated

Side one

  1. "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" [7] – 3:43
  2. "Joy Ride" – instrumental – 1:50
  3. "Teenage Queen" – 3:31
  4. "Cheap Tequila" – 2:44
  5. "Uncomplicated" – 3:40
  6. "Hold" (Derringer, Patti Smith) – 3:12

Side two

  2. "The Airport Giveth (The Airport Taketh Away)" – 2:49
  3. "Teenage Love Affair" – 3:20
  4. "It's Raining" – 2:05
  5. "Time Warp" – instrumental – 2:53
  6. "Slide On Over Slinky" – 4:21
  7. "Jump, Jump, Jump" – 6:00

Personnel

"Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo"

"Joy Ride"

"Teenage Queen"

"Cheap Tequila"

"Uncomplicated"

"Hold"

"The Airport Giveth (The Airport Taketh Away)"

"Teenage Love Affair"

"It's Raining"

"Time Warp"

"Slide on Over Slinky"
"Jump, Jump, Jump"

Charts

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)38 [8]

References

  1. ↑ Coda, Cub. All American Boy at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "All American Boy - Rick Derringer". Džuboks (in Serbian) (5 (second series)). Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine: 22.
  3. ↑ Hull, Tom (April 1975). "The Rekord Report: First Card". Overdose. Retrieved June 26, 2020– via tomhull.com.
  4. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 193.
  5. ↑ "All American Boy - Rick Derringer | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved December 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ariga, Sergio. "Rick Derringer:All American Boy (1973)". Guitar Exchange. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  7. ↑ This song first appeared on the album Johnny Winter And from artist Johnny Winter. Rick Derringer played guitar and sang vocals for that album.
  8. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 88. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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