The Five Americans - 7.30 guided tour

Five Americans was a 1960s American band, most famous for the song "Western Union" which reached No. 5 in the U.S. Billboard chart and was their only single to chart in the Top 20. At first one might think that, in Casey Kasem's "Book of Records" category of most repetitive word or phrase in a Hot 100 top 10 hit, "Western Union" would hold the record (in this case, the two 40-fold and one 50-plus-fold repetition of the imitative word "dit"). But the lyrics contain three many-fold repetitions of "dit, da dit, da dit" instead. In a March, 1967 interview that appeared in Michael Oberman's Top Tunes column in the Evening Star newspaper (Washington, DC), Norman Ezell, guitarist for the group explained how they came up with "Western Union Man." "Mike Rabon, our lead guitar player, was just fooling around with his guitar when he came up with a unique sound," Norman said. It sort of reminded us of a telegraph key. "That's when we decided to write 'Western Union Man.'"

The 1968 popsike song "7.30 guided" your was obviously "inspired" by The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" and/or "Magical Mystery Tour"

Singles

• "Show Me" / "Love, Love, Love" — ABC-Paramount 10686 (1965)
• "Say That You Love Me" / "Without You" — Abnak 106 (1965)
• "I See The Light" / "The Outcast" — Abnak 109 (1965)
• "I See The Light" (BB No. 26, CB No. 41) / "The Outcast" — HBR 454 (1966)
• "Evol-Not Love" (BB No. 52, CB No. 68) / "Don't You Dare Blame Me" — HBR 468 (1966)

•  Good Times" / "The Losing Game" — HBR 483 (1966)
• "It's You Girl" / "I'm Gonna Leave You" — Jetstar 104 (1966)
• "I'm Feeling OK" / "Slippin' and Slidin'" — Jetstar 105 (1966)
• "Reality" / "Sympathy" — Abnak 114 (1966)
• "If I Could" / "Now That It's Over" — Abnak 116 (1966)
• "Western Union" (BB No. 5, CB No. 7) / "Now That It's Over" — Abnak 118 (1967)
• "Sound Of Love" (BB No. 36, CB No. 31) / "Sympathy" — Abnak 120 (1967)
• "Zip Code" (BB No. 36, CB No. 55) / "Sweet Bird of Youth" — Abnak 123 (1967)
• "Stop Light" (BB No. 132) / "Tell Ann I Love Her" — Abnak 125 (1967)
• "7:30 Guided Tour" (BB No. 96) / "See Saw Man" — Abnak 126 (1968)
• "No Communication" / "The Rain Maker" — Abnak 128 (1968)
• "Con Man" / "Lovin' is Lovin'" — Abnak 131 (1968)
• "Generation Gap" / "The Source" — Abnak 132 (1968)
• "Virginia Girl" (BB No. 133) / "Call On Me" — Abnak 134 (1969)
• "Scrooge" / "Ignert Woman" — Abnak 137 (1969)
• "I See The Light '69" / "Red Cape" — Abnak 139 (1969)