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Guess Who
Band Winnipeg Canada Formed 1962 Canadian rock band
Guess Who formed in 1962 in Winnipeg, Canada. Guess Who has 100 chart appearances on 64 radio countdowns from 24 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “American Woman”, which appears on 61 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Guess Who most often is Big 100 (Washington, DC), with 14 appearances.
Winnipeg's Guess Who had been at it for years when, around 1969, they hit a streak that lifted them clean over the border. Burton Cummings, their lead singer since 1966, had a big, bruising voice that could croon or snarl, Randy Bachman was cooking up riffs on electric guitar, Jim Kale played bass and Garry Peterson drummed.
Canned Wheat, in 1969, carried "No Time", all chiming guitar and hurt pride, and American Woman in 1970 went to number one in both Canada and the States. Its title track is the monster, a lumbering, fuzzed-out riff with Cummings sneering over the top, and the album also has "No Sugar Tonight" and "New Mother Nature" stitched together on the same record. "These Eyes", "Laughing" and "Share the Land" filled out a run that stretched to 1972, and the Junos named them Group of the Year in 1970 and 1971.
Bachman walked out in 1970, and Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw took over the guitars. The band officially split in 1975, reunited now and again, and after a long legal fight over the name, Bachman and Cummings won it back in a 2024 settlement and toured with a new lineup in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Guess Who on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Woman | 61 | #8 | – | – | |
| 2 | No Time | 13 | #239 | – | – | |
| 3 | No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature | 9 | #88 | – | – | |
| 4 | No Sugar Tonight | 5 | #121 | – | – | |
| 5 | Share The Land | 4 | #68 | – | – | |
| 6 | No Sugar/New Mother Nature | 1 | #87 | – | – | |
| 7 | No Sugar Tonight/New M | 2 | #738 | – | – | |
| 8 | These Eyes | 1 | #596 | – | – | |
| 9 | Hand Me Down World | 2 | #760 | – | – | |
| 10 | Laughing | 1 | #1812 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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