“Breakfast in America” by Supertramp

"Breakfast in America" gave Supertramp's 1979 album its title, and it's a cheeky little daydream about someone, most likely British, itching to cross the Atlantic and see the States for himself. Roger Hodgson sings lead, John Helliwell's woodwinds honk and tootle, and Bob Siebenberg and Dougie Thomson keep an oompah bounce going underneath, the whole thing sounding like a music-hall number that stowed away on a jet.

It's credited to Hodgson and Rick Davies, though the original inner sleeve wrongly listed Davies alone; Hodgson has since claimed the song as his, saying he wrote it at 19 and that Davies hated it at first. Peter Henderson produced with the band. It went top ten in the UK, and a live version made the Hot 100 in 1981.

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