The American Dream - Frankford El

Outstanding Philadelphia Area Rock Band from the Late 60s.

The American Dream featured the talents of drummer Mickey Brook, bassist Don Ferris, singer/rhythm guitarist Nicky Indelicato, and guitarists Nick Jameson and Don Lee Van Winkle. The album was produced by Todd Rundgren on the Ampex label.

The Frankford El is an elevated train in Philadelphia, PA , that runs from the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, PA, home of the Tower Theater to the Frankford Transportation Center near Bridge and Pratt Streets in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.

The American Dream explains where you can and can't get to on the Frankford El.

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Music

Tags:

• American
• Dream
• Frankford
• Jameson
• Indelicato
• Ferris
• Brook
• Winkle
• Rundgren
• 60s
• Rock
• Philly
• Belmont
• Plateau

[bellsys1]

The American Dream album has been re-released as a CD in the UK and is available at Amazon. c o m.

[AshburnStadium]

I was very glad to find this song on YouTube - it's very hard to find. I have a bad joke about the Frankford El as well:

Why shouldn't SEPTA run the Market-Frankford Line on Christmas Day?

No-El, of course! ;-)

[bellsys1]

@AshburnStadium - groan................. :-)

[RMoribayashi]

Thanks, you just gave me my best ringtone ever! Sorry Todd, "Bang On The Drum" will just have to stay in my phone unused for a while.

[bellsys1]

@RMoribayashi - You're welcome. Glad I could help.

[pmoyer50]

I bought this album when it came out. There was a song on it that was called Other Side or something to that effect. Thank God other music besides Do Wop came out of Philly. We had Nazz, too.

[MysticJourney]

I used to have this album, and I saw them perform in Rittenhouse Square. A friend borrowed it and never returned it. That was back in 1970 or 1971. I remember that one of them was a pretty good Harmonia player as well. Do you have the song, Raspberries and if so, can you bring that to YouTube also? Thank You Very Much.

[RMoribayashi]

@AshburnStadium I'd smash my phone to bits if it started ringing with the Action News theme. When I hear it I have to change the channel before it gives me diabetes. But since I still miss hearing Beethoven's 9th at the end of the The Huntley-Brinkley Report, I guess my reaction is not so unexpected.

[AshburnStadium]

@RMoribayashi - No Action News ringtone?  Move Closer To Your World is also a free ringtone from 6abc.

[TheOldhippiechik]

Thanks for posting, no longer have the album, dang it - and every song is good on it !! Love this band, saw them many times, met them, just a gem from Philly.....

[JeffWeavil]

Perhaps one of TR's best-produced albums...

that NO ONE seems to know, or so it seems.

FABULOUS record from start to finish-sheer BRILLIANCE

Todd Rocks