The Brady Bunch - American Pie

From "Meet The Brady Bunch" LP

[donaldpfeffer]

Once I asked a girl if she’d ever heard this version of American Pie. She just smiled and turned away.

[lennypayne]

It's both bizarre and awesome that this exists.

[ericrakestraw]

I remember hearing this on KFOG in the '90s. On Friday the 13th, the radio station played a bunch of bad songs from the '70s for an hour, called "Hits from Hell" ("Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks was also on the playlist). After this song finished playing, the DJ said, "Thank God the Bradys didn't release an 8-minute version of 'American Pie'!"

[benedictbrunker]

Really makes the "Helter skelter" opening line that much more sinister. Kinda genius

[johng]

Funny hearing the Brady kids singing about whiskey, Helter Skelter and da devil.

[townhall]

I can't see the Brady's with their 'hands clenched in fists of rage' - and they said the word HELL!

[Giselle]

"Helter Skelter in summer swelter" have loved this long time

[jondunmore]

The album insert comes with a Letter of Apology to Don McLean, the American People, all record companies, and a special paragraph begging forgiveness to Music for raping it in the ass.

[garylopez]

Absolutely brilliant a piece of music history. The first version I heard that puts the original to shame. These are artists.

[RBdreams]

I have this album. It was a birthday gift. I was about 10 or 11.

[cheddarcheese]

I recently read somewhere that this was one of the worst recordings of anything EVER..But I dont know..In some weird way it's both worst and better than I thought it would be at the same time.. :)

[billcantos]

Yes, but the tambourine player is actually completely getting down in the last minute of the track.

[donnabickford]

I’m an avid Brady Bunch fan but never knew this existed until listening to the Brady Bros podcast

[randyventresca]

They got way over their heads with this one. lol

[sambda]

Jesus -- they're all out of tune (e.g. 0:51). The day the music died indeed. These days a release like this would be considered a joke, but back in the 1970s....

[hardwurkindaddy]

It's still better than Madonna's version.

[eliasge]

This version is very silly, but at least it's not Kidz Bop... they'd have changed "clenched in fists of rage" to "petting cats named Paige" and "Satan" to "Santa" or something ridiculous like that.

[ClarenceC]

As a huge Brady fan, I must say that their rendition of “American Pie” was pretty suck-tactic. They did much much better with their own original songs.

[johnlemon]

They said satan so happily









It scares me

[tomellis]

I got this album for my 10th or 11th birthday. I didnt even know the album existed but my sister got it for me as a birthday present. The album didnt get a lot of play time on my record player but, it was the thought that counted.