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Kansas appeared on the US Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.
Song for America is the second studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in 1975.The album was reissued in remastered format on CD in 2004. The 10-minute title track was edited down to three minutes for release as a single.
The band Kansas was formed in Topeka in 1973. It will perform in Topeka later this year as part of its 50th anniversary tour at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, at the Topeka Performing Arts Center.
Kansas guitarist Rich Williams would call the song the band's "most pop moment": (Rich Williams quote:)"[It] had that constant disco drum beat... We never had done happy sounds like that. We were always a much deeper, minor key, melodic band, unless it was a very grandiose thing like ' Song for America ' [which] was more of classical ...
Kansas will perform Nov. 23-24, 2024, at Brown County Music Center as part of the band's 50th anniversary tour.
"Song for America" is the title track from the second album of American progressive rock band Kansas. It was written by guitarist and keyboardist Kerry Livgren during the period of heavy touring for the band's first album. The song was released on the 1975 album Song for America, and later released as the band's third single, although it did ...
The alt-rock band Better Than Ezra's 2023 single, "Mystified," grew out of a conversation band member Kevin Griffin had with his wife, Erica Krusen, about her experiences growing up in Topeka ...
There's Know Place Like Home is Kansas' fifth live album. It was released as a double CD and also on DVD on October 13, 2009 and Blu-ray on November 23, 2009. The DVD charted at No. 5 on the Billboard Music DVD chart the week of its release, Kansas's only appearance on that chart.