Five Americans was a 1960s band, most famous for the song "Western Union".
==Biography=
The members of Five Americans first met in Durant, Oklahoma at South-eastern Oklahoma State University in 1962. Under the leadership of lead guitarist, Mike Rabon, they formed a group called the Mutineers. The band played local beer joints and frat dances until the summer of 1964, when Mike suggested that they go to Dallas to try and make enough money to pay for tuition for the following fall semester. With the onslaught of the "British Invasion" by bands with strange sounding names, the group also took on a new handle. They were not bugs or beasts of any kind, they were simply, Five Americans.
They achieved some local notoriety in a dive called the Pirate's Nook.
There, they were discovered by a local record label called Abnak
Records. John Abdnor, president of the label, took the group under
his wing and provided them the resources to write and practice
original songs. In the summer of 1965, they released an original
tune entitled "I See The Light". The song went to the top twenty in
Billboard Magazine and paved the way ...
