Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
1. "Gone Hollywood" 5:19
2. "The Logical Song" 4:07
3. "Goodbye Stranger" 5:46
4. "Breakfast in America" 2:37
5. "Oh Darling" 3:43
Side two
6. "Take the Long Way Home" 5:08
7. "Lord Is It Mine" 4:08
8. "Just Another Nervous Wreck" 4:22
9. "Casual Conversations" 2:56
10. "Child of Vision" 7:24
Deluxe edition, disc 2
1. "The Logical Song" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 4:06
2. "Goodbye Stranger" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 6:11
3. "Breakfast in America" (live 1979 at Wembley) 3:05
4. "Oh Darling" (live 1979 in Miami) 4:21
5. "Take the Long Way Home" (live 1979 at Wembley) 4:48
6. "Another Man's Woman" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 7:32
7. "Even in the Quietest Moments" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 5:36
8. "Rudy" (live 1979 at Wembley) 7:29
9. "Downstream" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 3:28
10. "Give a Little Bit" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 4:03
11. "From Now On" (live 1979 at Wembley)) 6:53
12. "Child of Vision" (live 1979 at Pavillon de Paris) 7:32
Reissues
1990 Remaster
In June 1990, MFSL re-released a remaster on Ultradisc™ 24 KT Gold CD from their "Original Master Recording" Collection.
2002 reissue
On 11 June 2002 A&M Records reissued Breakfast in America with full original album art, plus the label art from side one recreated on the CD. It was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel. It makes limited use of dynamic range compression and peak limiting, rejecting the loudness war trends of modern CD releases.
2010 deluxe edition
A deluxe edition was released on 4 October 2010, including a second disc with songs recorded live in 1979, in particular songs not appearing on the live album Paris.
2010 super deluxe Edition
A super deluxe edition, which was released on 6 December 2010, includes the 2-disc deluxe edition CD, vinyl LP, poster, DVD, hardcover book, and other memorabilia.
2013 Blu-ray high definition disc
A&M offers a High Definition Blu-ray Disc of the album. It contains the album in three different sound formats: 2-Channel PCM 24bit/96 kHz, 2 Channel DTS-Master Audio 24bit/96 kHz and 2-Channel Dolby True-HD 24bit/96 kHz. This High Definition Blu-ray Disc is playable in all Blu-ray Disc players.
2018 Remastered Hybrid SACD
On May 17, 2018, MFSL re-released a remaster on hybrid SACD.
Supertramp Band Members / Musicians
Rick Davies – vocals and keyboards including clavinet on track 2, harmonica on track 6
Roger Hodgson – vocals, keyboards and guitars, including acoustic 12-string guitar on track 2, vibes on track 9
John Helliwell – saxophones, vocals, woodwinds
Bob Siebenberg (credited as Bob C. Benberg) – drums
Dougie Thomson – bass
Slyde Hyde – tuba and trombone
Gary Mielke – Oberheim programming
Peter Henderson – producer
Supertramp – producer
Peter Henderson – engineer
Lenise Bent – assistant engineer
Jeff Harris – assistant engineer
Greg Calbi – remastering (2002)
Jay Messina – remastering (2002)
Russel Pope – concert sound engineer
Mike Doud – art direction, cover art concept, artwork
Mick Haggerty – art direction, cover design
Mark Hanauer – photography
Aaron Rapoport – cover photo
Breakfast in America is the 6th studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released by A&M Records on 29 March 1979. It was recorded in 1978 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It spawned four US Billboard hit singles: "The Logical Song" (No. 6), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15), "Take the Long Way Home" (No. 10) and "Breakfast in America" (No. 62). In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title track were both top 10 hits, the only two the group had in their native country.
At the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1980, Breakfast in America won two awards for Best Album Package and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, as well as nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It holds an RIAA certification of quadruple platinum and became Supertramp's biggest-selling album, with more than 4 million copies sold in the US and more than 3 million in France (the fourth ever best-selling album). It was No. 1 on Billboard Pop Albums Chart for six weeks, until 30 June 1979. The album also hit No. 1 in Norway, Austria, West Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia and France.
