Boy, that's a long time coming. Cf. America is Waiting ( Click on it ) at My Life in the Bush of Ghosts ( same link ) from 1981. I've got this on vinyl, and I traditionally play it on Halloween during Trick or Treat, inter alia.
Ah, yes, was it Brian Eno? I picked up the album back in 81. Was in Germany at the time watching the Russians watch us watch them..., or something like that. Anyway, I believe the America is Waiting sample line is from KGO Radio and host Ray Taliafero (a screaming lib, but hey it was late night radio in those days) I will have to dig out that album out of the collection and put it on the turntable. I just recently purchased one of those units that turns vinyl into CD and thusly to my iPod...