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Background and formation. Composer Joseph Byrd and lyricist and singer Dorothy Moskowitz first met in New York City in early 1963 when Byrd was working on a recording of Civil War period music for Time-Life.
Jul 12, 2017 · Here’s an excerpt of our interview with Dewey Bunnell of America, who recalls how he wrote their classic hit song, “A Horse With No Name.”. Notably, in the mid to late ‘70s, the band was produced by legendary, Beatles record producer, George Martin.
May 2, 2018 · When the album, The United States of America was originally released in 1968, it only reached No. 181 on the Billboard 200. The content itself is, at best, challenging, and at worst a dated ...
The United States of America is the only studio album by American rock band the United States of America. Produced by David Rubinson, it was released in 1968 by Columbia Records.
- Can’T Fall Asleep to A Lullabye
- You Can Do Magic
- I Need You
- Today’S The Day
- Daisy Jane
- Ventura Highway
- Lonely People
- Tin Man
- A Horse with No Name
- Sister Golden Hair
We start out our top 10 America songs list in a way that we said we were not going to do, list an unfamiliar song. However, the rare inclusion of ex-Journey vocalist Steve Perry on this track made this one an easy decision to include on this list. The misspelled titled song “Can’t Fall Asleep To A Lullabye” was released in 1984. What some find incr...
America’s “You Can Do Magic” is the only song on this list besides “Can’t Fall Asleep To A Lullaby” that was not released in the 1970s. The song was released in 1982 on the album View From The Ground. It was written by the great musical composer Russ Ballard. At the time, America was no longer a trio, as Dan Peek had left the band in the late 1970s...
From this point on, its all classic America songs. The song “I Need You,” was released on the band’s debut album America in 1971. The song was released as the second single from the album after the smash hit “A Horse With No Name.”
The single “Today’s The Day,” was the last big hit America had in the 1970’s. Most of the band’s big commercial singles were released between 1971 and 1975. “Today’s The Day,” was released on the Hideaway album. After Hideaway, America released Harborin 1977 which would be the final album that Dan Peek would release with the band.
Everyone had their favorite America song, but “Daisy Jane,”was one of those special America songs that every fan loved. The song was released on the band’s Hearts album. The record was released in 1975 and became on of the bands most commercially successful albums.
Every one of our top five America songs has spectacular guitar introductions. The combination of the guitar intros that gave way to those wondrous voices made listening to AM and FM radio a joyous experience when America songs filled the airwaves in the early 1970s. The song “Ventura Highway“ was released on the Homecomingalbum in 1972.
America’s “Lonely People” was released in 1974 on the Holiday album. It was written by Dan Peek and his wife, Catherine. In interviews, Dan Peek described the song as a response to The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” The song was the second single released from the album. “Lonely People” reached the number five position on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974.
The magical song “Tim Man,” with its lyrical ode to The Wizard of Oz, was the lead single from America’s Holiday album in 1974. It was a huge hit for the band, reaching the number four spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the US BillboardAdult Contemporary charts.
America’s song “A Horse With No Name” was the band’s first single release of their career. The song was so brilliantly written and performed that it easily hit the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The band only reached the number one spot one more time in their career. Many great bands and famous rock bands have released albums for forty t...
The beauty of this song is so completely overwhelming. Ask any America fan what their favorite America song is, and nine times out of ten they will say “Sister Golden Hair.” America’s “Sister Golden Hair” was the band’s second number-one song of their career. The band hit number one with the song in 1975. They did it in a year in which Elton John h...
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The United States of America was an American experimental rock band whose works, recorded in late 1967, are an early example of the use of electronic devices in rock music. The short-lived band was founded in Los Angeles by experimental composer Joseph Byrd and singer and lyricist Dorothy Moskowitz, with musicians Gordon Marron, Rand Forbes and ...
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The United States of America was an American psychedelic/experimental rock act that was formed in 1967. The band was founded by composer Joseph Byrd and singer Dorothy Moskowitz.
