And yet a full decade separates the group’s other two British chart entries, Ventura Highway, and 1982’s You Can Do Magic.
It was a shock that it became so popular.”Īmerica notched up several more hits after relocating back to the US, and in 1975 achieved the considerable feat of outselling every other Warner Bros artist in their homeland. At first it felt like a bit of a novelty song. “It was initially felt that A Horse With No Name was good but perhaps a little too quirky. “Everybody had a song called I Need You in mind as the single,” Bunnell chuckles. Later re-titled A Horse With No Name, it went on to top the American singles chart for three weeks in early 1972 and reached No.3 in the UK. The Story Behind The Song: The Logical Song by SupertrampĪmong them was a Bunnell tune called Desert Song that they had thought lacked hit potential.The Story Behind The Song: Roll Away The Stone by Mott The Hoople.The Story Behind The Songs: Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company.The Story Behind The Song: I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick.However, the group’s manager believed even bigger things were possible and sent them to Morgan Studios to add some extra songs. Much of the material that appeared on America had been written on borrowed acoustic guitars, as the trio tapped into the slumbering West Coast zeitgeist of The Eagles, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Linda Ronstadt.
