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"A Horse with No Name" is a song by American folk rock trio America. Written by Dewey Bunnell , it was released on the Warner Bros. label in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States. The song was met with commercial success and topped charts in Canada, Finland, and on the US Billboard Hot 100 . [ 5 ]
Bunnell has explained that "A Horse with No Name" was "a metaphor for a vehicle to get away from life's confusion into a quiet, peaceful place", while "Sandman" was inspired by his casual talks with returning Vietnam veterans. Afraid that they might be attacked and killed in their sleep, many of them chose to stay awake as long as possible ...
BoJack Horseman (Music From The Netflix Original Series) is the soundtrack album to the adult animated black comedy-drama series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). The soundtrack for the series released by Lakeshore Records in digital and physical formats on September 1 and 29, 2017. [ 1 ]
After several performances and a TV show, it was retitled "A Horse with No Name". The song became a major worldwide hit in early 1972. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA in March 1972. [3] America's debut album was released in the U.S. that same month, with the hit song added, and quickly went platinum.
It produced two hit singles, with "A Horse with No Name" which spent three weeks on top of the Billboard singles chart in 1972, and "I Need You" hit the ninth position on the Billboard singles chart. [5] Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations, including "Sandman" and "Three Roses".
The song titles are still unclear (our download just says “JW_NO_NAME_A_01,” “…_02” etc.), but one of the YouTube streams includes helpful, probably fan-created titles based on the ...
America's best-known song is their 1972 debut single, "A Horse with No Name". It was the lead-off single to their self-titled debut album and became their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was also a Top 5 hit in the United Kingdom reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart .
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack was the number one song of 1972. Al Green had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1972.. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972. [1]