Billboard #1 Hits: #270: “A Horse With No Name”- America. March 25, 1972. #1 for 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single:” A Horse With No Name”- America
- Record Company- Warner Bros
- Genre: Folk Rock
- Written by Dewey Bunnell
- Time: 4:08
- B-side:”Everyone I Meet Is From California”
- Album- America
- Grade: A-
- Peaked at #1 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. #3 in UK Singles Chart. #1 in Canada.
” A Horse With No Name” was America’s first- and most successful single. Sure does sound like Neil Young- whose “Heart Of Gold” America replaced at #1. Dewey Bunnell who wrote the song admitted that he was inspired by Neil. Incredibly “A Horse With No Name” was banned on some radio stations in America- ‘horse” being a slang name for heroin.
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I guess that when you are tripping out in the desert, it really doesn’t matter if the horse has a name or not.
Always have and always will love this song.
I know some folks essentially discount America as a mediocre copy of CSNY. Their 1975 compilation “History: America’s Greatest Hits” was among the first vinyl records I heard. I instantly liked it and still do to this day.
Love it!
It’s a good one! One of those early childhood musical memories. they were slated to play in a theater in my city this spring & I toyed with idea of going but then covid and shutdowns made it a moot point!
I always said (as a literal response) if you were that long going through a desert, you’d name the horse – probably Mary Jane 🙂