Horse With No Name - America (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Horse With No Name (America, 1972). Live performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-11-09. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Horse With No Name" was America's first released single, which wound up rising to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972 (Whitburn, 2013). Dewey Bunnell, the writer of the song, stated that “it was initially felt that A Horse With No Name was good but perhaps a little too quirky. At first it felt like a bit of a novelty song. It was a shock that it became so popular” (D. Ling, loudersound.com, Oct. 01, 2016). The song was originally called "The Desert Song," but when we would play it, people would say they liked the "Horse" song; so Ian Samwell, the producer, suggested the name change (P. Zollo, americansongwriter.com, 2019).

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