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The song won many fans, including the pro wrestler-turned-politician, Jesse Ventura. Bunnell recalled, "We went and played at Governor Jesse Ventura's inaugural out in Minneapolis. He asked us to — his wife is a horse lady, and she'd always loved 'A Horse with No Name', and he had adopted this name Ventura. So when he put together his cast of ...
Homecoming is the second studio album by America, released on November 15, 1972, through Warner Bros. Records.Acoustic guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and keyboard section than their first album, their second effort helped continue the band's success, and includes one of their best known hits, "Ventura Highway".
Using a guitar riff from America's "Ventura Highway" and the melody from Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie No. 1", "Someone to Call My Lover" talks about being determined to find a perfect match. "Someone to Call My Lover" received positive reviews from critics, with most praising its innocence and sweet aura, picking the song as a standout track on ...
Their second album, Homecoming (1972), included the single "Ventura Highway". Over the next several years, the band continued to release hit songs, including " Muskrat Love " on Hat Trick (1973), "Tin Man" and " Lonely People " on Holiday (1974) and " Sister Golden Hair " and " Daisy Jane " on their 1975 record Hearts .
U.S. Route 399 was a U.S. Highway in the state of California that ran from Ventura to Bakersfield.It was established in 1934 and decommissioned in 1964, as it was only 124 miles (200 km) long, less than the 300-mile (480 km) minimum that the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) set as the threshold for U.S. Highways.
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A song featuring prominently mixed bass in melodic counterpoint to acoustic guitars is the 1972 hit single "Ventura Highway" by the group America. Osborn played on many of Neil Diamond's major hits in the late 1960s and early to middle 1970s, including the hauntingly unique bass lines on "Holly Holy" in 1969.
The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California, United States, that runs from the Santa Barbara/Ventura county line [1] to Pasadena in Los Angeles County. It is the principal east–west route (designated north–south) through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County .