OMG! 68 yr old here. One of my all time favorite songs. As a teen, we used to drive to Ventura from the San Fernando Valley, in my 1972 Ford Pinto, blasting this song on the radio. Carefree days! The world was our oyster!
You said it…”the world was our oyster”… if we thought our countries (U.S. & Canada) had problems… Nothing compared to the massive # of problems we’re facing now. Starvation in our countries IS a very serious & actual problem we’ll see within the next few years….2024-2028. Our politicians are either bought & paid for Or blackmailed. Even Trump had to go to Israel & kiss their butts. Israel is Genociding Palestinians…. Over 10,000 Innocent Palestinian children Murdred from Oct. 2023-to Present day, April/2/2024. Cheers. At least we have amazing Music to help us all cope with “Everything” that’s going to unfold. 🇨🇦🎵🎶
Just turning 65, and this was one of my favorite all-time albums. I still listen to it to this day, especially when I'm in a mellow mood. They came to our town for a concert and my parents wouldn't let me go, and I was so crushed!
@@2011watchman I grew up in Sacramento, Komiefornia, well California back then, but I could walk or hitch hike pretty much anywhere I needed to get to.
This is a great song-have not heard it for years, probably in the 70's. Those were the best of times growing up! I wish my kids could know what it was like back then!
Graduated in 1976. Kids today will never realize the full volume of great music and experiences of that Era! It is sad what crap they have to listen to today.
Not really, all my kids are in their 20's and they constantly surprise me with the songs they find on Spotify or wherever from this era that they love to listen to.
As a resident of Hertfordshire in The UK (St Albans) always one of my favourite music quiz questions is where America originated. Understandably. most think it's a stupid question and the answer is obviously The USA. Not so of course! Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley's fathers were in The US forces and they met at The American School in Bushey. Although Dewey Bunnell is a fellow Yorkshireman (he was born in Harrogate), his father too was in the American forces and he met Dan and Gerry at the same school. Personal view, I think Dewey wrote some of their strongest songs, this being the pick of the crop.
Uk youngster 1961 here. Many posting here lament the passing of this band along with Bread, Seals and Croft and similar. I play them, listen in and have a few beers kick back shut my eyes and enjoy today. Thats it, just immerse yourself, and with the benefit of youtube and other platforms we can even watch. Just soak up the melody aand relaxevous.xx
Cheers UK Youngster. Music is a magical elixir in itself. So many genres and so very many human emotions that can relate to a given song…or musical sound. We most certainly must RELAX….we are headed into a great many challenges from now on with major changes the majority of US & Canada have Little if Any Understanding Of… From CBDC’s To WEF & UN’s Sinister Plans For Us Including the very Real Genocide Of The White Race. As a serious researcher who does daily deep-diving of information for a living, the Future of the White Race is Very Seriously Threatened By the Constant Influx Of Unvetted Migrants into the US & Canada & the worst part of it is that this ALL has been planned purposely for decades by the very Wealthiest Globally. We Will NEED To Relax & Figure Out How We Fight The Excessively Wealthy Globalists. Cheers & Wishing You The Best Of Health. Happy Listening 🎵🎵🎶. 🇨🇦
Ventura Highway by America always refreshes my youth...I am a senior now ......and still it seems just like yesterday's release! And they deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
This is why the world of young people today are so up-tight ... They haven't got the Music of the 50-60-70s to hear ... the collage bands and art students in Englant .. just twisted university idiots .. we did it ..ME .. I will be 80 this year @024 .. Long live the Blue Suede shoes King..
I was farming in welch MN 🥶,1970-1973, in the f150 pick-up getting supplies on hi way #61 miesville mn farm supply,AND america came on am radio:😢 still moves me in 2024... Windows down,tunes turned up🎼🎼
I drove along the Ventura Highway in a rental Cadillac with my late wife back in 2015 and this song was playing on the radio. It was a magical moment and one we’ll never replicate ever. Fabulous music.
63 and while it’s a blast to hear again, it’s also tinged with sadness for the friends that have passed, the loves lost and the opportunities squandered. But all in all, life isn’t all positives and the negatives have their value. Learn to be a better person each day and that’s where life gets richer.
America's best song. So evocative. Written at a time when the USA was very cool and admired around the world and when everyone wanted to be Californian. There will never be an epoch like it again.😢
I'm 71 and played this song constantly while in my college dorm room. Brings back great memories. We were blessed with great music in the 60's and 70's.
I was 19 and traveled to visit my sister who had moved to LA a few years earlier . We were driving down the highway with the top down on her convertible my long hair blowing back and this song came blasting on the radio as we approached the Ventura Highway exit …what a great memory (I’m 71 now and she’s 75)
Yes, I'm pressing 75 and all I can say is, I wouldn't have missed it for the world. We had a van with "Blessed are the peacemakers" written on the side. My god, how did we squeeze so much living into those few years.
I'd been hearing this song aboard a jeepney to my school in early 70's I was in 1st. yr. high school in Manila Now I'm already 66 yrs. old but America's songs are timeless...
The first time I heard this song I was actually driving down Ventura hwy with my uncle in his 1970 something ford van. I was about 11 or 12. It was a magical moment that I will remember forever!!!
That is really cool! Not quite as cool, but a couple decades ago when my son was a kid and we were visiting my mom in CA from the East Coast, I took him to see Homeward Bound: Lost in San Francisco, in San Francisco 😉🌁
Saw them in Central Park in early 70’s . The cost to enter $3.00.lol lol. It was sold out. We went on the rocks up behind the stage. Watching the show for free. During the show they looked in the mirrors above the heads noticed us and acknowledged us saying hi… everyone cheered what a thrill n great memory… Obviously I never forgot it…. 50+ years later. America will live on….
@@michaelzukowski5541 lol great thanks I forgot it was Schaefer and that’s my beer…. P.S, I contacted the HofF re America not being in it and I got a long story…. They should be in it compared to some others in it.!!!!!
I had the pleasure of seeing these guys in about 1983. My daughters first concert. She was 3 years old then. I lost her 10 years ago and I can't hold back the tears when I hear them. Wonderful memory
So sorry man, hang in there. Music is like that, when you've lived an up and down life, can evoke the saddest and emotional of memories as well as the best. Take care.
Hitchhiked from my home in Georgia to California back in 1974. I was 19...I remember traveling on Ventura Highway there. Many stories in my mind from that journey. ✌️ 🪶 ✨
Ventura County Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway. Didn't know about that. A pleasure to see that. Heard "America" after I came back from that ugly war. They gave me a relief from those consequences. Love this song.
I went to same military brat high school in England as these guys - played soccer with Chris bunnell as a freshman , Dewey’s younger brother nice to have the connection.
Me 73 …… I do agree with you! Those were the days ,our days of real music…… never come back again but so happy that I grew up in those were those days……. And still enjoy watching videos ,And so on 🙏
67 years old 60's 70's music had meaning and will still be remembered for decades to come. Thanks for being born in 1957 and the music I grew up with. The best
69 here. This is another group that was part of the backdrop to my high school years all the way through my 20s. I didn’t care if the lyrics to Horse With No Name didn’t make sense, it was the music, and it was awesome!
These guys wrote and played great music. Cool story behind this song as it wasn't really named after the parkway. I believe it was the county when they saw it on a sign and had the needed number of syllables. Still a great riff and harmony.
Actually I read a short explanation of how this song was born, lead singer and his parents broke down on this stretch of highway obvious years ago and then, at that moment he created the lyrics
I heard Dewey say in an interview it was just about a great time in the band’s life, success, freedom, California sunshine…what could be better for 25 year olds. 🥳
im dark 60 a woman i looovvvee america i play acoustic guitar too they made me wanna learn how to play also grew up listening to their music still love their songs sounds never be another group like them janet jackson sampled the starting riff on be my lover an daisy jane to lets wait a while prince too got purple rain line from this great classic how could u dislike american greatest group ever love em rip dan peek ☺🐎🐴💐🥀⚫🟠🔴
I remember my dad being so mad at me. I went to the driveway and sat in my dad's VW beetle. I didn't know it was a bad idea to run the radio without running the engine. I sat and listened to the radio, and this was one of the songs I heard. I remember like it was yesterday. He was late for work because I drained the battery to the point the car wouldn't start the next day. I think I was 6 years old when I did that. I was born in 70 though. This song will always remind me of my Dad. I felt so bad that I had drained his battery. He wasn't "super mad", but it was that frustrated thing that I end up with my own son. Same thing, so I totally understand more now.
My first 8 track cassette was America! I was like 8 years old and we were headed in a road trip and my parents always stopped at the record store first so we could each pick some tunes. I picked this one because there were like 30 of them
69 year old brit. I was working in the Lake District (Keswick hotel) in the early 70's and on my free time i would go to the record shop where I bought America Homecoming, Bread baby im a want you, Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over troubled waters, many Motown LP's and many others. I still have them. Great music, great memories.
no need to invent time machine or find the fountain of youth..listening to this song will make fill young once again.. and listening to this song with close eyes will bring back the hands of time... diri na ak nahadlok matigurang
America was just a great combination of wonderful tones,thoughtful lyrics that supplied imagery for your mind.I miss those days when you could sing along and feel grateful to be alive.
Exactly. So thoughtful and smooth! Just wonderful to sing along to. I was finding a lot of success getting my students into this and "Horse with No Name" back in 2015-16
I finally got to see America while living in California. It was a great concert they were on the same venue as the Beach Boys which was fabulous as well.
From a time I think everyone was envious of the lives most Californians lived. The music definitely reflected that positive attitude. I only wish I could go back.
Thank god for YT. No need for a time machine.
Yup. I'm there. How wonderful.
What a GREAT Band .................OFF the HOOK for sure !
I saw them two years ago. Still sound fantastic. One had passed on. They had Christopher Cross as cp band.
Such happy joyful sound
I’m 69 growing up listening to this awesome legendary band. Man, those were the days when we had true musicians.
Hey amidazad, I'm also 69 years old and I agree,the 60s,70s,and 80s were very good, music today is dead!
Ditto dude
I'm with you there my friend, 60,70 music is the sound of my life. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. ✌️😎🏴
very true. now, modern music is disgusting.
@@owlperchedsilo3745 I agree.
Beautiful composition.
This is a beautiful song i remember it so well!
OMG! 68 yr old here. One of my all time favorite songs. As a teen, we used to drive to Ventura from the San Fernando Valley, in my 1972 Ford Pinto, blasting this song on the radio. Carefree days! The world was our oyster!
I had a 71 pinto😊
@@redbone7040 They we’re a popular car with young people when they first came out. 😊
The pinto cool 😊
You said it…”the world was our oyster”… if we thought our countries (U.S. & Canada) had problems… Nothing compared to the massive # of problems we’re facing now. Starvation in our countries IS a very serious & actual problem we’ll see within the next few years….2024-2028. Our politicians are either bought & paid for Or blackmailed. Even Trump had to go to Israel & kiss their butts. Israel is Genociding Palestinians…. Over 10,000 Innocent Palestinian children Murdred from Oct. 2023-to Present day, April/2/2024. Cheers. At least we have amazing Music to help us all cope with “Everything” that’s going to unfold. 🇨🇦🎵🎶
I loved seals and crafts. Still do.
Yea,,yea,,very good,,,,, soooooooooo good
67 here. We grew up in the greatest decades of rock. Late 60's and 70's music kicks ass even today !
Hallelujah✌❤🤗
Hear hear ....1965-1975...👍
Also 67 😂🎉
Yes we did
Ya right 👍
I'm 66 and a young teen when this came out. The 70s were such a good time for music. Thank God I'm still here and can enjoy!
Amen
Just turning 65, and this was one of my favorite all-time albums. I still listen to it to this day, especially when I'm in a mellow mood. They came to our town for a concert and my parents wouldn't let me go, and I was so crushed!
Miss those times
This song epitomizes that awesome song writing and the hopeful mood in the 70s. I love this song!
Roger that mate.
America is one of my favourite bands ever along with Bread, The Eagles and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
You have good taste.
Plus the Archie’s and banana splits!
@@justinpenn9250 I think l almost remember them
@@justinpenn9250 A peanut jumping too far.
It's fine
It is impossible to hear something this good in today's music.
Agree.
I do think so too！
🎸🎸🎸🎵🎵🎵
So true!
There is no music today it’s absolute crap 💩
Amazing what 50 years of bowing down to warmongers and selling out to international corporations can do.
You’re just old whiners. Shut up already.
I graduated high school smack dab in the middle of the 70's. Life was pretty fucking awesome back then.
Right there with ya. Great music, great life(growing up in a small town), great memories.
Me too!
@@2011watchman I grew up in Sacramento, Komiefornia, well California back then, but I could walk or hitch hike pretty much anywhere I needed to get to.
Same here
‘76 here!! Were actual good old years!
This is a great song-have not heard it for years, probably in the 70's. Those were the best of times growing up! I wish my kids could know what it was like back then!
Graduated in 1976. Kids today will never realize the full volume of great music and experiences of that Era! It is sad what crap they have to listen to today.
Blah blah blah.
Not really, all my kids are in their 20's and they constantly surprise me with the songs they find on Spotify or wherever from this era that they love to listen to.
And songs like this don't get played on oldies stations
Your not kidding 60s -70s were my times . These kids would understand the Groove if They had some Timothy Learys
Or good Bloter .
@@mattmorris2867, look in the mirror and see the definition of CLUELESS.
As a resident of Hertfordshire in The UK (St Albans) always one of my favourite music quiz questions is where America originated. Understandably. most think it's a stupid question and the answer is obviously The USA. Not so of course! Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley's fathers were in The US forces and they met at The American School in Bushey. Although Dewey Bunnell is a fellow Yorkshireman (he was born in Harrogate), his father too was in the American forces and he met Dan and Gerry at the same school. Personal view, I think Dewey wrote some of their strongest songs, this being the pick of the crop.
Don't we all just feel happy when we hear those first few notes?
Yes - that lightness of touch, and their optimism. Beautiful song.
Just good old happy upl
That's what makes this song so good.. opening picks you up and in kicks the dopamine
Uk youngster 1961 here. Many posting here lament the passing of this band along with Bread, Seals and Croft and similar. I play them, listen in and have a few beers kick back shut my eyes and enjoy today. Thats it, just immerse yourself, and with the benefit of youtube and other platforms we can even watch. Just soak up the melody aand relaxevous.xx
Aqui no Brasil faço a mesma coisa ouço essa bandas que você citou, com muitas saudades dos velhos e bons tempos.
Yes indeed. I co-sign. UA-cam has been a "godsend" for all this great past music. Enjoy
❤
Cheers UK Youngster. Music is a magical elixir in itself. So many genres and so very many human emotions that can relate to a given song…or musical sound. We most certainly must RELAX….we are headed into a great many challenges from now on with major changes the majority of US & Canada have Little if Any Understanding Of… From CBDC’s To WEF & UN’s Sinister Plans For Us Including the very Real Genocide Of The White Race. As a serious researcher who does daily deep-diving of information for a living, the Future of the White Race is Very Seriously Threatened By the Constant Influx Of Unvetted Migrants into the US & Canada & the worst part of it is that this ALL has been planned purposely for decades by the very Wealthiest Globally. We Will NEED To Relax & Figure Out How We Fight The Excessively Wealthy Globalists. Cheers & Wishing You The Best Of Health. Happy Listening 🎵🎵🎶. 🇨🇦
Yes. Gary Puckett too. Emerson lake and palmer❤😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Alene-vi2gjWoman, Woman! 😎
The soundtrack of my teens. Where did it all go?
Gone with the years...time waits for no one😢😢
For us, that time is still with us
💯👏👏👏🙋🏼♀️🤝🇬🇧
My favorite song of America..😊
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Ventura Highway by America always refreshes my youth...I am a senior now ......and still it seems just like yesterday's release! And they deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
They are in Mine! 😎
This is why the world of young people today are so up-tight ... They haven't got the Music of the 50-60-70s to hear ... the collage bands and art students in Englant .. just twisted university idiots .. we did it ..ME .. I will be 80 this year @024 .. Long live the Blue Suede shoes King..
Agree HOF
I was farming in welch MN 🥶,1970-1973, in the f150 pick-up getting supplies on hi way #61 miesville mn farm supply,AND america came on am radio:😢 still moves me in 2024... Windows down,tunes turned up🎼🎼
I loved their acoustic guitar riffs in these classic songs! Damn music was great then! ♥️🎵
No kidding! And it was very diverse too with such high quality across the board.
Never better! 🤩
@@marknewton6984 🎵👍🎵
I drove along the Ventura Highway in a rental Cadillac with my late wife back in 2015 and this song was playing on the radio. It was a magical moment and one we’ll never replicate ever. Fabulous music.
63 and while it’s a blast to hear again, it’s also tinged with sadness for the friends that have passed, the loves lost and the opportunities squandered. But all in all, life isn’t all positives and the negatives have their value.
Learn to be a better person each day and that’s where life gets richer.
At 74, it seems like yesterday. May I be the first to admit, it was a good time for all! What fun. No one missed a beat! Still smiling!
76 here & you are 100% correct - I believe we have grown up in the greatest era America & the world will ever have - innocent times they were.
We had the Best! 😎
America's best song. So evocative. Written at a time when the USA was very cool and admired around the world and when everyone wanted to be Californian. There will never be an epoch like it again.😢
Unfortunately there’ll never likely again be a time when the USA was so universally admired worldwide either. Sad.
@@Gogogordy1
Absolutely true. Very sad indeed.
I Wish They All Could Be...
One of their best.
@@martinbrodie8507Don't Worry,Baby
Very Good pictures of Ventura and surroundings .... Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm 71 and played this song constantly while in my college dorm room. Brings back great memories. We were blessed with great music in the 60's and 70's.
I never tire of their music. Conjures up a sweet and innocent time in my life.
We had the Best back then...😎
This song sounds like how the 70's felt.
You nailed it superdude
@@williamwatson7495 🎼🎶🙏✌️
Nicely put.
I’m 70, got this LP in my collection.
I was 19 and traveled to visit my sister who had moved to LA a few years earlier . We were driving down the highway with the top down on her convertible my long hair blowing back and this song came blasting on the radio as we approached the Ventura Highway exit …what a great memory (I’m 71 now and she’s 75)
Yes, I'm pressing 75 and all I can say is, I wouldn't have missed it for the world. We had a van with "Blessed are the peacemakers" written on the side. My god, how did we squeeze so much living into those few years.
Amen sister!
You had the Best😮
@@marknewton6984Yes we did, indeed! Such sweet (albeit nostalgic) memories.
Wow what a beautiful memory 😊
Good stuff. Real music.
I'd been hearing this song aboard a jeepney to my school in early 70's I was in 1st. yr. high school in Manila Now I'm already 66 yrs. old but America's songs are timeless...
The first time I heard this song I was actually driving down Ventura hwy with my uncle in his 1970 something ford van. I was about 11 or 12. It was a magical moment that I will remember forever!!!
That is really cool! Not quite as cool, but a couple decades ago when my son was a kid and we were visiting my mom in CA from the East Coast, I took him to see Homeward Bound: Lost in San Francisco, in San Francisco 😉🌁
Saw them in Central Park in early 70’s . The cost to enter $3.00.lol lol. It was sold out. We went on the rocks up behind the stage. Watching the show for free. During the show they looked in the mirrors above the heads noticed us and acknowledged us saying hi… everyone cheered what a thrill n great memory…
Obviously I never forgot it…. 50+ years later. America will live on….
The old Shaffer music festival good times
@@michaelzukowski5541 lol great thanks I forgot it was Schaefer and that’s my beer….
P.S, I contacted the HofF re America not being in it and I got a long story…. They should be in it compared to some others in it.!!!!!
What a cool memory.
i can just picture this today with those big rocky spots in the park. Thanks for sharing that.
Write the Rock n roll Hof F and get America inducted….
I had the pleasure of seeing these guys in about 1983. My daughters first concert. She was 3 years old then. I lost her 10 years ago and I can't hold back the tears when I hear them. Wonderful memory
Sir, I'm very sorry for your 💔, I get😢 when I hear America 🎼🎼their tunes are special to both of us...👍from MN 🥶
Damn Man'''' that's so heartbreaking... but stay strong and believe in God'''
So sorry man, hang in there. Music is like that, when you've lived an up and down life, can evoke the saddest and emotional of memories as well as the best. Take care.
Sorry for your loss brother,,look up and smile,,she will see you,,take good care of yourself
I'm 72, this band is my favourite. They're still performing even at this time. These are real musicians.❤
I was 12 in 1972 and these guys had a bunch of great songs, always on the radio, brings me back.
Me too...12 in 72
10 in '72 Love this music.
10 & remember it like yesterday.
I live in Ventura. Every time this song plays I always feel so happy to live here.
Hitchhiked from my home in Georgia to California back in 1974.
I was 19...I remember traveling on Ventura Highway there.
Many stories in my mind from that journey.
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It still holds up today, timeless 😎
yeh man its such a good song
84 going on 85 on 9/12. Still love this song. Greatest music was in the 60s and 70s.
Keep rocking!
85 here can’t agree with you more
Hey my brothers and sisters. We grew up in the best times. Great times, great friends, and the greatest music.
Ventura County Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway. Didn't know about that. A pleasure to see that. Heard "America" after I came back from that ugly war. They gave me a relief from those consequences. Love this song.
I went to same military brat high school in England as these guys - played soccer with Chris bunnell as a freshman , Dewey’s younger brother nice to have the connection.
This song comes to mind everytime I make that transition from the Foothill Freeway to the Ventura in Pasadena or coming from Santa Barbara.
the greatest time to be young and so alive.. what a trio .. almost 73 remembering this classic song!!
Almost 75 and I still get up to dance to these marvelous musicians. We stayed one step ahead of the draft for VietNam.
Great times! Rock on.😎
Best music decade
A magical band. Love them ❤
Me 73 ……
I do agree with you! Those were the days ,our days of real music…… never come back again but so happy that I grew up in those were those days……. And still enjoy watching videos ,And so on 🙏
I’m 69 and this band is pivotal in my teens, it just screams seventies and tells you how it was and how it felt.
This song was on my mind while hitch hiking to California from N. Y. What a great time we had. 😎
67 years old 60's 70's music had meaning and will still be remembered for decades to come. Thanks for being born in 1957 and the music I grew up with. The best
67 here… those were the good years
Ah, such great memories from a time when life was truly amazing. I wish kids today could experience what growing up in the 70's and 80's was like.
I’m 74, this still sounds awesome
It Always will!
I used to listen to America in my $500 car and $800 8-track, damn , good times
the greatest drive song ever recorded !!!.
69 here. This is another group that was part of the backdrop to my high school years all the way through my 20s. I didn’t care if the lyrics to Horse With No Name didn’t make sense, it was the music, and it was awesome!
This song has always made me melancholic, even when I was 12. Still does, but I have no idea why.
In the 70’s, never having seen the name of this song written, I took “Ventura Highway” to mean Venture a Highway. It inspired me to go hitchhiking :)
These guys wrote and played great music. Cool story behind this song as it wasn't really named after the parkway. I believe it was the county when they saw it on a sign and had the needed number of syllables. Still a great riff and harmony.
Actually I read a short explanation of how this song was born, lead singer and his parents broke down on this stretch of highway obvious years ago and then, at that moment he created the lyrics
@@troydaigle7902 Professor of Rock just did an interview with the two remaining members.
I heard Dewey say in an interview it was just about a great time in the band’s life, success, freedom, California sunshine…what could be better for 25 year olds. 🥳
What a song ! 🐳🏄🏻♂️🥳
Young lads that came together by happenstance to make magic music together. ❤
Our music was the best! We didn't know how blessed we were! Oh for just a taste of he 70's one more time.
and too be back there
Nao me canso nunca de ouvir essa música !
My 2nd favorite band! I got their album for Christmas. My first album ever❤❤
I bought the album back in the 70's - it is the ultimate music to chill to .
And of course in 1975 I ended finding and living in Ventura, Ca..This song was playing when I hitched a ride to Ventura that day. True story.
Wow ! I bet you have some amazing stories to tell!👍💯🇺🇸.
@@christopher-o6i4s You bet, it was also a great time to be living there.
Listening to them growing up was great
Awesome and we’re pretty lucky to have talented musicians in our generation. Classic
75 now ! magnifique I'm still alive to enjoy cette belle musique c'était vraiment bon !
im dark 60 a woman i looovvvee america i play acoustic guitar too they made me wanna learn how to play also grew up listening to their music still love their songs sounds never be another group like them janet jackson sampled the starting riff on be my lover an daisy jane to lets wait a while prince too got purple rain line from this great classic how could u dislike american greatest group ever love em rip dan peek ☺🐎🐴💐🥀⚫🟠🔴
The vibe is very 70s SoCal. Tremendously nostalgic.
So Californian music, so American, the 1970's music that I always love and appreciate.
And yet formed in The UK in Bushey, Watford (see above)!
their best song/ big hit with college kids
This is an excellent song. It has a yearning and melancholia to it. I'll love this song tiĺl the day I die.
ヴェンチュラ·ハイウェイ、一度は走ってみたいなぁ～🚗😊
Love the Start of this song - the Guitars sound so smooth and nice ❤️
Reminds me of the best times of L.A❤
Yes, from Hermosa in the daytime to the Cheetah in Santa Monica at night or the Filmore in San Fran. My, my we had some fun.
I remember my dad being so mad at me. I went to the driveway and sat in my dad's VW beetle. I didn't know it was a bad idea to run the radio without running the engine. I sat and listened to the radio, and this was one of the songs I heard. I remember like it was yesterday. He was late for work because I drained the battery to the point the car wouldn't start the next day. I think I was 6 years old when I did that. I was born in 70 though. This song will always remind me of my Dad. I felt so bad that I had drained his battery. He wasn't "super mad", but it was that frustrated thing that I end up with my own son. Same thing, so I totally understand more now.
My first 8 track cassette was America! I was like 8 years old and we were headed in a road trip and my parents always stopped at the record store first so we could each pick some tunes. I picked this one because there were like 30 of them
Feel privileged that I grew up with music as good as this !!!
Fricken awesome song! 6 yrs old riding in my dads Buick on the way to Riverside Raceway 👍I remember it like yesterday 😊
65 yo here and I still have America on my playlist. I truly believe I grew up with the best music/artists!
Oh God what memories that song brings back. I was 21 in 1972 when it was released.
Me too What great times! 😎
Very good live
This Band America is TIMELESS. I feel blessed to have them in my heart and soul.
Thank you loved listening, I felt young again, long hair flying from the back of a bike.,...
69 year old brit. I was working in the Lake District (Keswick hotel) in the early 70's and on my free time i would go to the record shop where I bought America Homecoming, Bread baby im a want you, Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over troubled waters, many Motown LP's and many others. I still have them. Great music, great memories.
75 year old UK resident here. Love this track - also Tin Man and Three Roses. I still strum the chords to those 3 from time to time.
Masterpiece ❤
Grew up on this album 😎 Forever a classic
Gorgeous song. Takes me back. thanks
no need to invent time machine or find the fountain of youth..listening to this song will make fill young once again.. and listening to this song with close eyes will bring back the hands of time... diri na ak nahadlok matigurang
Takes me back to the 134 frwy going north from Pasadena CA. toward Ventura. Days of joy and discovery❤❤❤
America was just a great combination of wonderful tones,thoughtful lyrics that supplied imagery for your mind.I miss those days when you could sing along and feel grateful to be alive.
Exactly. So thoughtful and smooth! Just wonderful to sing along to. I was finding a lot of success getting my students into this and "Horse with No Name" back in 2015-16
I loved driving through Ventura Hwy during my last trip to California
I finally got to see America while living in California. It was a great concert they were on the same venue as the Beach Boys which was fabulous as well.
From a time I think everyone was envious of the lives most Californians lived. The music definitely reflected that positive attitude. I only wish I could go back.