A Horse with no name!

[SixCats!]

Hi all,

Well...it was a blast from the past tonight as my wife and I attended a FREE outdoor concert in Freeport,Maine at the
L.L. Bean store grounds. A lot of folks showed up to see the 70's band AMERICA. It was a nice concert and the songs took me back to the time I first saw the band when I was 16 years old! (at a concert at the URI campus). Man...that was 31 years ago! (I will be 47 tommorow July 14th.) I had forgotten how many good songs America had. All in all, a nice evening! SixCats!

[VinylHanger]

Lucky you, they are in my rotation always. Of course, 31 years ago I barely knew my name and I had no idea what a horse was

[Drybasement]

I never cared for the tune "Muskrat Love". Always reminded me of The Captain and Tenille

The rest is pretty good.

[bully]

America was good.
I bought that Capt & Tennille album just for the bulldogs!! Mine were prettier and 'handsomer' but how often to y'all see a pair of bullies on an album cover?

pete

[bigmacc]

47 SixCats to me that means you're just a young pup Need any suggestions on how to spend your special day?

Here's a few of ideals Have a great time.

[SixCats!]

Hi all,

Thank you Bigmacc for you suggestion! In fact...that is howing I am spending the evening! lol

Dry...I am confused...Capt. and Tenille did Muskrat Love.
Did AMERICA do it as well? Funny, I met Toni Tenille in at a party in L.A. at Universal Studios (where my wife used to work) and she was very nice. The wife and I sent her a BIG Fruit basket (she is a veggie) and she sent us tickets to her TV show and we got the first class treatment being driven to the stage door by a studio cart. I still think it was a mistake! lol Hey, I went with the flow!
The other day, I was listening to Direct TV's music channels and I believe I had the BLUES channel on. I heard a cool song with a deep/sexy womans voice and it was Toni! Toni seems to have found a nice nitch! SixCats!

[Drybasement]

Originally posted by SixCats!
Dry...I am confused...Capt. and Tenille did Muskrat Love.
Did AMERICA do it as well?

Yup on both questions. Never liked either version. Hearing America singing this song always reminded of The Capt. and Tenille. I remember watching thier show in the 70's and I remember them singing this song. And I remember not liking it very much. The song and the show.

Bully seems to think that C & T released this song on an album. He mentions a cover with a pair of bulldogs. I don't know for sure.

Toni Tenille may have found her niche now but back then this teen thought they sucked big hairy rhinoceros balls. I was under the impression they just faded away. Good for Toni.

[bigmacc]

"Big hairy rhinoceros balls" heh Dry l didn't know that rhino had big ones never got around to that Discovery show; you learn something new every day.

[Drybasement]

Originally posted by bigmacc
"Big hairy rhinoceros balls" heh Dry l didn't know that rhino had big ones never got around to that Discovery show; you learn something new every day.

LOL, It's amazing what you learn on that channel.

[Drybasement]

Sixcats,

Here's a segment I got from another website regarding "Muskrat Love" and the Tenniles.


The third single released from Song of Joy was an unlikely number called "Muskrat Love." Loved and loathed, the revamped version of country composer/singer Willis Alan Ramsey’s "Muskrat Candlelight" was another million seller for the duo. "We were driving around one night when we heard (the group) America’s version of the song on the radio," remarks Toni. "I said to Daryl ‘did you hear that? I swear they’re singing about muskrats.’ I had to know what the lyrics were, so the next day we went out and found the sheet music" Toni reminisces. "I said to Daryl, this song is hysterical, why don’t we add it to our club-act? And people went nuts for it." Daryl continues "We just threw it on the second album because we had room for one more tune. We knew it was a hit in the clubs, but we had no idea it would be a hit record." The label had no intention of releasing a third single from the album, but after a radio station in Madison, Wisconsin called the A&R people at A&M begging them for a copy, telling them the phones were ringing off the hooks for it, a 45 was issued and became their third biggest hit.

There you have it. Oh, Happy birthday. Hope you had a great day.

[MikE]

I always HATED that song, THEN I bought the new America Greatest Hits CD [r274375] on a nostalgic whim... I think I listened to that disc for a whole month! I don't know if it was the music or how that music serves my system, because I'm not a big America fan, but Man that stuff sounds GREAT IMS. And that DAMN Muskrat song is spellbinding, the way the chorus comes in and seems to hang in space so delicately. That's one quality of Hi-End Audio that I haven't decided is good or bad; the ability to transform music you previously didn't even like to a level that not only fosters an appreciation but enjoyment and on occation the mystic.

MikE

[SixCats!]

Hi Dry,

Thanks for the interesting info. on Toni and AMERICA.
Ya...Muskrat Love is (lol) kind of a strange song. If I hear it once every 15 or so years...that's plenty enough for me lol. SixCats!

[bully]

MikE, I know exactly what you mean! I listen to a lot of FM (hence my interest in tuners), and I'll find myself turning up the ol' volume knob on tunes just 'cause it does something with the system.

I don't know about the Capt & Tennille, other than one of their albums shows them each with a bully in their laps, they had a bulldog and bully bitch. Like with Divine, anyone who loves bulldogs is OK in my book. Even if I didn't much listen to the album.

Pete, same with boxers, bullmastiffs, Bordeaux, Staffordshires, and the whole family. Raise 'em right.

[thoots]

Folks,

OK, how many of you know that America's first album didn't happen to have this thread's namesake title included on it when it was first released?

And, how many of you folks have ever laid hands on such a "horseless" album?

My brother bought the original, horseless album way back when. Geez, I'm helping him move this weekend, and I don't even recall seeing anything resembling an album collection last time we went through this routine. I'd bet that album might bring a few extra bucks up on the 'Bay!

Though, I kinda prefer the album with that song...

[pitts64]

The song, "Horse with no name" is about Heroin addiction... I remember the older people calling Heroin "Horse" in the early 60s... I grew up in the city..lol...