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I’m heading for West Palm Beach March 12th to visit Mrs. I introduced your music to my daughter CarlyJane after Carly Simon, we saw you at Penns Peak, she was in love instantly, just like I was back in the 70’s. Stevie would always play & sing to me “Head & Heart” & I never hear ya play this song in concert. also owning a Travel Agency in Farmingdale, NY. Ray Mooney’s dad was Chief Commissioner of NYC. The plane went off radar over the Long Island Sound, never finding the bodies nor the plane. Stevie Weiss (RIP ) was flying his plane with his best buddy Ray Mooney who played the Congas/drums from Long Island to Rhode Island.

My BF played all your music, sang & played the guitar & piano. This article is being re-published again today, in celebration of Dewey Bunnell’s birthday.įollow the Dewey Bunnell’s View Of America playlist to hear some of his best recordings.ĭewey & Gerry, I have been listening to America since the wee 70’s. We’ve compiled a selection of Bunnell’s songs on our playlist below, most notably selections from the beautiful Hourglass that includes a wonderful song co-written by Beckley and Bunnell called “Young Moon.” Check it out, among the many other gems, below. “Ventura Highway’s” opening guitar riff and hook is sampled on Janet’s 2001 song “Someone to Call My Lover.” Her producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were influenced by America and “Ventura Highway” listening to KDWB 63 AM while growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Interestingly Michael’s sister Janet used another of Bunnell’s songs from America’s second album. But they’re perhaps known for “A Horse with No Name,” a song that none other than Michael Jackson reworked on his posthumous album, Xscape, as “A Place With No Name.” Beckley and Bunnell write separately, but also together, and sometimes with other writers from outside the band.

#AN AMERICAN BAND BY DAN PEEK PLUS#

A constant throughout the band’s 20 plus albums has been the quality of the songwriting.