A HORSE WITH NO NAME - AMERICA - 1972

A HORSE WITH NO NAME – America

#1 – March 25th, 1972

NEWS

• Munich Massacre takes place during the summer Olympics.
• The Watergate break-in takes place.
• George Wallace is shot.
• President Nixon orders the development of the “Space Shuttle”
• Mariner 9 sent back the first pictures of Mars.
• The last manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17 comes back to earth.
• Nixon goes to the Soviet Union…the first president to do so.  
• A program code for “E-Mail” was written.  

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “The Godfather” “Deliverance” along with “Deep Throat” are, literally, the hottest films of the time.
• T.V.: “Sanford and Son”, “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids”, “M*A*S*H” “The Bob Newhart Show”.
• Video games named Odyssey & Atari could now be hooked up to your home TV so you could play “Pong”.
• The first pocket calculator could be yours for a cool $100.
• McDonalds put breakfast in the palm of our hands by introducing the “Egg McMuffin”.
• Pink Floyd releases “Dark Side of the Moon”.

#1@1

• America's self-titled debut album was released initially in Europe with only moderate success and without the song "A Horse with No Name"
• "A Horse with No Name" was originally called "Desert Song"
• The song was banned by some U.S. radio stations because of supposed drug references.
• The song's resemblance to some of Neil Young's work aroused some controversy.
• By coincidence, it was "A Horse with No Name" that replaced Young's "Heart of Gold" at the #1 spot on the U.S. pop chart.
• America with “A Horse with No Name” the number 1@1 from March 1972