A HORSE WITH NO NAME - AMERICA - 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