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"Ventura Highway"

Composer: Dewey Bunnell
Performers: The Vocal Chords (feat. The Cud Chewing Cows)

"Ventura Highway" is a 1972 song by the band America from their album Homecoming.

Dewey Bunnell, the song's vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky he saw in 1963 while his family was driving down the coast from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California where they had a flat tire. While his father changed the tire, he and his brother stood by the side of the road and watched the clouds and saw a road sign for "Ventura”.

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In 2012, the song was recorded by the famous private party band The Gypsy Queens for their album The Gypsy Queens, featuring Booker T. Jones, as well as Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell (author of the song) of the original America line up. The album was produced by multiple grammy winner producer Larry Klein. It was recorded at Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles, (Jim Henson Company). The Album reached #46 in the English charts.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway


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jazz, vocal cords, New Wave, rock, vocal chords, pop, vocal, cud chewing cows, America, The Seekers, The Beatles, The The, Matt Johnson, Jimmy Cliff, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Ketty Lester, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Johnny Cash,

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"Ventura Highway"

Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
You don't care, I know

Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

Wishin' on a falling star
Waitin' for the early train
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on, Joe, you can always
Change your name
Thanks a lot, son, just the same

Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

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from Puppy Love, released March 3, 2022
The Vocal Chords (feat. The Cud Chewing Cows)

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We are emulating some of the artists we love from the 20th Century and closely re-creating their sound.

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Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Peter and Gordon, The Shadows, The Drifters, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Peter Paul and Mary, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Nina Simone, Louis, Ella, The Kingston Trio, The Mamas and the Papas, The Seekers and many others are inspiration for our sound
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