A Horse With No Name

So I learned how to play this song on the guitar because it's only two chords.

So I learned how to play Horse of No Name.

If I could play a song on guitar, I'm telling you, Edward Scissorhands could play guitar.

It's that simple.

I think that was the number one choice.

I think the very close number two was A Horse With No Name by America because a lot of people were like, a lot of people were listing out elements of the song being like, yeah, a lot of this has very strong parallels to the story of Steel Ball Run.

And it's like, hmm, I wonder where some of the influence may have come from.

I mean, maybe now that that guy has died, it just takes more time in terms of negotiation.

Bye-bye.

let the horse run free cause the desert had turned to sea there were plants and birds and rocks and things that In the desert on a horse with no name, it felt good to be out of the rain.

In the desert, you can't remember your name, cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.

But we always live in hope and we'll try again tomorrow.

UB40 before ABBA with their 1983 reggae version of the Neil Diamond song Red Red Wine.

We also heard from America with A Horse With No Name and to open that bracket, Johnny Rivers with his song about Maybelline.

Now, Anita called in.

And it became a number one hit.

A Horse With No Name by America.

That was just a joke song they did making fun of Neil Young.

Number one hit.

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.

Horse With No Name by America.

Eleanor Rigby.

It's two chords.

What? Dionne Warwick is up in there.

I don't know, the dude who wrote Horse With No Name, America.

Big song.

His name is America.

Definitely.

Because by then they had had I Need You and the number one Horse With No Name.

Oh, yeah.

The two biggest movers down the charts were Backstabbers.

They're right there.

It's like Horse With No Name, like Wild

Horse.

There's so many songs they could have joked.

Horse With No Name is in so many fucking TV shows.

I can't believe how many TV shows that song is in.

Yeah, but none as appropriate as they would be in

How are we doing this morning? Fab as per? Otherwise you well? Well, I'm very glad you're here to join me because today we begin another lap around capital through the years, starting with October 1980.

And as peak coincidence would have it, the last song played in the Fantasy Capital Countdown last week, America's A Horse With No Name, had just two chords.

The first song to kick us off this morning, also originally written with just two chords.

Songwriter Danny Flowers was stranded in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hotel during a snowstorm in 1978.

And a couple of months later, Flowers was touring with Don Williams, who was opening for Eric Clapton.

And after a Nashville concert, the three ended up in Clapton's hotel room playing songs together.

Flowers played him the tune that he wrote in the hotel room just a few months prior, and Clapton immediately wanted to record it, but added his own 12-bar blues interpretation.

And this week in 1980, Tulsa Time kicked off the Capital Countdown at 40.

Dana Loesch here with you.

Little Horse with No Name, ah, song by America.

It's a great track.

It's very appropriate considering what I'm about to hit you over the head with, and I'm sorry, but also I had to hear it, so I'm not.