Live is the first official live album

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 by American

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 folk rock

Folk rock

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 duo America

America (band)

America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

, released by Warner Bros. Records

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 in October 1977

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. The album was recorded in July 1977 at the Greek Theater

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 in Los Angeles

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, California

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. It was the first to feature America as a duo, as Dan Peek

Dan Peek

Daniel Milton 'Dan' Peek was a musician best known as a member of the rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell...

 had left the group for a solo career two months prior to the recording of this album. The album was produced by George Martin

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.

The album was America

America (band)

America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

's first commercial flop, only reaching number 127 on the Billboard album chart. No singles were released from this album. Besides some of the well known hits from this album, "Another Try" received airplay.

Track listing

1. "Tin Man" (Dewey Bunnell)
2. "Muskrat Love" (Willis Alan Ramsey
   Willis Alan Ramsey
   Willis Alan Ramsey is an American singer/songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ramsey graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969, and was a prominent baritone in the High School's Lads and Lassies...
   
   )
3. "I Need You" (Gerry Beckley
   Gerry Beckley
   Gerald Linford "Gerry" Beckley is a founding member of the band America.Beckley was born to an American father, and an English mother. He began playing the piano at the age of three and the guitar a few years later. By 1962, Beckley was playing guitar in The Vanguards, an instrumental surf music...
   
   )
4. "Old Man Took" (Bunnell)
5. "Daisy Jane" (Beckley)
6. "Company" (Bunnell)
7. "Hollywood" (Bunnell)
8. "Sergeant Darkness" (Beckley)
9. "Amber Cascades" (Bunnell)
10. "To Each His Own" (Beckley)
11. "Another Try" (Beckley)
12. "Ventura Highway" (Bunnell)
13. "Sister Golden Hair
    Sister Golden Hair
    "Sister Golden Hair" is a song written by Gerry Beckley and recorded by the band America for their fifth album Hearts . It was their second single to reach number one on the U.S...
    
    " (Beckley)
14. "A Horse With No Name
    A Horse with No Name
    “A Horse with No Name” is a song written by Dewey Bunnell and originally recorded by the band America.  It was the band's first and most successful single, released in early 1972, topping the charts in several countries...
    
    " (Bunnell)