Homecoming (America album)

Homecoming
America studio album
Publication (s)	1972
Label (s)	Warner Bros. Records
Format (s)	LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	10
running time	33 min. 06 sec.
occupation	Gerry Beckley : vocals, guitar, bass, piano Dewey Bunnell : vocals, guitar, piano, drums, percussion Dan Peek : vocals, guitar, piano Joe Osborn : Bass Hal Blaine : drums, percussion Gary Mallaber : drums, percussion Henry Diltz : Banjo
production	America
chronology America (1971) Homecoming Hat Trick (1973)

Homecoming is America's second album and was released in 1972 . With the help of guest musicians like Hal Blaine on drums and Joe Osborn on electric bass, attempts were made to make the overall style more rock-oriented.

The piece Ventura Highway , on whose well-known riff Janet Jackson's hit Someone to Call My Lover is based, became one of the greatest successes of the band, which won the 1972 Grammy after the moderately successful singles Don't Cross the River and Only in Your Heart was named Best New Artist. The album reached number 9 on the Billboard charts.

Track list

1. Ventura Highway (Bunnell) - 3:32
2. To Each His Own (Beckley) - 3:13
3. Don't Cross the River (Peek) - 2:30
4. Moon Song (Bunnell) - 3:41
5. Only in Your Heart (Beckley) - 3:16
6. Till the Sun Comes Up Again (Beckley) - 2:12
7. Cornwall Blank (Bunnell) - 4:19
8. Head and Heart ( John Martyn ) - 3:49
9. California Revisited (Peek) - 3:03
10. Saturn Nights (Peek) - 3:31

Individual evidence

1. ↑ US catalog number Warner 2655
2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 31

Web links

• Homecoming at Allmusic (English)