This post is inspired by another song by the band America. The song “Ventura Highway” was from their second album homecoming. Dewey Bunnell who wrote the song stated “I remember vividly having this mental picture of the stretch of the coastline traveling with my family when I was younger. Ventura Highway itself, there is no …
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I Love LA
For our musical inspiration we head back to 1983. “From the West Side to the East Side / Everybody’s very happy / ’Cause the sun is shining all the time / Looks like another perfect day / I love L.A. (we love it)”, so sang Randy Newman. Randy says that the sun is shining all …
“Well if you ever plan to motor west” – Route 66.
“Just take my way that’s the highway that’s the best” Bobby Troup 1946. Each of us will have their own favourite version of this song, but the original lyrics were written 80 years ago, when Booby Troup got the idea for the song on a “cross-country” drive from Pennsylvania to California. That route actually took …
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