On this date in 1972, AMERICA released the single VENTURA HIGHWAY,, a song that would become one of their most enduring hits (Sep 19, 1972) Written by band member Dewey Bunnell, the track captures the essence of California's sun-drenched coastline and the allure of westward adventure. Bunnell's inspiration for the song stemmed from a vivid childhood memory. In a 2006 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he recounted, "It was 1963 when I was in seventh grade, we got a flat tyre and we're standin

America Ventura Highway-(1972)🦎🦎🦎🦎 “Ventura Highway” is a 1972 song by the band America from their album Homecoming, written by Dewey Bunnell. 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