America

The first half of the 1970s was the heyday of introspective songwriting and close-harmony singing. The band America lay at the commercial end of this movement, releasing a string of singles that earned radio play for years. The trio's debut was "A Horse with No Name," a Neil Young-derived, hallucinatory story-song that hit number one in the U.S. and became a worldwide smash. Further hits "I Need You" and "Ventura Highway" helped them win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1972. A string of Top Ten singles and albums followed in the mid-'70s ("Tin Man," "Lonely People," "S...