America - America (2013) SACD FLAC Beolab1700

America - America (2013) SACD FLAC Beolab1700



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America - America [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 167]
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Artist...............: America
Album................: America [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 167]
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1971
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 59 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: CD IMAGE - LOG - CUE - SCANS


Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 21/06/2014

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Tracklisting
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01. Riverside
02. Sandman
03. Three Roses
04. Children
05. A Horse With No Name
06. Here
07. I Need You
08. Rainy Day
09. Never Found The Time
10. Clarice
11. Donkey Jaw
12. Pigeon Song


Album Released: December 29, 1971
Audio Fidelity SACD Released: October 15, 2013

Mastered for this SACD by: Steve Hoffman at Stephan Marsh Mastering

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America is the eponymous debut album by America, released in 1971. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which had not yet been recorded. When "Horse" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.

The album went to #1 on the Billboard album chart in the US and stayed there for five weeks. It produced two hit singles; "A Horse with No Name" spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1972 (it peaked at #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart), and "I Need You" hit #9 on the Billboard singles chart and #7 on the AC chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "Sandman" (long rumoured in the US Navy to be about the VQ-2 air squadron formerly based in Rota, Spain) and "Three Roses". The album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US.

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