Ventura Highway

Ventura Highway a song by America on Foxsoundi

Ventura Highway by America

About Ventura Highway

"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 brother stood by the side of the road .

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About this song

Credited to: America
Album: Classic 70s Road Trip · Track 13 of 50
Released: July 31, 2025
Duration: 3:31
Ranking: #2 most played America track on Foxsoundi
On Last.fm: 895,246 listeners on Last.fm

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