Dan Peek wrote it with his new bride Catherine as a hopeful response to the hopelessness of the lonely people the Beatles sang of in Eleanor Rigby. Dan said he was always a melancholy person until he married Catherine and said it “felt like I’d won.”
@@blackeyedlily I was single when this song was a hit on the radio. It totally made me feel ok, normal, and ya - let's just keep on going. Comforting for sure!
Also a tradition in some wedding ceremonies to have the bride & groom drink from the same silver chalice signifying that their strength comes from the same source, Christ
America is an iconic folk music band . Sister Golden Hair, venture a highway, tin man and horse with no name are some of their biggest hits. This song really touches your heart ❤️ thank you for sharing it.
I feel like America doesn't get nearly the appreciation they deserve. They had the absolute best harmonics. And just about every single song leaves you feeling good. Check out more of them if you haven't already! Ventura Highway, Horse With No Name, Sister Golden Hair, hard to list them all.
What I like is how chill and down- home America is. It feels like I'm living in Easy Rider or something. Going from a country-folk to a honky-tonk jazz and then back again. All their music is like a breath of warm air.
That song makes me sad because of a fellow Christian brother I had met and he had drown in a river that another person convinced him to try to swim across on a camping trip. He was probably in his 30s. Like the song but it's hard to listen to.
"The piano didn't even ask for permission" is one of the best musical descriptions I've ever heard! And though I had never thought of it before, is a very accurate description of that piano coming in when it did.
Something about this band always puts me into a certain mood, impossible to not feel uplifted by their music. I could hear some Bob Dylan influence on that harmonica playing...nice. The writer of the song says that "Drink from the silver cup" is a metaphor for "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed." America's songs always feel "full" to me, like every layer is expressed in every note, there are no empty levels or forgotten spaces unless there is a musical rest and then they just pause long enough for the listener to exhale before they fill it all up again.
Silver Cup is when you’ve reached a high point/victory in life or sports. IE, hockey’s Stanley Cup for World Champions. I was actually friends with Dan Peek who wrote/sang and played harmonica on that song. He left the band in 1977. Also, that was a 12 string he was playing on Lonely People. Thank you guys, love your show!!!!
Donkey Jaw. Bluesy acoustic with 'rattlesnake' percussion. A very dark, moody, appeal to the generations. Gorgeous electric riff at end. A 'non-hit' classic I think you two will enjoy & appreciate. One of my favs.
This song was a perfect way to start my day. There were so many songs written back then with hopeful, positive messages of support and love. This brought to mind another favorite of mine called Beautiful People by a beautiful person named Melanie, who sadly died just a few days ago. I don't know if you guys have heard anything by Melanie but she's worth a listen. She had a lot of sweet songs, including a much softer version of Ruby Tuesday by the Stones. Think I'll go listen to it now.
Love watching the two of you enjoy the music many of your listeners heard during their initial releases. You would have loved the 1970's. Many of our hearts are still there
Fantastic band been listening to them since the early seventies, and I never tire of their songs....saw them live in London and they are just excellent live.
One of my favorite songs from them, it simultaneously catches this feeling of melancholy but also hope. And it's just so easy on the ears. Love that bass guitar line as well.
I saw them too, but not that early. Sometime around 1982 if memory serves, when they _opened_ for Christopher Cross. Cool that he now opens for _them,_ again if I correctly recall something I read. I also saw America on a small stage at the fairground in my home town which I'm very grateful for. Just me, my girlfriend, and a few dozen other people, and I loved it. I bet they had longer hair when you saw them. 😀
Probably my favorite song by America. I saw them in san jose about 5 years ago with the guitarist from the Eagles who did lead on Hotel California which he also had his band there. Both bands sounds amazing, much like the original songs! Loved it, I'm 62 and grew up with what i feel was the best time for music.
The “silver cup” references the cup of Communion. Songfacts®: This was written by Dan Peek, who along with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, was one of the three original members of America. Many of Peek's compositions show a very spiritual and searching side and "Lonely People," a call for the lonely and despairing to seek God, is one of those songs and easily his best known. Peek left the band in 1977 to focus on his faith; after leaving America, he performed this song live, altering the lyric to leave no doubt of his intention, singing "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup and give your heart to Jesus Christ." Peek died in 2011 at age 60.
Alex: "That's the most patriotic thing I've heard you say in weeks." Andy: "What, that pigeons have candy?" Thank you for starting my day with such comedic surrealism. Love you guys.
You guys need an Andy and Alex cartoon where you guys go around saving the day with music. You show up during some discord, apply the right song and everything is harmonious again. It could be discord between groups. It could be the discord inside an individual. Bang, Andy and Alex save the day with 50 ways to leave your lover. POW, thunderclap, rainbows, choir of angels. The end.
When I watch you guys react, I'm often thinking back on the time _I_ first heard the song, and how I felt about it _then,_ as opposed to the 150th playing. 😏 Though that first listen was usually decades ago, I sometimes recall how I felt at certain parts, like how this one so abruptly ends. It really is a short (but great) song. Your facial expressions usually represent my old feelings well. :-) Also you often make me appreciate some cool aspect of a song that I'd long ago _stopped noticing,_ or had started taking for granted, even though I probably loved that thing at first. In that way you make me appreciate the song more!
It's called easy listening. In the early 90s I was in the Navy and driving by 32nd street Navy base and they were giving a FREE concert on the football field. Lots of families there. Great time.
That's not what it means. Dan Peek who wrote it was a deeply Christian man. So Christian that he left the band America in 1977 to start his own Christian Rock band. At which point he amended the lyric to be: "Don't give up 'til you drink from the silver cup, and give your heart to Jesus Christ." So the silver cup is symbolically the Holy Grail.
Not so sure about the religious connotation of silver cup. Dan didn’t become “Born Again” until later after he hit bottom with a drug and alcohol addiction. According to Dan in an interview, “Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", is a metaphor which it's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed."
I saw America twice in concert. I love this song. This is what I found for you.. The lyrics of "Lonely People" advise "all the lonely people": "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", a metaphor which Dan Peek thus explains: "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed.
The ending is what's known as "deceptive" or "false" cadence. It's an ending that doesn't resolve to the cord you would expect it to, i.e. anything but the tonic (or the 1 chord)
Next is Jesse Colin Young, "Ridgetop." You know him from the Youngbloods, "Get Together." For polls, we are missing a lot of the runners up. So how about a poll of random runners up from prior polls?
The vocal harmony in this song and pretty much every song by America is on point. It was so common in 70s rock, I was chatting with a friend about vocal harmony the other day, The Mamas and the Papas, Simon and Garfunkel, ELO, The Righteous Brothers were some artists we talked about. All of them hit vocal harmony beautifully. Thanks guys, you're hitting so many of my favorites!
Guys. “Until you drink from the silver cup AND ride the golden highway in the sky” means death. In other words, Don’t give up as long as you’re alive. 👍
Dan Peek wrote it after marrying:"I always felt like a lonely person and now I felt like I’d won." The lyrics advise " lonely people": "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", that Peek explains: "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed."
Ok, I'm one of those oddities that is simply bored with "Horse with no Name", but loves several other America songs--like this one. Thx. I recommend "I Need You" if you haven't done it. As a guitar player, I love the chord choices in that song. Blessings, and be well.
I agree I love america and HWNM is everyone's favorite song from then but I prefer just about any other of their hits over it, I'd love for them to react to I need you, another gem by Beckley
So excited that Trolls 3 introduced America to my kids. My 5 year old's was so confused when I started singing the song. Like, you haven't seen this movie, so how do you know these lyrics? 😂
I used to sing along to this song when things were tough. It gave me hope that good things would happen in the future. Luckily I've had my "15 minutes of fame" numerous times on the golf course and throughout life. Thank you to America for this wonderful, inspiring song.
America was very consistent across the board, with three strong songwriters. Personal favorites are "Only in Your Heart," "Woman Tonight'' and "Today's the Day."
Periodically I post this: I think you'd like Joan Baez-- "Diamonds and Rust." It's a song she wrote about her partnership and break up with Bob Dylan. Poetic lyrics, melodic tune.
Yes! I love that song, too, they should definitely review it. "Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague 'Cause I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes, I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid" **Chills**
I'd like to suggest "Never Found The Time"--one of my favorite songs by America that never seems to get any attention.I happened to hear about it from watching Rick Beato (first song he ever learned to play)...loved it ever since.
The silver cup is the cup of champions...you know?....like the Stanley Cup.....the teams drink out of the cup after they win the championship title at the end of the season. So, in other words....dont give up until you are the winner.......and conversely.."or ride that highway in the sky" meaning death.....so never give up....
Dan Peek wrote it with his new bride Catherine as a hopeful response to the hopelessness of the lonely people the Beatles sang of in Eleanor Rigby. Dan said he was always a melancholy person until he married Catherine and said it “felt like I’d won.”
Lovely story! And of course I immediately thought of Eleanor Rigby with this song.
@@blackeyedlily I was single when this song was a hit on the radio. It totally made me feel ok, normal, and ya - let's just keep on going. Comforting for sure!
Probably a vocal talk-to-text typo? Not ‘Sid’ but ‘said’.
@@billwilson7948 Not talk to text. That was all autocorrect and my failure to proofread. Thanks.
Dan Peek explained the metaphor as the possibility of drinking from another's well of experience and be refreshed.
"I Need You" is another great song by America.
I'm hoping for a reaction to I need you. Gerry Beckley sings it beautifully 😊
one of many, many, many great songs of this band.
Amazing harmonies. Timeless songs. This is America.
My favorite!
The silver cup is a metaphor for salvation
To which Dan made his alternate rendition ☺
Also a tradition in some wedding ceremonies to have the bride & groom drink from the same silver chalice signifying that their strength comes from the same source, Christ
@@lynne5322 he said in an interview sometime in the 70s the silver cup represented Solitude and salvation
Winning in general?
exactly
“Sandman” should be next by America. Song is about staying awake in Vietnam because if you fall asleep the enemy (the sandman) will kill you.
I'll second that it's my favourite track by them 👍
My America song. Love the guitar solo in it.
Agree. Great song.
That would be my next pick also. Great song! And then they need to hit "I Need You".
"He flies the sky like an Eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned" - Love that line 🙌
Listen to "Daisy Jane" if you haven't already.
I think that one is my favorite ... either that one or "I Need You."
Hard to pick one of these great songs.
That one gives me goosebumps. SO good!
@@mayLibertyprevail1a Every time I hear it.
Love that song.
America is an iconic folk music band . Sister Golden Hair, venture a highway, tin man and horse with no name are some of their biggest hits.
This song really touches your heart ❤️ thank you for sharing it.
America, along with Cat Stevens, were the reasons I took up the guitar. This is one of the first songs I learned. Still playing 40 odd years later.
For me it was Horse With No Name.
Donkey Jaw still blows my mind.
Amazing to hear young people listening to music of my youth .. America had some really cool music
I feel like America doesn't get nearly the appreciation they deserve. They had the absolute best harmonics. And just about every single song leaves you feeling good. Check out more of them if you haven't already! Ventura Highway, Horse With No Name, Sister Golden Hair, hard to list them all.
I love how the memory of all the lyrics comes flying back (including the "hit it").
Life is simple but never easy.
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The most mellow ‘hit it’ ever 😂
Beautiful song. I appreciate it more now than when I was younger. Sandman is a good one
What I like is how chill and down- home America is. It feels like I'm living in Easy Rider or something. Going from a country-folk to a honky-tonk jazz and then back again. All their music is like a breath of warm air.
My favorite America song has always been “Don’t Cross the River”. The tempo, the vocal emotion and the banjo (!) are brilliant!
Me too!! That song is America personified but way too short!
That song makes me sad because of a fellow Christian brother I had met and he had drown in a river that another person convinced him to try to swim across on a camping trip. He was probably in his 30s. Like the song but it's hard to listen to.
@@rosek2967WAY too short!
I agree
"The piano didn't even ask for permission" is one of the best musical descriptions I've ever heard! And though I had never thought of it before, is a very accurate description of that piano coming in when it did.
Beautiful lyric from Dan Peek - their third member - RIP Dan... Great production by George Martin.
I read his bio, excellent read
Though I'm a huge Beatles fan and also knew _this song_ when it was first on the radio, I didn't realize George Martin produced it! That's fantastic.
@@MikeAnn193 Yes, George Martin produced all their Warner Brothers albums from the 3rd onward.
They always had tight, awesome harmonies.
Something about this band always puts me into a certain mood, impossible to not feel uplifted by their music. I could hear some Bob Dylan influence on that harmonica playing...nice. The writer of the song says that "Drink from the silver cup" is a metaphor for "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed." America's songs always feel "full" to me, like every layer is expressed in every note, there are no empty levels or forgotten spaces unless there is a musical rest and then they just pause long enough for the listener to exhale before they fill it all up again.
Silver Cup is when you’ve reached a high point/victory in life or sports. IE, hockey’s Stanley Cup for World Champions. I was actually friends with Dan Peek who wrote/sang and played harmonica on that song. He left the band in 1977. Also, that was a 12 string he was playing on Lonely People. Thank you guys, love your show!!!!
America was on the radio a lot in the '70s. You can definitely hear the CSN and Neil Young influences!
Donkey Jaw. Bluesy acoustic with 'rattlesnake' percussion. A very dark, moody, appeal to the generations. Gorgeous electric riff at end. A 'non-hit' classic I think you two will enjoy & appreciate. One of my favs.
Definitely one of MY faves, too.
So smooth and clean. Very easy to listen to and to sing with. Never feels too complicated.
Great band and great song. Evokes so much feeling
This song was a perfect way to start my day. There were so many songs written back then with hopeful, positive messages of support and love. This brought to mind another favorite of mine called Beautiful People by a beautiful person named Melanie, who sadly died just a few days ago. I don't know if you guys have heard anything by Melanie but she's worth a listen. She had a lot of sweet songs, including a much softer version of Ruby Tuesday by the Stones. Think I'll go listen to it now.
Don't cross the river is another great America tune. Thanks guys!
Great one
Love watching the two of you enjoy the music many of your listeners heard during their initial releases. You would have loved the 1970's. Many of our hearts are still there
Check out their song Daisy Jane. Very lovely song!
This music really makes you realize how FAR current music has fallen.
There is awesome music everywhere, yo. How bout some me Avett Bros for you?
I agree the 70's was the decade of the best music , especially America
You made me laugh with that one! You're so right! Well said
Speaking of songs with 'lonely' in the title, there's "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold. Great '70s song.
Beautiful song. Love America.❤
Fantastic band been listening to them since the early seventies, and I never tire of their songs....saw them live in London and they are just excellent live.
BOUT TIME YA DO THIS ONE!!!! THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU LONELY FOLKS OUT THERE!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL !!!
One of my favorite songs from them, it simultaneously catches this feeling of melancholy but also hope. And it's just so easy on the ears. Love that bass guitar line as well.
💯 fact
My favorite song by America!! Saw them in ‘77!! Awesome!🤘🔥
I saw them too, but not that early. Sometime around 1982 if memory serves, when they _opened_ for Christopher Cross. Cool that he now opens for _them,_ again if I correctly recall something I read. I also saw America on a small stage at the fairground in my home town which I'm very grateful for. Just me, my girlfriend, and a few dozen other people, and I loved it. I bet they had longer hair when you saw them. 😀
Drink from the silver cup is a metaphor for being possible to drink from another’s well of experiences and feel refreshed. Man that’s deep.
A song of hope. ❤️❤️❤️
Riverside is one of America’s most iconic and rhythmic songs with great guitar work and incredible harmonies.
There’s a live version here on the tube , they are so young in that vid .
things like that piano solo are what make this life so bearable
You guys have most excellent witty banter. Always entertaining. 🤟🏻
Probably my favorite song by America. I saw them in san jose about 5 years ago with the guitarist from the Eagles who did lead on Hotel California which he also had his band there. Both bands sounds amazing, much like the original songs! Loved it, I'm 62 and grew up with what i feel was the best time for music.
Love America ❤❤❤
good stuff, guys! Put "Daisy Jane" on your list. It's a tremendous vocal, and one of the sweetest love songs ever. I think it's their best work.
I agree. What an awesome track🔥
Agreed; Daisy Jane is wistful and moving, one of their best. --And isn't it the foundation for Janet Jackson's Let's Wait Awhile?
Definitely agree with Daisy Jane. I think it’s my favorite America track.
Anything sung by Gerry is beautiful ❤
The “silver cup” references the cup of Communion.
Songfacts®:
This was written by Dan Peek, who along with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, was one of the three original members of America. Many of Peek's compositions show a very spiritual and searching side and
"Lonely People," a call for the lonely and despairing to seek God, is one of those songs and easily his best known.
Peek left the band in 1977 to focus on his faith; after leaving America, he performed this song live, altering the lyric to leave no doubt of his intention, singing "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup and give your heart to Jesus Christ."
Peek died in 2011 at age 60.
Alex: "That's the most patriotic thing I've heard you say in weeks."
Andy: "What, that pigeons have candy?"
Thank you for starting my day with such comedic surrealism. Love you guys.
You guys need an Andy and Alex cartoon where you guys go around saving the day with music. You show up during some discord, apply the right song and everything is harmonious again. It could be discord between groups. It could be the discord inside an individual. Bang, Andy and Alex save the day with 50 ways to leave your lover. POW, thunderclap, rainbows, choir of angels. The end.
"I know enough about Cool to know it was Cool......" Another great Alexism
I played my America album over and over back in the day, still love them. This song reminds me of gym class back in '77. Loved those days.
At 70+, this one hits a little too close to home.
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Same here, bro. 72
I'm with ya buddy. I'm 70 and all my family and friends are gone. I have to keep moving both mentally and physically.
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When I watch you guys react, I'm often thinking back on the time _I_ first heard the song, and how I felt about it _then,_ as opposed to the 150th playing. 😏 Though that first listen was usually decades ago, I sometimes recall how I felt at certain parts, like how this one so abruptly ends. It really is a short (but great) song. Your facial expressions usually represent my old feelings well. :-)
Also you often make me appreciate some cool aspect of a song that I'd long ago _stopped noticing,_ or had started taking for granted, even though I probably loved that thing at first. In that way you make me appreciate the song more!
It's called easy listening.
In the early 90s I was in the Navy and driving by 32nd street Navy base and they were giving a FREE concert on the football field. Lots of families there.
Great time.
I remembered the "... hit it..." lol 🎶🎵🎶 You gotta' do "Daisy Jane". A gorgeous song!
Silver cup, usually means like a trophy given to the winner. So, don't give up till you win.
This is what I always picture, bunch of young guys, exuberant and cheering, drinking from the Stanley Cup (NHL).
That's not what it means. Dan Peek who wrote it was a deeply Christian man. So Christian that he left the band America in 1977 to start his own Christian Rock band. At which point he amended the lyric to be: "Don't give up 'til you drink from the silver cup, and give your heart to Jesus Christ." So the silver cup is symbolically the Holy Grail.
@@Cosmo-Kramer Ah, that makes sense.
Not so sure about the religious connotation of silver cup. Dan didn’t become “Born Again” until later after he hit bottom with a drug and alcohol addiction. According to Dan in an interview, “Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", is a metaphor which it's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed."
I thought it was a metaphor for dying; don't give up until you die.
As mellow as they sound...I saw them on a 70's cruise about 6 years ago and these guys rocked! One of the best shows I ever went to. Excellent show!
Love this song!
I saw America twice in concert. I love this song. This is what I found for you.. The lyrics of "Lonely People" advise "all the lonely people": "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", a metaphor which Dan Peek thus explains: "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed.
The ending is what's known as "deceptive" or "false" cadence. It's an ending that doesn't resolve to the cord you would expect it to, i.e. anything but the tonic (or the 1 chord)
It's so fantastic. A+ song.
I know im only 28 but as i get older and closer to 30 i understand this song better than i did 5 years ago.❤
Possibly my favorite by them. Certainly top 3.
GOOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!
☮️💟💟
Love harmonies. They gave it to me!
Next is Jesse Colin Young, "Ridgetop." You know him from the Youngbloods, "Get Together." For polls, we are missing a lot of the runners up. So how about a poll of random runners up from prior polls?
The vocal harmony in this song and pretty much every song by America is on point. It was so common in 70s rock, I was chatting with a friend about vocal harmony the other day, The Mamas and the Papas, Simon and Garfunkel, ELO, The Righteous Brothers were some artists we talked about. All of them hit vocal harmony beautifully. Thanks guys, you're hitting so many of my favorites!
Great song from a Great group. 1:01 ! Fantastically Cool 😎.6:02 !
Guys. “Until you drink from the silver cup AND ride the golden highway in the sky” means death. In other words, Don’t give up as long as you’re alive. 👍
You can't go wrong with any of America's songs. I'd wholeheartedly suggest doing the entire first album on Patreon.
Dan Peek wrote it after marrying:"I always felt like a lonely person and now I felt like I’d won." The lyrics advise " lonely people": "Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup", that Peek explains: "It's possible to drink from another's well of experience...and be refreshed."
Full rich sound, great harmonies.
Everyone finds their own silver cup. ✌️❤️
Ok, I'm one of those oddities that is simply bored with "Horse with no Name", but loves several other America songs--like this one. Thx.
I recommend "I Need You" if you haven't done it. As a guitar player, I love the chord choices in that song.
Blessings, and be well.
I agree I love america and HWNM is everyone's favorite song from then but I prefer just about any other of their hits over it, I'd love for them to react to I need you, another gem by Beckley
Oh wow, what a great song. Haven’t heard this for many a year.
Very easy going song with a positive message. The 70's were about positive thinking. This song is a reflection of that. Beautifully done.
One word I believe describes this smooth, thanks guys.
Love this song ,use to listen to it a lot in my early 20s ..now in my early 60's .still resonates .
You guys are the best at analyzing songs. Love your reactions!
Another great band snubbed by the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame
Loved this as kid !! Life is passing me by !!
Love this song
So excited that Trolls 3 introduced America to my kids. My 5 year old's was so confused when I started singing the song. Like, you haven't seen this movie, so how do you know these lyrics? 😂
As a certified lonely person, I wholeheartedly approve of this song and message.
Gotta do Daisy Jane!
I used to sing along to this song when things were tough. It gave me hope that good things would happen in the future. Luckily I've had my "15 minutes of fame" numerous times on the golf course and throughout life. Thank you to America for this wonderful, inspiring song.
Loved them in concert back around 1983.
You should do "Daisy Jane."
America was very consistent across the board, with three strong songwriters. Personal favorites are "Only in Your Heart," "Woman Tonight'' and "Today's the Day."
Epic soft rock classic. Not for me, but the moms and dads of the boomer generation loved the hell out of this.
Periodically I post this: I think you'd like Joan Baez-- "Diamonds and Rust." It's a song she wrote about her partnership and break up with Bob Dylan. Poetic lyrics, melodic tune.
Thank you! I keep asking for it too! Such a hauntingly lovely song.
Yes! I love that song, too, they should definitely review it.
"Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid"
**Chills**
I'd like to suggest "Never Found The Time"--one of my favorite songs by America that never seems to get any attention.I happened to hear about it from watching Rick Beato (first song he ever learned to play)...loved it ever since.
I think the "silver cup" represents the 'finer things in life'. Don't settle, in other words.
Dan Peek added a dimension to the group before he left. Very comforting song. Doesn't hurt that George Martin produced either.
Silver cup could also mean a winners cup. Don't give up till you win at love
Thank you for the reaction. America-three Air Force brats with guitars. They always create the …vibe.
This song was the old sign off song for WCTI tv out of New Bern, NC back in the mid 1970s I fell asleep to it many times as a kid!
Bestie is a huge America fan, as am I. 🎶💙🎶💙🎶💙
I was 51 before I found the one. Though he suddenly died 2 years later, I got to drink from the silver cup and I will forever be grateful.
This is one of their hits penned by Dan Peek. Peek was first to quit and he's so far the only who's passed away
The silver cup is the cup of champions...you know?....like the Stanley Cup.....the teams drink out of the cup after they win the championship title at the end of the season. So, in other words....dont give up until you are the winner.......and conversely.."or ride that highway in the sky" meaning death.....so never give up....
I suggest " Daisy Jane " for your next America song.
Just about my favorite concert way back then...
Don't think you have hit Daisy Jane yet. Another great one !
This is probably my favorite song from this group.
Still waiting on Killing Me Softly from Roberta Flack 🤞