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title: A Horse with No Name text: home studio of musician Arthur Brown, near Puddletown, Dorset. The first two demos were recorded there, by Jeff Dexter and Dennis Elliott, and were intended to capture the feel of the hot, dry desert that had been depicted at the studio from a Salvador Dalí painting, and the strange horse that had ridden out of an M.C. Escher picture. Writer Dewey Bunnell also says he remembered his childhood travels through the Arizona and New Mexico desert when his family lived at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trying to find a song that would be popular in both the United States and title: A Horse with No Name text: A Horse with No Name "A Horse with No Name" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally recorded by the folk rock band America. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, and topped the charts in several countries. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. America's self-titled debut album was released initially in Europe, without "A Horse with No Name", and achieved only moderate success. Originally called "Desert Song", "Horse" was written while the band was staying at the title: A Horse with No Name text: The song was featured in "Hideous Kinky", a British–French 1998 film, during a trip on the Moroccan desert. In 2008, it was used in a Kohls TV commercial for Vera Wang. The song bookends the second episode of the third season of "Breaking Bad", "Caballo sin Nombre" (Spanish for "Horse without Name"), where the song plays on a car radio as Walter White drives through the desert in the beginning, before being pulled over for driving with a cracked windshield. At the end of the episode the song is sung by Walter in the shower. The song is also featured title: A Horse with No Name text: in the movies "The Devil's Daughter", "The Trip", and "Air America". The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the 2013 motion picture "American Hustle" directed by David O. Russell and 2016 movie "The Nice Guys". The song is also briefly featured in Season 5 Episode 22 of Friends, when Joey drives through the Mojave Desert on his way to a production set in Las Vegas. In the season 4 episode of "BoJack Horseman" "The Old Sugarman Place", the title character drives through the desert to Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch's interpretation of the song. This version also appears title: A Horse with No Name text: song and they hope it becomes available for all Michael's fans to hear." The song was remastered and released in its entirety along with the original Michael Jackson recording on Jackson's 2014 album, "Xscape". A Horse with No Name "A Horse with No Name" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally recorded by the folk rock band America. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, and topped the charts in several countries. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.