View from the Ground

View from the Ground
Studio album by America
Released	August 1982[1]
Recorded	1981–82
Studio	Amigo Studios and Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California); Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida); Abbey Road Studios (London, England).
Genre	Soft rock
Length	39:44
Label	Capitol
Producer	Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, Russ Ballard, Bobby Colomby
America chronology
Alibi (1980) View from the Ground (1982) The Last Unicorn (1982)

View from the Ground is the tenth studio album by British-American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in August 1982.

This album marked a comeback for a group that had been generally written off since Dan Peek's departure five years before. It was a modest hit in the US, reaching number 41 on the Billboard album chart, and produced two hit singles: "You Can Do Magic" reached number eight on the Billboard singles chart and number five on the adult contemporary chart, and "Right Before Your Eyes" (also popularly known as "Rudolph Valentino") peaked at 45 on the Billboard singles chart and 16 on the adult contemporary chart. "You Can Do Magic" spent more time on the charts, 20 weeks, than any other America single.

The song "Inspector Mills" was a hit in the Philippines in the '80s and remains one of the band's best-known songs in the country to date.^{[citation needed]}