Homecoming (America album)

Homecoming
Studio album by America
Released	November 15, 1972
Recorded	1972
Studio	The Record Plant, Los Angeles[1]
Genre	Folk rock
Length	33:06
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	America
America chronology
America (1971) Homecoming (1972) Hat Trick (1973)
Singles from Homecoming
"Ventura Highway" Released: October 1972[2] "Don't Cross the River" Released: January 1973 "Only in Your Heart" Released: April 1973

Homecoming is the second studio album by America, released on November 15, 1972, through Warner Bros. Records. Acoustic guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and keyboard section than their first album, their second effort helped continue the band's success, and includes one of their best known hits, "Ventura Highway".

Homecoming peaked at number 9 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the RIAA. It produced three hit singles: "Ventura Highway", which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard singles chart and number 3 on the adult contemporary chart; "Don't Cross the River", which hit number 35 on Billboard and 23 on the AC chart; and "Only in Your Heart" peaked at number 62 on Billboard's Pop singles chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "To Each His Own", "California Revisited", and "Cornwall Blank".

For this album and the next six throughout the next five years, the group traditionally chose titles beginning with the letter "H" (the self-titled debut album became unofficially included in this distinction when fans started referring to it as the "Horse with No Name" album when that track was added to later pressings).