I Am Pegasus
"I Am Pegasus" | ||||
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Single by Ross Ryan | ||||
from the album My Name Means Horse | ||||
B-side | "Country Christine Waltz" | |||
Released | September 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1973 | |||
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Length | 3:25 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ross Ryan | |||
Producer(s) | Peter Dawkins | |||
Ross Ryan singles chronology | ||||
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"I Am Pegasus" is a pop, rock song written and recorded by American-Australian singer-songwriter, Ross Ryan, which was issued as a single in September 1973 ahead of his third album, My Name Means Horse (February 1974).[1] It was produced by Peter Dawkins for EMI Music Australia, which peaked at No. 9 on the Go-Set Australian National Charts top 40.[2][3]
Ryan told APRAP's Debbie Kruger in March 2002 how he had merged two songs, "One was about the fact that I had just discovered that Ross means horse... also at the time I was having a really disastrous attempt at a relationship with an air hostess... [I was] getting nowhere with them, so I combined them and got a flying horse. And I came up with Pegasus... I looked up all the things that rhymed with Pegasus and I got Dimitrius and Sagittarius."[4] The writing process took the artist about two months and after Dawkins heard it, the producer felt, "it was the obvious single."[4]
Track listing
All track were written by Ross Ryan.[5]
- I Am Pegasus - 3:25
- Country Christine Waltz - 4:14[3]
References
- ^ Johnson, Chris (1 November 2014). "Ross Ryan: 'I am Pegasus' legend comes to Canberra". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ Nimmervoll, Ed (23 December 1973). "Aust. Singles". Go-Set. Waverley Press. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Ross Ryan – 'I Am Pegasus'". Discogs. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ a b Kruger, Debbie (March 2002). "They Wrote the Songs: Songwriters discuss the stories and inspirations behind their most famous songs". APRAP. Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "'I Am Pegasus' at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 30 July 2018. Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:'