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Never Been to Spain

"Never Been to Spain"
Never Been to Spain - Three Dog Night.jpg
Single by Three Dog Night
from the album Harmony
B-side "Peace of Mind"
Released December 1971
Genre Rock
Length 3:43
Label Dunhill 4299
Songwriter(s) Hoyt Axton
Producer(s) Richard Podolor
Three Dog Night singles chronology
"An Old Fashioned Love Song"
(1971)
"Never Been to Spain"
(1971)
"The Family of Man"
(1972)
"An Old Fashioned Love Song"
(1971)
"Never Been to Spain"
(1971)
"The Family of Man"
(1972)

"Never Been to Spain" is a song written by Hoyt Axton, originally released on his 1971 LP Joy to the World and later that year performed by Three Dog Night, with Cory Wells on lead vocal. It was featured on their 1971 album, Harmony. The song was produced by Richard Podolor. In the US, "Never Been to Spain" peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart, and #18 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart in 1972. Outside of the US, "Never Been to Spain" reached #3 in Canada and #34 in Australia.

The lyrics consist of the narrator ruminating on places that he has never visited, but feels that he has some proxy experience of via the music or other features of those places, or from having gone to similar locations. In the final verse, he observes that while he has "never been to heaven", he has "been to Oklahoma", where he has been told he was born, thus implying a kinship between the two places. However, the singularity of this kinship is called into question when he then implies that he could just as easily have been born in Arizona.



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