I Am Pegasus

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"I Am Pegasus"
The main image is a photo of the single's label. Most of the text is on the right, written in black print over peach background. At left is the record company's logo in large red print.
Single by Ross Ryan
from the album My Name Means Horse
B-side"Country Christine Waltz"
ReleasedSeptember 1973 (1973-09)
Recorded1973
Genre
  • Pop
  • rock
Length3:25
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Ross Ryan
Producer(s)Peter Dawkins
Ross Ryan singles chronology
"I Don't Want to Know About It"
(1973) 		"I Am Pegasus"
(1973) 		"Orchestra Ladies"
(1974)

"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. 2 on the Australian charts.

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."[2] The writing process took the artist about two months and after Dawkins heard it, the producer felt, "it was the obvious single."[2]

Track listing[edit]

All track were written by Ross Ryan.[3]

  1. I Am Pegasus - 3:25
  2. Country Christine Waltz - 4:14[4]

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 2

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6][7] 14

References[edit]

  1. ^ Johnson, Chris (1 November 2014). "Ross Ryan: 'I am Pegasus' legend comes to Canberra". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "'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:'
  4. ^ "Ross Ryan – 'I Am Pegasus'". Discogs. 1974. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1974". Kent Music Report. 30 December 1974. Retrieved 15 January 2022 – via Imgur.
  7. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 426. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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