The American hard rock band Mountain was formed in 1969 by Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Steve Knight and Norman Smart. The year after, they released the debut studio album Climbing!, which peaked at #17 on the US Billboard Top Albums chart. It includes the group's best-known song, "Mississippi Queen", which became a hit, and "Never in My Life", which was regularly aired on contemporary FM radio. Both were sung by West, while Pappalardi supplied the vocal on another radio favourite, "Theme for an Imaginary Western" (co-written by Jack Bruce).
