A-ha success with two more hit singles from the same album—"Train of Thought" and "Hunting High and Low" (with another innovative video) —and the band remained popular throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The band's first album, 1985's "Hunting High and Low", became a worldwide bestseller, spending most of October and November in the top 20 of "Billboard"'s Top 200 album chart. The album and its four hit singles garnered international recognition for A-ha. "Hunting High and Low" earned triple platinum status in the UK, and reached platinum status in the US and Germany, while earning gold in Brazil and the
High, Low and In Between in Houston when Van Zandt showed up drunk, sat in the front row and, in between songs, began heckling the young singer and demanding that he play "Wabash Cannonball". A flustered Earle finally admitted that he didn't know the song, to which Van Zandt replied aghast, ""You call yourself a folk singer and you don't know the 'Wabash Cannonball?'"" Earle responded by playing "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold", effectively stunning Van Zandt into silence. Earle remembers that he wore out his copy of "High, Low and In Between" learning the song, which has "a jillion words," and claims that even