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So if you were to ask me if I had a favorite John Denver song, Country Roads would be my choice.Īgain, I'm not a big fan of country music, but I do enjoy folk songs and easy listening music and because Denver generally writes exuberant or mostly-positive songs about love and the outdoors, I thought it was high time for me to get at least one of his albums. The lyrics were well-written, evocative, and fairly easy to learn and the melody is catchy, which perhaps explains its lasting popularity. I've never been a huge fan of country music, but for some reason, I really liked Take Me Home, Country Roads. Richard Back (pronounced like Bach) included it in the school's first Spring Concert (Tropical had never had a school chorus before then), along with Mandy and I Write the Songs, which you may remember as big hits for Barry Manilow. Interestingly, one of the songs we had to learn and perform when I was a singer at Tropical Elementary during the 1976-77 school year was Take Me Home, Country Roads. And because John Denver was at the peak of his musical career when I moved back to the States from Colombia with my mother and (later) my older half-sister, his songs were practically omnipresent on easy-listening and adult contemporary radio from 1972 to around 1977. John Denver – Dreamland Express (04:06)Īlthough my musical tastes tend to favor instrumental classical music and film scores, my stints as a chorus singer in elementary and high school gave me some appreciation for other musical styles and genres. John Denver & Emmylou Harris – Wild Montana Skies (04:03)ġ7. John Denver & Plácido Domingo – Perhaps Love (02:56)ġ5. John Denver – Shanghai Breezes (03:12)ġ4. John Denver – Seasons of the Heart (03:48)ġ3. John Denver – The Cowboy and the Lady (04:36)ġ2. John Denver – Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone) (03:59)ġ1. John Denver – How Can I Leave You Again (03:08)ġ0. John Denver – Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight (02:47)ĥ. John Denver – Looking For Space (03:59)ģ. John Denver – Thank God I'm a Country Boy (03:20)ġ6. John Denver – Sunshine On My Shoulders (05:11)ġ2. John Denver – Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning) (04:03)ġ1. John Denver – I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains) (04:25)ġ0. John Denver – Rocky Mountain High (04:43)ĩ. John Denver – I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado (02:07)Ħ. John Denver – Poems, Prayers, and Promises (04:05)ĥ. John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads (03:10)Ĥ.
John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane (03:38)Ģ.
He co-wrote (with Fat City's Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert) Take Me Home, Country Roads, and (with Dick Kniss and Mike Taylor) the top-charting song for 1973, Sunshine on My Shoulders.ġ. It contains songs that cover a 26-year-long time span, from 1969's Leaving on a Jet Plane to 1995's Is It Love?Īs noted earlier, Denver wrote mostly in the folk-country music genres, although he had some crossover success with Annie's Song, which he wrote for his first wife, Annie Martell-Denver. The Essential John Denver two-CD album was released almost a decade after Denver's tragic death.