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| John Denver > Albums & Lyrics |

All Aboard Album- City of New Orleans
- Freight Train Boogie
- Jenny Dreamed of Trains
- Jesse Dreamed of Trains (Reprise)
- Last Hobo
- Last Train Done Gone Down
- Lining Track
- Old Train
- On The Atchison, Topeka and The Sante Fe
- People Get Ready
- Steel Rails
- The Little Engine That Could
- Waiting For A Train
| Back Home Again Album- Back Home Again
- On The Road
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- Matthew
- Music Is You
- Eclipse
- Sweet Surrender
- This Old Guitar
| Best Of Album- Back Home Again
- Dreamland Express
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Rocky Mountain High
- Seasons of the Heart
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
| Best Of John Denver Album- Back Home Again
- Dreamland Express
- For You
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Love Again
- Perhaps Love
- Rocky Mountain High
- Seasons of the Heart
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- Windsong
| Best Of John Denver Live Album- Back Home Again
- Bet On The Blues
- Calypso
- Country Roads
- Darcy Farrow
- Fly Away
- Goodbye Again
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Matthew
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Rocky Mountain High
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Wild Montana Skies
| Calypso Album- Alaska and Me
- American Child
- A Little Further North
- Calypso
- In A Far Away Land
- Postcard From Paris
- Sing Australia
- Stonehaven Sunset
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
| Celebration Of Life Album- Back Home Again
- Christmas For Cowboys
- Dreamland Express
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Love Again
- Perhaps Love
- Rocky Mountain High
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Whispering Jesse
- Windsong
| Country Roads Collection Album- Friends With You
- Windsong
- Wild Montana Skies
- Southwind
- Song for the Life
- Song of Wyoming
- Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Spirit
- Sweet Surrender
- Sticky Summer Weather
- Starwood In Aspen
- Singing Skies and Dancing Waters
- Shanghai Breezes
- Seasons of the Heart
- Thirsty Boots
- The Mountain Song
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- This Old Guitar
- Rocky Mountain High
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Perhaps Love
- Molly
- My Sweet Lady
- Love Is the Master
- Love Again
- Looking for Space
- Like A Sad Song
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- In The Grand Way
- If Ever
- It Amazes Me
- Isabel
- In My Heart
- I Want To Live
- How Can I Leave You Again
- Heart to Heart
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- Garden Song
- Goodbye Again
- For Baby (For Bobbie)
- Follow Me
- Flying For Me
- Fly Away
- Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
- Falling Out of Love
- Eclipse
- Dreams
- Dearest Esmeralda
- Dreamland Express
- Daydream
- City of New Orleans
- Catch Another Butterfly
- Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes
- Circus
- Country Love
- Calypso
- Back Home Again
- Autograph
- Aspenglow
- All My Memories
| Country Roads-Very Best Of John (1998) Album- Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)
- Higher Ground
- Hold On To Me
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Stonehaven Sunset
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Tenderly Calling
- Two Different Directions
- Windsong
| Country Roads-Very Best Of John (1999) Album- American Child
- Calypso
- Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)
- For You
- Higher Ground
- Hold On To Me
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- I Want To Live
- I Watch You Sleeping
- Ponies
- Rocky Mountain High
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Stonehaven Sunset
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Tenderly Calling
- The Chosen Ones
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
- The Foxfire Suite
- To the Wild Country
- Two Different Directions
- Whispering Jesse
- Windsong
| Dreamland Express Album- African Sunrise
- A Wild Heart Looking for Home
- Claudette
- Dreamland Express
- Gimme Your Love
- Got My Heart Set On You
- If Ever
- The Harder They Fall
- Trail of Tears
| Evening With John Denver Album- Blue Grass
- Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
- Forest Lawn
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- Matthew
- My Sweet Lady
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Rocky Mountain High
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Summer
- Sweet Surrender
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- The Music Is You
- This Old Guitar
- Toledo
| Farewell Andromeda Album- Berkeley Woman
- Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
- Angel From Montgomery
- River Of Love
- Rocky Mountain Suite
- Whiskey Basin Blues
- Sweet Misery
- Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
| Forever John Album- Dance Little Jean
- Four Strong Winds
- Mr Bojangles
- Nobody Can Take My Dreams From Me
- No One
- On the Wings of a Dream
- Rita Ballou
- River
- Rusty Green
- The Game Is Over
| Greatest Country Hits Album- Autograph
- Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight
- Back Home Again
- Dreamland Express
- Fly Away
- How Can I Leave You Again
- Like A Sad Song
- Looking for Space
- Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Sweet Surrender
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- Wild Montana Skies
| Greatest Hits Album- Follow Me
- For Baby (For Bobbie)
- Goodbye Again
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Rocky Mountain High
- Starwood In Aspen
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- The Eagle and the Hawk
| Greatest Hits No. 2 Album- Back Home Again
- Calypso
- Fly Away
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- Like A Sad Song
- Looking for Space
- My Sweet Lady
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- This Old Guitar
- Welcome To My Morning
| Greatest Hits No. 3 Album- Autograph
- Dancing With The Mountains
- How Can I Leave You Again
- I Want To Live
- Love Again
- Perhaps Love
- Seasons of the Heart
- Shanghai Breezes
- Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
- The Gold and Beyond
- Wild Montana Skies
| Higher Ground Album- A Country Girl In Paris
- All This Joy
- Bread and Roses
- Deal With the Ladies
- Falling Leaves (the Refugees)
- For You
- Healing time
- Higher Ground
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- Never A Doubt
- Sing Australia
- Whispering Jesse
| I Want To Live Album- Bet On The Blues
- Dearest Esmeralda
- Druthers
- How Can I Leave You Again
- It Amazes Me
- I Want To Live
- Singing Skies and Dancing Waters
- Thirsty Boots
- To the Wild Country
- Tradewinds
| John Denver Album- Berkeley Woman
- Downhill Stuff
- Garden Song
- I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)
- Johnny B. Goode
- Joseph & Joe
- Life Is So Good
- Mr Bojangles
- Sail Away Home
- Songs Of....
- Southwind
- Sweet Melinda
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Tremble If You Must
| John Denver Collection Album- Alaska and Me
- All This Joy
- Amazon (Let This Be A Voice)
- American Child
- Ancient Rhymes
- A Country Girl In Paris
- A Little Further North
- Bread and Roses
- Calypso
- Chained To The Wheel
- Children of the Universe
- Deal With the Ladies
- Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)
- Eclipse
- Falling Leaves (the Refugees)
- For You
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- High, Wide and Handsome
- Higher Ground
- Hold On To Me
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- In A Far Away Land
- Islands
- I Want To Live
- I Watch You Sleeping
- Never A Doubt
- Ponies
- Postcard From Paris
- Rocky Mountain High
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Sing Australia
- Stonehaven Sunset
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Tenderly Calling
- Thanks To You
- The Chosen Ones
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
- The Foxfire Suite
- The Gift You Are
- The Marvelous Toy
- To the Wild Country
- Two Different Directions
- Whispering Jesse
- Windsong
| Live At The Sydney Opera House Album- Back Home Again
- Calypso
- Fly Away
- Grandma’s Feather Bed
- I Want To Live
- Looking for Space
- Me & My Uncle
- Moreton Bay
- Rocky Mountain High
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- Today
| One World Album- Flying For Me
- Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart
- I Remember You
- Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)
- Love Again
- Love Is the Master
- One World
- True Love Takes Time
| Poems Prayers And Promises Album- Poems Prayers And Promises
- Let It Be
- My Sweet Lady
- Wooden Indian
- Junk
- Gospel Changes
- Take Me Home Country Roads
- Around and Around
- Fire and Rain
- Box
| Portrait Album- African Sunrise
- All My Memories
- A Wild Heart Looking for Home
- Back Home Again
- Druthers
- Falling Out of Love
- Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
- Heart to Heart
- In My Heart
- It Amazes Me
- Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)
- Looking for Space
- Love Is the Master
- On the Wings of a Dream
- Relatively Speaking
- Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
- Season Suite:(Summer / Fall / Winter / Spring)
- Spirit
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- The Wings That Fly Us Home
- To the Wild Country
- What One Man Can Do
- World Game
- Wrangle Mountain Song
| Reflections-Songs Of Love & Li Album- Autograph
- Calypso
- Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes
- Daydream
- Dearest Esmeralda
- Fire and Rain
- For Baby (For Bobbie)
- Goodbye Again
- How Can I Leave You Again
- Isabel
- Let It Be
- Molly
- My Sweet Lady
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
| Rocky Mountain Christmas Album- Silent Night, Holy Night
- Oh Holy Night
- Coventry Carol
- What Child Is this
- Away In The Manger
- Silver Bells
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
- White Christmas
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire )
- The Music Is You
- Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
- Perhaps Love
- Jingle Bells
- Dreamland Express
- Christmas For Cowboys
- A Baby Just Like You
- Aspenglow
| Rocky Mountain Collection Album- Friends With You
- Windsong
- Wild Montana Skies
- Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Sweet Surrender
- Starwood In Aspen
- Shanghai Breezes
- Seasons of the Heart
- Thirsty Boots
- Thank God I’m A Country Boy
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- This Old Guitar
- Rocky Mountain High
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Perhaps Love
- My Sweet Lady
- Love Again
- Looking for Space
- Like A Sad Song
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- It Amazes Me
- I Want To Live
- How Can I Leave You Again
- Goodbye Again
- Follow Me
- Flying For Me
- Fly Away
- Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
- Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes
- Calypso
- Back Home Again
- Autograph
- Aspenglow
| Rocky Mountain High Album- Darcy Farrow
- For Baby (For Bobbie)
- Goodbye Again
- Late Winter, Early Spring (When Everyone Goes To Mexico)
- Paradise
- Prisoners
- Rocky Mountain High
- Season Suite:(Summer / Fall / Winter / Spring)
- Summer
| Rocky Mountain High-Very Best Album- American Child
- Calypso
- For You
- I Want To Live
- I Watch You Sleeping
- Ponies
- Rocky Mountain High
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- The Chosen Ones
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- The Flower That Shattered the Stone
- The Foxfire Suite
- To the Wild Country
- Whispering Jesse
| Seasons Of The Heart Album- Children of the Universe
- Dreams
- Heart to Heart
- Islands
- Nothing But A Breeze
- Opposite Tables
- Perhaps Love
- Relatively Speaking
- Seasons of the Heart
- Shanghai Breezes
- What One Man Can Do
| Some Days Are Diamonds Album- Boy from the Country
- Country Love
- Easy, On Easy Street
- Gravel On The Road
- San Francisco Mabel Joy
- Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- Till You Opened My Eyes
- Wild Flowers In A Mason Jar (The Farm)
| Spirit Album- Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight
- Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes
- Eleanor Rigby
- Golden Slumbers
- Hitchhiker
- In The Grand Way
- It Makes Me Giggle
- Like A Sad Song
- Old Folks
- Pegasus
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- San Antonio Rose
- Sweet Sweet Life
- The Game Is Over
- The Wings That Fly Us Home
- Whose Garden Was This?
- Wrangle Mountain Song
| Sunshine On My Shoulder Album- Amazon (Let This Be A Voice)
- Ancient Rhymes
- Children of the Universe
- Deal With the Ladies
- Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)
- Eclipse
- Falling Leaves (the Refugees)
- Islands
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Tenderly Calling
| Take Me Home Country Roads Album- For You
- High, Wide and Handsome
- Hold On To Me
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- I Watch You Sleeping
- Never A Doubt
- Ponies
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- The Eagle and the Hawk
- Whispering Jesse
| Take Me Home Country Roads & O Album- Follow Me
- Goodbye Again
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Rocky Mountain High
- Starwood In Aspen
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
| The Wildlife Concert Album- Amazon (Let This Be A Voice)
- A Song For All Lovers
- Back Home Again
- Bet On The Blues
- Calypso
- Country Roads
- Darcy Farrow
- Dreamland Express
- Falling Out of Love
- Fly Away
- For You
- Goodbye Again
- Is It Love
- Leaving On A Jet Plane
- Matthew
- Me & My Uncle
- Poems, Prayers and Promises
- Rhymes and Reasons
- Rocky Mountain High
- Shanghai Breezes
- Sunshine On My Shoulders
- The Harder They Fall
- This Old Guitar
- Whispering Jesse
- Wild Montana Skies
- You Say (That) The Battle Is Over
| Windsong Album- Calypso
- Fly Away
- Late Night Radio
- Looking for Space
- Love Is Everywhere
- Shipmates and Cheyenne
- Song of Wyoming
- Spirit
- Two Shots
- Windsong
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In a career that has spanned more than two decades, John Denver earned international acclaim as a songwriter, performer, actor and humanitarian. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. began his career in the 1960s as an aspiring folk musician in the clubs of Los Angeles. The son of a U.S. Air Force officer, John took his performing name from the premier Rocky Mountain city in the state where he eventually made his home.
Denver's first major break came when he was chosen from 250 other hopefuls as lead singer for the popular Mitchell Trio, with whom he sang for two years. His songwriting skills were noted when Peter, Paul and Mary recorded his "Leaving On A Jet Plane," which became their first Number One hit.
Less than two years later, Denver was himself zooming up the Pop charts with "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine On My Shoulders," "Annie's Song," "Back Home Again," "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," "Calypso" and more, solidifying his position as one of the top stars of the decade. Many of his songs tapped into the growing appreciation and concern for the environment, which has continued as a matter of major importance for Denver and for us all.
Denver's popularity since the early 1970s may be measured in record sales that few other artists have achieved, including 14 gold albums and 8 platinum albums in the U.S. alone. He has had many gold and platinum sales overseas as well, in countries including Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. John Denver is one of the top five recording artists in the sales history of the music industry.
Denver's concert tours reached millions globally, from the U.S. and Canada throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the Orient and the United Kingdom... his travels crossing ideological lines, as well. In 1984, he was invited by the Soviet Union of Composers to perform in their country. The success of that visit led to a concert tour of the U.S.S.R. in 1985. These were the first performances by an American artist since the suspension, at that time, of cultural exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union. He returned to the U.S.S.R. in 1987 to do a benefit concert for the victims of Chernobyl. Denver was the first artist from the West to do a multi-city tour of mainland China, in October 1992. He was pleased and somewhat astonished to discover how popular and well-known his songs were with the Chinese. "Country Roads," he was told, "is the most famous song written in the West."
"My music and all my work stem from the conviction that people everywhere are intrinsically the same," Denver said in a 1995 interview. "When I write a song, I want to take the personal experience or observation that inspired it and express it in as universal a way as possible. I'm a global citizen. I've created that for myself, and I don't want to step away from it. I want to work in whatever I do - my music, my writing, my performing, my commitments, my home and personal life - in a way that is directed towards a world in balance, a world that creates a better quality of life for all people."
This, among other dedications, led to the establishment of the Windstar Foundation, a non-profit environmental education and research center co-founded by Denver in 1976 that works toward a sustainable future for the world.
Not just a fine performer, Denver's music clearly reflects the conscience of a concerned citizen, a man working for the improvement of the quality of life for all peoples - environmentally, socially and politically.
"One of the great things about my success is that it's given greater visibility to what I'm doing, and what I've continued to do throughout my career, about the things which are so important to me: the environment and the sense of global community which we're moving closer and closer to, whether we recognize it or not," Denver said in the same interview.
He served as a member of the Presidential Commission on World and Domestic Hunger. He was one of the five founders of The Hunger Project, and, as part of both that commitment and to UNICEF as well, he was a member of the fact-finding delegation which toured African countries devastated by drought and starvation. Denver was awarded the Presidential "World Without Hunger" Award; he supported the National Wildlife Federation, Save the Children, the Cousteau Society, Friends of the Earth and the Human/Dolphin Foundation, to name just a few.
Denver created "Plant-It 2000," a plan that urges people all over the world to plant as many trees as possible by the year 2000. This reforestation project aimed at encouraging citizens everywhere to recognize the necessity of replenishing what the world has wantonly destroyed. "Plant-It 2000" met with instant response from people everywhere in all walks of life, including major foundations, businesses and institutions. Nearly 100,000 trees have been planted in its first year of operation.
Denver's enthusiasm for the environment musically came to life with The WildLife Concert. In 1995, Denver performed this multi-media event (TV special, album, home video, international tour) in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The WCS, headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, is one of the largest conservation organizations in the world. Denver served on its Board of Advisors.
"They're doing more hands-on work in protecting species and habitats than any single organization in the world," Denver explained. "But few people know about the Society and the incredibly good work that they do. Helping to produce this concert marks the first time that they've gone public in this way, and it was truly thrilling for me to have them as a sponsor."
Denver's numerous tributes and awards include acknowledgements as the Number One recording artist in the U.S., Favorite Music Performer, People's Choice Awards, AGVA Singing Star of the Year, Yamaha Music Award and recognition from many governments for his concert about global hunger problems. In the summer of 1993, Denver was the recipient of the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Music Award, given to him "For a life's work dedicated to music and devoted to humanity." It was the first time a non-classical music artist had been so honored.
Denver's movie debut in "Oh God!" (with George Burns) was a solid hit, as were his TV roles that included starring in "Foxfire" with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. He also starred and guest starred in many TV specials - with such notable artists as Itzhak Perlman, Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Julie Andrews and the beloved frog, Kermit. Indeed, Denver's Christmas special "John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together," is considered a classic. In 1993, Denver completed his first movie since "Oh, God!" called "Walking Thunder," it stars him as he most likes to be - in country clothes, under an open sky.
Many people know of Denver's two passions: flying and outer space. He has flown Air Force F-15 fighters and the Space Shuttle simulator. NASA awarded him its public service medal for helping "increase awareness of space exploration by the people of the world."
A fine photographer as well, Denver photographed people and places all over the world and showed his photos professionally, often in connection with speeches made at colleges, universities and government and business facilities across the country.
Denver immensely enjoyed the out-of-doors - backpacking, hiking and climbing. He loved to fish and was found with a rod and reel as often as a guitar, turning up every so often on fishing programs on TV. An avid golfer, Denver was a yearly guest at the Bob Hope Celebrity Classic and hosted his own annual Pro-Am Celebrity Golf Tournament in Tucson every January.
There is not much that Denver has not achieved. One of the world's best known and best-loved performers, he is a master communicator who can reach audiences regardless of geography, economics, politics and language. He was the true international figure dedicated to world peace and the elimination of hunger. Denver knew better than most that his gifts were gifts indeed. "Music does bring people together; it allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same."
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