As the son of an Air Force officer, Denver was constantly moved from state to state and country to country. It was in Tucson, Arizona, that his grandmother gave him his first acoustic guitar, a gift that would prove an icebreaker when meeting other students at the many new schools in which he was placed...See full bio »
1995John Denver: The Wildlife Concert
(TV documentary)
(writer: "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Back Home Again", "A Song for All Lovers", "Rocky Mountain High", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy", "For You", "I'm Sorry", "Fly Away", "Shanghai Breezes", "Annie's Song", "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Wild Montana Skies", "Poems, Prayers, & Promises", "Calypso", "Leaving on a Jet Plane/Goodbye Again" / music: "Eagles and Horses" / lyrics: "Eagles and Horses" / performer: "Eagles and Horses", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Back Home Again", "You Say the Battle Is Over", "A Song for All Lovers", "Rocky Mountain High", "I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy", "For You", "I'm Sorry", "Fly Away", "Two Different Directions", "Shanghai Breezes", "Annie's Song", "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Wild Montana Skies", "Darcy Farrow", "Poems, Prayers, & Promises", "The Harder They Fall", "Bet On the Blues", "Falling Out of Love", "Calypso", "Amazon", "Leaving on a Jet Plane/Goodbye Again")
1979John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together
(TV movie)
(writer: "A Baby Just Like You", "Alfie: The Christmas Tree" / performer: "The Twelve Days Of Christmas", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "The Peace Carol", "A Baby Just Like You", "When The River Meets The Sea", "Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913", "Alfie: The Christmas Tree", "It's In Every One Of Us", "Silent Night/Stille Nacht", "We Wish You A Merry Christmas")
1973Sunshine
(TV movie)
(music: "My Sweet Lady", "Day Dreams", "Goodbye Again", "Poems, Prayers And Promises", "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Winter" / lyrics: "My Sweet Lady", "Day Dreams", "Goodbye Again", "Poems, Prayers And Promises", "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Winter" / "Take Me Home, Country Roads")
[on composing for
The Bears and I] Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. They just asked me to write something expressing the story about a guy who's back from Vietnam and sorta lost, who goes to an Indian village in the Northwest.
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Trivia:
His final concert was in Corpus Christi, Texas, a week prior to his tragic accident.
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