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John Denver: John Denver's Greatest Hits

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Label: RCA Records
Released: 1973.11.01
Time:
 39:36
Category: Folk, Country
Producer(s): Milton Okun
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.johndenver.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Take Me Home, Country Roads (B.Danoff/T.Nivert/J.Denver) - 3:08
[2] Follow Me (J.Denver) - 2:56
[3] Starwood in Aspen (J.Denver) - 3:10
[4] For Baby [for Bobbie] (J.Denver) - 2:58
[5] Rhymes and Reasons (J.Denver) - 3:11
[6] Leaving on a Jet Plane (J.Denver) - 4:00
[7] The Eagle and the Hawk (J.Denver/Mike Tylor) - 2:10
[8] Sunshine on My Shoulders (J.Denver/D.Kniss/M.Taylor) - 5:10
[9] Goodbye Again (J.Denver) - 3:36
[10] Poems, Prayers and Promises (J.Denver) - 4:34
[11] Rocky Mountain High (J.Denver/M.Taylor) - 4:43

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John Denver - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Steve Weisberg - Guitars
Dick Kniss - Bass
Frank Owens - Piano
Herb Lovelle - Drums
Gary Chester - Percussion

Milton Okun - Producer
Kris O'Connor - Asisstant Producer
Ray Hall - Engineer

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2003 CD RCA 0 7863-50374-1



Released in 1973, Greatest Hits only sums up a handful of years of hitmaking for John Denver, but what years those were. Between 1971 and 1973, Denver actually didn't have that many hits, but they were songs that defined him -- "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Sunshine on My Shoulders." Those three songs, along with "Leaving on a Jet Plane" -- which he wrote but Peter, Paul & Mary made into a standard -- are all here, along with seven other early songs recorded between 1969 and 1973 that may not be familiar to the average casual fan, but all capture Denver's warm folk-pop at its best. There may be more hits on Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, but this collection is every bit as engaging as that record.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - AllMusic.com



John Denver's Greatest Hits was American singer-songwriter John Denver's first compilation album, released in late 1973 for the holiday shopping season. A version known as The Best of John Denver with the same tracklisting was released in some countries. The collection included material from his earlier days as a songwriter (going back to 1965 on "For Bobbie") to his later hit "Rocky Mountain High". Indeed many of these tracks were not hits per se, but as Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for Allmusic, "the[se] were [the] songs that defined him." Moreover, Greatest Hits is important historically because it contained new, revisionist recordings of several songs. Notable new versions included "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Starwood in Aspen", "Follow Me", "Rhymes and Reasons", "The Eagle and the Hawk", "Sunshine On My Shoulders" and "Poems, Prayers, and Promises". Denver explained this himself in the liner notes by saying that he had picked the numbers most requested in his concerts, but that "I felt that some of these songs had grown a bit, that I am singing better than I was four or five years ago, and that I would like to treat some of the songs a little differently than I had in the original recordings." After its release these versions were used for airplay despite differing in subtle but important ways from the original versions; generally, they were more polished, featured a more mature-sounding Denver, included strings, and were extended somewhat. Within a few months of its release, Greatest Hits climbed to the top of the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, went platinum, and was one of the first albums world-wide to sell over 10 million copies. Overall it is easily the best-selling album of his career in the United States, being certified 9-times platinum by the RIAA.

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