TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS!
To hear Country Roads and John's story of how it came to be start at 49:00
I wondered which song to start with. Do I cover one I do know? Do I research and then choose. Like most things John Denver, the answer came to me as I was listening to one of the recordings of his songs.
I had heard that Tim Danoff and Taffy Nivert had actually written part of the song as they were traveling. It was in a You Tube interview where Taffy Nivert shared that they were no where near West Virginia, but on a beautiful country road lined with trees and quaint farm houses. The partial song sat for about six months....until one night after a concert that they shared with John, they went back to Danoff's house and were just hanging around. Danoff pulled out and played what they had several times and everyone started to throw lines around. By 7:00 a.m. they had a song, that they thought sounded pretty good. God, I've done projects like that and well, you know how they can look. The day after it all, they decided to go to New York and record what they had. It became number one on the top hits list. We've all been singing it ever since!
https://youtu.be/JG5WKUcO69M This was recorded at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, September 1, 1971
My thanks to
To hear Country Roads and John's story of how it came to be start at 49:00
I wondered which song to start with. Do I cover one I do know? Do I research and then choose. Like most things John Denver, the answer came to me as I was listening to one of the recordings of his songs.
I had heard that Tim Danoff and Taffy Nivert had actually written part of the song as they were traveling. It was in a You Tube interview where Taffy Nivert shared that they were no where near West Virginia, but on a beautiful country road lined with trees and quaint farm houses. The partial song sat for about six months....until one night after a concert that they shared with John, they went back to Danoff's house and were just hanging around. Danoff pulled out and played what they had several times and everyone started to throw lines around. By 7:00 a.m. they had a song, that they thought sounded pretty good. God, I've done projects like that and well, you know how they can look. The day after it all, they decided to go to New York and record what they had. It became number one on the top hits list. We've all been singing it ever since!
https://youtu.be/JG5WKUcO69M This was recorded at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, September 1, 1971
My thanks to
Take's Live Roots Music Channel
for sharing this video and allowing me to share it on my blog.
~~Marie
~~Marie
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