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Does anybody remember John Denver?

Posted on 01/13/2018 9:46:22 AM PST by SamAdams76

Most likely people under age 40 have no idea who John Denver was. He had a string of pop hits. Then he died in a airplane crash in some sort of experimental plane? He might have been a goofy granola-eating liberal but he did write some pretty good songs in the "folk-rock" style back in the 1970s.

His first big success was writing a song called "Leaving On A Jet Plane" which was a big hit for Peter, Paul & Mary, another group of granola eating liberals.

His real life name was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.

Yikes, that's a mouthful.

I remember him in a movie with George Burns. I think it was called "Oh God" or something like that. Back in the late 1970s. Not a bad film.

It's just weird that he dropped off the face of the earth. Nobody remembers him.

"Annie's Song" is my favorite song from him. I remember hearing that song on the radio the day that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. I will always associate that song with Richard Nixon resigning.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: blatanthypocrite; deutschendorf; druggie; drunk; farout; hypocrite; johndenver; ranoutofgas; vanity
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To: SamAdams76

It was a kit or experimental plane, if memory serves.


61 posted on 01/13/2018 10:17:01 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: SamAdams76

That looks like a glider.


62 posted on 01/13/2018 10:17:59 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: rednek

Lucky you!
Was he as humble as he appeared?


63 posted on 01/13/2018 10:18:38 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: SamAdams76
Same photo shoot.


64 posted on 01/13/2018 10:18:47 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

I sure remember him. He had a lot of great hits.

“Rocky mountain high” probably his biggest. Love the transcendent, almost spiritual lyrics. “I was born in the summer of my 27th year, going home to a place I’d never been before”

It became the anthem of the environmentalists.

I also like “Sweet Surrender” and “Annie’s song”.

A great poet, composer and singer.


65 posted on 01/13/2018 10:18:54 AM PST by aquila48
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To: SamAdams76

Denver wrote about the Rocky Mountains and he was an alleged conservationist, self proclaimed. Following one of the gas shortages, Denver had his own private gas station built on his property.

He was a blatant hypocrite.


66 posted on 01/13/2018 10:19:22 AM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: SamAdams76
John Denver receiving Country Music Entertainer of the Year Award (bad video but still watchable):

Charlie Rich Presenting

67 posted on 01/13/2018 10:19:37 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Charlie Rich did not appear to think very highly of John Denver.


68 posted on 01/13/2018 10:20:13 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Keyhopper

He was just “plain people”. Very nice, polite and a most gracious guest. He pretty much became one of the family at my aunts house....red


69 posted on 01/13/2018 10:23:46 AM PST by rednek (.45 acp........a lot like 9mm.......except for adults.)
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To: SamAdams76
Way back when I was in undergraduate school, John Denver was going to give a concert nearby, in DC, I think. I wanted to go, but was so busy with a heavy class load, and the tickets were a bit pricy for us anyway, that I decided to wait for another concert.

He died before the opportunity to see him live ever arose. I was in graduate school at the time.

I love his music; one song that no one has mentioned is his rendition of Today.

70 posted on 01/13/2018 10:24:17 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Jim 0216
There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My ex-wife loves him.

In college, it was James Taylor. My friends devised a rule - when trying to pick-up a girl, always act like you love James Taylor

71 posted on 01/13/2018 10:25:33 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SamAdams76

I had the pleasure of attending two of his concerts. One of my all time favorite musicians.


72 posted on 01/13/2018 10:28:57 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

My favorite is, “Back Home Again”.


73 posted on 01/13/2018 10:29:04 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: PGR88

What makes that clip from “What About Bob?” so funny is I remember in the 70’s hearing people actually talking about Neil Diamond being the grounds for divorce. I thought I was in some kind of alternate universe.


74 posted on 01/13/2018 10:29:10 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Radix

You’re a moron. he was an environmentalist... not a Luddite. He wasn’t 10% of the radical that modern “environmentalists” are. He was very capitalist.


75 posted on 01/13/2018 10:29:35 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SamAdams76

When I was a kid in the 70s, I went to church with his parents. He came to our church a couple of times a sang.


76 posted on 01/13/2018 10:32:18 AM PST by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: VermithraxPejorative

He died in a plane crash.
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It was his own ultralight. He was doing what he loved to do, but he died too young. He was a talented musician and song writer with a unique, free spirited, uplifting style. I agree his songs do not seem to get a lot of play time. Too bad.


77 posted on 01/13/2018 10:32:58 AM PST by iontheball
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To: SamAdams76
I lived in Denver during “Rocky Mountain High€. It's all that played 24/7 on the radio. He was great at his gift of music, but he became the most touchy feely liberal puke on the planet. Used to mow his lawn naked with a push mower to get in touch with nature. Drew all the other “Striesand” type liberals up to Aspen. And ran out all the locals who couldn't afford the new property taxes with “Star” mansions being built all over the place. Of course the elites needed to fly in and out in planes and helicopters etc. Maybe that's just progress. But he was just as bankrupt on his liberal thinking as the rest. He touted the natural beauty of Aspen in his songs, but in reality, his fame and fortune brought “more sorrows upon the land.”
78 posted on 01/13/2018 10:35:34 AM PST by 3ZZZ
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To: Reily

Song was written by Bill and Kathy Danoff who lived in DC at the time, and should have looked a map... cause they was close. Hats off to WV-ians— they are tough resourceful people who have been put through a lot, courtesy of John. D. Rockefeller. Have this tune from some friends up that way- haven’t seen in a long time— The Gandydancer Band— this isn’t them but a good version “Boozefighters” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q-6vYabid4


79 posted on 01/13/2018 10:39:38 AM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: SamAdams76

That’s a glider


80 posted on 01/13/2018 10:39:43 AM PST by DownInFlames
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