@tubetardism 20/20 Mathematics is Music and Music is Mathematics.

@tubetardism 20/20 I can definitely understand where Jimi is coming from and why he would have that opinion. It is an amazingly beautiful song.

@tubetardism 20/20: So u'r arguing with me bcoz I used the word "arguably"? Thanks for proving my point.

I would say this and Simon and Garfunkle's "For Emily" are breathtakingly beautiful

listen to "If I Had The World To Give" by the Grateful Dead. lyrically, it's my top choice.

I read his autobiography too. It was excellent. Miss him.

@@scm021374 I will have to check that out.

@Cindy Robison I didn’t know the backstory to this song, thanks 👍

True!

His music was SO beautiful and romantic. I'm not sure the same was true of him...Annie was only his first love, not his only one.

He wrote this song on a ski lift in ten minutes after he and Annie had a fight.

That's exactly what I read and heard John Denver describe the genesis of the song.

I agree.

Yes it was written after argument about his infidelities during their relationship ...this song was one way he apologized

@@grouchyoleguy A beautiful way to apologize.

Thanks, your really appreciated. Some of us older folks,dont have the technical knowledge or funds to be able to find or listen to these old songs that helped form our lifetimes😊

Well said.

Any John Denver song will touch you.

🖤🖤🖤🖤

Yes!!!

I love that!

Dead Truck Ressurection Yes! He did that at a small concert he gave at our local college. It was amazing❤️❤️❤️

That's awesome, dude. It's amazing how we lock into those songs that were percolating when we were going through our own lives. I was never a big Denver fan, but his music is etched positively in my memories. Simpler times for me. The world looked Big and Exciting.

Great comment

I also saw him in concert at the Capitol Centre.

Great story

This and "The Air That I Breathe" by The Hollies are my favorite "love songs" of all time. Other people will disagree, but that doesn't make me want to change my mind

Yes!! Jamel is a sweet soul, isn’t he?? I think he’s wonderful!!

Jennifer, I was going to comment but you said everything perfectly💜

Jennifer thank you for speaking what I also feel about Jamal. Its hard to find today's artists that appreciate the past music.

Here, here! 👏👏👏👏

Me too! I love to watch your videos! Your reaction to all these old songs from amazingly talented artists is priceless!

His voice was clear like water.

I thought that too..❤

His voice certainly was.

He was/is an Angel.

He will be treasured for generations not yet born

Here goes,john had fight with wife at ski resort.went for walk and wrote song,brought it back to wife and rest 😊is history.

YES... His yodeling is off the charts!

@@bearballin This is my favorite live version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrGqnteCzZzbpqM.html

I also love his vocals on The Eagle and the Hawk.

He wrote that about Jacques Cousteau who was a famous underwater explorer and his ship was named “Calypso.” Great tribute to another extraordinary man.

The Eagle and the Hawk is my all time fav JD song, but I love so many of his others.

Poems, Prayers & Promises ❤❤❤

Like Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Croce, in leagues of their own.

@@sprint6000 Yes and Calypso.

My favorite lyrics of all time "Dark and dusty painted on the sky misty taste of moonshine teardrop in my eye"

I feel the same way when I hear 'Sunshine on my shoulder' I heard it as a young child

Those are my 2 most favorite songs of his btw

Perfect comment. When ever I listen to John Denver it makes me remember how much my mother loved his music and gives me a warm feeling.

Same❤️❤️

Any Orioles fan has a soft spot for Thank God I'm a Country Boy

I always admired John Denver's talent. He was real. I love rock, folk, metal, old school rap ( Run DMC, Digital Underground, Beastie Boys and the like. The new music is not of liking. I would listen to something from Motorhead and then listen to a John Denver tune Good music is good music.

I was 17 also

I was a rocker to, but I always loved John Denver's pure sound.

He was his own “genre”.

His pure love for nature was contagious.

"Rocky Mountain High". BEAUTIFUL song!!!

It does the same to me...

That’s his 27th year , not 22nd.

@@FolkFaninMA Dang, I should know that. Thanks!

Seals and Crofts

Carole King, please!!* Your choice- anything (or the whole gorgeous album) Thankyou for making our days BETTER!!*

...and Jim Croce and Gordon Lightfoot also.

Don’t forget the Carpenters (Karen Carpenter)😊

Was this in Brisbane? I saw him walking around Brisbane in about 1988. I wanted to say hello but didn't feel right intruding on his privacy.

@@scattysafari7742 Nah, keep going further up North and it was way back in 79' or 80.

I also grew up in the Tropics during this era, Ayr at the time, my father was a fan. He asked his workmates, “What does John Denver have that I don’t have?”, they all said. “Bloody Good Looks!”. Ha ha ha!!!

How cool! What a great memory that is for them :)

My mother saw him play in Gunnison, CO in like 71. He played for 3 hours to a high school gym full of people. I grew up on John. He's a unique and beautiful voice.

❤😢

I mist up too. We hear the beauty in this and it touches us.

Such a beautiful song and voice . and you can't even hear his Texas accent .

I hear you, Aliensin.

I feel that way too. Went down in a plane he made himself. RIP John. And glad we are still enjoying his music.

Yea I'm also a metal head and my friends give me shit for listening to old folk rock like John Denver. I had older brother and sisters that grew up in the 60's and 70's so a lot of their influence that I'm grateful for .

Yes there is a God and he blessed John Denver.

Odd you say "Touched by God"...reminds me he was in the movie Oh God with George Burns.

He played in a movie called Oh God. Can't rwmember who the orher actor was. Id lime too say Geeorge Burns IDK. ALL I KNOW IS I LOVED THIS VIDEO.

@@gracechapman3412 Yes George Burns played God. Great movie.

I comepletly agree with u. He had heart. And I. still believe in in a higher power. Whatwver ir may be.. I've been so fourunate. Have everrything I need. Don't need much. Just the necessary things. God has blessed me. And I'm gratwful. Sorry TMII.

Jim Frederick now THATS A TRUE FACT!

...and John Prine!

So true!!

Yep! And Dan Fogelberg! Nether Lands. Oh so beautiful Nether Lands! I cry every time...

C Liles , I get teary eyed at his Run For The Roses.

Gee It's Good to be Back Home Again.

Oh yes...Sunshine, and Rocky Mountain High.

YES. Listened when I was an ex pat too.

I think you mean Vietnam in the 70s.

Take Me Home Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff and his wife Taffy Nivert. They were inspired while they were driving along Clopper Rd. to visit family in Gaithersburg, Maryland. They'd been tweaking the lyrics and Melody for about a month when John Denver heard it while visiting their apartment on December 29, 1970. They were planning on selling recording rights to Johnny Cash until John Denver intervened. The three of them stayed up until 6:00 a.m. the next morning to finish writing it. The day after they finished writing the song was John Denver's 28th birthday.

@@Robconnors7253 No, he's talking about being stationed in Korea during the 90s. I was there in the 80s, 83-84, 86-90. We still have military bases there to this day.

@@mikesands4681 No, he's talking about being stationed in Korea during the 90s. I was there in the 80s, 83-84, 86-90. We still have military bases there to this day.

That's awesome, congrats!

I am jealous. After these hard times - which shut my partner down - I hope to get to this

Michael OShea What you wrote is the most beautiful thing...and that you still dance to it...made me cry

That is so precious!

Very popular at weddings in the 70s, along with We've Only Just Begun and Close to You.

Amen ✌️

Pretty sure he was a twice divorced philanderer and heavy alcoholic and pill popper who routinely was in trouble for flying and driving under the influence, both crashing a plane and car. His marriage to Annie ended in divorce after he tried choking her and taking a chainsaw to the furniture.

@@chrissmith6814 most addicts have pure souls. The addiction makes them do things far out of their normal character. If you knew anything about John Denver's life, you would know he suffered from deep feelings of inadequacy and feeling unloved by his own, deeply religious father, who all but disowned him when he decided to go into music instead of becoming a preacher. His father never once told John he loved him, was proud of him, or made him ever feel good enough, despite all his success. The alcoholism and other addictions were attempts to fill the holes in his psyche, punched in their by his own parents. Still, at his core, John Denver was a good, pure soul. Not perfect, but good. Try beciming America's hometown boy, but feeling like a fraud, and see where that leaves you. Some of our greatest heroes, thinkers, poets, writers, and musicians were the most imperfect people, yet had pure hearts, and only wanted to do good. The bulk of our most creative people have some form of mental illness or addiction problems. It's almost as if those things go hand-in-hand. Like the problems feed the creativity. 🤔

@@babyrocasmama thank you for your insight, however, it does not make my statements any less true, it just shifts the blame and responsibility of his actions to those of substance abuse and his father. Ironically, Adolf Hitler had a substance abuse problem, nasty father, and was also an artist, does that make the Holocaust his fault or his substance abuse and father's fault? Regardless "America's hometown boy" still choked out his wife.

@@chrissmith6814 I thought that he was a Texan army brat who was horribly beaten by his alcoholic father most of his youth...

Kevin Minne thats a great idea

not silly at all. John Denver makes me think of my pappa who tried to introduce us girls to country music in Michigan, where rock and motown was all the rage. I love putting on some John Denver and letting him take me back to those days...when nothing was more important to me than my pappa.

Not silly at all.

Zappa was there, too.

Steve G I loved John Denver

How could anyone ever think his music was indecent? I can't think of anyone who loved earth and nature as much and could make such beautiful music about it. I was lucky enough to go to one of his concerts. John Denver, you and your music are dearly missed.

Steve G Add Politician to the list.

Tipper and Al Gore: ALWAYS wet blankets, trying to ruin everyone's joy.

Grew up listening to him. Still get goosebumps listening to him. He is Golden and always will be in my eyes. Karen Carpenter was another wonderful singer that passed to soon.

DebAP - I had the SAME thoughts!!

Love Karen Carpenter. What a unique voice.

Wow...that is a really special thing to be able to say... Respect from Ireland.

He later divorced his wife. He wrote another song entitled 'Annie's other song".

Sadly I read he wrote this song after a terrible argument where she confronted him about his unfaithfulness. Just a heartbreakingly beautiful yet tragic song

He WAS gold, pure gold

That's what I thought too! Yes, he was golden.

Calypso is a great song.

So good

Didnt Peter, Paul and Mary write that?

@@sailor213100 John Denver wrote "Leaving On A Jet Plane", tho he originally titled it "Babe, I Hate To Go". Just about all of Peter Paul and Marys hits were written by others. From Bob Dylan to Gordon Lightfoot to John Denver, they were a great cover band.

Epic

@@Punnybone55 , But Peter Yarrow did write Puff the Magic Dragon. Well sort of.

He's actually in The Rocky Mountains. His ashes were scattered there.