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John Denver
Solo artist Roswell United States
John Denver is an artist from Roswell. John Denver has 19 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #29. The station that charted John Denver most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 6 appearances.
John Denver, born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. in Roswell in 1943, sang like the cleanest mountain air you ever breathed, and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", from 1971, is where the whole country took a deep lungful. He built his sound on an acoustic guitar and a clear voice that went back to his days in the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, and wrote most of what he sang: songs about the joy of the outdoors, his distaste for the city, love and music itself.
It made him one of the best-selling acts of the '70s, with "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie's Song", "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" crossing freely between country, pop and adult contemporary. In 1975 the Country Music Association named him Entertainer of the Year, and he took home a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. He hosted the pilot of The Midnight Special in 1972 and starred opposite George Burns in Oh, God! in 1977.
Colorado claimed him for good. He lived in Aspen, was named the state's poet laureate in 1974, and in 2007 the legislature made "Rocky Mountain High" a state song; West Virginia did the same for "Country Roads" in 2014. A keen pilot, Denver died in 1997 when the light plane he was flying crashed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by John Denver on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take Me Home, Country Roads | 9 | #29 | – | – | |
| 2 | Rocky Mountain High | 8 | #17 | – | – | |
| 3 | Country Roads | 1 | #381 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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