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All Aboard! is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in August 1997. Denver died in a plane crash two months after its release. Denver died in a plane crash two months after its release.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
This page is a comprehensive discography of American folk musician John Denver.Denver had four number one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, all achieved between 1973 and 1975: "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Annie's Song", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "I'm Sorry".
Within a few months of release, Greatest Hits became Denver's first #1 on the Billboard 200 pop albums chart. It remains the best-selling album of his career in the United States, being certified 9× platinum by the RIAA. [5] The album was one of the first to sell over ten million copies worldwide.
All Aboard! (John Denver album) I. I Often Dream of Trains; R. Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad; T. Trans-Europe Express (album) El Tren Fantasma
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), [3] known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s and one of the best selling artists in that decade. [ 4 ]
The record reached the Billboard charts on September 20, 1945, at number ten, its only week on the chart. [4] It has been covered by other artists, including Petula Clark, Louis Jordan, Harry Connick Jr., Mandy Patinkin, The Four Freshmen, Henry Mancini, John Denver, and Rosemary Clooney with Harry James and His Orchestra.
Although it is one of John Denver's best-known songs, his single failed to chart. "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was re-recorded for the third and final time in 1973 for John Denver's Greatest Hits, the version that also appears on most of his compilation albums. A version by Chantal Kreviazuk reached No. 33 in Canada in 1998. [4]