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The popularity of the song inspired resolutions in the West Virginia Legislature to adopt "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as an official state song. On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make "Take Me Home, Country Roads" an official state song of West Virginia, alongside three other pieces: "West Virginia Hills ...
West Virginia Official state song: "The West Virginia Hills" Henry Everett Engle: Ellen Ruddell King: 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "This Is My West Virginia" Iris Bell: Iris Bell: 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home" Julian G. Hearne, Jr. Julian G. Hearne, Jr. 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "Take Me ...
"The West Virginia Hills" was written in 1879 as a poem inspired by the scenery surrounding the Glenville area and put to music in 1885 by Henry Everett Engle. [1] The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs on February 3, 1961.
West Virginia “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by late country singer John Denver, who was a prominent Democrat. The song—which mentions the state, the Blue Ridge Mountains, ...
This Is My West Virginia: Iris Bell: 1963 One of the four West Virginia state songs. [12] [13] West Virginia Fantasies: Chicago: 1970 West Virginia Gals: Al Hopkins: 1928 West Virginia Mine: Jackie DeShannon: 1970 West Virginia, My Home: Hazel Dickens: 1980 West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home: Julian G. Hearne, Jr. 1947 One of the four West ...
How a song from West Virginia ended up marketing tourism in Oklahoma. Tribune. Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. ... the Mountain State's flagship university was a getting-bigger ...
Eventually the song became the official song of the state of West Virginia. Recording Artist / Jamboree USA Performer Freddy Carr was contracted by the Tourist Development Division of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce to represent the state at numerous special banquets, concerts and sporting events throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The Southern state also went with a Nicks' hit when it picked this song, which was also famously the theme of then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 presidential campaign. Colorado ...