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In the 1980s, the song prompted litigation involving the British group New Order. The band's single "Run 2" (1989) was the subject of a lawsuit brought by Denver, who argued that its wordless guitar break was based on his "Leaving on a Jet Plane". The case was settled out of court, and Denver subsequently received a co-writer credit for the ...
Denver's then producer Milt Okun convinced him to change the title and it was renamed "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in 1967. After the success of the Peter, Paul and Mary version in 1969, Denver recorded the song again for his debut album, Rhymes & Reasons, and it was released as a single in October 1969. Although it is one of Denver's best known ...
Album 1700 is the seventh studio album by American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1967. [2] It produced the band's most successful and final hit, a recording of the John Denver song "Leaving on a Jet Plane".
Denver also wrote a number of songs that were covered by the group, such as his hits "For Bobbi", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", as well as "Deal with The Ladies" (later recorded on his 1988 album, Higher Ground) and "Stay With Me". The group Denver, Boise, and Johnson, which had evolved from The Chad Mitchell Trio, released a single before he moved ...
The song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was also on a trailer for The Terminal, and on TV spots for The Prince and Me and De-Lovely. In 1999, Kreviazuk recorded a cover of the Randy Newman ballad "Feels Like Home" for the Dawson's Creek soundtrack, as well as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
Pages in category "Songs written by John Denver" ... I'm Sorry (John Denver song) It Doesn't Matter (song) L. Leaving on a Jet Plane; Like a Sad Song; Lonely Road (song)
"Day Is Done" was written by Peter Yarrow in 1968, and it was the last single that Peter, Paul and Mary recorded together as a group (the trio's version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane", released as a single in 1969, appeared on their Album 1700, released in 1967). [3] The song was written as an anti-war song during the Vietnam War era. [4]
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