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"Take Me Home, Country Roads", or Country Roads, Take Me Home also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
John Denver wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music for "Rocky Mountain High", adopted by Colorado in 2007 as one of the state's two official state songs, [2] and co-wrote both lyrics and music for "Take Me Home, Country Roads", adopted by West Virginia in 2014 as one of four official state songs. [3]
Take Me Home, Country Roads: John Denver: 1971 Peaked at No. 2 in the United States. [6] Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. [7] One of the four West Virginia state songs. [8] Take Me Home, Country Roads; Fallout 76 Version: Copilot Music and Sound: 2018 Made for the game Fallout 76. Peaked at No. 21 on US Country Digital Songs ...
"Country Roads (Take Me Home)," the popular John Denver song has gone international, with NFL fans in Germany claiming the song as their own for the annual Munich game. From the countryside in ...
The group began as Fat City, a husband/wife duo of Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. [2]Danoff and Nivert co-wrote the song "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and then, with John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which became a hit single in 1971 and became an official song of West Virginia in 2014. [3]
President-elect Donald Trump complained on Friday that American flags would still be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter during Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
In 1970, while traveling along Clopper Road to Nivert's family reunion in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Danoff began writing a song that became "Take Me Home, Country Roads". [6] The couple planned to complete the song and sell it to Johnny Cash .
Poems, Prayers & Promises is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released on April 6, 1971 by RCA Records.The album was recorded in New York City, and produced by Milton Okun and Susan Ruskin.