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"Rocky Mountain High" is a folk rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor and is one of the two official state songs of Colorado. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Recorded by Denver in 1972, it is the title track of the 1972 album Rocky Mountain High , and rose to No. 9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973.
Rocky Mountain High is the sixth studio album released by American singer-songwriter John Denver in September 1972. It was his first US Top 10 album (no. 4), propelled by the title single, and in addition reached no. 11 in the UK and no. 1 in Canada. [3]
In 2007, the Colorado legislature named Rocky Mountain High as Colorado's second official state song, paired with Where the Columbines Grow. [ 5 ] In October 1978, Dave Beadles, then the music director for 740 KSSS in Colorado Springs , petitioned Governor Richard Lamm to temporarily change the state song for Country Music Month to Colorado ...
He is widely remembered as a performer and co-writer on John Denver's song "Rocky Mountain High". Early life. Taylor was born in Fayetteville, ...
Rocky Mountain High School was founded in 1973. Its student body was made up of sophomores and juniors originally from Fort Collins High School and Poudre High School. The campus was made of three separate buildings. In 1994 to 1995, the school's campus was redesigned to make one large building from the original three separate ones.
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) [ 3 ] in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of Western Canada , to New Mexico in the Southwestern United States .
The following is John Denver's comprehensive filmography, listed from the newest to the oldest, organized in tiers in accordance with the dates of recording or airing (in the television category).
Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in the U.S. State of Colorado.. This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed 14,000 feet (4267.2 meters) of elevation.