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"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in January 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled ...
Back Home Again is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in June 1974.. The multi-platinum album reached the top position on the Billboard 200 and contained the hit singles "Annie's Song" (#1 pop, No. 1 adult contemporary), and "Back Home Again" (#5 pop, No. 1 AC, No. 1 country).
"The Greasy Chip Butty Song" is a football chant sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of "Annie's Song", glorifying life in Sheffield, in chief the chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products.
Denver's first marriage, in 1967, was to Annie Martell of St. Peter, Minnesota. [48] She was the subject of his song "Annie's Song", which he composed in 10 minutes as he sat on a Colorado ski lift. [19] [49] They lived in Edina, Minnesota, from 1968 to 1971. [50]
Sia covered the song for the soundtrack for the 2014 film. [2] [3] The single charted in Australia, Belgium, UK and in Poland where it became an airplay hit—the song peaked at number 3 on the Polish Airplay Top 20 Chart and at number 2 on the Polish TV Airplay Chart.
Denver's manager, Milton Okun, was the album's music producer. Track listing. All tracks written by John Denver, except where noted. ... "Annie's Song" ...
"It's the Hard Knock Life" is a song from the musical Annie [1] with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. [2] [3] [4] The song is sung by the eponymous protagonist, together with her fellow orphan girls, and is about how the girls are treated by Miss Hannigan.
The Native American comedy group The 1491s used the song in one of their satirical videos posted on YouTube. [53] Directed and edited by Sterlin Harjo and starring Ryan Red Corn as "Hipster in a Headdress Mascot," the video plays with both the reality and the stereotypes of people who identify as Indian.