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"Back Home Again" peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [2] in November of that year; it was Denver's fifth Top 10 hit on the pop chart. "Back Home Again" topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The single was the first of three number ones on the country music chart where it stayed for a single week. [3]
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).
Since 1946, the chorus of "Back Home Again in Indiana" has been performed during pre-race ceremonies before the Indianapolis 500. From 1947 until 2020, thousands of multicolored balloons would be released from an infield tent during the song, until the practice was halted citing environmental concerns. [ 1 ]
The most well known version was recorded by American folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, for their 1967 studio album, Album 1700, and Warner Bros.- Seven Arts released it as a single in 1969 [8] after being one of four songs on a promo EP in 1967. [9]
Wish that I were back a-gain: CHORUS: In a little red barn on a farm down in Indiana, Let me lay my back on a stack of new mown hay. 'Round the barnyard where the farmyard folks are pally, Let me dilly-dally all the live-long day. I'm a Hoosier who's blue, thru and thru, and my heart is pining For the sycamore trees where the Wabash breezes play.
After the surprising success of "I Only Want to Be with You", the band capitalised on this by releasing the similarly themed "So Good to Be Back Home Again". [3]At the time, reviewing the song for Record Mirror, Simon Ludgate wrote that "they have enjoyed a great deal of publicity on the success of one single.
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Back Home Again may refer to: Back Home Again (John Denver album), 1974 "Back Home Again" (song), the title song; Back Home Again (Kenny Rogers album), 1991; Back Home Again, a 1976 album by Humble Pie; Back Home Again, a 1952 film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio; Back Home Again (Rhonda Vincent album), 2000