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Re: John Denver
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2019, 04:09:23 AM »
Quote from: Moogmodule on September 01, 2019, 09:11:11 AM
Love the song. I wonder, when it was written though in 1966, jet travel would have been very exclusive. Was this the equivalent today of a rapper doing a song about  leaving in a Lear jet?

Jet travel was quite ubiquitous in 1966.  By that year, i had already made a trans-Atlantic round-trip jet flight and several continental jet flights.  Turboprop aircraft were quickly being retired and scrapped by the mid-60s.
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2019, 12:17:55 AM »
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Jet travel was quite ubiquitous in 1966.  By that year, i had already made a trans-Atlantic round-trip jet flight and several continental jet flights.  Turboprop aircraft were quickly being retired and scrapped by the mid-60s.

Well, maybe not the equivalent of Lear jet travel today then.

Although I would stand by the fact that air travel was, relatively, a lot more expensive than today. So unlike the hero’s girlfriend In Boots of Spanish Leather who was sailing away, a much more backpackerish  adventurous type of thing to do, this guy was going all modern and expensive.    ;D
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2019, 12:43:56 AM »
Hello:  I meant "ordinary" because he didn't write any more good songs later in his career.  Unless he did and I missed 'em.
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2019, 03:06:11 AM »
John Denver's last concert, a week before he died...


https://youtu.be/-P1YRVQZKl0
5 October 1997


A passionate activist to the very end.
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2019, 03:22:18 AM »
Annie's Song never lost meaning for him from the time he wrote it in 1974...


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27 December 1974


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Re: John Denver
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Re: John Denver
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #27 on: October 11, 2019, 02:30:06 AM »
John Denver originally wrote this song for Johnny Cash...


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Re: John Denver
« Reply #28 on: October 11, 2019, 04:38:29 AM »
Hey, Todd.  Your State Anthem...


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Re: John Denver
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2019, 07:26:45 AM »
Thank God I'm a Country Boy


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With Johnny Cash, Roger Miller and Glen Campbell.   icon_good
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2019, 02:41:03 PM »
So, if he loved Annie so much, why did he divorce her???  I've often wondered how he wrote such a beautiful love song about her and then, divorce.  Huh?
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Re: John Denver
« Reply #31 on: October 14, 2019, 12:34:04 AM »
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Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.
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