John Denver's Greatest Hits 1973 RCA Records Original Vinyl LP w/Insert
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John Denver's Greatest Hits Greatest hits album by John Denver Released November 1973 Recorded 1969–1973 Genre Folk, Country, Pop Label RCA Records Producer Milton Okun John Denver chronology Farewell Andromeda
(1973) John Denver's Greatest Hits
(1973) Back Home Again
(1974) Singles from John Denver's Greatest Hits
- "Sunshine on My Shoulders"
Released: October 22, 1973
John Denver's Greatest Hits is American singer-songwriter John Denver's first compilation album, released in late 1973 for the holiday shopping season. A version known as The Best of John Denver with the same track listing was released in some countries.
History
The collection included material from his earlier days as a songwriter (going back to 1965 on "For Bobbie") to his later hit "Rocky Mountain High". Indeed, many of these tracks were not hits per se, but as Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for Allmusic, "the[se] were [the] songs that defined him."
Moreover, Greatest Hits is important historically because it contained new, revisionist recordings of several songs. Notable new versions included "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Starwood in Aspen", "Follow Me", "Rhymes and Reasons", "The Eagle and the Hawk", "Sunshine On My Shoulders" and "Poems, Prayers, and Promises".
Denver explained this himself in the liner notes by saying that he had picked the numbers most requested in his concerts, but that "I felt that some of these songs had grown a bit, that I am singing better than I was four or five years ago, and that I would like to treat some of the songs a little differently than I had in the original recordings."
After its release these versions were used for airplay despite differing in subtle but important ways from the original versions; generally, they were more polished, featured a more mature-sounding Denver, included strings, and were extended somewhat.
Within a few months of its release, Greatest Hits climbed to the top of the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, went platinum, and was one of the first albums worldwide to sell over 10 million copies. Overall it is easily the best-selling album of his career in the United States, being certified 9-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Track listing
All tracks produced by Milton Okun; all tracks written by John Denver except where noted.
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (from Poems, Prayers & Promises, 1971)- Bill Danoff
- Taffy Nivert
- John Denver
- Denver
- Mike Taylor
- Denver
- Dick Kniss
- Taylor
- Denver
- Taylor
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