01/11/2025
October 31, 2025
Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight
Before you get caught up reading the story accompanying this final song…there is something you NEED TO KNOW about TOMORROW NIGHT…You DON’T want to MISS IT…a Special ANNOUNCEMENT, and Special INSTRUCTIONS!!!!
PLUS…a summary of this Tribute…it will also contain my “Countdown of My Favorite John Denver Songs”…I would love to read from all of you, your favorites of John’s also.
Sooooo…for this final song…
YES, this is the last song in my annual John Denver Memorial Tribute…the 54th song.
For a bunch of years, I used to feature 53 SONGS…one for each year of the age he was when he died.
But a few years ago, I decided to make it 54 songs instead.
So, some of you may have figured it out…that he would have turned 54 years old just 10 weeks later, had he lived, and that “might” be the reason why I am featuring the 54th song.
Wellllll…you are correct, but only PARTLY correct!
I like to explain it this way…
Think of the opening lines of “Rocky Mountain High”:
“He was born in the Summer of his 27th year
Coming home to a place he'd never been before
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again”
He was born in the Summer of his 27th year…and he died in the Fall of his 54th year…exactly twice that time period!!
OH…AND…how many of you remember the opening sequence of scenes from the movie “Oh God!”…and the floor and room that John Denver is supposed to have an interview granted with God for the first time…the 27th floor…room 2700!!
I don’t believe in “coincidences”!!
There is a “sign” for everything…if we are alert to looking for it!
The number “27” means “new beginnings”…and that was definitely what John experienced when “he was born in the Summer of his 27th year…coming home to a place he’d never been before”…NEW BEGINNING of a new life for him and Annie.
In the movie “Oh God!”…the “27th floor, room 2700”…NEW BEGINNINGS of God using “Jerry Landers” to help spread the message!
This featured song here has a special meaning to me, that is why I saved it for last.
Since John Denver died, I have always thought that the lyrics in this featured song are telling us how he wants us to remember him, now that he is gone…even though he wrote this song when he was only 26 years old (his 27th year), and it appears on his 4th album!
But for years…long before John died…I always thought that the lyrics fit me…so much so, that I quoted a part of the lyrics in my high school yearbook, in 1978…
“And I love to Remember…and I Love to Wonder Why…
And I hope that I’m around…so I can be there when I die”
Anyone that knows me, knows that I have an ability to remember so many things…sometimes, I can’t figure out how it is, that I remember the things that I do.
And those that know me, also know how often I wonder “WHY?” Why this, and why not that…why does it work that way…why do they not understand…why are we here…why did that happen…why couldn’t it have been this way…why do I remember so many things…so many “why’s”.
And the last line of the quote…I have always tried to make an impact…a positive impact…on people…so much so, that you will remember me, for the right reasons, and I will live in them…even though I may be physically gone, I will “be there when I die”.
And the best part, which I have written as a quote to people who are mourning a lost loved one, is another part of the lyrics:
“When I’m gone:
I hope that you will think of me, in moments when you’re Happy, and you’re Smiling…
That the thought will comfort you, on cold and cloudy days, if you are crying…
That you’ll love to see the sun go down, and the world go ’round, and around and around”
My Wish to Everyone!
One last thought:
In conversations I have with other John Denver fans…I often say… “I wonder what songs we missed, that would have come from him, had he lived longer?” And now, I also think… “When I’m gone, I hope and pray that I get to be reunited with family and friends in Heaven…that we get to catch-up on everything…and that I get to drag them to the John Denver concert up there, and I hope to get to meet John Denver…and hear all his NEW SONGS…the ones he has written since 10/12/1997!”
Tomorrow night, I will post a “summary wrap-up”…and include my “Countdown of My Favorite John Denver Songs”…and a Special ANNOUNCEMENT, and Special INSTRUCTIONS!!!!
There will be no song…just what I wrote in the previous sentence.
Despite there not being a song tomorrow, you will want to read my summary and my “Countdown”.
FINAL SONG of this Tribute: John Denver singing “Around And Around”:
Song by John Denver. Tribute to John Denver who died in a plane crash in 1997.Time as I've known it - doesn't take much time to pass by meMinutes into days, ...