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October 31, 2025Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonightBefore you get caught up reading the story...
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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, ...

October 31, 2025Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonightTonight, there will be two songs…two “ENCO...
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October 31, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonight

Tonight, there will be two songs…two “ENCORES…and that will be the end of the songs, and “officially” the end of the Tribute!

So…about this song…it is, in my opinion, the song with his most biographical lyrics. Other songs such as “Rhymes And Reasons”, “Poems, Prayers, And Promises”, “Rocky Mountain High”, “Autograph” (I listed those four in chronological order, not in order of most-biographical) are some that immediately come to mind, that are also autobiographical.

BUT…this song…the lyrics tell you how it started, how it impacted his life, and how it allowed for everything else in his life to fall into place…his music, his words…him and his Guitar!!

That guitar…the true friend…“I had that guitar with me everywhere that I went…on the farm back in Oklahoma, on wheat-harvest.”

Over the years, John Denver and his guitar, told each other many “stories”…and as John once said…”Someplace in the conversation; we, uh, we found this song.”

John Denver and his guitar gave us the greatest music EVER!!

AND…John and his guitar did SO MUCH for all of US!!

It changed OUR lives as much as it changed his!

I will tell you one more thing…this is the final “live” video of John performing, in this Tribute!

This is John Denver “live”, performing “This Old Guitar”:

From "Live at the Apollo Theater, London, England" (10/26/1982). John Denver sings "This Old Guitar".I love this video!!"JOHN DENVER - His Guitar and his Mus...

October 30, 2025Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight{{REMEMBER…come back tomorrow night…the fi...
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October 30, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight

{{REMEMBER…come back tomorrow night…the final “ENCORES”}}

Second “ENCORE” for this Tribute!

Someone asked me a few years ago, about my Tribute…“What drives you to do this?”

I gave a brief answer, and said that I intended to explain it at the end of that year’s Tribute.

Soooo…here is that answer again:

John’s music…his soothing melodies…has been a calming force in my life…I believe that has helped me get through many tough times in life. I also believe that it has helped me to “heal” from wounds to the heart and the soul.

And John’s lyrics…they have been an inspiration…and a re-invigoration…to carry on, to “never give up”, to always be Optimistic and Positive. And to always LOVE…and Look for LOVE!!

“How Sweet it is to LOVE someone…How Right it is to CARE”

And to always try to make PEACE…with everyone, everywhere, every-time.

I look at John’s music and non-musical gifts to the world in another way too…and I will quote from a very dear friend of mine…something she says about what a mountain hike, being in Nature, does for her…

“recharges my batteries…and vitamins for my Soul”

And aside from the music…the things that were important to John Denver in his life, aside from family and friends…Environment, TRUE World Peace, Hunger, Nuclear Disarmament, Space Exploration, and so many other important issues…things that mean a lot to me, and should also mean a lot to every human being, if we want to sustain the planet.

Back to this featured song…

This song’s lyrics…how one can feel about how we look at life…and what may be after this life.

This video has the lyrics on-screen…and the images through-out the song match the lyrics!

This is John Denver singing “The Wings That Fly Us Home”:

From John's album "Spirit" a song about brotherhood and spirituality. Lyrics written by Joe Henry, music by John Denver. RIP John.

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October 30, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonight

I wrote in the story of the final song-post last night…that was the 50th song in the Tribute…and that there were two more nights left…two songs in each of those two nights!

Tonight, I want to share something about John Denver that is very Special:

I will describe the video in a minute, but first I want to list some things:

• John Denver recorded DOZENS of studio albums
• He recorded EVERY concert he performed, to listen & critique himself…he performed 1,230 concerts
• He wrote, or co-wrote over 300 songs (he recorded a total of 400+ songs)
• He started his own record label in 1976
• He toured many countries all over the world
• He learned at least one of his songs in the language of that country
• He gave concerts on EVERY continent (except Antarctica)
• He was on the Board of Directors of over 30 organizations
• He hosted the Grammy Awards TV Show 5 times
• He guest-hosted “The Tonight Show” (filling in for Johnny many times)
• He hosted his OWN TV Specials over 25 times
• He was a guest on dozens, and DOZENS of shows, in many countries
• He acted in “Oh, God!” and 4 other movies (and he was first offered the lead role in a movie that he turned down…the lead role that eventually went to Richard Gere in “An Officer And A Gentleman”)
• He was a licensed pilot, owning several planes
• He started 2 of his own Environmental Organizations
• He donated money to build an entire wing to a hospital
• He did charity concerts many times, around the world

This is only a partial list of the things he did, musically, and outside of music.

If you look up his name on wikipedia, it says:

“John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian.”

He packed so much into a short 53-year lifetime. He showed the world “what one man can do”!

If it matters to you, then do it!
If it is important, then help out!
And if it is needed, get others to be involved!

These were the messages.

This featured song is John Denver singing a song that he wrote about another man that he admired, Buckminster (“Bucky”) Fuller…BUT…the lyrics definitely are a fitting tribute to himself, although he would brush off the praise from someone saying this about him…BUT it is absolutely true!!

Regarding the video, there is a “live” video, but it is not great quality…not terrible, but not great.

BUT…I wanted to share something very different for this song. This video shows how much OTHER people thought of, admired, respected, and appreciated John Denver…enough to erect memorials in multiple places around the world. The final minute of this video will show several locations in other countries. But, the first 2 minutes focus on one specific location…Aspen, Colorado…at the “John Denver Sanctuary”. I was there in 2001 to see this place.

When I went, it contained about 7 or 8 ENTIRE songs lyrics engraved into large boulders. It has since grown to include at least 20-30 songs engraved into large boulders that I have seen on-line. I can’t wait to go back.

What am I talking about with these songs? You’ll see in the video.

If you’ve been to the “John Denver Sanctuary” in Aspen, Colorado, you know the beauty of this place, and you have felt the connection of yourself to John and to the Earth!

If you have never been…and you’re planning a trip to Colorado…take a day to go to this unique and special place…a fitting Tribute to JOHN DENVER!!

With that…I now introduce John Denver singing “What One Man Can Do”:

A collection of photos of various memorials to John from around the world.All photos taken from various internet sites. No copyright infringement intended. ...

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October 29, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…3rd song-post tonight

This is the final song-post tonight.

It is also from the 1995 Windstar Symposium.

Once again, John will introduce this song…and the audio of the song is from “The Wildlife Concert” that was recorded 6 months earlier in NYC, in late-February.

BUT…the visual is a special slide-show presentation that John put together to match the lyrics of this song!

Soooo…this song is also the 50th song of this Tribute!

That means there are only 4 more songs left to feature!

Two more nights…two songs each night!!

You don’t want to miss the next two nights!

The next two nights…the final four songs…I like to refer to them as the “ENCORE”.

This is John Denver singing “Amazon”:

John's introduction of this song, along with the choices of photography to go with it, make it especially meaningful. Let it inspire you to do good things f...

October 29, 2025Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonightThis video is from the 1995 Windstar Sympo...
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October 29, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight

This video is from the 1995 Windstar Symposium…and annual event hosted by John Denver on the Windstar Foundation’s 980-acre property in Snowmass, Colorado.

Every Summer, about 1000 people from all over the world would come there for several days…listen to speeches from famous people from all different work-careers…astronauts, actors, politicians, businessmen, singers, environmentalists…and many others…and listen to music from John, and other performers…and they would also get hands-on with growing food, and other things…to learn about sustainable ways to better themselves and the Earth.

This video has John introducing the song!

He added plenty of his humor to the introduction story!

People who worked at Windstar at that time have shared comments, saying that the way John describes trying to write this song…it’s absolutely true…they witnessed him doing many things during the Symposium…AND…at the same time, trying to write this song!!

This is John Denver speaking, and performing “Healing Time On Earth”:

John Denver introduces and performs "Healing Time On Earth" at the Windstar Symposium in 1995

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October 29, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonight

Last night, at the end of my story in my final post, I wrote…
“BUT…tomorrow night, will feature something special…”live”…all three song-posts!!!”

Soooo…let us begin tonight…

My point of “education” through-out this Tribute will be to show that John Denver was SO MUCH MORE than just a singer of one style of music!

Everyone knows about his Easy-Listening songs…and his Country songs.

He also recorded some Pop songs…a few Reggae songs…some Blue-Grass songs…

AND…some Rock & Roll songs…

“Downhill Stuff”…”Claudette”…”Johnny B. Goode”…”Nothing But A Breeze”…”Opposite Tables”…”Berkeley Woman” (“live” version)…”Dancing With The Mountains”…”Chained To The Wheel”…”San Francisco Mabel Joy”…”Along For The Ride (’56 T-Bird)”…”What’s On Your Mind”…”Till You Opened My Eyes”…”The Way I Am”…”I’d Rather Be A Cowboy (Lady’s Chains)”…”Eagles And Horses”.

Each of those had a “Rock & Roll” feeling, sound, and style…I made my own CD of those songs…and I called it “John Denver’s ‘Rocky’ Mountain Music”…his own style of “Rock & Roll”.

OH…AND…there’s one more song…his MOST Rock & Roll style song…the one featured here now!

This song was first on an album from 1985.

THEN…a decade after it’s initial release on that album…in late-February of 1995…John Denver decided to include this song for a concert that was to be recorded for both a commercial CD and for a commercial DVD…”The Wildlife Concert”…which he was donating profits to the The Wildlife Conservation Society…and was televised MANY times on several networks including Discovery Channel and PBS.

This recording is an amazing showcase of his Rock & Roll side. In the middle of the song, there is an instrumental segment…and it is a little electric guitar, a little keyboard, a little saxophone…all Rock & Roll-style.

That instrumental part…I like to call it an “instrumental duel”…hahaha…the back & forth from one instrument to the other (like the song “Dueling Banjos”)!

By the way, the saxophone player, Jim Horn, has been on hundreds of recordings by many stars of all music genres, but traveled and recorded with John Denver for many years.

And the lead guitarist…James Burton…is inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame for his guitar work. He too has been on hundreds of recordings as part of the famous “Wrecking Crew”. And James Burton was the lead guitarist for Ricky Nelson for 10 years, then was part of Elvis Presley’s comeback concert in 1968, and stayed with Elvis until he died in 1977. Then he went to John Denver, recording and touring with him for 20 YEARS until John Denver died.

This video cuts off just a few seconds too short…before John Denver can be heard telling the audience…”Who’d’ve thunk it, huh…John Denver doing Rock & Roll?!”

When John Denver died in October of 1997, I started playing this song at Roller Skating public sessions. It caught on quickly, and people were requesting it then, even though they didn’t know who was singing. Every year, at that skating rink, as the DJ, I kept a log of the requests and plays. And on our New Year’s Eve Party, I would play a Countdown of the Top 25 songs of popularity at the skating rink for the year. Even though this song didn’t get into the rotation until mid-October, it made the year-end Countdown at #20!!

Remember…this Tribute gets posted on several different pages, a couple of which are not devoted to only John Denver fans…so, I like to highlight different styles of John’s music…to hopefully convert a few others into JD fans!

This video is the 1995 “live” version of John Denver and his band performing “The Harder They Fall”, from the “double-album” called “The Wildlife Concert”.

Check out the first comment under this main-post…you’ll find the original studio recording of this song!

Here is John Denver performing “The Harder They Fall”:

Music video by John Denver performing The Harder They Fall (from The Wildlife Concert). (P) 1995 Sony Music Entertainmenthttp://vevo.ly/lp4CW6

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October 28, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…3rd song-post tonight

Soooo…a third song tonight…from a third different album.

And this album closed out the 1980’s decade!

BUT…this was NOT a John Denver album!!

It was an album that was a special album…bringing together about 20 different artists!

This album would win the Grammy Award for “Country Vocal Group”…

AND…the Country Music Association’s (CMA’s) “Album Of The Year” Award!

It was an album that featured the band the Nitty Gritt Dirt Band…with many guests on various songs…John Denver, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby, Michael Martin Murphey, Roy Acuff, Ricky Skaggs, and a bunch more!

This featured song was one of three that were released as radio singles.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was one of the most successful bands in Country Music in the 1980’s decade…with 16 songs reaching inside the “Top 10”, and three songs going all the way to #1.

However, this featured song…even with the combined “star-power” of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & John Denver…it only peaked at #14 on the Country chart.

The song was co-written by a guy who was a long-time successful songwriter, but was just starting to become a star singer in his own right…Paul Overstreet…who would end up having 9 songs reach the “Top 10”, and 2 songs hitting #1 for himself as a singer.

AND…this song was the song that stayed the longest on the Country Music charts in John Denver’s entire successful career…23 weeks on that chart!

This was the final radio single to appear on ANY U.S. Billboard chart in America in John Denver’s long and successful recording career.

BUT…tomorrow night, will feature something special…”live”…all three song-posts!!!

The video I have chosen…it shows part of the in-studio recording session of this song, and an interview with John about the recording, and the “live” performance on the TV show called “Austin City Limits”!

AND…in case you want to see more…look in the first two comments for a couple special EXTRAS!

This is John Denver with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performing “And So It Goes”:

A prophetic song for these times, still. Let us BREATHE together and remember that LOVE will see us through.Shared for inspirational and educational purposes...

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October 28, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight

This featured song comes from the album that was released in 1986…the album was titled “One World”.

FIRST…this album was the very end of the road for the relationship between John Denver and RCA Records.

It was because of a song on the album…”Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)”.

John made an “official” video for that song…and RCA didn’t like a specific 3-second part…that scene showed a military missile with the “Westinghouse” logo at the top of the missile…and at the time, there was a recent merger of Westinghouse, RCA, and General Electric.

John refused to edit out that 3-seconds, saying that scene was accurate and true!

RCA didn’t care…and ended their contract with John Denver…dropped him from the label…and that was that!

John then started to record his albums under his own label “Windstar Records”…but that was a small label, and couldn’t promote on the same level as RCA Records.

That’s where John Denver released the rest of his albums for almost the next 10 years, until he got a contract from SONY Records in the mid-1990’s!

SECOND…that “little” problem meant that this featured song was never released as a radio single…and very few people know this song…or have seen the “official” video John made for this song…or know the story behind the song!

Soooo…the video I am featuring has John introducing the song, and how it came to be written!

AND…after his speaking part, it shows his “official” video he made, with the help of NASA and their archives!

Since this entire Tribute is being posted on several pages…including a couple that are not specifically just John Denver fans…I wanted this video to allow people to know the story about how the Space-Shuttle “Citizen In Space” project was John Denver’s idea…he was a member of the NASA Board of Governors, and suggested that…saying it would bring more attention to the space-shuttle missions again…like the moon landings did in the late-1960’s into the mid-1970’s.

YES…you read that right…John Denver, a singer-songwriter…was on the Board of Governors for NASA!

Remember, he was also on then-President Jimmy Carter’s special “Presidential Committee for World & Domestic Hunger” a few years earlier!

By this time in John’s life…the mid-1980’s…he was extremely involved in projects far away from his music!

He said many times in interviews…”the music success allowed me the opportunity to be more involved in human issues that were very important to me.”

And John wanted to be on the space-shuttle…and would use that to sing about it, and talk about it…on TV and in his concerts!

Joh even did some of the required training, including the space-shuttle simulator flying training!

Until then-President Ronald Reagan decided to have a teacher be the first citizen to go into space…and then there was a huge number of teacher applicants wanting to be chosen…thousands of teachers applied to try-out for that first spot!

This is John Denver singing “Flying For Me”:

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October 28, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonight

Tonight…three songs…from three different albums…each from the 1980’s!

Last night, I featured two songs from two different albums, each album was released in 1983.

This song comes from the next album John Denver released…it was 1985.

This is the title-song from that album.

This was actually the SECOND song to be released as a radio single from this album.

The first single was “Don’t Close Your Eyes Tonight”…it only reached the Adult Easy-Listening chart…and peaked at only #37.

Soooo…this featured song…

It was also released as a radio single…and SURPRISE…it brought John Denver some prominent chart success again!

It did NOT hit the Hot 100 Pop chart!

On the Adult chart, it did only slightly better than the first single I just mentioned from this album…it go up to #34.

BUT…on the Country Music chart…it brought John Denver back into the “Top 10”…climbing to a peak position of #9…and it stayed on that chart for 21 weeks…longer than ANY OTHER previous song in John’s career on that chart!

There will be a song coming up tonight that stayed just a bit longer…a song that was released a few years after this featured song.

This video is a “hybrid”…it shows John and the band performing this song “live”…but it has the original studio recording for the audio part.

I chose this because every “live” version is cut short…they didn’t usually do the instrumental ending of this song in-concert…and I wanted that included here!

This is John Denver performing “Dreamland Express”:

Dreamland Express Álbum℗ 1985 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentLanzado en: 1985-06-01"Dreamland Express" de John Denver es una balada since...

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October 27, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…2nd song-post tonight

Now for the second album released in 1983.

FIRST…I saw John Denver in late-July of 1983…with my then- fiancée…a week before our wedding!

This album had not yet been released…BUT…John decided to perform a couple songs “from the upcoming album”.

And this featured song was one of those he chose.

And he introduced the song this way…

“Many people have written songs about falling in love…not me, I have written a song about falling OUT of love!”

John always put his life out there in his songs, for everyone to see!

Last night, one of the songs I featured was “Seasons Of The Heart”…and I said it was the beginning of the break-up of John & Annie’s marriage.

Welllll…by 1983, and this concert…their marriage was done.
After 16 years!

Remember the “16 years” part…when John was getting divorced, and I was getting married!

That “16 years” will be discussed in detail at the end of this Tribute!

NOW…for the lyrics in this song…the video will show them on-screen.

BUT…some of them I will highlight here…

“First of all there's no one to talk to”
I didn’t talk about it for YEARS…neither did she…we kept it a secret from EVERYONE!

“When there is, they just don't seem to hear”
When she finally talked about it, I heard, and then I talked to family and friends too…and no-one could believe it

“The future holds no promise…Your life's already done”
Life wasn’t over…but it felt like nothing mattered!
I have always said “A life UN-shared, is not worth living!”

“Then you find your heart no longer flutters”
Even when you try to get things better…your heart knows it’s futile!

“You simply can't believe it…But it comes as no surprise”
When “divorce” was first mentioned…it was not a surprise, because the struggle had been ongoing for years!
There were no tears…and no anger…from me…it was gradually coming…setting me up for the moment…so, the emotion was not to be found!

“What's the sense of failure…It's such an incredible loss”
Years together…children together (all adults by then)…BUT…

“It's all the things you'll never do…And all the dreams that will never come true”
I didn’t enter marriage with the idea that “divorce” was a “fix-it”

Anyway…
I’m sure I’m not the only one with this experience.

This is John Denver singing “Falling Out Of Love”:

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October 27, 2025

Annual John Denver Memorial Tribute—2025…1st song-post tonight

The past two nights, I talked about two albums from 1981 and 1982…the first album being the one RCA Records demanded John record…the second album being the “alternate album” that John had already planned first!

So, tonight…there will be two featured songs…each one from a different album…but both albums released the same year…1983…about 4 months apart!

The first one was a sort-of “soundtrack”…not exactly, but I guess it could be.

It was to another one of John’s TV Specials.

Now…I didn’t mention anything before now about John Denver’s Christmas albums…and I’m not really going to here either…it’s coming in another story later in this Tribute.

BUT…this featured song came from a TV Special that John Denver did with The Muppets!!

NO…NOT “A Christmas Together”…hahaha!

This was a Summertime event…a camp-out…a “Rocky Mountain Holiday”...but, again, not the Christmas Holidays…a “holiday” as in vacation…in the mountains!

John Denver has joked several times in interviews that “no one has a copy of my third album, ‘Whose Garden Was This’…it didn’t even hit the albums chart!”

And that’s true…BUT…this album might be just as rare to find in people’s collections…it TOO did NOT hit the albums chart!

This featured song was a brand new song written then, and included on this album…and I know several people who include this song among their absolute “Top 10 Favorite John Denver Songs”!

In the first comment under this main-post…if you really want to hear this song again (haha)…there will be a “live” video…and if you look closely, you might know the super-imposed background in that video!

This is John Denver performing “Durango Mountain Caballero”:

John Denver and the Muppets Durango Mountain Caballero

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Sounds Alive--Music Is Universal...is a music site on facebook. This site will feature music from John Denver (“Soft-Rock”) to AC/DC (“Hard-Rock”)...or to put it another way...ABBA to ZZ Top (“A” to “Z”...hahahaha).

The mission is to “ENTERTAIN & EDUCATE”. It is intended to allow for sharing music, obviously. BUT...more than that...it is intended to provide details about music. Posts made by the administration of this page will “Entertain” with the song part of the post...and will “Educate” with the accompanying story part of the post.

This site will include a multitude of musical genres…Country, Rock, Pop, Soft-Rock, Easy-Listening, Bubblegum-Pop, Hard-Rock, Disco, etc. And it will include multiple decades…50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s.

AND...it is to allow for the Freedom of expression...so comment, give opinions...but be Respectful...keep the language “clean”, don’t be derogatory about what others opinions are. Remember...just as everyone has their own “favorite color” that is appealing to their EYES...everyone also has their own “favorite music” that is appealing to their EARS!