Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Leaving, on a Jet Plane
  3:39
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Take Me Home, Country Roads
  3:11
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Sunshine on My Shoulders
  5:12
  2.4 ★
• 4
  Poems, Prayers and Promises
  4:07
  2.6 ★
• 5
  The Eagle and the Hawk
  2:08
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:45
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
  4:04
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Annie's Song
  3:01
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Back Home Again
  4:45
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Sweet Surrender
  5:30
  2.5 ★
• 11
  Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 12
  I'm Sorry
  3:32
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Calypso
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Fly Away
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Looking for Space
  4:00
  2.0 ★
• 16
  Like a Sad Song
  3:43
  2.5 ★
• 17
  My Sweet Lady
  4:25
  2.6 ★
• 18
  Perhaps Love

  Plácido Domingo & John Denver
  2:58
  2.0 ★
• 19
  Shanghai Breezes
  3:13
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Wild Montana Skies

  John Denver & Emmylou Harris
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Leaving, on a Jet Plane (Babe, I Hate to Go)
  3:13
  4.5 ★
• 2
  The Weight
  4:30
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Annie's Song
  3:00
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Calypso
  3:35
  3.0 ★

More by John Denver

The Best of John Denver

The Best of John Denver 1998

All Aboard!

All Aboard! 1997

The Wildlife Concert

The Wildlife Concert 1995

Earth Songs

Earth Songs 1990

The Flower That Shattered the Stone

The Flower That Shattered the Stone 1990

Perhaps Love

Perhaps Love 1981

Release credits

• Allan Harshman
  viola [11]
• Allan Schwartzberg
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [2.3, 1.8, 1.11]
• Assa Drori
  violin [11]
• Barney Wyckoff
  producer [19-20]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [2], guitar [2]
• Buddy Collette
  woodwind [11]
• David Duke
  French horn [11]
• David Schwartz
  viola [11]
• David Turner
  violin [11]
• Denny Brooks
  background vocals [19]
• Denyse Buffum
  viola [11]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [2.4, 1.5-6, 1.13], bass [2.3-4, 1.8, 1.11, 1.13], double bass [2-3, 5-6]
• Emmylou Harris
  lead vocals [20]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [2], pedal steel guitar [2], steel guitar [6]
• Frank Owens
  piano [2, 18]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [2], percussion [6]
• Gene Cipriano
  woodwind [11]
• Glen D. Hardin
  piano [19-20]
• Hal Blaine
  arranger [1.13, 2.4], drums (drum set) [2.4, 1.13], percussion [2.4, 1.11, 1.13]
• Harry Shlutz
  cello [11]
• Herb Lovelle
  drums (drum set) [11], membranophone [5]
• Herb Pedersen
  background vocals [19]
• James Burton
  electric guitar [19-20]
• Jay Rosen
  violin [11]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [2-3]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [19-20]
• Jerry Kessler
  cello [11]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass [19-20]
• Jesse Ehrlich
  cello [11]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [1.8, 2.3]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [3, 5], acoustic guitar [2-3, 5-6, 20], arranger [1.1, 1.5-7, 1.13, 2.4], guitar [2.3-4, 1.8, 1.11, 1.13, 1.18], lead vocals [1.1-20, 2.3-4], performer [20], producer [19-20], vocal [2, 5]
• John Sommers
  acoustic guitar [1.13, 2.4], arranger [2.4, 1.13], background vocals [2.4, 1.13], banjo [2.4, 1.11, 1.13], fiddle [2.4, 1.11, 1.13], guitar [11], mandolin [2.3-4, 1.8, 1.11, 1.13]
• Joy Lyle
  violin [11]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [1.8-9, 1.11-15, 2.3-4], assistant [2.3-4, 1.5, 1.8-16]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [1.8-10, 1.12-13, 2.3-4], conductor [1.8-13, 2.3-4], orchestrator [2.4, 1.5, 1.11, 1.13, 1.18-19]
• Lennie Niehaus
  orchestrator [3]
• Mari Tsamura
  violin [11]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [5-6], guitar [2-3, 6]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [2.3-4, 1.8-10, 1.13]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [1, 7], conductor [3, 5], executive [20], producer [1.1-17, 2.3-4]
• Milton Kestenbaum
  viola [11]
• Murray Adler
  violin [11]
• Olivia Newton‐John
  guest [14]
• Peter Mercurio
  bass [11]
• Plácido Domingo
  lead vocals [18]
• Ralph Schaeffer
  violin [11]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [7], recording [2-3, 5-6]
• Raymond Kelley
  cello [11]
• Reinie Press
  bass [18]
• Renée Armand
  background vocals [19]
• Richard Kaufman
  violin [11]
• Richard Maximoff
  viola [11]
• Ronald Folsom
  violin [11]
• Sal DiTroia
  classical guitar [18]
• Samuel Boghossian
  viola [11]
• Sid Sharp
  violin [11]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [2]
• Steve Weisberg
  acoustic guitar [1.13, 2.4], arranger [2.4, 1.13], background vocals [1.13, 2.4], electric guitar [2.4, 1.13], guitar [1.5, 1.8, 1.11, 2.3], resonator guitar [1.11, 1.13, 2.4], steel guitar [1.11, 1.13, 2.4]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [2]
• Tibor Zelig
  violin [11]
• Vincent DeRosa
  French horn [11]
• Wilbert Nuttycombe
  violin [11]
• William Kurasch
  violin [11]
• Show all credits (64)

Issues

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  Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

  2x Digital Media
  19 February 2004
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  A
  A Song’s Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver

  2x CD
  20 September 2004
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  D
  Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

  2x CD
  5 October 2004
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  D
  Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

  2x CD
  5 October 2004
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  A
  A Song’s Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver

  CD
  2004
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  D
  Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

  CD
  2004
• 

  A
  A Song's Best Friend - The Very Best Of John Denver

  CD
  2004
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  A
  A Song's Best Friend: The Very Best Of John Denver

  2x CD
  2005
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  D
  Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

  CD
  2008
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  A
  All Time Best

  CD
  20 September 2013