His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances

Tracklist

• CD 1: John Denver Classic
• 1
  Annie's Song
  3:02
  3.6 ★
• 2
  My Sweet Lady
  4:26
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Take Me Home Country Roads
  3:11
  4.3 ★
• 4
  Sunshine on My Shoulders
  3:22
• 5
  What's on Your Mind
  3:45
• 6
  I Want to Live
  3:48
• 7
  Along for the Ride ('56 T-Bird)
  3:46
• 8
  Fly Away

  feat. Olivia Newton‐John
  4:12
• 9
  Calypso
  3:38
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Goodbye Again
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
  3:57
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Like a Sad Song
  3:44
  2.5 ★
• 13
  It Amazes Me
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Autograph
  3:39
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Shanghai Breezes
  3:10
• 16
  I'm Sorry
  3:32
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Perhaps Love

  feat. Plácido Domingo
  2:58
  2.0 ★
• 18
  Dreamland Express
  4:06
  5.0 ★
• 19
  It Makes Me Giggle
  3:06
• 20
  For Baby (For Bobbie)
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
  2:54
• CD 2: Rocky Mountain High
• 1
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:46
  3.8 ★
• 2
  The Cowboy and the Lady
  4:37
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Christmas for Cowboys
  2:31
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Dancing With the Mountains
  3:55
• 5
  Looking for Space
  4:02
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Wild Montana Skies
  4:05
• 7
  Downhill Stuff
  3:00
• 8
  Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
  4:05
  3.0 ★
• 9
  I'd Rather Be a Cowboy
  4:26
• 10
  Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight
  2:47
• 11
  How Can I Leave You Again
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Sweet Melinda
  2:29
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Everyday
  3:15
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Love Again
  2:52
• 15
  Seasons of the Heart
  3:46
• 16
  Back Home Again
  4:45
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Follow Me
  2:29
• 18
  I Remember You
  2:44
• 19
  Friends With You
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• CD 3: Live ... In Concert
• 1
  San Francisco Mabel Joy
  4:05
• 2
  Whose Garden Was This
  3:48
• 3
  What One Man Can Do
  3:05
• 4
  Mr. Bojangles
  4:40
• 5
  San Antonio Rose
  2:44
• 6
  Fire and Rain
  3:46
• 7
  The City of New Orleans
  3:19
• 8
  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  3:57
• 9
  Let It Be
  3:41
• 10
  Take Me Home Country Roads
  3:15
  4.3 ★
• 11
  Today
  4:30
• 12
  Sweet Surrender
  5:03
• 13
  Grandma's Feather Bed
  2:35
• 14
  Annie's Song
  3:34
• 15
  The Eagle and the Hawk
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 16
  My Sweet Lady
  4:52
• 17
  Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  3:33
• 18
  Poems, Prayers and Promises
  4:40
• 19
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:24

More by John Denver

Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits

Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits 2004

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

Release credits

• Al Rogers
  percussion [13]
• Alec Whyte
  choir vocals [19]
• Allan Schwartzberg
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Andrew Clarke
  assistant [14]
• Andy Todd
  assistant [14]
• Annie Denver
  choir vocals [19]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [1]
• Barbara Carlson
  choir vocals [19]
• Bernie Leadon
  electric guitar [14]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [1.3, 1.20, 2.13, 3.10], choir vocals [19], guitar [1.3, 3.10]
• Bill Sanford
  electric guitar [11]
• Billy Sanford
  electric guitar [11]
• Bob Moore
  bass [11]
• Candy Ledbetter
  choir vocals [19]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass [2.11, 1.6]
• Danny Wheetman
  background vocals [1.14, 2.4], harmonica [1.14, 2.4], mandolin [14]
• Denny Brooks
  acoustic guitar [1.14, 2.4], background vocals [1.14, 2.4]
• Diane Kniss
  choir vocals [19]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [3.15, 2.1, 1.9-10], bass [1.1, 1.9, 2.13, 2.19], choir vocals [19], double bass [1.3, 1.10, 1.20, 3.10, 3.15, 2.1]
• Elizabeth Lindsay
  choir vocals [19]
• Emory Gordy
  bass [2.4, 1.14], mandolin [14]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [1.3, 3.10], pedal steel guitar [2.19, 3.10, 1.3], steel guitar [1]
• Frank Owens
  piano [1.3, 1.10, 1.17, 3.10], strings [10]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [3.10, 1.3], percussion [2.1, 1.10]
• George Marge
  woodwind [19]
• Glen D. Hardin
  keyboard [1.14, 2.4, 2.14]
• Hal Blaine
  arranger [9], drums (drum set) [1.6, 1.9, 1.14, 2.4, 2.11], percussion [9, 14]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  piano [11]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [15]
• Herb Pedersen
  acoustic guitar [2.4, 1.14], background vocals [2.4, 1.6, 1.14], banjo [14], electric guitar [14]
• James Burton
  acoustic guitar [1.6, 1.14, 2.4], electric guitar [2.4, 2.11, 1.6, 1.14], resonator guitar [14]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [3.10, 1.3]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [2.14, 1.11]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass [14]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [1]
• Jim Horn
  flute [11], reeds [2.4, 1.14]
• Jimmy Capps
  acoustic guitar [11]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [3.15, 2.13, 2.19, 1.10, 1.20], acoustic guitar [2.1, 2.4, 2.11, 3.10, 3.15, 1.3, 1.6, 1.10], arranger [3.15, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.13, 2.1, 2.8, 2.17, 2.20], choir vocals [19], electric guitar [14], guitar [1, 9, 14, 17], lead vocals [1.1-3, 1.6, 1.9-14, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16-17, 2.19-20, 3.10, 3.15], vocal [1.3, 1.6, 1.10, 1.20, 3.10, 3.15]
• John Sommers
  acoustic guitar [9], arranger [9], background vocals [9], banjo [9], fiddle [9], mandolin [1, 9]
• Jon Cobert
  synthesizer [14]
• Keith Lane
  choir vocals [19]
• Kenneth Boaz
  choir vocals [19]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [1.1, 1.9, 1.16, 2.5, 2.16], assistant [1.1, 1.9, 1.12, 1.16, 3.15, 2.3, 2.5, 2.11, 2.16]
• Larry Butler
  producer [11]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [2.16, 1.1, 1.9, 1.16], conductor [2.16, 1.1, 1.9, 1.16], orchestrator [1.6, 1.9, 1.14, 1.17, 2.4, 2.11, 2.14, 3.15]
• Lee Ritenour
  acoustic guitar [6], classical guitar [11], electric guitar [11]
• Leon Rhodes
  bass [11]
• Martine Habib
  background vocals [10]
• Mary Angela Whyte
  choir vocals [19]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [1.10, 2.1, 3.15], choir vocals [19], guitar [1.3, 1.10, 1.20, 2.1, 2.13, 2.19, 3.10]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [1.1, 1.9, 2.3, 2.16]
• Mike Lang
  keyboard [1.6, 2.11]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [1.6, 1.13, 2.8, 2.17, 2.20], conductor [15], executive [14], producer [1.1-3, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.12-14, 1.16, 1.20, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.16-17, 2.19-20, 3.10, 3.15]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [19]
• Paul Prestopino
  resonator guitar [13]
• Paula Ballan
  choir vocals [19]
• Plácido Domingo
  lead vocals [17]
• Ralph Osborn
  assistant [14]
• Randy Pipes
  assistant [14]
• Ray Edenton
  acoustic guitar [11]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [8], recording [1.3, 1.10, 1.20, 2.1, 3.10, 3.15]
• Reinie Press
  bass [17]
• Renée Armand
  background vocals [1.6, 1.14, 2.4]
• Roger Nichols
  producer [14]
• Ron Ledbetter
  choir vocals [19]
• Sal DiTroia
  classical guitar [17]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [1.3, 3.10]
• Steve Weisberg
  acoustic guitar [9], arranger [9], background vocals [9], electric guitar [9], guitar [3.15, 1.1], resonator guitar [9], steel guitar [9]
• Sylvie Vartan
  lead vocals [14]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [2.13, 3.10, 1.3, 1.20], choir vocals [19]
• Tchad Blake
  assistant [14]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [13, 19]
• Turnpike Tom
  choir vocals [19]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [19]
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Issues

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  His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances

  3x CD
  1997