Original Album Classics: John Denver

Tracklist

• CD 1: Rhymes & Reasons
• 1
  The Love of the Common People
  4:08
• 2
  Catch Another Butterfly
  2:32
• 3
  Daydreams
  2:55
• 4
  The Ballad of Spiro Agnew
  0:18
• 5
  Circus
  2:38
• 6
  When I'm Sixty-Four
  2:04
• 7
  The Ballad of Richard Nixon
  0:06
• 8
  Rhymes & Reasons
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Yellow Cat
  2:53
• 10
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  3:38
  4.4 ★
• 11
  (You Dun Stomped) My Heart
  2:44
• 12
  My Old Man
  4:37
• 13
  I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
  3:52
• 14
  Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)
  2:14
• 15
  Rusty Green
  2:05
• 16
  Take Me to Tomorrow (early version)
  2:45
• CD 2: Aerie
• 1
  Starwood in Aspen
  3:09
• 2
  Everyday
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Casey's Last Ride
  4:59
  2.0 ★
• 4
  City of New Orleans
  3:20
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Friends With You
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 6
  60 Second Song for a Bank, With the Phrase "May We Help You Today?"
  1:13
• 7
  Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)
  2:23
• 8
  All of My Memories
  5:01
• 9
  She Won't Let Me Fly Away
  3:46
• 10
  Readjustment Blues
  4:55
• 11
  The Eagle and the Hawk
  2:07
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Tools
  1:39
• CD 3: Rocky Mountain High
• 1
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:46
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Mother Nature's Son
  2:31
• 3
  Paradise
  2:17
• 4
  For Baby (For Bobbie)
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Darcy Farrow
  4:25
• 6
  Prisoners
  3:41
• 7
  Goodbye Again
  3:41
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Season Suite - Summer
  2:51
• 9
  Season Suite: Fall
  1:38
• 10
  Season Suite: Winter
  1:35
• 11
  Season Suite: Late Winter, Early Spring (When Everybody Goes to Mexico)
  3:59
• 12
  Season Suite: Spring
  3:00
• CD 4: Farewell Andromeda
• 1
  I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
  4:28
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Berkeley Woman
  3:38
• 3
  Please Daddy
  2:59
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Angels From Montgomery
  4:52
• 5
  River of Love
  3:38
• 6
  Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)
  3:06
• 7
  Whiskey Basin Blues
  2:51
• 8
  Sweet Misery
  3:38
• 9
  Zachary and Jennifer
  2:03
• 10
  We Don't Live Here No More
  4:06
• 11
  Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• CD 5: Back Home Again
• 1
  Back Home Again
  4:45
  3.0 ★
• 2
  On the Road
  2:37
• 3
  Grandma's Feather Bed
  2:18
• 4
  Matthew
  3:47
• 5
  Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  3:13
  3.5 ★
• 6
  The Music Is You
  1:29
• 7
  Annie's Song
  3:00
  3.6 ★
• 8
  It's Up to You
  2:29
• 9
  Cool an' Green an' Shady
  3:09
• 10
  Eclipse
  3:44
• 11
  Sweet Surrender
  5:29
  2.5 ★
• 12
  This Old Guitar
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Matthew (alternate version)
  3:50
• 14
  This Old Guitar (alternate take)
  2:35

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 [2]
• Alec Whyte
  choir vocals [5]
• Annie Denver
  choir vocals [5]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [7, 12]
• Barbara Carlson
  choir vocals [5]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [2.2, 2.9, 3.4], choir vocals [5]
• Candy Ledbetter
  choir vocals [5]
• Diane Kniss
  choir vocals [5]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [2.11, 5.12, 3.1, 3.7], bass [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7-10, 5.7], body percussion [7], choir vocals [5], double bass [1.8, 2.11, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7]
• Elizabeth Lindsay
  choir vocals [5]
• Eric Weissberg
  background vocals [7], banjo [7], body percussion [7], fiddle [7], guitar [4], pedal steel guitar [3-5], steel guitar [1]
• Frank Owens
  piano [7], strings [2, 7]
• Gary Chester
  body percussion [7], percussion [2.4, 2.7, 2.7-10, 3.1, 3.7]
• George Marge
  woodwind [5]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [1.8, 2.11]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [7]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [1.8, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8-11, 3.4, 3.7], acoustic guitar [1.8, 2.11, 3.1, 3.7], arranger [2.11, 4.1, 4.11, 3.1, 3.7, 5.12, 1.8, 1.10], background vocals [7-9], body percussion [7], choir vocals [5], guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.6-9, 2.12, 5.7], lead vocals [3.1, 3.7, 1.8, 1.10, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11-12, 2.1, 2.5, 2.11, 4.1, 4.11], vocal [2.11, 3.4, 3.7]
• John Martin Sommers
  arranger [12]
• John Sommers
  mandolin [7]
• Keith Lane
  body percussion [7], choir vocals [5]
• Kenneth Boaz
  choir vocals [5]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [1, 3, 7, 12], assistant [2.11, 5.1, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11-12, 1.8]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [1, 7, 11], conductor [1, 7, 11], orchestrator [11], strings [1]
• Martine Habib
  background vocals [7]
• Mary Angela Whyte
  choir vocals [5]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [3.1, 3.7, 2.11], body percussion [7], choir vocals [5], guitar [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7-10, 2.12, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7], resonator guitar [4]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [1, 5, 7, 11-12], recording [12]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [4.1, 4.11, 1.8, 1.10], conductor [11], producer [1.8, 1.10, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11-12, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 2.1, 2.5, 2.11, 4.1, 4.11]
• Paul Griffin
  organ [9-10], piano [5-6, 8-9]
• Paul Prestopino
  banjo [7], resonator guitar [2, 8]
• Paula Ballan
  choir vocals [5]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [1, 11], recording [1.8, 2.11, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7]
• Ron Ledbetter
  choir vocals [5]
• Steve Mandell
  background vocals [7], body percussion [7]
• Steve Weisberg
  arranger [12], guitar [5.7, 2.11], pedal steel guitar [8]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [2.2, 2.9, 3.4], choir vocals [5]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [1-2, 4-5, 8]
• Turnpike Tom
  choir vocals [5]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [5], percussion [7]
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Issues

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  Original Album Classics: John Denver

  5x CD
  14 September 2012