The Essential John Denver

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  3:38
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Rhymes and Reasons
  3:15
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Take Me Home, Country Roads
  3:10
  4.3 ★
• 4
  Poems, Prayers and Promises
  4:05
  3.5 ★
• 5
  I Guess He’d Rather Be in Colorado
  2:07
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Friends With You
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:43
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Goodbye Again
  3:36
  4.0 ★
• 9
  I’d Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady’s Chains)
  4:25
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Sunshine on My Shoulders (“Greatest Hits” version)
  5:11
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Back Home Again
  4:44
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Matthew
  3:42
• 14
  Thank God I’m a Country Boy (live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974)
  3:20
• 15
  Annie’s Song
  3:00
  3.6 ★
• 16
  Sweet Surrender
  5:28
  2.5 ★
• 17
  Shipmates and Cheyenne
  3:59
• 18
  I’m Sorry
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Calypso
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Fly Away
  4:09
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight
  2:47
• 4
  Like a Sad Song
  3:42
  2.5 ★
• 5
  How Can I Leave You Again
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 6
  It Amazes Me
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 7
  I Want to Live
  3:47
• 8
  My Sweet Lady (“Greatest Hits” version)
  4:48
• 9
  Autograph
  3:37
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
  3:59
  3.0 ★
• 11
  The Cowboy and the Lady
  4:36
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Seasons of the Heart
  3:48
• 13
  Shanghai Breezes
  3:12
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Perhaps Love

  John Denver & Plácido Domingo
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 15
  Wild Montana Skies

  John Denver & Emmylou Harris
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Love Again

  John Denver & Sylvie Vartan
  2:52
• 17
  Dreamland Express
  4:06
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Is It Love? (live 1995)
  4:15

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

• Alec Whyte
  choir vocals [6]
• Allan Schwartzberg
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Andrew Clarke
  assistant [9]
• Andy Todd
  assistant [9]
• Annie Denver
  choir vocals [6]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [15]
• Barbara Carlson
  choir vocals [6]
• Barney Wyckoff
  producer [12-13, 15]
• Bernie Leadon
  electric guitar [16]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [3], choir vocals [6], guitar [3]
• Bill Sanford
  electric guitar [10]
• Billy Sanford
  electric guitar [10]
• Bob Moore
  bass [10]
• Candy Ledbetter
  choir vocals [6]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass [5, 7]
• Danny Wheetman
  background vocals [9], harmonica [9], mandolin [9]
• Denny Brooks
  acoustic guitar [9], background vocals [9, 13]
• Diane Kniss
  choir vocals [6]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [1.7-8, 2.1], bass [2.1, 1.6, 1.15], choir vocals [6], double bass [2-3, 7-8, 11]
• Elizabeth Lindsay
  choir vocals [6]
• Emmylou Harris
  lead vocals [15]
• Emory Gordy
  bass [9], mandolin [9]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [3], pedal steel guitar [3, 6], steel guitar [7]
• Frank Owens
  piano [1.3, 1.8, 2.14], strings [8]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [3], percussion [7-8]
• George Marge
  woodwind [6]
• Glen D. Hardin
  keyboard [9, 16], piano [12-13, 15]
• Hal Blaine
  arranger [1], drums (drum set) [1, 5, 7, 9], percussion [1, 9]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  piano [10]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [2]
• Herb Pedersen
  acoustic guitar [9], background vocals [7, 9, 13], banjo [9], electric guitar [9]
• James Burton
  acoustic guitar [7, 9], electric guitar [5, 7, 9, 12-13, 15], resonator guitar [9]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [3]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [10, 12-13, 15-16]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass [12-13, 15-16]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [15]
• Jim Horn
  flute [10], reeds [9]
• Jimmy Capps
  acoustic guitar [10]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [2, 6, 8, 11], acoustic guitar [2.5, 2.7, 2.15, 1.2-3, 1.7-8], arranger [1.1-2, 1.7-10, 2.1, 2.6-7], choir vocals [6], electric guitar [9, 12], guitar [2.1, 2.9, 2.14, 1.11, 1.15], lead vocals [1.1-4, 1.6-12, 1.15-16, 1.18, 2.1-2, 2.4-10, 2.12-16], performer [15], producer [12-13, 15], vocal [2.7, 1.3, 1.8]
• John Sommers
  acoustic guitar [1], arranger [1], background vocals [1], banjo [1], fiddle [1], mandolin [1.15, 2.1]
• Jon Cobert
  synthesizer [16]
• Keith Lane
  choir vocals [6]
• Kenneth Boaz
  choir vocals [6]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 2.1-2], assistant [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 1.2, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.18]
• Larry Butler
  producer [10]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [1.12, 1.15-16, 1.18, 2.1], conductor [1.12, 1.15-16, 1.18, 2.1], orchestrator [1, 5, 7, 9, 12-14, 16], strings [9]
• Lee Ritenour
  acoustic guitar [7], classical guitar [5], electric guitar [5]
• Lennie Niehaus
  orchestrator [11]
• Leon Rhodes
  bass [10]
• Martine Habib
  background vocals [8]
• Mary Angela Whyte
  choir vocals [6]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [7-8], choir vocals [6], guitar [3, 6-8, 11]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [1.12, 1.15-16, 2.1]
• Mike Lang
  keyboard [5, 7]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [2.6-7, 1.1-2, 1.9-10], conductor [11], executive [15-16], producer [2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9, 1.1-4, 1.6-12, 1.15-16, 1.18]
• Olivia Newton‐John
  guest [2]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [6]
• Paula Ballan
  choir vocals [6]
• Plácido Domingo
  lead vocals [14]
• Ralph Osborn
  assistant [9]
• Randy Pipes
  assistant [9]
• Ray Edenton
  acoustic guitar [10]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [9-10], recording [2-3, 7-8, 11]
• Reinie Press
  bass [14]
• Renée Armand
  background vocals [7, 9, 13]
• Roger Nichols
  producer [16]
• Ron Ledbetter
  choir vocals [6]
• Sal DiTroia
  classical guitar [14]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [3]
• Steve Weisberg
  acoustic guitar [1], arranger [1], background vocals [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [15], pedal steel guitar [2], resonator guitar [1], steel guitar [1]
• Sylvie Vartan
  lead vocals [16]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [3], choir vocals [6]
• Tchad Blake
  assistant [9]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [6]
• Turnpike Tom
  choir vocals [6]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [6]
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Issues

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  The Essential John Denver

  2x CD
  27 February 2007
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  The Essential John Denver

  2x CD
  4 June 2007
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  The Essential John Denver

  3x CD (Limited Edition 3.0)
  25 August 2009
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  The Essential John Denver

  2x Digital Media
  1 March 2019