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#2 in the UK in February of 1970. In 1971 John recorded a hit album Poems, Prayers & Promises... one of the songs was Take Me Home, Country Roads ... it went to #2. That was followed in the early 1970s with #2 Rocky Mountain High later followed by four No. 1 songs Sunshine on My Shoulders [1973], Annie's Song [1973], Back Home Again [1974], Thank God I'm a Country Boy [1975] and I’m Sorry [1975]. Following that, John’s career continued to skyrocket ... TV Specials, seasonal specials, game shows, appearances everywhere, his own John Denver Show, guest star on other shows, many awards and so on. Later in his career, John got deeply involved in politics and humanitarian issues. In 1984 John Denver wrote and sang The Gold and Beyond for the Olympics. In 1991 Tenderly Calling was released and since then countless families have used it at funerals. Like the aforementioned artists, John did and sang far more than captured here ... the rest, as they say, is history. You know what, before we move on, let’s enjoy a video of John and Mama Cass singing Leaving On A Fast Plane in 1972.
According to the NTSB, Jim experienced “spatial disorientation”. Trying to locate Frankin Road, Jim lost track of his airspeed ... the plane stalled. A plane can be saved by applying full power and pushing the yoke forward to get air under the wings ... Jim, apparently forgetting his training, pulled the yoke back instead causing the plane to spin and fall out of the sky. On August 2nd the crash was discovered in a wooded area in Brentwood 4 flight minutes out from BNA.
Mini Bio: Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., uh, John Denver ... huh? Randy Sparks owned a club titled Ledbetter’s. John Deutschendorf was performing at the club when Randy told John his name did not fit on the marquee ... he suggested John change his name ... Randy pointed to the title on some sheet music of a song he had written ... “Denver” ... bingo, John Denver it was! In the 1960s John’s career was similar to most music stars .. gig to gig ... small band after small band ... radio stations ... fits and misses for the first many years of his career. In 1969 John finally set out on a solo career. He recorded a demo of a song he had written ... Babe, I Hate to Go, later it was renamed Leaving on a Jet Plane. Peter, Paul and Mary reached # 1 or
Jim Reeves Airplane Crash continued: shockingly, Jim turned LEFT to follow Franklin Road straight to the airport ... a fatal mistake. Soon thereafter, the rain got heavier which took away Jim’s visual references on the ground.
John was an experienced pilot. On October 12, 1997, John was testing touch-landing with his experimental Adrian Davis Long EZ, a model at which time had been responsible for 61 deaths, 19 of which were fatal...
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Stars Who Died In Tragic Accidents [TA] Continued
John Denver <> December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997 <> Homemade Plane Crash
John Denver
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