An Evening with John Denver
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An Evening With John Denver is a live album
Live album
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 of music performed by American
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 singer-songwriter
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 John Denver
John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...

. It was recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles
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, California
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 in August and September 1974. He is backed by an orchestra conducted by Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is a Haitian-born American television composer and orchestrator.-Biography:He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto-Rican mother and an American father, the botanist an climatologist Leslie Holdridge...

.

Side 1

  1. "The Music Is You" - 1:02
  2. "Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning)" - 3:40
  3. "Mother Nature's Son
    Mother Nature's Son
    "Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon–McCartney song, written primarily by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on The Beatles . It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature",...

    " (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

    ) - 4:37
  4. "Summer" (Denver, Mike Taylor
    Mike Taylor
    Mike Taylor may refer to:* Mike Taylor , basketball guard* Mike Taylor , English cricketer* Mike Taylor , English cricketer...

    , Dick Kniss) - 3:02
  5. "Today" (Randy Sparks
    Randy Sparks
    Randy Sparks is a musician, singer-songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority. Prior to that, in the late 1950s he had a solo career and released two albums under the Verve label, a self-titled album in 1958 and Walking the Low Road in 1959...

    ) - 4:40
  6. "Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio" (Randy Sparks) - 4:08

Side 2

  1. "Matthew" - 3:42
  2. "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)" - 3:13
  3. "Sweet Surrender" - 5:02
  4. "Grandma’s Feather Bed" (Jim Connor) - 2:37
  5. "Annie's Song
    Annie's Song
    "Annie's Song" is a rock/country song recorded and written by singer-songwriter John Denver. It was his second number-one song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. "Annie's Song" also went to number one on the Easy Listening chart...

    " - 3:32
  6. "The Eagle & The Hawk" (Denver, Mike Taylor) - 2:22

Side 3

  1. "My Sweet Lady" - 4:55
  2. "Annie's Other Song" - 3:05
  3. "Boy From The Country" (Michael Martin Murphey
    Michael Martin Murphey
    Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...

    ) - 5:00
  4. "Rhymes & Reasons" - 3:17
  5. "Forest Lawn" (Tom Paxton
    Tom Paxton
    Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...

    ) - 2:58

Side 4

  1. "Pickin’ the Sun Down" (John Sommers, Steve Weisberg
    Steve Weisberg
    Steve Weisberg, born 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia, is a composer/arranger/pianist and international recording artist/producer. In the 80's, after studying with Michael Gibbs at Berklee College in Boston, Ma., he recorded the XtraWatt/ECM release "I Can't Stand Another Night Alone ," produced by Carla...

    ) - 2:17
  2. "Thank God I’m a Country Boy" (John Sommers) - 3:40
  3. "Take Me Home, Country Roads
    Take Me Home, Country Roads
    "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a song written by John Denver, Taffy Nivert, and Bill Danoff and initially recorded by John Denver. It was included on his 1971 breakout album Poems, Prayers and Promises; the single went to #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...

    " (Denver, Bill Danoff
    Bill Danoff
    Bill Danoff is an American songwriter and singer. His best known song as a performer is "Afternoon Delight", which Danoff performed as a member of the Starland Vocal Band...

    , Taffy Nivert) - 3:17
  4. "Poems, Prayers and Promises" - 4:40
  5. "Rocky Mountain High
    Rocky Mountain High
    "Rocky Mountain High" is a folk-rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor about Colorado, and is one of the two official state songs of Colorado. Recorded by Denver, it went to number nine on the US Hot 100 in 1973...

    " (Denver, Mike Taylor) - 5:04
  6. "This Old Guitar" - 4:47

Personnel

  • John Denver - guitar, vocals
  • Steve Weisberg - electric guitar, steel pedal, dobro
  • Dick Kniss - bass
  • John Sommers
    John Sommers
    Jack William Sommers was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of California, Los Angeles and was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1941 NFL Draft by the Chicago Cardinals....

     - rhythm guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin
  • Herb Lovelle - drums
  • Hal Blaine
    Hal Blaine
    Hal Blaine is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and...

     - percussion
  • Owen Castleman - vocals on "Boy from the Country"

  • THE ORCHESTRA: Murray Adler, Samuel Boghossian, Denyse Buffum, Gene Cipriano, Buddy Collette, Vincent DeRosa, David Duke, Jesse Ehrlich, Ron Folsom, Allan Harshman, Richard Kaufman, Raymond Kelley, Milton Kestenbaum, William Kurasch, Joy Lyle, Richard Maximoff, Peter Mercurio, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Jay Rosen, Ralph Schaeffer, David Schwartz, Sidney Sharp, Harry Shlutz, Mari Tsumura, David Turner, Tibor Zelig


Orchestra conducted by Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is a Haitian-born American television composer and orchestrator.-Biography:He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto-Rican mother and an American father, the botanist an climatologist Leslie Holdridge...

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