Take Me Home Country Roads on the Road Again Honeyscule Lyrics
| "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | ||||
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 Side A of the U.s. unmarried | ||||
| Single by John Denver | ||||
| from the album Poems, Prayers & Promises | ||||
| B-side | "Poems, Prayers and Promises" | |||
| Released | April 12, 1971 (1971-04-12) | |||
| Recorded | January 1971, New York Metropolis | |||
| Genre | Country[ane] | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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| "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (audio) on YouTube | ||||
"Accept Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Pecker Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver near West Virginia. It was released as a single performed past Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number ii on Billboard 'southward US Hot 100 singles for the week ending Baronial 28, 1971. The song was a success on its initial release and was certified Gilded by the RIAA on Baronial xviii, 1971, and Platinum on April ten, 2017.[2] The song became i of John Denver'south almost pop songs. It has continued to sell, with over 1.6 million digital copies sold in the United States.[3]
The vocal is considered a symbol of West Virginia. In March 2014, it became one of the four official state anthems of West Virginia.
Composition [edit]
Inspiration for the title line had come while Nivert and Danoff, who were married, were driving along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland to a Nivert family unit gathering in Gaithersburg, with Nivert behind the bicycle while Danoff played his guitar. "I just started thinking, country roads, I started thinking of me growing up in western new England and going on all these modest roads," Danoff said. "It didn't have anything to do with Maryland or anyplace."[iv]
To Danoff, the lyric "(t)he radio reminds me of my home far away" in the bridge is quintessentially Westward Virginian, an allusion to when he listened to the programme Saturday Night Jamboree, broadcast from Wheeling, W Virginia, on WWVA at his abode in Springfield, Massachusetts during his childhood in the 1950s.[5]
Danoff had some other Westward Virginia associations to depict from as well. He became friends with actor Chris Sarandon every bit well as a grouping of hippies from a West Virginia district who sat in the forepart rows of the petty clubs in which his groups played:[v] "They brought their dogs and were a very colorful group of folks, but that is how Westward Virginia began creeping into the vocal," Danoff said. He briefly considered using his home state of "Massachusetts", rather than "West Virginia", every bit both four-syllable state names would have fit the song's meter. "I didn't want to write about Massachusetts considering I didn't call back the word was musical. And the Bee Gees, of class, had a hit record called "Massachusetts", but what did I know?" Danoff said.[5]
Starting Dec 22, 1970, Denver was heading the New year's day's pecker at The Cellar Door, with Fat City opening for him, just as Denver had opened at the same society for and so headliner David Steinberg. After the club'south post-Christmas reopening night on Tuesday, December 29 (Cellar Door engagements ran from Tuesday to Sunday and this booking was for two weeks), the iii headed back to the couple'southward apartment for an impromptu jam. On the way, Denver's left thumb was cleaved in a collision. He was rushed to the emergency room, where the thumb was put in a splint. By the time they got back to the apartment, Denver said he was "wired, yous know."[vi]
When Danoff and Nivert ran through what they had of the vocal they had been working on for almost a month, planning to sell to Johnny Greenbacks, Denver "flipped."[ description needed ] He decided he had to have information technology, prompting them to abandon plans for the sale.[seven] The verses and chorus were withal missing a bridge, then the three of them went about finishing.
Nivert got out an encyclopedia to learn more than about West Virginia, and the start thing she came upon was the Rhododendron, the land flower, then she kept trying to work the word Rhododendron into the song. Rhododendron was the title that Nivert had written downwardly on the lyric canvass, which they later sent to ASCAP.[v] The iii stayed up until 6:00 a.m., irresolute words and moving lines around.[eight]
When they finished, on the morning of Midweek, December 30, 1970, Denver announced that the song had to go on his next album.[8] Later that night, during Denver's outset gear up, Denver chosen his two collaborators dorsum to the spotlight, where the trio changed their career trajectories, reading the lyrics from a single, handheld, unfolded piece of paper. Co-ordinate to Len Jaffe, a Washington, D.C.-based vocalist-songwriter who attended the show where Denver premiered the song, this resulted in a 5-infinitesimal standing ovation.[9] The side by side twenty-four hour period was Denver's 28th birthday. They recorded it in New York City in Jan 1971.
Commercial performance [edit]
"Accept Me Home, Country Roads" appeared on the LP Poems, Prayers & Promises and was released every bit a 45 in the jump of 1971. Original pressings credited the single to "John Denver with Fatty City". It bankrupt nationally in mid-April only moved up the charts very slowly. After several weeks, RCA Records chosen John and told him that they were giving up on the single. His response: "No! Go along working on it!" They did, and the single went to number i on the Tape World Popular Singles Chart and the Greenbacks Box Top 100, and number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, topped just by "How Tin can You lot Mend a Broken Middle" by The Bee Gees.
On August xviii, 1971, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for a million copies shipped.[x] The song connected to sell in the digital era. As of Jan 2020, the song has besides sold one,591,000 downloads since it became bachelor digitally.[3]
Reception in West Virginia [edit]
"Take Me Dwelling, Country Roads" received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians.[eleven] On November ane, 2017, the West Virginia Tourism Office announced it had obtained the rights to use "Accept Me Domicile, Country Roads", in its marketing efforts. "'Country Roads' has become synonymous with Westward Virginia all over the globe," said West Virginia Tourism Commissioner Chelsea Ruby. "It highlights everything nosotros love well-nigh our country: scenic beauty, majestic mountains, a timeless way of life, and well-nigh of all, the warmth of a place that feels like dwelling house whether y'all've lived here forever or are just coming to visit." The opening phrase of the vocal, "Almost sky", became a primary tourism function slogan.[12]
The song is the theme song of West Virginia University and it has been performed during every dwelling football game pregame show since 1972. The song is played for other athletic events and university functions, including later on football games, for which the fans are encouraged to stay in the stands and sing the vocal along with the team.[xiii] On September 6, 1980, at the invitation of West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller, songwriters Danoff, Nivert, and Denver performed the song during pregame festivities to a sold-out crowd of Mountaineer fans. This performance marked the dedication of the current West Virginia Academy Mountaineer Field and the offset game for head coach Don Nehlen.[xiv]
The popularity of the song inspired resolutions in the Westward Virginia Legislature to adopt "Take Me Home, Country Roads" equally an official state song. On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make "Take Me Domicile, Country Roads" an official state song of West Virginia, alongside three other pieces: "West Virginia Hills", "This Is My West Virginia", and "Westward Virginia, My Dwelling house Sweetness Home".[15] Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed the resolution into law on March eight, 2014.[16]
The song was played at the funeral for West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd at the state capitol in Charleston, W Virginia on July ii, 2010.[17]
The Mountain Land Brewing Company based in Thomas, W Virginia produces an amber ale named "Almost Heaven," which it says is "named after John Denver's ode to W Virginia, Country Roads".[18]
Personnel [edit]
- John Denver – vocals, half dozen & 12-string audio-visual guitar
- Pecker Danoff – backing vocals
- Taffy Nivert – backing vocals
- Eric Weissberg – banjo, steel guitar
- Mike Taylor – audio-visual guitar
- Richard Kniss – double bass
- Gary Chester – drums, percussion
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Embrace versions [edit]
Hermes House Band version [edit]
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| from the anthology The Album | ||||
| Released | May 21, 2001 (2001-05-21) | |||
| Length | three:22 | |||
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Dutch pop band Hermes Firm Band covered the song and released information technology as "Country Roads". This version was first released in Germany on May 21, 2001,[28] and was issued in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2001, where it was a contender for the 2001 Christmas number-i single.[29] This version was a chart success in Europe, reaching number ane in Scotland, number two in Germany and Ireland, and the top x in Austria, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
Track listings [edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Country Roads" (original radio edit) | 3:22 |
| 2. | "Country Roads" (happy dance version) | 3:20 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| one. | "Country Roads" (original radio edit) | 3:22 |
| 2. | "Country Roads" (happy dance version) | 3:twenty |
| 3. | "Country Roads" (karaoke version) | 3:20 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| ane. | "Country Roads" (original live radio version) | three:22 |
| two. | "Country Roads" (original radio version) | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Country Roads" (dance radio version) | iii:xx |
| four. | "Country Roads" (happy party radio version) | 3:xx |
| five. | "State Roads" (original alive extended version) | 4:24 |
| 6. | "State Roads" (dance extended version) | 4:14 |
| vii. | "Country Roads" (happy party extended version) | 4:26 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| i. | "Country Roads" (original radio version) | 3:22 |
| 2. | "Land Roads" (original alive extended version) | four:24 |
| 3. | "Country Roads" (trip the light fantastic extended version) | four:14 |
| 4. | "Country Roads" (video) | iii:22 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Country Roads" (original radio version) | iii:22 |
| 2. | "Country Roads" (original live extended version) | 4:24 |
| iii. | "Land Roads" (original dance extended version) | 4:14 |
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Olivia Newton-John version [edit]
Olivia Newton-John released a cover version in January 1973 that reached number 6 in Nippon and number 15 in the United kingdom.[56] It was the atomic number 82 single from her third studio album, Allow Me Be There. This version, as well as the song itself, features prominently in the Japanese animated film, Whisper of the Centre.
Lynn Anderson version [edit]
Land music singer Lynn Anderson recorded a version of the song on her 1971 studio album How Can I Unlove Yous which reached the number 2 position on the Peak Country Albums chart — one of the near successful albums Anderson released during her career.
Fallout 76 version [edit]
A cover version of the song, a collaboration betwixt Copilot Music and Sound and the vocal group Spank,[57] was commissioned for and featured in both the teaser and total E3 2018 trailers for the 2018 video game Fallout 76, with its plot events are set in West Virginia.[58] Released as an iTunes-only unmarried on July 4, 2018, the song reached No. ane on the iTunes singles chart.[59] It debuted at No. 41 on Billboard'due south Hot Country Songs chart that week and at No. 21 on Billboard'south Country Digital Songs the following week.[59] The official YouTube upload of the original John Denver recording, initially uploaded in 2013, would later edit its description in response to the song'south use for the game.[60] In Australia, a promotional Fallout 76 vinyl featuring the cover was included with the Dec 2018 issue of STACK Magazine exclusively from retailer JB Hi-Fi.[61]
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