"Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy," goes one of John Denver's most well-known songs. "Sunshine" touches on many of the themes most important to the singer-songwriter: nature, love, beauty. Throughout the course of a career sadly cut short when he perished in a plane crash in 1997 aged just 53, Denver revisited these themes over and over again, using his pure, crystalline tone to bring comfort and spread a message of peace. With his boyish good looks, gentle voice and enthusiasm for music and nature, he was one of the preeminent pop voices of the 1970s, incorporating folk and country influences into his popular material. He was selling millions of albums to a devoted fan base. He was quick to recognize talent: he covered songs by Jerry Jeff Walker (including Mr Bojangles), James Taylor and John Prine, and forged a decent partnership with writer Joe Henry.
Included in this "RCA Albums Collection" of John Denver are his many gold and platinum-selling LPs including "Poems, Prayers and Promises" (with the hits Take Me Home, Country Roads and Sunshine on My Shoulders), "Rocky Mountain High" and "Windsong" (with Annie's Song and I'm Sorry) as well as later forays into country and pop, all of which contain hidden gems worthy of deeper investigation.
The most complete Denver package. It contains 24 original albums released between 1969 and 1986, plus Denver's rare privately pressed 1966 LP, "John Denver Sings". Each individual album is packaged in a replica wallet from the album's original cover art.
Bullet Points:
- Complete RCA Albums Collection
- 25-disc set
- 40-page booklet
- "John Denver Sings", reissues a private-pressing LP Denver created for friends and family in 1966.
- 1 -
1. The Love of the Common People
2. Catch Another Butterfly
3. Daydreams
4. The Ballad of Spiro Agnew
5. Circus
6. When I'm Sixty-Four
7. The Ballad of Richard Nixon
8. Rhymes and Reasons
9. Yellow Cat
10. Leaving On a Jet Plane
11. (You Dun Stomped) My Heart
12. My Old Man
13. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
14. Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)
15. Rusty Green (Bonus Track)
16. Take Me To Tomorrow (Early Version) (Bonus Track)
- 2 -
1. Take Me To Tomorrow
2. Isabel
3. Follow Me
4. Forest Lawn
5. Aspenglow
6. Amsterdam
7. Anthem-Revelation
8. Sticky Summer Weather
9. Carolina In My Mind
10. Jimmy Newman
11. Molly
- 3 -
1. Tremble If You Must
2. Sail Away Home
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
4. Mr. Bojangles
5. I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)
6. Whose Garden Was This
7. The Game is Over
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. Old Folks
10. Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must (Version Ii)
11. Jingle Bells
- 4 -
1. Poems, Prayers and Promises
2. Let It Be
3. My Sweet Lady
4. Wooden Indian
5. Junk
6. Gospel Changes
7. Take Me Home, Country Roads
8. I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
9. Sunshine On My Shoulders
10. Around and Around
11. Fire and Rain
12. The Box
- 5 -
1. Starwood In Aspen
2. Everyday
3. Casey's Last Ride
4. City of New Orleans
5. Friends With You
6. 60 Second Song For a Bank, With the Phrase "May We Help You Today?"
7. Blow Up Your Tv (Spanish Pipe Dream)
8. All of My Memories
9. She Won't Let Me Fly Away
10. Readjustment Blues
11. The Eagle and the Hawk
12. Tools
- 6 -
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Mother Nature's Son
3. Paradise
4. For Baby (For Bobbie)
5. Darcy Farrow
6. Prisoners
7. Goodbye Again
8. Summer
9. Fall
10. Winter
11. Late Winter, Early Spring (When Everybody Goes To Mexico)
12. Spring
- 7 -
1. I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
2. Berkeley Woman
3. Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
4. Angels From Montgomery
5. River of Love
6. Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
7. Whiskey Basin Blues
8. Sweet Misery
9. Zachary and Jennifer
10. We Don't Live Here No More
11. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning)
- 8 -
1. Take Me Home, Country Roads
2. Follow Me
3. Starwood In Aspen
4. For Baby (For Bobbie)
5. Rhymes and Reasons
6. Leaving On a Jet Plane
7. The Eagle and the Hawk
8. Sunshine On My Shoulders
9. Goodbye Again
10. Poems, Prayers and Promises
11. Rocky Mountain High
12. I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
13. Daydreams
14. Friends With You
- 9 -
1. Back Home Again
2. On the Road
3. Grandma's Feather Bed
4. Matthew
5. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
6. The Music is You
7. Annie's Song
8. It's Up To You
9. Cool an' Green an' Shady
10. Eclipse
11. Sweet Surrender
12. This Old Guitar
13. Matthew (Alternate Version)
14. This Old Guitar (Alternate Version)
- 10 -
1. The Music is You
2. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning)
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Summer
5. Today
6. Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio
7. Matthew
8. Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
9. Sweet Surrender
10. Grandma's Feather Bed
11. Annie's Song
12. The Eagle and the Hawk
13. My Sweet Lady
14. Annie's Other Song
15. Boy From the Country
16. Rhymes and Reasons
17. Forest Lawn
- 11 -
1. Pickin' the Sun Down
2. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
3. Take Me Home, Country Roads
4. Poems, Prayers and Promises
5. Rocky Mountain High
6. This Old Guitar
7. Intro / Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio
8. Follow Me / Leaving On a Jet Plane
9. The City of New Orleans
10. Zachary & Jennifer / For Baby (For Bobbie)
11. I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
12. Amsterdam
- 12 -
1. Windsong
2. Cowboy's Delight
3. Spirit
4. Looking For Space
5. Shipmates and Cheyenne
6. Late Nite Radio
7. Love is Everywhere
8. Two Shots
9. I'm Sorry
10. Fly Away
11. Calypso
12. Song of Wyoming
- 13 -
1. Aspenglow
2. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)
3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
4. Silver Bells
5. Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
6. Christmas For Cowboys
7. Away In a Manger
8. What Child is This
9. Coventry Carol
10. Oh Holy Night
11. Silent Night, Holy Night
12. A Baby Just Like You
13. Jingle Bells
14. White Christmas
- 14 -
1. Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes
2. Eli's Song
3. Wrangle Mountain Song
4. Hitchhiker
5. In the Grand Way
6. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
7. It Makes Me Giggle
8. Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight
9. Like a Sad Song
10. San Antonio Rose
11. Pegasus
12. The Wings That Fly Us Home
- 15 -
1. Annie's Song
2. Welcome To My Morning (Farewell Andromeda)
3. Fly Away
4. Like a Sad Song
5. Looking For Space
6. Thank God I'm a Country Boy (Remastered)
7. Grandma's Feather Bed
8. Back Home Again (Remastered)
9. I'm Sorry
10. My Sweet Lady
11. Calypso
12. This Old Guitar
- 16 -
1. How Can I Leave You Again?
2. Tradewinds
3. Bet On the Blues
4. It Amazes Me
5. To the Wild Country
6. Ripplin' Waters
7. Thirsty Boots
8. Dearest Esmeralda
9. Singing Skies and Dancing Waters
10. I Want To Live
11. Druthers
- 17 -
1. Downhill Stuff
2. Sweet Melinda
3. What's On Your Mind
4. Joseph & Joe
5. Life is So Good
6. Berkeley Woman
7. Johnny B. Goode
8. You're So Beautiful
9. Southwind
10. Garden Song
11. Songs of...
- 18 -
1. Dancing With the Mountains
2. The Mountain Song
3. How Mountain Girls Can Love
4. Song For the Life
5. The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel
6. In My Heart
7. The Wrangell Mountain Song
8. Whalebones and Crosses
9. American Child
10. You Say That the Battle is Over
11. Autograph
12. Dance Little Jean (Studio Outtake 1980)
13. On the Wings of an Eagle (Studio Outtake 1980)
- 19 -
1. Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
2. Gravel On the Ground
3. San Francisco Mabel Joy
4. Sleepin' Alone
5. Easy, On Easy Street
6. The Cowboy and the Lady
7. Country Love
8. Till You Opened My Eyes
9. Wild Flowers In a Mason Jar (the Farm)
10. Boy From the Country
- 20 -
1. Seasons of the Heart
2. Opposite Tables
3. Relatively Speaking
4. Dreams
5. Nothing But a Breeze
6. What One Man Can Do
7. Shanghai Breezes
8. Islands
9. Heart To Heart
10. Perhaps Love
11. Children of the Universe
- 21 -
1. Hold On Tightly7
2. Thought of You
3. Somethin' About
4. On the Wings of a Dream
5. Flight (the Higher We Fly)
6. Falling Out of Love
7. I Remember Romance
8. Wild Montana Skies
9. World Game
10. It's About Time
- 22 -
1. How Can I Leave You Again
2. Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
3. Shanghai Breezes
4. Seasons of the Heart
5. Perhaps Love
6. Love Again
7. Dancing With the Mountains
8. Wild Montana Skies
9. I Want To Live
10. The Gold and Beyond
11. Autograph (2011 Greatest Hits Vol. 3)
- 23 -
1. Dreamland Express
2. Claudette
3. Gimme Your Love
4. Got My Heart Set On You
5. If Ever
6. The Harder They Fall
7. Don't Close Your Eyes, Tonight
8. A Wild Heart Looking For Home
9. I'm In the Mood To Be Desired Tonight
10. Trail of Tears
11. African Sunrise
- 24 -
1. Love is the Master
2. Love Again
3. I Remember You
4. Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart
5. Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For?)
6. Flying For Me
7. Along For the Ride ('56 T-Bird)
8. I Can't Escape
9. True Love Takes Time
10. One World
11. It's a Possibility
- 25 -
1. Here, There & Everywhere
2. Ann
3. Babe, I Hate To Go
4. When I Was a Cowboy
5. Yesterday
6. Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me
7. What's That I Hear Now?
8. And I Love Her
9. When Will I Be Loved?
10. Darcy Farrow
11. Minor Swing
12. In My Life
13. Farewell Party
