re: #318 HappyWarrior

That’s the first Denver song I got to know well since the Orioles play it during the seventh inning stretch and I’ve been going to Orioles games for as long as I can remember. It was funny. I remember being 7 and seeing one of those ads for the best of Denver. I made fun of it because the music sounded tacky to me but it’s hit me later that he was a good singer and songwriter. I was watching The Guard and they ended the movie with Leaving on a Jet Plane. Found myself singing- “So kiss me and smile for me, Tell me that you’ll never let me go, Hold me like you’ll never let go.” Can really relate to Take Me Back Country Roads since I live near the Blue Ridge mountains and the Shenandoah.

I like one of Denver’s recordings of “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (he wrote the song and recorded it more than once, a “slow” version and a more uptempo version; I prefer the “slow” version), but Peter, Paul, and Mary’s version is the best, IMO