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Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000 TV Movie)

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I own every John Denver CD available and this one is clearly the best collection of his songs out there.

Many of the performances on this CD were recorded by John Denver in the 80's and 90's. These songs are much clearer and better than his originals in the 70's. John's voice had matured very much and he was able to give much more stirring renditions of his songs.

Do yourself a favor and buy this CD...you won't be disappointed.

Talk about under-rated, under appreciated, taken for granted...well that would be the music and especially the voice of John Denver. Evocative,romantic,innocent and clear,listening to this CD brings us back to the pure possible pleasure of country roads. By the time "Rocky Mountain High" comes up, goose bumps will come up too. Take a moment from your millenium life,and get this CD. Follow me where I go..........

The song you are referring to is called "For Baby (For Bobbi)" The title is written like that because John originally wrote it for a girl named Bobbi. Later, he changed it to the "For Baby" because it sounded more like a lullaby. It was written in 1965 and first appeared on a Chad Mitchell Trio album titled, "That's the Way It's Gonna Be." The album was released again under the title "Violets of Dawn", also in 1965. Hoping to capitalize on John's popularity, the album was re-released in 1974 as "Beginnings...The Mitchell Trio Featuring John Denver." Liner notes show the song to have been written by "H. J. Deutschendorf, Jr." I had the pleasure of seeing John Denver in concert 3 times in the 1970's, once in the 1980's and last in the 1990's. I was looking forward to seeing him again in 2000. I guess it will just have to be on video.

This collection is a great way for anyone to listen to a sampling of John Denver's work. The movie was not that great, mostly because of the close-ups of Chad Lowe mouthing the words to John's songs. I think it would have been better to have used shots from behind him, or from a distance instead. Seeing the songs I'm so familiar with coming from a difference face made me a bit uncomfortable.

One of the best collections of his songs. Along these lines and sharing the same title- "Take Me Home - A Tribute to John Denver" is another CD whose performances deserve 4 stars. It features remarkably moving renditions of John Denver songs by Low, Red House Painters, The Innocence Mission and others. Check it out!

John Denver left behind a magical musical treasure, and this CD weaves it all together to form a beautiful tapestry. From the touching opening notes of "Annie's Song" to the soaring chorus of "Flying for Me," this CD will keep your heart and senses enraptured with it's delicate, simple style. These songs are favorites of all of John's fans, but they are even more touching in light of his sudden, tragic death. Songs like "Leaving, on a Jet Plane," and "Poems, Prayers, and Promises" now bring a different kind of tear to the eye. Thank you, John, for touching our lives.

A lovely cd. Just takes your breathe away to hear John's clear sweet voice. Not a lot of extra instrumentation. Makes you feel good all over. Feeling down? Just listen to this CD and feel happy and closer to nature. It's a feel good cd. You won't be disappointed.

Even though the movie was really bad, this colletion is great. For anyone who doesn't know that much about John's music and doesn't want to buy a bunch of different albums. Oh, for that guys question, Chad was lip-singing to This Old Guitar (Which John didn't write until the 70's)

To say that John Denver is still underrated to this day is something of an understatement. I think that people cynically toss him away as being a "flash in the pan" because he was everywhere in the 70's. It is possible that John was "over-exposed" in the 70's and that people were burnt out by the 80's. Also, people do not realize that John had friends who were also country music superstars during the 90's.
The Chad Lowe, John Denver TV movie was a disappointment to me. Obviously the script writers did not pay very close attention to his autobiography. All they had to do was read the book and copy it into the script. They had several details out of sync with his timeline, and they seemed to be in a hurry to end the movie. It could have been much better if they had given the film four hours instead of two. When I heard that Chad Lowe was playing John, all I could think of was that he needed a job and his price was right. Personally, I wish that they had left John's story to the documentary film makers.

I absolutley love John Denver music and this collection of songs is wonderful. What was the name of the song that the actor portraying John sang at the fraternity party in the movie? The one he sang without the other two guys?