Sep 01, 1972 Rocky Mountain high, the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky. Friends around the campfire and everybody’s high Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high. Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high. (written by John Denver).
. Music video on YouTube ' Rocky Mountain High' is a song written by and about, and is one of the two official of Colorado. Recorded by Denver in 1972, it went to #9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973. (The song also made #3 on the Easy Listening chart and was played by some country music stations.) Denver told concert audiences in the mid-1970s that the song took him an unusually long nine months to write.
On April 10, 2017, the song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 digital downloads. Members of the chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Contents.
Background and writing 'Rocky Mountain High' is primarily inspired by John Denver's move to three years before its writing and his love for the state. The seventh stanza makes a reference to destruction of beauty by commercial tourism. The song was considered a major piece of 1970s pop culture and became a well-associated piece of Colorado history. The song briefly became controversial that year when the U.S. Was permitted by a legal ruling to music deemed to promote.
Numerous radio stations cautiously banned the song until Denver publicly explained that the 'high' was his innocent description of the sense of peace he found in the Rockies. In 1985, Denver testified before Congress in the hearings about his experience: This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains, and also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature's most spectacular light shows for the first time. In popular culture After years as an unofficial anthem for Colorado, on March 12, 2007, the made 'Rocky Mountain High' one of two official state songs, sharing the honor with '. In late 2007, the John Denver Sanctuary drew some controversy after the last lines of the song were removed from the 'Rocky Mountain High' stone. The song was used as a warning for death in the 2000 film, which revolves around the aftermath of an aviation accident, referencing Denver's death in a plane crash. The song appears numerous times throughout the film as a motif for foreshadowing death.
In his 1996 special, comedian talks about sanctioning off the state of Colorado as a permanent prison farm for drug addicts and alcoholics, saying 'this is the real Rocky Mountain High!' The song was indirectly referenced in the movie. In the movie, the character Harry (played by ) comments on the rockiness of what they thought was the Rocky Mountains, before Lloyd (played by ) remarks 'I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver is full of shit, man,' seconds before they realize they went the wrong direction, towards the wheatfields of Iowa and Kansas., near Aspen, named a run 'Rocky Mountain High' in honor of John Denver. Chart performance Chart (1972–73) Peak position Australia 39 Canada Top Singles ( ) 8 Canada Adult Contemporary ( ) 2 US 9 US ( ) 3 References.
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