Who Wrote Leaving on a Jet Plane

Write Mega-Hits wie "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Rocky Mountain High", "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Annie's Song", "Thank God I'm A Country Boy", "Calypso" und andere schreiben. Denvers Sohngwriting defines a decades of pop tunes. Currently Denver is recording for their own Windstar record company, which is marketed by American Gramophone Record. Denner said he never thought much about going into a contract with a publisher, putting on a pitch or anything like that.

Says it all started when he sent a tune he had composed for Milt Okun, who ran Cherry Lane Music. I had never thought of going to a publishing house before. By the time it arrived at a point where a track was to be taken up by me, it was appropriate to have a editor, it was much wiser to have a editor who knew the shop and who could take good care of me in an area where I had no talents, skills or know-how than to try to do it myself.

Asked whether he has a particular way of composing music, Denver answers that he is a very non-structured author. "Not every single goddamn time, I don't just go around sitting down and trying to compose a tune. You go in and try to compose a song," he says. "To me, it pretty often starts with a sentence like "fly the jet" or "follow me" or "back home" or "sunshine on my shoulders".

Although his situational awareness and view of some issues may have shifted since he wrote them, Denver says when he listens to one of his tracks, it always brings him back to where he is and from where it was composed. "Annie's Song" is a great example," he says, leans forward in his place and smiles.

"When I wrote the tune, what I felt through the tune was what I felt, not all the other things. It'?s a great romance and it'?s about being in love. What captivated the listeners in the 1960s and remains Denver's greatest gain as a writer is his capacity to hit an emotive note in his audiences through easy, immediate, clearly articulated emotions that come to live with living images.

Denver not only recounts what he feels to the audience in such different tracks as "Rocky Mountain High", "Calypso" and "Grandma's Feather Bed", he also brings them to this place. "While Denver sings: "I am the eagle, I am living in the highlands in cliffy surroundings, although they fell and rose from the heights.

Denver's capacity to move audiences with the help of sound is something that is not certain and can be conveyed through training and workshop. "He says, I think you can be trained in the crafts, the technique, the rhyme and the beat. "One can teach you all that... but I think song writing is the capacity to express in a musically and lyrically way an experiment, a sense, a memory, even a premonition in such a way that someone else can either read this text or read this song and it means something to them.