This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. Find the latest ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH BRANDS INC (RMHB) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. The Mountain States (also known as the Mountain West or the Interior West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau. Rocky Mountain High.Ĭopyright © 2007 NPR. Denver described that state as almost heaven, but a Colorado lawmaker boasted yesterday that Denver chose to live in Colorado.ĭENVER: (Singing) Rocky mountain high, Colorado. INSKEEP: By the way, another John Denver song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is one of West Virginia's two state songs. LARSON: And if he were here right now, I know he would be so thrilled and so - far out. INSKEEP: Karen Larson and JP McDaniel are longtime fans and friends of the late performer. KAREN LARSON: It is totally high time and I use the word high. INSKEEP: The honor for John Denver comes nearly 10 years after he died in a plane crash.
The state legislature made his tune, "Rocky Mountain High" an official state song.ĭENVER: (Singing) Colorado rocky mountain high. And yesterday, Colorado returned the gesture. INSKEEP: John Denver was singing of his love for Colorado. He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again. Comin' home to a place he'd never been before. JOHN DENVER: (Singing) He was born in the summer of his 27th year. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG "ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH") You could say he bleeds red, yellow and blue.Ī pre-released full-length copy of Thank You Colorado is available at in 1972, a songwriter wrote a kind of love letter that began this way. has climbed eight fourteeners, guided the Royal Gorge, and even served in the U.S. Johnny Durango lives just south of Colorado Springs, Colo., on a 17-acre ranch where he tends to his bees, chickens, horses and kids. By the time I hit Limon (Colorado) and looked back on the mountains, my eyes got watery. “I’d drive Highway 24 back through the mountains and descend into Colorado Springs and once I passed Manitou Springs, my heart would melt. “I felt the same way when my summer would end in Buena Vista,” he continued. Watching her made me think about how depressed people get when they leave Colorado and go back to their lives in other states.” “When she is skiing out here, you can’t find a happier person in all 50 states. “I’ve got a sister-in-law who lives in Florida, but loves, loves, loves Colorado,” explained Johnny D. Denver told concert audiences in the mid-1970s that the song took him an unusually long nine months to write. Recorded by Denver in 1972, it went to No. and John Denver.Īnd then, he wrote another song about Colorado, “Leaving Colorado.” ' Rocky Mountain High ' is a folk rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor and is one of the two official state songs of Colorado.
Denver,” the song, is about a phone call to Heaven between Johnny D. I suppose I’m 20 years late.” John Denver died in 1997. “While I love his (John Denver’s) music, I didn’t know much about him, until recently when I read his autobiography and it inspired me to write him a song, like Garth Brooks did for Chris LeDoux, after Chris died.
You could say he came home “to a place he’d never been before” (a quote from “Rocky Mountain High”). had long moppy blonde hair and blue eyes, was as granola as his Chaco sandals and GORP, and learned guitar at the same time he started spending his summers in Colorado. He describes himself during the years he was an outdoor guide in Colorado as, “a little John Denver.” Like John Denver, at age 19, Johnny D. “You could call it a creative storm,” said Johnny D. People liked the song so much that he kept writing and recording until he finished two albums. It just happened to be that he wrote Thank You Colorado in November, Thanksgiving month.
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