A Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver [Import]

Product Description:
2004 Euro Collection with Several Unreleased Tracks.

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Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Som Livre ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Unplugged Collection ASIN: B00079LWK6 Release Date: 2005-01-24

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On A Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine On My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers And Promises
5. Eagle And The Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking For Space
16. Like A Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies

Album Description

Som Livre. 2004.

Album Details

Leaving on a Jet Plane, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" E "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie«s Song", Etc...

Average customer rating: Revised Mixes, but otherwise good

A Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal Country | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Song's Best Friend - John Denver Remembered Christmas in Concert An Evening with John Denver The Devil Wears Prada (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B0002TKFGS Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On a Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine on My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers and Promises
5. Eagle and the Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking for Space
16. Like a Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love - John Denver, Pldo Domingo
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies - John Denver, Emmylou Harris

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On a Jet Plane
2. Weight
3. Annie's Song [Acoustic Mix]
4. Calypso (Acoustic Mix)
5. Amsterdam

Album Details

2004 Euro Collection with Several Unreleased Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Revised Mixes, but otherwise good.......2005-10-22

I ordered this based on the fact that all of the songs (except the three from the 1980's) were remixed from the original session tapes. This was fantastic news for me, as I have loved these tunes since the day I was born, but (like every other music buyer) have only been handed the same limp mixes from day one, in various degrees of tape hiss.

So, it came today, and I popped it in.

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" comes on. WOW! There is a bass line to this song!!! The fidelity is incredible! Hmmm...that instrument is louder than originally....but hey, I like it!

"Rocky Mountain High" comes on. Wow! The fullness is great....the guitars have life to them......They even fixed that vocal glitch on the "He Climbed Cathedral Mountains" line. This is great---wait a minute! What did he say? That line is different! Hold On! Some of this is an alternate vocal track!

"Back Home Again" comes on. What the hell??? Why is there a drum kit way up in the mix on this? Where is the subtlety of the original mix? This is absurd.

So goes the whole CD....some differences are mild-to-non-exsistant, and some just change the particular song into something different than we remember.

There is a bonus disc that comes with this CD which contains "Calypso" and "Annie's Song" in acoustic remixes (read: the actual master recordings with almost everything dropped except the guitars and vocals), an early lesser-quality demo-take of "Leavin' On A Jet Plane", and two other unreleased tunes. The second disc is not essential by any stretch.

So, basically, RCA/BMG had a good chance to finally make these somgs come alive after years of subjecting us to the same worn-out, hiss-filled 1970's mixes, but instead, we get tracks which can be justifyibly called "alternate versions".

Instead of a remixed greatest hits, we get something more closely resembeling The Beatles "Anthology" series.

Good to buy for the completeist, but the casual fan should stick to the original 3 volumes of JD's Greatest Hits.

Average customer rating:

Song's Best Friend (Very Best) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002ZLFLG Release Date: 2004-10-19

Average customer rating:

Song's Best Friend: The Very Best of John Denver John Denver Manufacturer: Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music | General Christmas | Today's Deals | Box Sets | Children's Music | Classical Instrumental | Halloween | Hanukkah | Kwanzaa | Opera & Vocal | Pop Instrumental & Easy Listening | Pop Vocal Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000666R8W Release Date: 2004-12-06

Tracks:

1. Leaving, On A Jet Plane
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Sunshine On My Shoulders
4. Poems, Prayers And Promises
5. Eagle And The Hawk
6. Rocky Mountain High
7. Farewell Andromeda
8. Annie's Song
9. Back Home Again
10. Sweet Surrender
11. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
12. I'm Sorry
13. Calypso
14. Fly Away
15. Looking For Space
16. Like A Sad Song
17. My Sweet Lady
18. Perhaps Love (Duet With Placido Domingo)
19. Shanghai Breezes
20. Wild Montana Skies (Duet With Emmylou Harris)
21. Leaving On A Jet Plane (Babe I Hate To Go) (Previously Unreleased)
22. Weight (Previously Unreleased)
23. Annie's Song (Previously Unreleased Acoustic Mix)
24. Calypso (Previously Unreleased Acoustic Mix)
25. Armsterdam 9live At London Palladium)
26. Love Again (Duet With Sylvie Vartan)
27. Follow Me (Previously Unreleased Remix Version)

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'amsterdam', and 'follow Me', and a Bonus CD with Previously Unreleased Tracks and Alternate Versions of Other Songs.

Average customer rating:

Song's Best Friend (Very Best) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00030EK7G Release Date: 2004-10-19

Album Description

International edition features alternate artwork to the US version (Definitive-All Time Greatest Hits) & features a different title. BMG are proud to release the digitally remixed & remastered 'A Song's Best Friend - The Very Best of John Denver'. This 2-CD set features all Denver's greatest hits such as 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', 'Annie's Song', 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', & 'Rocky Mountain High', not to mention 5 newly discovered & never released tracks, 'Leaving On A Jet Plane' (previously unreleased demo version), 'The Weight' (previously unreleased cover version), 'Annie's Song' (previously unreleased acoustic mix), 'Calypso' (previously unreleased acoustic mix) & 'The Port Of Amsterdam' (previously unreleased cover version), on a special bonus disc. 2004.

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