Released October 14, 1969 Release date 14 October 1969 Label RCA Records | Artist John Denver Producer Milt Okun Genre Folk rock | |
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Studio RCA Studios A&B, New York City John Denver Sings
(1966) Rhymes & Reasons
(1969) Rhymes & Reasons
(1969) Take Me to Tomorrow
(1970) Similar John Denver albums, Other albums | ||
Rhymes & Reasons is the first commercial album by the American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in 1969 by RCA Records. It was reissued on CD by Legacy Recordings in 2005.
Contents
Side one
- "The Love of the Common People" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
- "Catch Another Butterfly" (Mike Williams)
- "Daydream" (Denver)
- "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew" (Tom Paxton)
- "Circus" (Michael Johnson, John Denver, Laurie Kuehn)
- "When I'm Sixty-Four" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
- "The Ballad of Richard Nixon" (only 7 seconds of silence)
- "Rhymes & Reasons" (Denver)
Side two
- "Yellow Cat" (Steven Fromholz)
- "Leaving, on a Jet Plane" (Denver)
- "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart" (Mason Williams)
- "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker)
- "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
- "Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)" (Pat & Victoria Garvey)
CD bonus tracks
- "Rusty Green" (Denver)
- "Take Me To Tomorrow (Early Version)" (Denver)
Personnel
Songs
1The Love of the Common People4:11
2Catch Another Butterfly2:34
3Daydream2:56
References
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