71年

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John Denver  (singer-songwriter)   release influential and popular album Poems, Prayers and Promises (ASCAP TOP HITS ) John Denver’s music has become part our cultural bloodstream. His songs are known and loved in America and throughout the world.

 

Poems, Prayers and Promises
Released May 1971: Certified Platinum by RIAA

SIDE ONE:
1. Poems, Prayers and Promises*
2. Let It Be
3. My Sweet Lady*
4. Wooden Indian*
5. Junk
6. Gospel Changes

SIDE TWO:
1. Take Me Home, Country Roads (Gold Single)*
2. I Guess He’d Rather be In Colorado*
3. Sunshine On My Shoulders*
4. Around and Around
5. Fire and Rain
7. The Box

 

* "Take Me Home, Country Roads" spend nearly six months on the hit parade, establishing John Denver as a force to be reckoned with in the pop, country, and easy listening fields. Fat City later evolved into the Starland Vocal Band, winner of two 1976 Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist of the Year.

 

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(Take Me Home, Country Roads as played by Tom Adams)

 

 

 

2.

 

Allman Brothers Band

The original Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band is a pioneering and innovative Southern rock group from Macon, Georgia originally popular in the 1970s, described by Rolling Stone's George Kimball in 1971 as "the best .. rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years" [1] (http://www.superseventies.com/allmanbrothers.html)

The band was formed in 1969, consisting of Duane Allman (slide guitar), Gregg Allman (vocals, organ), Dickey Betts (guitar), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums) and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).