Rocky Mountain High
| Rocky Mountain High | |
|---|---|
| John Denver | |
| publication | 1972 |
| length | 4:12 |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock , country music |
| text | John Denver |
| music | John Denver / Mike Taylor |
| Label | RCA Records |
| album | Rocky Mountain High |
Rocky Mountain High is a folk rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor. It appeared in September 1972 on Denver's album of the same name.
history
John Denver, who moved to Aspen in the Rocky Mountains in 1969 and stayed there all his life, wrote the title as a tribute to life in the mountains. On October 30, 1972, the piece was released as a single . The song reached number nine on the US singles chart and number 8 on the Canadian RPM top singles chart. The piece is also often played on country radio stations.
In 2007, the Colorado State Parliament decided to use the song as the second state anthem alongside Where the Columbines Grow . Denver had to publicly assure that the line of text Friends around the campire and everybody's high should not represent a drug reference . However, the line was subsequently removed from a memorial stone on which the complete text of the song can be read. This prompted the brother of the singer who died in 1997, Ron Deutschendorf, to make the following statement in the Aspen Times :
“My brother didn't write it that way, and he never sang it that way. He'd be pissed like I'm pissed. It's just not right. "
“My brother didn't write it that way, and he never sang it that way. He'd be pissed off like I'm pissed off. It's just not right. "
The song was used as film music in Final Destination and Dumm and Dumber .