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With flawless digital video and crystal clear Surround Sound, you'll feel like you were right there sharing this once-in-a-lifetime event with John. Released on September 21, 1999, nearly a month before the two-year anniversary of Denver's fatal plane crash (October 12, 1997), John Denver: The Wildlife Concert is a showcase for a complex and multi-talented artist and a tribute to his legacy as both a musician and environmental activist.Ĭelebrate John Denver's greatest hits with The WILDLife Concert, a magical and intimate performance featuring the songs that have made him an American treasure. After "discovering" a wonderful tribute album titled Great Voices Sing John Denver in the Prime section of my Amazon Music app, however, I have purchased The Essential John Denver and the 1999 Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy DVD of John Denver: The Wildlife Concert. I wasn't even a "casual fan" until recently. I even liked a few of his songs, especially Take Me Home, Country Roads and Leaving on a Jet Plane.īut other than owning a hand-me-down eight-track tape of his 1973 compilation album Greatest Hits: John Denver. Sure, I heard many of his hit songs over the radio between 1972 (the year that Mom and I moved back to the States after living abroad for six years) and 1982 (when Perhaps Love was getting a lot of air time and putting Placido Domingo on the map for listeners who did not pay attention to opera). MEDLEY: LEAVING ON A JET PLANE/GOODBYE AGAINīOLD = songs italics = interviews or other materialsĪlthough John Denver was at the zenith of his career in the 1970s (the documentary John Denver: Country Boy compares his popularity to Frank Sinatra's in the latter's heyday (1940s-1960s), I wasn't a fan of his music when I was growing up in Miami (Florida) in the Seventies and Eighties. The 1999 DVD presentation of John Denver: The Wildlife Concert consists of the following program:ģ5. and elsewhere to enhance Denver's call to action to help preserve wild habitat that is becoming endangered by human activity throughout the world.
Intended to fill a two-hour block of air time on A&E (and later, PBS stations), it is a blend of live performance, interview excerpts, and some clips of wildlife that were filmed in the U.S. Produced by Elizabeth Lee and Eric Trigg and directed by Jeb Brien ( The Secret of My Success), John Denver: The Wildlife Concert was recorded before a live audience at Sony Music Studios in New York City four months before its airdate. That year was the Society's centennial year, and Denver, who was one of the first (if not the first) entertainers to use his fame to use his clout as a musician to call attention to non-political global issues, wanted to help in its fundraising efforts. Profits from sales of the album went to the Wildlife Conservation Society, a New York City-based organization that seeks to preserve over two million square miles of wild places around the globe. This concert and the companion two-CD album released by Sony Legacy on Jwere titled John Denver: The Wildlife Concert because they were intended to raise awareness of one of Denver's many causes: wildlife and natural habitat preservation. Supported by both a string quartet and a group of backup vocalists and musicians, Denver performed over 25 of his best-loved songs and ballads, as well as a cover of Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell's Darcy Farrow, which Denver often performed at his live concerts and recorded at least three times during his recording career. On June 18, 1995, two years before his untimely death in a plane crash off the California coast, John Denver made a rare concert appearance on what was then cable's Arts & Entertainment channel (now A&E).