was an Air Force brat, the son of a hotshot bomber pilot who was an emotional iceberg. “Sunshine On My Shoulders,” Denver’s first #1, is kindergarten-level writing. It’s pure literalism, written without any sense of nuance or subtlety. But there’s no real poetry to Denver’s music. It sounds poetic, this voice of plainspoken longing offering up these odes to clouds and trees and mountains. He sings these pastoral reveries about natural beauty, or about feeling a sense of peace while he’s outside. People read more into it.ĭenver’s music gives off a general sense of depth. He wrote it while waiting for a plane, out of a general sense of loneliness. Given the times, a whole lot of people heard “Leaving On A Jet Plane” as a bittersweet, tragic Vietnam song. Denver’s first taste of fame came when he wrote “ Leaving On A Jet Plane,” a 1969 #1 for Peter, Paul & Mary.
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