John Denver: Country Boy

00:00:16 the singer John Denver took off to test his new plane.

00:03:12 I don't have the energy that I have when I'm back up in the mountains.

00:05:31 John's father, Dutch Deutschendorf

00:07:44 at least they felt that we might go someplace.

00:10:00 ♪ And you can't call us No filthy names

00:12:18 He said, "But that's the third line of the chorus.

00:15:01 but his producer, Milt Okun, struggled to get record companies interested.

00:17:37 and I always felt he was going to be a star.

00:20:10 He was an amazing artist.

00:22:46 You could be yourself here.

00:25:43 and they laid in bed and they watched television.

00:28:03 I thought that was far out, it made my whole day.

00:30:28 the sound of the lift

00:33:06 Yes, it does.

00:35:08 That angered him. That's what got under his skin.

00:37:55 Sometime during his tenure with the trio

00:40:16 Where to, Mr?

00:42:24 and how we are and can be really individuals

00:44:38 So he went to the bow and that's when he wrote Aye Calypso.

00:47:18 His father, to whom he'd grown closer through their love of flying

00:49:42 And maybe because suddenly they weren't playing his music

00:52:15 I knew all of the astronauts on board

00:54:59 Since learning to fly with his father, he'd become a keen pilot

00:57:24 and he could be an asshole like all people.