| "Rocky Mountain High" | ||||
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| Single by John Denver | ||||
| from the album Rocky Mountain High | ||||
| B-side | "Spring" | |||
| Released | October 30, 1972 | |||
| Recorded | August 1972 | |||
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| Length | 4:43 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Denver, Mike Taylor | |||
| Producer(s) | Milt Okun | |||
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| "Rocky Mountain High" (audio only) on YouTube | ||||
State song of Colorado | |
| Adopted | March 12, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Where the Columbines Grow (equal status as of 2007, first adopted 1915) |
"Rocky Mountain High" is a folk rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor and is one of the two official state songs of Colorado.[1][2] Recorded by Denver in 1972, it is the title track of the 1972 album Rocky Mountain High, and rose to No. 9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973. Denver told concert audiences in the mid-1970s that the song took him an unusually long nine months to write[citation needed]. On April 10, 2017, the record was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales exceeding 500,000 digital downloads.
- ^ Brown, Jennifer (March 12, 2007). ""Rocky Mountain High" now 2nd state song". The Denver Post. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ^ "State Songs". Colorado.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2018.