This week in 1974 – a recording that scored a big hit on both pop and country music charts was a song written about the writer's college sweetheart – whom he married in 1967 and divorced in 1983. The ...

hold of his country fans while appealing to a mainstream pop audience. Annie’s Song had the kind of appeal that Take Me Home Country roads had displayed a sweet and melodic tune with lyrics that ...

‘Annie’s Song’ is a song recorded and written by John Denver. It was his second number one in the USA, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. ‘Annie’s Song’ was written as an ode to Denver’s ...