John Denver - Rhymes and Reasons (1979) [Ultra Rare!!]

[500swim1]

When you watch someone do, what they were meant to do by their creator, you can't help but be moved. I truly believe that is what made John so popular around the world.

[SidestreamThinker06]

Really miss JD songs.Great Stuff.

[ambersalcove]

this is cool I haven't seen or heard this song live before

[Tri3Face]

The lyrics in this song were very prophetic in my opinion...for example : "Though the cities start to crumble...& The towers fall around us......The Sun is slowly fading...and it's colder than the sea...it is written from the desert to the mountains...they shall lead us, by the hand & by the heart...& they will comfort you and me..."~ The children shall teach us to be free!!! They are the promise of the future and the blessing of today.

[lilmisscarriage]

If it`s your pleasure to place a smile on an ole fellas face ; be content your posting of John Denvers Music has Pleased an Old Fella ; Please and Thank you !

[folkmusicgirl]

Rhymes and Reasons is my absolute favourite John Denver song. It is an extremely beautiful song. It still saddens me to think of how he passed away, way before his time. His talent was incredible & people from all over the world know & love his music. For me - I will always listen to John's music. I knew the area where his plane went down in the Monterey Peninsula at Pacific Grove, California. It is a truely beautiful area and John loved to fly. Whenever I go to Monterey I think of this.

[sixtoomanycatz]

What a beautiful person and humanitarian. This video is precious, and the second part is amazingly inspiring and uplifting. Thank you for sharing...

[Ghost99535]

Faaar Out! Thanks for posting, love this vid. Is this concert this where ABBA comes?

[Ghost99535]

Faaar Out! Thanks for posting, love this vid.

[wildersara]

wow, the towers fall around us.... the children shall teach us to be free.......

[miragemammaries]

ETA-Rhymes and Reasons, that is.

[miragemammaries]

I've always loved this song, but I had never heard this live version. This performace brought a tear to my eye.

[pgamba]

Maybe one of the best performances of this song! Great JD. Thank you for your music.

[Badfingerbabe777]

John Denver Rocks!!! I always wish I'd seen him live, he came through my town just a few months before he died..My sis use to play his songs on guitar.. He was cool..

[calvinnewspaper]

was that David Frost???

[MegaAlci]

Thank you for this video! I bought the record in 1979, when I was 17. Then I lost the chance to listen to it because I sold my old record player. Thanks to the new technologies here it is again, and I feel so happy to see John and to hear this song. I agree with the other friends who have commented before. This live version is a beautiful gift from the artist. Thanks again!

[gusmacgregormusic]

This is absolutely beautiful. I just find his singing mesmerizing. I know he was never regarded as the coolest kid on the block... But I don't think he gave a damn. And in the end, that is the coolest way to be of all. He did so much for the enviroment... and awoke my young mind to the beauty of nature. I'm so grateful to him. I agree with what someone else wrote about it being just him and the guitar. Very happy I found this.

[jmldspt]

I feel very uneasy with this. I admire John Denver's work so much that I would like to post a praising comment in each video referring to him. I'm not from the US but I have a notion (it could be wrong) that his work lacks more publicity and knowledge from younger people. Don't get me wrong, I know he took is tour all over the world and his best-hits albums are selling everywhere but there is so many people who doesn't know him.... Could it be a matter of (modern) taste?

[mtsthelensgirl]

@jmldspt

After that, John focused his efforts to alleviate world hunger and facilitate the effort to develop wind and solar energy though his Windstar foundation. His career never regained it's momemtum in the US. Most have no idea all the good that he did, but fortunately a full length documentary for TV about him is being produced. Hopefully, it will be complete in a year or so.

[mtsthelensgirl]

@jmldspt John's music went up against "rock and roll" when the younger generation was trying to be rebellious and "cool". John didn't care about any of that and chose to sing about what he cared about, love, nature, the need for peace. That knocked out a lot of people. Then he started a campaign against weapons of war that may have helped him lose his contract with RCA, who had been purchased in 1986 by General Electric, a weapons manufacturer.

[jmldspt]

@mtsthelensgirl Thank you for the information. Your explanation makes a lot of sense to me because John Denver always sings about human feelings and the state of our planet. I was also aware of that conflict with RCA and I have to say that "Let Us Begin" is a tremendously good song. :)

[beatles5270]

I can't believe that it's been so long since he's past away, what wonderful music he left behind. A great American and America should be grateful he passed this way through

[Darkman100x]

Many thanks for this posting. For me this is John Denver's best track. I've waited a long time to see this clip on YouTube having owned the original sound recording for years. However It seems to me that the recording I have is a different version to this and far superior. I know it was a live event but it would appear to me he had recorded different takes of the song. Does anyone else have the sound recording and agree with me? Maybe I'll post it here for comparison.

[Culieoriginal]

Gosh, it seemed like I was the only one to think so... any impromptu occasion is great because the artists show what they actually can do - and there was so much John Denver could do, just him and his guitar. True gift of song.

[lvsrlmsc]

So agree with your comments about John's music being over-processed

sometimes, Mary. That line in Rhymes and Reasons about the towers falling all

around us really sticks out in that song

now, doesn't it? This is one of my favorite JD songs. Love seeing this video again.

[ceresmary206]

This video is precious as it is John and his guitar. Many of his recordings were "over processed" with symphonies, etc. Sometimes just hearing the musician alone gives a better sense of his music and songs. Thanks for posting this one. Of all his songs, this one was an inspiration that came to him, rather than a song he wrote (according to John) and I believe it. Thanks. Mary