John Denver on Russel Harty BBC, (1983) - Falling Out of Love

[beehive41]

Thanks Michael. Super nice song and of course new to me. Kind of tugs at the old heart strings though.

I see you are still here after all....I'm glad.

[peaceniq]

That was beautiful, but it was heartbreaking. "And I don't believe a true love ever ends." Thank you Mr Donegan.

[michaeldonegan]

@peaceniq Thank you too.

[Neuge17]

This song fits exactly to the way I feel about the loss of my beloved Judy...

[aplacetohideaway]

This song is genius...every single emotion experienced when you lose someone you truly love is captured perfectly, every poignant thought expressed...a heartbreaking combination of lyric and melody.

[Elvenwarrior2001]

Fantastic video. This is a pearl of a performance by John Denver of one of his best but little known songs.

Thanks for sharing it, I've probably watched it 10 times since I discovered it.

[michaeldonegan]

@Elvenwarrior2001 Thank you for your kind comment. You are always welcome here. I absolutely agree that this is a beautiful performance of this lovely song.

[sharkymama]

I loved John so much..there will never be another singer songwriter that will take his place in my heart. I am so thankful to be able to watch him on here. Thanks so much for posting these

[michaeldonegan]

@sharkymama My pleasure!

[azahora22]

Seeing him like this makes me feel like there's no hope left.

When he says: This is just the way a true love ends. And I don't believe a true love ever ends.

Do you think he was saying that he would always love Annie or that it hadn't been true love?

Either way it's just too sad

[michaeldonegan]

Thank you for your comments. I think it is clear that he still loved Annie but if you see the accompanying interview there was complete acceptance that they could never be together.

[azahora22]

As is often the case, the live version is even better.

the nights grow cold and hard to live through Still you hate to see the morning come

Somehow tomorrow doesn't matter much anymore

The future hold's no promise

Your life's already done.

Well, I haven't lost the love of my life but that's the way I feel alot of the time. It's even worse to know he felt like that. It's hard to explain, but I wish he had been happy more than I wish I was. To konw he felt like that is the worse thing ever.

[dwindstar57]

Seeing his face at the end is just heartbreaking you can still see the passion he had for Annie.

[michaeldonegan]

Check out the accompanying interview clip that I also posted. Russel Harty got John to talk about his split with Annie and suggested that this song was really 'Annie's Song Again', and John didn't disagree.

[tailedcopper]

miss you John

& love you so much

miigwetch & TY for putting to wwords what is in my heart & soul/spirit.

Oct is so hard. thankful for this vid as my heart breaks 4U that you left us but left us so much too Thanks for all you did and stood for. with love windfeather g

tailedcopper

[MartinaMcBrideRocks]

i love him

[bettywhitedog]

I had never heard this until I got the "Wildlife Concert" and thought it was for the split with Cassandra, but now I see that it was for his split up with Annie. It's pretty fitting for both broken marriages that ended in divorce or anyone elses split up as well. Very sad.

[lizzieb63]

This is such an exquisitely sad song and one so many of us can identify with.

[michaeldonegan]

Thanks for your comment.

[mtsthelensgirl]

I can't wait to see it. Thanks so much!

[mtsthelensgirl]

He looked sad at the end of the song. Surely about the failure of his marriage with Annie, his heart must have ached everytime he sang it.

Thanks for posting this!

[michaeldonegan]

You may be right about that.

I did not upload the frank chat/interview that preceded this song. Russel Harty (now also deceased) was a very probing interviewer and he pushed John into talking about the divorce. Harty then suggested that Falling Out of Love was Annie's Song Again and John didn't say no to that.

If you hang on I'll get that interview on Youtube in a day or so. I merely cut it from the song to save time.

Thanks for your comment.

[poetrymaster]

brilliant

[michaeldonegan]

yes it is

[DreamlandExpress2007]

This is one of my favorite JD songs! Thanks so much for posting so many wonderful JD clips the last couple of days. I've truly enjoyed watching them! :-)

[michaeldonegan]

It's one of my favourite JD song too! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for your comment.

Posting my clips brought me great pleasure. I was delighted to see that I had some that so few JD fans had seen. Now they can be seen by all.