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Songwriter, singer. Mary Catherine "Taffy" Nivert-Danoff [2] (born October 25, 1944) is an American songwriter and singer. She is best known for co-writing "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which was popularized by John Denver, and for being a member of the Starland Vocal Band .
Mary Catherine „Taffy“ Nivert Danoff (* 25. Oktober 1944 in Washington, D.C.) ist eine US-amerikanische Songschreiberin und Sängerin. Bekanntheit erlangte sie als Mitglied der Starland Vocal Band sowie durch ihre Zusammenarbeit mit John Denver. Gemeinsam mit Denver und ihrem Ehemann Bill Danoff schrieb sie 1971 den Country-Song ...
- Composition
- Commercial Performance and Legacy
- Reception in West Virginia
- Personnel
- Cover Versions
Inspiration for the title line had come while Taffy Nivert and Bill Danoff, who were married, were driving along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland to a gathering of Nivert's family in Gaithersburg, with Nivert behind the wheel while Danoff played his guitar. "I just started thinking, country roads, I started thinking of me growing up in w...
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" appeared on the LP Poems, Prayers & Promises and was released as a 45 in the spring of 1971. Original pressings credited the single to "John Denver with Fat City". It broke nationally in mid-April but moved up the charts very slowly. After several weeks, RCA Records called John and told him they were giving up on the s...
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians.On November 1, 2017, the West Virginia Tourism Office announced it had obtained the rights to use "Take Me Home, Country Roads", in its marketing efforts. "'Country Roads' has become synonymous with West Virginia all over the world," said West Virginia Tourism Comm...
Hermes House Band version
Dutch pop band Hermes House Band covered the song and released it as "Country Roads". This version was first released in Germany on May 21, 2001, and was issued in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2001, where it was a contender for the 2001 Christmas number-one single.This version was a chart success in Europe, reaching number one in Scotland, number two in Germany and Ireland, and the top 10 in Austria, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
Olivia Newton-John version
Olivia Newton-John released a cover version in January 1973 that reached number 6 in Japan and number 15 in the UK. It was the lead single from her third studio album, Let Me Be There. This version, as well as the song itself, features prominently in the Japanese animated film, Whisper of the Heart.
Fallout 76 version
A cover version of the song, a collaboration between Copilot Music and Sound and the vocal group Spank, was commissioned for and featured in both the teaser and full E3 2018 trailers for the 2018 video game Fallout 76, with its plot events are set in West Virginia. Released as an iTunes-only single on July 4, 2018, the song reached No. 1 on the iTunes singles chart. It debuted at No. 41 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart that week and at No. 21 on Billboard's Country Digital Songs the fol...
14. Okt. 2021 · Taffy Nivert, Danoff’s wisecracking ex-bandmate and ex-wife, told me, “Bill never said, ‘I wanna fuck my baby at noon.’. Because he didn’t say it like that, you can say it was subtle.” The...
21. Dez. 2020 · Taffy Nivert was the girlfriend of Bill Danoff, who wrote the song with him in 1970. John Denver debuted the song at the Cellar Door in Georgetown, where it became a hit.
10. Juli 2018 · “Afternoon Delight” was written by Starland’s Bill Danoff after he’d made a teatime trip to Clyde’s of Georgetown, where he sometimes sang with his wife, Taffy Nivert.
The group began as Fat City, a husband/wife duo of Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. Danoff and Nivert co-wrote the song "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and then, with John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which became a hit single in 1971 and became an official song of West Virginia in 2014.
