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Starland Vocal Band
Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert began writing songs together while students at
Georgetown University and played on the local Washington D.C. folk scene in the
late 1960s as a duo called Fat City. They struck up a friendship with John
Denver when they supported him in small clubs in the area, and gave him a song
they had originally written with Johnny Cash in mind. With a few finishing
touches, Denver took Take Me Home, Country Roads to number two in the US charts
and established it as a classic country ballad of the era that went on to become
the official state anthem of West Virgin...
