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Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (31 December 1943 - 12 October 1997)
Years Active: 1962 - 1997
Vocal Range: G2 - C6
Significant High Notes:
C6 ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy" live Farm Aid 1985)
B5 ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy" live)
A5 ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy")
G♯5 ("Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me" (sung through a kazoo))
F♯5 ("Calypso", "Long Tall Texan", "Opposite Tables")
F5 ("Cowboy's Delight")
E5 ("Mother Nature’s Son")
E♭5 ("Spirit")
D5 ("Calypso", "Eclipse" Earth Songs version, "Whiskey Basin Blues")
C♯5 ("Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)", "Cowboy's Delight", "Druthers", "Mother Nature’s Son", "Shipmates and Cheyenne")
C5 ("Christmas for Cowboys", "Drift Away" live with Paul Williams 1973, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" John Denver and Friend 1976, "I Remember You", "If Ever", "The Music Is You", "Season Suite: Winter", "Trail of Tears", "Whiskey Basin Blues", "Wrangle Mountain Song")
B4 ("Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me", "Boy from the Country", "Downhill Stuff", "Eclipse", "Eleanor Rigby", "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" live BBC 1973, "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", "It’s Up to You", "Last Train Done Gone Down", "Long Tall Texan", "Love Is the Master", "Mother Nature’s Son", "Rocky Mountain High" Rocky Mountain High / Earth Songs versions, "True Love Takes Time", "Waiting for a Train", "Windsong" Earth Songs version, "Wooden Indian")
B♭4 ("Christmas Like a Lullaby", "Civil War Suite" live 1969, "A Country Girl in Paris", "Let Me Wash Your Sins Away" live 1981, "Looking for Space", "She Won't Let Me Fly Away", "Wrangle Mountain Song", "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan" live 1966)
A4 ("American Child", "Anthem - Revelation", "Calypso", "Cool an’ Green an’ Shady", "Dancing With the Mountains", "Daydreams", "Druthers", "The Eagle and the Hawk" Aerie version, "Eleanor Rigby", "Flight (The Higher We Fly)", "Forest Lawn" live Los Angeles 1974, "Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must", "The Grizzly Bear Song" Bighorn documentary 1972, "The Harder They Fall", "Hey Jude" live 1969, "I Remember You", "I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)", "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free", "If Ever", "In the Grand Way", "Islands", "It Amazes Me", "It's a Possibility", "Johnny B. Goode", "Junk", "Mother Nature’s Son", "The Mountain Song", "No One", "On the Wings of an Eagle", "Readjustment Blues", "Rocky Mountain High", "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)" Earth Songs version, "Sail Away", "Season Suite: Spring", "Season Suite: Summer", "Season Suite: Winter", "She Won't Let Me Fly Away", "Somethin' About", "Songs Of…", "Take Me Home, Country Roads" live 1995, "Take Me to Tomorrow", "Thank God I’m a Country Boy", "Three-Legged Man", "Tradewinds", "The Way I Am", "What's on Your Mind?", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Wild Montana Skies", "Windsong", "The Wings That Fly Us Home", "The Wrangell Mountain Song", "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart", "You're So Beautiful")
G♯4 ("Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me", "Carolina in My Mind", "Christmas Like a Lullaby", "Downhill Stuff", "Forest Lawn", "He Was a Friend of Mine", "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" John Denver and Friend 1976, "The I Was Not a Nazi Polka", "If You Had Me in Shackles" live 1967, "It's a Possibility", "It’s Up to You", "Let It Be", "Looking for Space", "Love Is the Master", "The Love of the Common People", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Sail Away", "Shipmates and Cheyenne", "Spirit", "Sweet Melinda", "True Love Takes Time", "Introduction (And Applause) What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star", "Whose Garden Was This", "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart")
G4 ("Alabama Mother", "All of My Memories", "Along for the Ride ('56 T-Bird)", "America, the Dream Goes On" live, "American Child", "Amsterdam", "Angels from Montgomery", "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight", "Bells of Rhymney", "Berkeley Woman" live 1978, "Chained to the Wheel", "The Chosen Ones", "Dancing With the Mountains", "Daydreams", "Dearest Esmeralda", "The Eagle and the Hawk" Earth Songs version, "Easy, on Easy Street", "Eclipse", "Ecumencial March", "Eleanor Rigby", "Falling Out of Love", "Farewell Party", "Flaming Youth", "Fire and Rain", "Flying for Me", "Follow Me", "For You", "The Gift You Are", "Gimme Your Love", "Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must", "Got My Heart Set on You", "The Harder They Fall", "He Was a Friend of Mine", "Higher Ground", "I Remember You", "I Want to Live", "I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)", "I'm Sorry", "Introduction (And Applause) What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star", "It Amazes Me", "It's About Time", "Last Train Done Gone Down", "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Like a Sad Song", "Love Again", "Matthew", "Never a Doubt", "No One", "Nothing But a Breeze", "Oh Holy Night", "On the Wings of an Eagle", "Paradise", "Ponies", "Prisoners", "Rabbit", "Readjustment Blues", "Rita Ballou", "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)", "Season Suite: Spring", "Season Suite: Summer", "Season Suite: Winter", "Song for the Life", "The Sound of Protest (Has Begun to Pay)", "Southwind", "That's the Way It's Gonna Be", "Three-Legged Man", "True Love Takes Time", "Two Shots", "What's That I Hear Now?", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "A Wild Heart Looking for Home", "Wooden Indian", "Wrangle Mountain Song", "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan" live 1966)
F♯4 ("Adam's Rib", "Ann", "Anthem - Revelation", "Back Home Again", "Calypso", "Chained to the Wheel", "Claudette", "Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes", "Cool an’ Green an’ Shady", "The Cowboy and the Lady", "Dancing With the Mountains", "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight", "Druthers", "Easy, on Easy Street", "Eclipse" Earth Songs version, "Everyday", "Farewell Party", "The First Noel", "The Foxfire Suite", "Friends With You", "Get Together", "The Gift You Are", "Gospel Changes", "Heart to Heart", "Here, There, & Everywhere", "Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart", "Higher Ground", "Hitchhiker", "Hold on to Me", "How Mountain Girls Can Love", "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)", "I'm in the Mood to Be Desired Tonight", "Islands", "It Makes Me Giggle", "It's a Possibility", "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", "Let It Be", "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)", "A Little Further North", "Long Tall Texan", "Looking for Space", "Love Is Everywhere", "The Love of the Common People", "Lucy Baines", "Medley: Comin' Through the Rye / Good Vibrations" live with Karen Carpenter 1976, "The Mountain Song", "My Sweet Lady", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "No One", "On the Road", "On the Wings of a Dream", "On the Wings of an Eagle", "One World", "Opposite Tables", "Shanghai Breezes", "Shipmates and Cheyenne", "Sing Australia", "Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)", "Somethin' About", "Songs Of…", "The Sound of Protest (Has Begun to Pay)", "Sweet Surrender", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Thank God I’m a Country Boy", "Thanks to You", "This Old Guitar", "Two Shots", "The Way I Am", "Whalebones and Crosses", "What Kind of Life Is That?", "When Will I Be Loved?", "Whispering Jesse", "Whose Garden Was This", "Wild Montana Skies", "Windsong", "World Game", "You're So Beautiful")
F4 ("60 Second Song for a Bank, With the Phrase 'May We Help You Today?'", "Alabama Mother", "Alaska and Me", "America, the Dream Goes On" live, "American Child", "Amsterdam", "Babe, I Hate to Go", "Carolina in My Mind", "Christmas Like a Lullaby", "City of New Orleans", "Daydreams", "Dearest Esmeralda", "Eagles and Horses", "Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)", "Falling Out of Love", "Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to the Morning)", "Flaming Youth", "Flight (The Higher We Fly)", "The Flower That Shattered the Stone", "The Flower That Shattered the Stone (Reprise)", "Flying for Me", "For Bobbi", "Friends With You", "Gimme Your Love", "The Harder They Fall", "How Can I Leave You Again", "If Ever", "In My Heart", "It's About Time", "Jingle Bells", "Like a Sad Song", "Lining Track", "Mary's Little Boy Child", "Medley: Alfie, the Christmas Tree / Carol for a Christmas Tree / It's in Every One of Us", "Medley: Comin' Through the Rye / Good Vibrations" live with Karen Carpenter 1976, "Peat Bog Soldiers", "Pegasus", "Phoenix Bird", "Please Daddy" Rocky Mountain Christmas version, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "Ponies", "Rabbit", "Readjustment Blues", "Rhymes and Reasons", "Rusty Green", "Season Suite: Spring", "Season Suite: Summer", "Season Suite: Winter", "Seasons of the Heart", "She Loves You", "Silent Night, Holy Night", "Singing Skies and Dancing Waters", "Spirit", "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Thirsty Boots", "Till You Opened My Eyes", "Tradewinds", "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan")
E4 ("18 Holes" live 1992, "Adam's Rib", "Alaska and Me", "All of My Memories", "All This Joy", "Along for the Ride ('56 T-Bird)", "Amazon (Let This Be a Voice)", "And So It Goes", "Ann", "Annie’s Song", "Another Side of This Life", "Around and Around", "Autograph", "Away in a Manger" Christmas Like a Lullaby version, "A Baby Just Like You", "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight", "Back Home Again", "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew", "Bells of Rhymney", "Berkeley Woman", "Bet on the Blues", "Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)", "Boy from the Country", "Calypso", "Casey's Last Ride", "Chained to the Wheel", "Children of the Universe", "The Chosen Ones", "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)", "City of New Orleans", "Claudette", "Coal Tattoo", "Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes", "Cool an’ Green an’ Shady", "Country Love", "Cowboy's Delight", "Deal With the Ladies", "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight", "Downhill Stuff", "Eagles and Horses", "Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)", "Ecumencial March", "Eli's Song", "Falling Leaves (The Refugees)", "Falling Out of Love", "Far Side of the Hill", "Flight (The Higher We Fly)", "Fly Away", "Follow Me", "For Baby (For Bobbie)", "Four Strong Winds" In the Beginning version / Forever, John version, "The Foxfire Suite", "Garden Song", "The Gift You Are", "Grandma's Feather Bed", "Gravel on the Ground", "Heart to Heart", "Here, There, & Everywhere", "Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart", "Hold on Tightly", "The I Was Not a Nazi Polka", "I Watch You Sleeping", "I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock)", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)", "I'm Sorry", "In My Heart", "In the Grand Way", "Isabel", "Islands", "It Makes Me Giggle", "Jenny Dreamed of Trains", "Jessie Dreamed of Trains", "Johnny B. Goode", "Joseph & Joe", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Like a Sad Song", "Lining Track", "A Little Further North", "Love Again", "Love Is the Master", "The Love of the Common People", "Lucy Baines", "Mary's Little Boy Child", "Mother Nature’s Son", "The Mountain Song", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "The Music Is You", "My Sweet Lady", "Never Coming Home", "Nobody Can Take My Dreams from Me", "Nothing But a Breeze", "Oh Holy Night", "On the Road", "On the Wings of a Dream", "On the Wings of an Eagle", "One World", "Opposite Tables", "Paradise", "The Peace Carol", "People Get Ready", "Pegasus", "Perhaps Love", "Phoenix Bird", "Please Daddy", "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "Postcard from Paris", "Raven's Child", "River", "Rocky Mountain High", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Sail Away", "San Francisco Mabel Joy", "Seasons of the Heart", "Shanghai Breezes", "Shipmates and Cheyenne", "Sleepin' Alone", "Somethin' About", "Southwind", "Starwood in Aspen", "Sweet Misery", "Sweet Surrender", "Take Me to Tomorrow", "That's the Way It's Gonna Be", "This Old Guitar", "This Road", "Thought of You", "Till You Opened My Eyes", "To the Wild Country", "Tools", "Tradewinds", "Trail of Tears", "True Love Takes Time", "Two Shots", "Violets of Dawn", "Waiting for a Train", "The Way I Am", "We Didn't Know", "We Don't Live Here No More", "Whalebones and Crosses", "What Kind of Life Is That?", "What One Man Can Do", "What's on Your Mind?", "What's That I Hear Now?", "When Will I Be Loved?", "Whiskey Basin Blues", "A Wild Heart Looking for Home", "Windsong", "The Wings That Fly Us Home", "World Game", "The Wrangell Mountain Song")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("All This Joy", "Amsterdam", "And I Love Her", "And So It Goes", "Ann", "Another Side of This Life", "Anthem - Revelation", "Aspenglow", "Away in a Manger", "A Baby Just Like You", "Back Home Again", "Blue Christmas", "Calypso", "Casey's Last Ride", "Cindy's Cryin'", "City of New Orleans", "Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes", "Cool an’ Green an’ Shady", "Country Love", "Downhill Stuff", "Eagles and Horses", "Eleanor Rigby", "Everyday", "Falling Out of Love", "Far Side of the Hill", "Flaming Youth", "Flying for Me", "Follow Me", "For You", "Four Strong Winds", "Freight Train Boogie / Choo Choo Ch'Boogie", "Friends With You", "The Game Is Over", "Get Together", "The Gift You Are", "Gravel on the Ground", "The Harder They Fall", "Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart", "Higher Ground", "Hitchhiker", "Hold on Tightly", "Hold on to Me", "How Mountain Girls Can Love", "I Can't Escape", "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free", "I'm Sorry", "In My Heart", "In the Grand Way", "Islands", "It Makes Me Giggle", "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", "It's About Time", "It’s Up to You", "Junk", "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)", "Like a Sad Song", "A Little Further North", "Love Is Everywhere", "Lucy Baines", "Matthew", "Molly", "The Mountain Song", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Never a Doubt", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Nobody Can Take My Dreams from Me", "Old Folks", "On the Road", "On the Wings of an Eagle", "One World", "The Peace Carol", "Phoenix Bird", "Please Daddy", "Raven's Child", "Relatively Speaking", "Ripplin' Waters", "River of Love", "Rocky Mountain High", "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Shipmates and Cheyenne", "Silent Night, Holy Night", "Silver Bells", "Somethin' About", "Songs Of…", "Sweet Misery", "Sweet Surrender", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Thank God I’m a Country Boy", "That's the Way It's Gonna Be", "This Road", "Thought of You", "To the Wild Country", "Tools", "Tremble If You Must", "True Love Takes Time", "We Didn't Know", "We Don't Live Here No More", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Whalebones and Crosses", "What's on Your Mind?", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "When the River Meets the Sea", "When Will I Be Loved?", "Whiskey Basin Blues", "A Wild Heart Looking for Home", "The Wings That Fly Us Home", "Wild Flowers in a Mason Jar (The Farm)", "World Game", "Yellow Cat", "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart")
E♭3 ("Babe, I Hate to Go", "Christmas Like a Lullaby", "City of New Orleans", "Deal With the Ladies", "Everyday", "Gimme Your Love", "Here, There, & Everywhere", "In My Life", "Islands", "Let It Be", "Like to Deal With the Ladies", "The Little Engine That Could", "Medley: Comin' Through the Rye / Good Vibrations" live with Karen Carpenter 1976, "Molly", "Mr. Bojangles", "Old Folks", "Peat Bog Soldiers", "Ripplin' Waters", "Whose Garden Was This", "World Game")
D3 ("African Sunrise", "Ancient Rhymes", "Ann", "Another Side of This Life", "Anything Love Can Buy", "Aspenglow", "Away in a Manger", "The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel", "Bells of Rhymney", "Boy from the Country", "Bread and Roses", "Casey's Last Ride", "The Children of Bethlehem", "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)", "Country Love", "Dancing With the Mountains", "Deal With the Ladies", "Dreamland Express", "Dreams", "Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)", "Easy, on Easy Street", "Eclipse", "Fire and Rain", "The First Noel", "Flight (The Higher We Fly)", "Fly Away", "Follow Me", "For Baby (For Bobbie)", "The Foxfire Suite", "The Game Is Over", "Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must", "Goodbye Again", "Gospel Changes", "Grandma’s Feather Bed", "The Grizzly Bear Song" Bighorn documentary 1972, "Higher Ground", "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" John Denver and Friend 1976, "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado", "The I Was Not a Nazi Polka", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)", "If Ever", "I'm in the Mood to Be Desired Tonight", "I'm Sorry", "In the Grand Way", "Jingle Bells", "Joseph & Joe", "Last Train Done Gone Down", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Like a Sad Song", "Like to Deal With the Ladies", "Little Drummer Boy", "Love Again", "Matthew", "Medley: Comin' Through the Rye / Good Vibrations" live with Karen Carpenter 1976, "My Old Man", "My Sweet Lady", "Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913", "Nothing But a Breeze", "Oh Holy Night", "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe", "On the Wings of a Dream", "The Peace Carol", "People Get Ready", "Perhaps Love", "Poems, Prayers and Promises", "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "Ponies", "Postcard from Paris", "Prisoners", "River of Love", "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)" Earth Songs version, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "San Francisco Mabel Joy", "Season Suite: Fall", "Seasons of the Heart", "Sing Australia", "Sleepin' Alone", "Song for the Life", "Southwind", "Steel Rails", "Thanks to You", "This Old Guitar", "Three-Legged Man", "Trail of Tears", "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Tenderly Calling", "This Road", "Two Different Directions", "Waiting for a Train", "We Didn't Know", "We Don't Live Here No More", "What Kind of Life Is That?", "What's on Your Mind?", "What's That I Hear Now?", "Whispering Jesse", "Wild Flowers in a Mason Jar (The Farm)", "A Wild Heart Looking for Home", "Windsong", "Wrangle Mountain Song", "The Wrangell Mountain Song", "You Say That the Battle Is Over", "Zachary and Jennifer")
C♯3 ("Amazon (Let This Be a Voice)", "Back Home Again", "The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel", "Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me", "Christmas Like a Lullaby", "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)", "Circus", "The Cowboy and the Lady", "Darcy Farrow", "Druthers", "Forest Lawn", "Garden Song", "I Can't Escape", "Islands", "It's a Possibility", "Jenny Dreamed of Trains", "Jessie Dreamed of Trains", "Life Is So Good", "Looking for Space", "Love Is the Master", "Molly", "River", "She Loves You", "She Won't Let Me Fly Away", "Silver Bells", "Thought of You", "Tools", "What Child Is This", "The Wrangell Mountain Song", "Yellow Cat", "Yesterday", "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart")
C3 ("60 Second Song for a Bank, With the Phrase 'May We Help You Today?'", "Anything Love Can Buy", "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight", "Bet on the Blues", "Catch Another Butterfly", "The Chosen Ones", "Christmas for Cowboys", "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" Christmas Like a Lullaby version, "A Country Girl in Paris", "Darcy Farrow", "Daydreams", "Ecumencial March", "Eli's Song", "Falling Leaves (The Refugees)", "Falling Out of Love", "Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to the Morning)", "The Flower That Shattered the Stone", "The Flower That Shattered the Stone (Reprise)", "For Bobbi", "Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must", "Got My Heart Set on You", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "Homegrown Tomatoes", "How Can I Leave You Again", "The I Was Not a Nazi Polka", "I Watch You Sleeping", "If Ever", "I've Been Working on the Railroad", "Jingle Bells", "Marvelous Toy", "Mary's Little Boy Child", "The Music Is You", "Never Coming Home", "Oh Holy Night", "Peat Bog Soldiers", "Pegasus", "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "Postcard from Paris", "Relatively Speaking", "River", "Seasons of the Heart", "Silent Night, Holy Night", "Singing Skies and Dancing Waters", "Stonehaven Sunset", "Sunshine on My Shoulders" Earth Songs version, "Thirsty Boots", "Till You Opened My Eyes", "Tradewinds", "Twelve Days of Christmas", "What One Man Can Do", "What's That I Hear Now?", "When I Was a Cowboy", "White Christmas", "You Say That the Battle Is Over", "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan", "Zachary and Jennifer")
B2 ("Autograph", "Back Home Again", "Blue Christmas", "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" Christmas Like a Lullaby version, "Cindy's Cryin'", "Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes", "The Cowboy and the Lady", "Daddy, What's a Train?", "Dance Little Jean", "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight", "Eclipse" Earth Songs version, "Flaming Youth", "Forest Lawn", "Garden Song", "The Gift You Are", "Grandma’s Feather Bed", "Gravel on the Ground", "Here, There, & Everywhere", "High, Wide, and Handsome", "High Wind Blowin'", "I Want to Live", "I'm in the Mood to Be Desired Tonight", "Introduction (And Applause) What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star", "It Makes Me Giggle", "Jenny Dreamed of Trains", "Jessie Dreamed of Trains", "Last Hobo", "The Little Engine That Could", "Long Tall Texan", "On the Wings of a Dream", "Opposite Tables", "Peat Bog Soldiers", "Perhaps Love", "Ponies", "Potter's Wheel", "Rita Ballou", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "San Antonio Rose", "September Song" live with Frank Sinatra 1977, "Sleepin' Alone", "Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)", "Song of Wyoming", "Starwood in Aspen", "Sweet Melinda", "Thanks to You", "To the Wild Country", "True Love Takes Time", "What Child Is This", "What Kind of Life Is That?", "When the River Meets the Sea", "White Christmas", "The Wings That Fly Us Home", "You're So Beautiful")
B♭2 ("Alabama Mother", "America, the Dream Goes On" live, "Catch Another Butterfly", "City of New Orleans", "A Country Girl in Paris", "Got My Heart Set on You", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "Introduction (And Applause) What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star", "Like a Sad Song" live with Frank Sinatra 1976, "Mary's Little Boy Child", "Mr. Bojangles" alternate version, "My Sweet Lady" live with Frank Sinatra 1976, "She Loves You", "Where or When" live with Frank Sinatra 1977, "Yesterday")
A2 ("And I Love Her", "And So It Goes", "Circus", "Dance Little Jean", "Dearest Esmeralda", "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight", "Grandma’s Feather Bed", "High Wind Blowin'", "I Watch You Sleeping", "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)", "It Amazes Me", "Jingle Bells", "Late Nite Radio", "My Old Man", "Potter's Wheel", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "San Antonio Rose", "Song of Wyoming", "Sweet Misery", "This Old Guitar", "Tradewinds", "White Christmas" Christmas Like a Lullaby version)
G♯2 ("America, the Dream Goes On" live, "High, Wide, and Handsome", "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe", "Rita Ballou", "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart")
G2 ("18 Holes", "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight", "The Children of Bethlehem", "Eli's Song", "Folsom Prison Blues" Johnny Cash introduction 1978, "Forest Lawn" live Lake Tahoe 1981, "Late Nite Radio", "Marvelous Toy", "Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)", "Two Shots")
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*Blue marks clear falsetto notes.
*Italics mark non-melodic notes.
*Boldface marks notes that are considered impressive in relation to this person's vocal capabilities.
*Underlines mark notes obscured in the mix of the song.
Few voices are as naturally uplifting as John Denver's dulcet tenor. One of the preeminent singer-songwriters of 1970s country/folk music, he gained notoriety for the sugar-sweet idealism described in his songs and accentuated with his bright, cheery vocal delivery. Denver's chops set himself apart from his contemporaries; while he was a tasteful vocalist who always refrained from over-singing, his singing always possessed a great deal of resonance, and the few times that he showed off his belting abilities ("Looking for Space") revealed a very powerful voice hidden behind that cute-sy Southern charm. A pure tenor through and through, Denver mostly stuck to mid-range singing like most folk singers of his day would, but his seldom-used falsetto register was pleasant, and his low range maintained a marked consistency throughout his career. While his life was cut short by his tragic death in 1997, many of Denver's songs have remained staples in the country and folk canons, and his voice remains among the most distinctive in the genres' history.
Special thanks to RINGO and Zedd Squared for working on the write-up.
{Questionable Notes}C♯6 ("Johnny B. Goode" live Wembley Arena 1979[3])
B5 ("Johnny B. Goode"[3])
G♯5 ("Freight Train Boogie / Choo Choo Ch'Boogie"[3])
F♯5 ("Hey Jude" live 1969[5], "San Antonio Rose"[3], "Thank God I’m a Country Boy"[1])
F5 ("Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me"[3])
C♯5 ("18 Holes"[3], "He Was a Friend of Mine"[3])
B4 ("It Amazes Me"[2], "What's on Your Mind?"[3], "When I'm Sixty-Four"[3])
G2 ("Homegrown Tomatoes"[2])
F2 ("September Song" live with Frank Sinatra 1977[1])
E2 ("The Grizzly Bear Song" Bighorn documentary 1972[5])
D2 ("Country Love"[2], "Daddy, What's a Train?"[3], "Medley: Alfie, the Christmas Tree / Carol for a Christmas Tree / It's in Every One of Us"[3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
B5 ("Johnny B. Goode"[3])
G♯5 ("Freight Train Boogie / Choo Choo Ch'Boogie"[3])
F♯5 ("Hey Jude" live 1969[5], "San Antonio Rose"[3], "Thank God I’m a Country Boy"[1])
F5 ("Blues My Naughty Baby Taught Me"[3])
C♯5 ("18 Holes"[3], "He Was a Friend of Mine"[3])
B4 ("It Amazes Me"[2], "What's on Your Mind?"[3], "When I'm Sixty-Four"[3])
G2 ("Homegrown Tomatoes"[2])
F2 ("September Song" live with Frank Sinatra 1977[1])
E2 ("The Grizzly Bear Song" Bighorn documentary 1972[5])
D2 ("Country Love"[2], "Daddy, What's a Train?"[3], "Medley: Alfie, the Christmas Tree / Carol for a Christmas Tree / It's in Every One of Us"[3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Album Ranges}With the Mitchell Trio:
That's the Way It's Gonna Be (1965) (B2 - G♯4 - A4 - B4 - F♯5)
Violets of Dawn (1965) (B2 - C3 - G4)
Alive (1967) (B♭2 - G♯4)
Beginnings: John Denver With the Mitchell Trio (1974) (B♭2 - G4)
Solo:
In the Beginning (1964) (C3 - E4)
John Denver Sings (1966) (A2 - B4 - G♯5)
Rhymes and Reasons (1969) (G♯2 - A2 - A4)
Take Me to Tomorrow (1970) (B2 - A4)
Whose Garden Was This (1970) (C3 - B4)
Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971) (D3 - B4) Zedd Squared
Aerie (1971) (B♭2 - B♭4 - C♯5) Zedd Squared
Rocky Mountain High (1972) (C3 - C5 - E5) RINGO
Farewell Andromeda (1973) (A2 - G4 - D5)
Back Home Again (1974) (A2 - A4 - C5 - A5) RINGO
Rocky Mountain Christmas (1975) (B2 - G4 - C5)
Windsong (1975) (G2 - B♭4 - F5 - F♯5) Zedd Squared
Spirit (1976) (G2 - A4 - C5)
I Want to Live (1977) (A2 - A4 - C♯5)
John Denver (1979) (B2 - B4)
A Christmas Together (1979) (B♭2 - F4)
Autograph (1980) (B2 - A4) Zedd Squared
Some Days Are Diamonds (1981) (G2 - F♯4 - B4)
Seasons of the Heart (1982) (B2 - A4 - F♯5) Zedd Squared
It's About Time (1983) (B2 - A4)
Dreamland Express (1985) (A2 - A4 - C5)
One World (1986) (B2 - G♯4 - C5)
Higher Ground (1988) (B♭2 - G4 - B♭4)
Earth Songs (1990) (B2 - A4 - D5 - F♯5)
Christmas Like a Lullaby (1990) (G2 - F♯4 - G♯4)
The Flower That Shattered the Stone (1990) (G♯2 - F♯4 - G4)
Different Directions (1991) (A2 - G4) Zedd Squared
All Aboard! (1997) (G♯2 - E4 - B4)
Forever, John (1998) (G♯2 - B4)
That's the Way It's Gonna Be (1965) (B2 - G♯4 - A4 - B4 - F♯5)
Violets of Dawn (1965) (B2 - C3 - G4)
Alive (1967) (B♭2 - G♯4)
Beginnings: John Denver With the Mitchell Trio (1974) (B♭2 - G4)
Solo:
In the Beginning (1964) (C3 - E4)
John Denver Sings (1966) (A2 - B4 - G♯5)
Rhymes and Reasons (1969) (G♯2 - A2 - A4)
Take Me to Tomorrow (1970) (B2 - A4)
Whose Garden Was This (1970) (C3 - B4)
Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971) (D3 - B4) Zedd Squared
Aerie (1971) (B♭2 - B♭4 - C♯5) Zedd Squared
Rocky Mountain High (1972) (C3 - C5 - E5) RINGO
Farewell Andromeda (1973) (A2 - G4 - D5)
Back Home Again (1974) (A2 - A4 - C5 - A5) RINGO
Rocky Mountain Christmas (1975) (B2 - G4 - C5)
Windsong (1975) (G2 - B♭4 - F5 - F♯5) Zedd Squared
Spirit (1976) (G2 - A4 - C5)
I Want to Live (1977) (A2 - A4 - C♯5)
John Denver (1979) (B2 - B4)
A Christmas Together (1979) (B♭2 - F4)
Autograph (1980) (B2 - A4) Zedd Squared
Some Days Are Diamonds (1981) (G2 - F♯4 - B4)
Seasons of the Heart (1982) (B2 - A4 - F♯5) Zedd Squared
It's About Time (1983) (B2 - A4)
Dreamland Express (1985) (A2 - A4 - C5)
One World (1986) (B2 - G♯4 - C5)
Higher Ground (1988) (B♭2 - G4 - B♭4)
Earth Songs (1990) (B2 - A4 - D5 - F♯5)
Christmas Like a Lullaby (1990) (G2 - F♯4 - G♯4)
The Flower That Shattered the Stone (1990) (G♯2 - F♯4 - G4)
Different Directions (1991) (A2 - G4) Zedd Squared
All Aboard! (1997) (G♯2 - E4 - B4)
Forever, John (1998) (G♯2 - B4)
