Taffy nivert todays stock
Co-Writer of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads' Dispels Myths ......
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The very first post in the history of this blog mentioned the Starland Vocal Band.
Taffy nivert todays stock
They’ve cropped up here frequently in the nearly seven years since, most recently Monday, when I said I was prepared to debate their merits if necessary. And apparently it is.
Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert (later husband and wife) had written John Denver’s 1971 hit “Take Me Home Country Roads.” After performing as Fat City, the Danoffs teamed with another couple, Jon Carroll and Margot Chapman, as the Starland Vocal Band, and released their first record in 1976, “Afternoon Delight.” It was a monster, sufficient to earn them the Best New Artist Grammy for the year (which is not as absurd as the one “Afternoon Delight” got for Best Vocal Arrangement, which was deemed better than “Bohemian Rhapsody”).
On the strength of that Grammy, they landed a limited-run TV variety show on CBS in the summer of 1977.
It was, against all odds,