BLOG CLOSING--GOODBYE!!

Hmm, let's see, Mark already posted the annoying-little-song-that-you-can't-get-out-of- your-mind that I would've used, "On the Road Again." We're off to Denver tomorrow for about a week, so, ok, let's all sing out "Rocky Mountain High..."

Here's some trivia about the song from Wikipedia. I don't know how to make a link, so here's the whole thing:

Rocky Mountain High" is a folk-rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor about Colorado. Recorded by Denver, it went to number nine on the US Hot 100 in 1973.

"Rocky Mountain High" is primarily inspired by John Denver's move to Aspen, Colorado, Un

ited States three years earlier and his love for the state. The seventh stanza makes a reference to destruction of the mountains' beauty by commercial tourism. The song was considered a major piece of 1970's pop culture, and became a well-associated piece of Colorado history.

The song briefly became controversial that year when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was permitted by a legal ruling to crack down on music deemed to promote drug abuse. Numerous radio stations cautiously banned the song until Denver publicly explained that the "high" was his innocent description of the sense of peace he found in the Rockies. In 1985, Denver testified before Congress in the Parents Music Resource Center hearings about his experience:

This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains, and also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life, or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseids meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature's most spectacular light shows for the first time.

In recent years, the song has gained status as an unofficial anthem of Colorado and support arose for the present state song, "Where the Columbines Grow" to be replaced with "Rocky Mountain High". In 2005, the song was performed by a soloist at the NBA all-star game in Denver. The song was also used in an advertisement for Colorado-based Coors beer. Furthermore, in Final Destination, the song is heard before some of the deaths.
Snowmass, Colorado, a ski resort near Aspen, named a run "Rocky Mountain High," in honor of John Denver.

And there you go! TMI!!

I have no idea if I'll be able to blog or even email while I'm gone, but don't forget me, bloggerbuddies! I'll miss you!