JOHN DENVER Achievements and Credentials I. RECORDING AWARDS ASCAP TOP HITS 1969 - Leaving On A Jet Plane 1971 - Follow Me; Take Me Home, Country Roads 1973 - Rocky Mountain High 1974 - Back Home Again 1975 - Calypso; Fly Away, I'm Sorry, Thank God I'm A Country Boy 1976 - Looking For Space 1977 - Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight 1978 - How Can I Leave You Again 1981 - Take Me Home, Country Roads PLATINUM ALBUMS (1 MILLION SOLD): Back Home Again Poems, Prayers and Promises Rocky Mountain High John Denver's Greatest Hits An Evening With John Denver A Christmas Together (John Denver and the Muppets) I Want To Live Spirit PLATINUM SINGLES Take Me Home, Country Roads GOLD ALBUMS (1/2 MILLION SOLD): Rocky Mountain High Farewell, Andromeda Aerie Windsong Back Home Again Rocky Mountain Christmas Poems, Prayers and Promises John Denver's Greatest Hits An Evening With John Denver I Want To Live A Christmas Together Spirit Some Days Are Diamonds GOLD SINGLES: Sunshine On My Shoulders Back Home Again I'm Sorry Thank God I'm A Country Boy Annie's Song Perhaps Love (with Placido Domingo) CANADIAN GOLD: John Denver's Greatest Hits A Christmas Together AUSTRALIAN GOLD: Rocky Mountain Christmas An Evening With John Denver Windsong Rocky Mountain High John Denver's Greatest Hits Poems, Prayers and Promises Back Home Again Higher Ground GERMAN GOLD: The Best of John Denver In 1981, John received a special RCA Award for his album "John Denver's Greatest Hits." It sold in excess of 10 million copies in the United States, making it the biggest seller in RCA history. II. INTERNATIONAL RECORD SALES AUSTRALIA GOLD (Over 20,000 Units Sold): Spirit Rocky Mountain Christmas Autograph John Denver Live An Evening With John Denver Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Windsong Poems, Prayers and Promises Back Home Again PLATINUM (Over 50,000 Units Sold): Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Back Home Again Some Days Are Diamonds GERMANY GOLD (Over 250,000 Units Sold): Great Successes (a release of Greatest Hits Vols. 1 & 2) PLATINUM (Over 500,000 Units Sold): Great Successes UNITED KINGDOM GOLD (Over 100,000 Units Sold): An Evening With John Denver Rocky Mountain High Windsong Back Home AGain Live in London Best of John Denver PLATINUM (Over 300,000 Units Sold): Back Home Again Live in London Best of John Denver III. OTHER AWARDS 1974 - Cashbox's #1 Album seller, #1 Artist - ASCAP Award for Top Album of the Year 1974/75 - Record World's Top Male Recording Artist 1975 - ABC's Bi-centennial Music Award for Top Male Vocalist by the National Press - Finalist in 5 categories for Country Music Awards - Country Music Entertainer of the Year - Country Music Song of the Year (Back Home Again) - People's Choice Award's Favorite Musical Performer - AGVA Singing Star of the Year 1977 - People's Choice Award - Poet Laureate of Colorado 1979 - U.S. Jaycee's Ten Outstanding Men of America Award - Whale Protection Fund Service Award 1982 - Carl Sandburg's People's Poet Award 1985 - NASA Medal for Public Service - Presidential "World Without Hunger Award" conferred by President Reagan 1990 - National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award - International Center for Tropical Ecology World Ecology Award 1993 - Albert Schweitzer Music Award IV. TELEVISION SPECIALS 1974 - The John Denver Special - A Family Event 1975 - An Evening With John Denver 1976 - Rocky Mountain Christmas - Emmy Awards - Host 1977 - Thank God I'm A Country Boy 1978 - John Denver and Friends - Rocky Mountain Reunion - John Denver in Australia - Grammy Awards - Host 1979 - Grammy Awards - Host 1980 - The Higher We Fly 1981 - John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together - John Denver and George Burns: Two of A Kind - Music and the Mountains 1982 - Grammy Awards - Host 1984 - Rocky Mountain Holiday - John Denver's Annual Celebrity Pro/Am Ski Tournament 1986 - Leftovers - The Christmas Gift 1987 - Foxfire (Hallmark Hall of Fame) 1988 - Higher Ground - John Denver's Christmas in Aspen 1989 - "An Evening At The White House" (PBS) 1990 - Christmas in Washington - Host The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson V. AWARDS FOR TELEVISION SPECIALS ROCKY MOUNTAIN REUNION: Western Heritage Center's National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award for Most Outstanding Factual Documentary Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge - George Washington Award for Best Documentary of the Year CINE Golden Eagle Award selected for its excellence to represent the USA in international motion picture events abroad American Film Festival New York City Blue Ribbon Award for Best Educational Film Denver International Film Festival Award for outstanding achievement in film making for 1979 Best Outdoor Travel and Recreational film, awarded by Michigan Outdoor Writer's Association in 1979-80 at the National Outdoor Travel Film Festival THE HIGHER WE FLY: Earl D. Osborn Award for outstanding excellent on the subject of aviation, presented by the Aviation/Space Writer's Association ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS 1975/76 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for the best musical variety special of the season VI. FEATURE FILMS 1977 - "Oh God!" (with George Burns) 1993 - "Walking Thunder" VII. BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ADVISORY BOARDS SERVED ON - Presidential Commission on World and Domestic Hunger, under President Carter's Administration - The Windstar Foundation (Founder, Board of Directors) - The Cousteau Society - The Hunger Project (Founder, Board of Directors) - National Space Institute - World Federalists Association - Friends of the Earth - est - The Kushi Foundation - Human/Dolphin Foundation - Music Associates of Aspen - Aspen Center for Environmental Studies - The Challenger Center - Plant-It 2000 VIII. SPEECHES - Temple University, for a course on The Psychology of Responsibility: "Ending Hunger, You and Me" - Kansas State University, on world hunger - National Association of Wheat Growers Convention in San Francisco, on world hunger - International Transactional Analysis Association in Aspen (Keynote Speaker): "You and Me, the Transformation of Survival" - Arlington Heights High School Speech - MENC National Convention in Miami Beach - Aspen, Colorado "On Being Human" - World Federalist Association: "Message to the Next Civilization" - First Presbyterian Church in Boston, on the value of macrobiotics - Club 20 in Grand Junction, Colorado - The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.: "You and Me, The Transformation of Survival" - Aspen High School Commencement - Association for Humanistic Psychology; Aspen, Colorado "Education for the Future: My View" - San Francisco, California; talk to the est staff - NASA - Marshall Space Center: Werner Von Braun Dinner - Windstar Foundation's annual "Choices For the Future" Symposium - Throughout the United States, Japan, and Australia: "Higher Ground" environmental presentations on behalf of the Windstar Foundation IX. VIDEOS - "Let Us Begin" (What Are We Making Weapons For?)" duet with Alexandre Gradsky recorded at Moscow's Melodiya Studios. This was the first time a Soviet and an American artist performed together in a music video. - "Don't Close Your Eyes Tonight" - "Flying For Me" - "Country Girl in Paris" - "High, Wide and Handsome" - "Raven's Child" X. NASA SUPPORT - Master of Ceremonies at the Goddard Dinner, Washington, DC - Attended launch of Apollo/Soyuz, Sts 1,2, and landing of Alt 1, Sts 1 - NASA medal normally reserved for spaceflight designers and engineers - Passed NASA's physical examination to determine mental and physical fitness needed for travel - Flew and landed Space Shuttle simulator