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Mary Catherine "Taffy" Nivert-Danoff [2] (born October 25, 1944) is an American songwriter and singer. She is best known for co-writing "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which was popularized by John Denver, and for being a member of the Starland Vocal Band .
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
The group began as Fat City, a husband/wife duo of Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. Danoff and Nivert co-wrote the song "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and then, with John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which became a hit single in 1971 and became an official song of West Virginia in 2014.
30 dic 2020 · Bill Danoff, co-writer of West Virginia's state song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads," is setting the record straight on the myths and legends surrounding the iconic song's origins.
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14 ott 2021 · Taffy Nivert, Danoff’s wisecracking ex-bandmate and ex-wife, told me, “Bill never said, ‘I wanna fuck my baby at noon.’. Because he didn’t say it like that, you can say it was subtle.” The...
30 dic 2019 · A great track from 1973 - with Bill and Taffy Danoff, John Denver's favoured backing singers and the composers of several of his hit songs.
22 giu 2019 · Bill and Taffy Danoff started in the mid sixties as Fat City, then recorded as Bill and Taffy in the early 1970's, and then fronted Starland Vocal Band from the mid 1970's to early 1980's....
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