Bugün öğrendim ki: John Denver'ın Rocky Mountain High şarkısı ilk kez hit olmaya başladığında, bazı radyo istasyonları uyuşturucuyla ilgili olduğunu düşündükleri için şarkıyı yasakladı. Onları, doğadayken nasıl hissettiğiyle ilgili olduğuna ikna etti.
" **Rocky Mountain High** " is a [folk rock](/wiki/Folk_rock "Folk rock") song written by [John Denver](/wiki/John_Denver "John Denver") and [Mike Taylor](/wiki /Mike_Taylor_\(guitarist\) "Mike Taylor \(guitarist\)") and is one of the two official [state songs](/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_songs "List of US state songs") of Colorado.[1 ][2nd] Recorded by Denver in 1972, it went to No. 9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973. Denver told concert audiences in the mid-1970s that the song took him an unusually long nine months to write. On April 10, 2017, the record was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 digital downloads. Members of the [Western Writers of America](/wiki/Western_Writers_of_America "Western Writers of America") chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[3]