The mid-1970s were peak crossover time for country music, six songs topped both the country charts and Hot 100 in 1975. One of those songs was a toe-tapping celebration of farm life that even had city slickers everywhere suddenly singing about fiddles and country living like they'd spent their whole lives milking cows instead of sitting in traffic. Which artist made "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" into a chart-topping celebration that convinced half of America they were secretly farmers?
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Correct Answer: John Denver
(Source)John Denver grabbed "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" and turned it into pure musical sunshine, despite looking like the kind of guy who'd get nervous around actual farm animals. It all started when Denver's bandmate John Martin Sommers wrote the song on a drive home from Aspen, CO. Denver knew he had to record it and it hit number one on the country charts in 1975 and climbed to top of the Hot 100 the next week, which meant millions of people who couldn't tell a banjo from a mandolin were suddenly experts on rural living. The song became one of his signature tunes, he performed it at practically every concert for the rest of his career, and it was the name he picked for his TV variety show.
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