Take Me Home, Country Roads most popular and beloved songs. It has continued to sell, with over a million digital copies sold in the United States. It is considered to be Denver's signature song. The song has a prominent status as an iconic symbol of West Virginia, which it describes as "almost Heaven". In March 2014, it became one of the four official state anthems of West Virginia. Danoff and his then-wife, Mary ("Taffy") Nivert, wrote "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", both of which were hits for John Denver. Danoff (from Springfield, Massachusetts) has stated he had
Take Me to the Mardi Gras seven on July 8. In total, it spent eleven weeks on the chart. It is usually missing from UK hits compilations in favour of "Kodachrome" which was the flip side to this. "Kodachrome" was the A side in the US, but the BBC would not play it in the UK because of its advertising policy. Take Me to the Mardi Gras "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the fourth single from his third studio album, "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" (1973), released on Columbia Records. Smooth jazz keyboardist Bob James