Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty-two years ago today, country-rocker John Denver topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his soft rock hit "Annie's Song." ...

John Denver released the track in 1974.

It was his second of four songs that topped the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100. It was on this day, 52 years ago, that one of the best-selling country singers scored his second No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

John Denver created music that sometimes felt a little too earnest to be true. But the more the singer-songwriter's dedication to social and environmental causes became known, the more evident it was ...

Tom Rush and John Denver join Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey onstage while performing at the Harvard Square Theater, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 1974.Ron Pownall&solGetty Images ...