Calypso (song)
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“Calypso” | |||||
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Single by John Denver from the album Windsong |
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Released | 1975 | ||||
Format | vinyl record | ||||
Genre | singer/songwriter | ||||
Length | 3:36 | ||||
Label | RCA | ||||
Writer(s) | John Denver | ||||
Producer | Milt Okun | ||||
John Denver singles chronology | |||||
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"Calypso" is a song written by John Denver in 1975 as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso. The 45 rpm single (backed with the song "I'm Sorry") reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending September 27, 1975. The song was featured on Denver's 1975 album Windsong.
John Denver was a close friend of Jacques Yves Cousteau, and wrote another song about him but died shortly before the song was planned to be recorded. Calypso is the name of Jacques Cousteau's famous research boat that sailed around the world for oceanic conservation, but sunken shortly before Cousteau died.
A filk song exists in Star Trek fandom (and has been quoted in Chapter 8 of Diane Duane's Star Trek novel The Wounded Sky), based on John Denver's Calypso, but adapted to the voyages of the Enterprise: "To sail on a dream in the sun-fretted darkness, to soar through the starlight unfrightened alone. . . ."
Preceded by "Fame" by David Bowie |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single September 27, 1975 |
Succeeded by "Bad Blood" by Neil Sedaka |