Bill Danoff

Despite his two Grammy Awards, a handful of award nominations, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bill Danoff isn't quite a household name. John Denver, another singer/songwriter and a contemporary of Danoff's, is more widely known, thanks to a couple of Danoff's songs that helped make the folk-rock crooner from New Mexico the star that he became in the 1970s. Along with Denver and Taffy Nivert, Danoff wrote the song that would thrust Denver into the national spotlight and become his signature song, "Take Me Home Country Roads." The single rose to number one ...