- Calypso (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Calypso
Artist =John Denver
from Album = Windsong
Released =1975
Format =vinyl record
[ Recorded = ]
Genre =singer/songwriter
Length = 3:36
Label = RCA
Writer =John Denver
Producer =Milt Okun
Last single = "Please, Daddy"
(1974 )
This single = "Calypso"
(1975 )
Next single = "Christmas For Cowboys"
(1975 )"Calypso" is a song written byJohn Denver in 1975 as a tribute toJacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso. The 45rpm single (backed with the song "I'm Sorry") reached the number one position on theBillboard Hot 100 on the week endingSeptember 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.
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filk song exists inStar Trek fandom (and has been quoted in Chapter 8 ofDiane 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. . . ."
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