I'm Sorry (John Denver song)

Infobox Single
Name = I'm Sorry


Artist = John Denver
from Album = Windsong
A-side = "I'm Sorry"
B-side = "Calypso"
Released = July 1975 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1975
Genre = country, pop
Length = 3:32
Label = RCA Records
Writer = John Denver
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
  
• #1 (Billboard Hot 100)
  
• #1 (Billboard Hot Easy Listening Singles)
  Last single = "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"
  (1975)
  This single = "I'm Sorry"/
  "Calypso
  (1975)
  Next single = "Fly Away"
  (1975)

  "I'm Sorry" is a song written and recorded by American country-folk singer-songwriter John Denver. Released in 1975, it was his final #1 hit released during his career.

  Chart performance

  The song, an apology for forsaken love, [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:jifyxqr5ld0e] Heibutzki, Ralph. Review of "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" by John Denver at Allmusic.] first reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1975. Six weeks later, it topped the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart. In addition, "I'm Sorry" also reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart that same year.

  The flip side of "I'm Sorry" was "Calypso," and like its A-side, it enjoyed substantial radio airplay on Top 40 stations.

  1975 country-pop "half dozen"

  "I'm Sorry" was one of six songs released in 1975 that topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and "Billboard" Hot Country Singles charts. The other songs were Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender, "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B.J. Thomas, "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell, and "Convoy" by C.W. McCall.

  uccession

  References

  ee also

  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2006.
  *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.