Calypso by John Denver

Genre: Country
Year: 1975

"Calypso" is a well-known song written by John Denver in 1975 as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso. Released as the b-side of "Im Sorry", Calypso received substantial airplay, yet it only charted as a tag-along b-side (aka FLIP) on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 11, 1975. The song was featured on Denvers 1975 album Windsong. John Denver was a close friend of Jacques-Yves Cousteau; and though Denver wrote and composed another song about him. Calypso is the name of Jacques Cousteau's famous research boat that sailed around the world for oceanic conservation; it sank and was refloated shortly before Cousteau himself died. Read full article at wikipedia.org

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