Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

Poems, Prayers & Promises is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was released in April, 1971. This album was Denver's commercial breakthrough, and contained several of his most popular songs, such as "Poems, Prayers, and Promises", "My Sweet Lady", "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado", "Sunshine on My Shoulders", and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which would become one of Denver's signature songs.

約翰·丹佛，原名小亨利·約翰·多伊奇岑多夫，是一名美國鄉村音樂作曲家以及音樂人，曾經在70年代以許多膾炙人口的歌曲紅極一時的歌手，他錄製以及發行的歌曲超過300首，約有一半的歌是由他作曲，1977年，被稱為「科羅拉多的桂冠詩人」。 1979年中國大陸改革開放後，鄧小平訪美時在華盛頓甘迺迪表演藝術中心戴著牛仔帽的表演。