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<p>"<strong>Annie's Song</strong>" (also known as "<strong>Annie's Song (You Fill Up My Senses)</strong>") is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Denver</a>. The song was released as the lead single from his eighth studio album&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Home_Again_(John_Denver_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Back Home Again</em></a>. It was his second number-one song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. "Annie's Song" also went to number one on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Easy Listening</a>&nbsp;chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a>&nbsp;<em>Billboard</em>&nbsp;ranked it as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1974" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">No. 25 song for 1974</a>.</p><p>It went to number one in the United Kingdom, where it was Denver's only major hit single. Four years later, an instrumental version also became flautist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Galway</a>'s only major British hit.</p><p>"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_lift" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ski lift</a>" to the top of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Mountain_(Colorado)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aspen Mountain</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen,_Colorado" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aspen, Colorado</a>, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a>&nbsp;Annie Denver recalls the beginnings: "It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together and things were pretty good for us. He left to go skiing and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen mountain and the song just came to him. He skied down and came home and wrote it down... Initially it was a love song and it was given to me through him, and yet for him it became a bit like a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">prayer</a>."</p><p>"The first time I heard 'Annie's Song,' I told John it had the same melody as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tchaikovsky's</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Tchaikovsky)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fifth Symphony, Second Movement</a>," says&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Okun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Milt Okun</a>. "He walked over to the piano, sat for an hour and came back, and the only thing remaining from Tchaikovsky was the first five notes. It was fantastic."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a></p><p>Critical reception<span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annie%27s_Song&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">edit</a><span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">]</span>Shawn M. Haney of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allmusic</a>&nbsp;noted the song's expressive emotionality, calling it an "ever so romantic tearjerker". Haney praised "Annie's Song" as "one of Denver's finest achievements".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a>&nbsp;called it a "fine love song."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-bb-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_World" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Record World</em></a>&nbsp;said that this "folk ballad, subtle and sweet, glows with a continental flair that should take it to all the right places."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%27s_Song#cite_note-rw-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[8]</a></p>